Article profiles local author Veda Rogers and her new book "Life's About a Dream." The memoir describes her years operating the Vasser Playhouse in Vasser, KS, with her husband Bruce…

File containing a pamphlet or booklet with a note about Francis Wornall being the author of a history of the Calvary Baptist Church in 1940.

Editor, Mike Fannin, explains how the printed newspaper, The Kansas City Star, will be reorganized to adapt to the difficult economic time. The main news section will be combined with the local and…

Information about Lester Dent (1904-1959), alias Kenneth Robeson, the creator of the pulp fiction hero Doc Savage, the subject of a 1975 movie and various comic books, etc. Photos, illustrations,…

File containing an illustration and autobiographical article about Velma West Sykes, or Velma Sykes, a Kansas City Star journalist since 1918 residing at 300 East Armour Boulevard.

Short notice about the publication of the book ''Six Black Horses'' by Nolan Davis who was a former undertaker�??s apprentice. Davis based the book partly on his own experiences…

Mr. Deatherage founded the Deatherage Lumber Company in Kansas City in 1878. After retiring in 1919, he began a career as a historian, publishing his first volume of Kansas City history in 1928.…

Article about the history of the Kansas City Star and Times newspapers and their unique perspectives offered about Kansas City, with photos and biographical descriptions of several of its prominent…

Photo and entire book about William Torrey Harris, or William Harris (1835-1909), a prominent American philosopher living in Saint Louis, describing his life and career, a native New Englander known…

Group portrait of newsboys and an adult posing behind stacks of newspapers and in front of a newspaper truck in Chillicothe, Missouri.

Land ownership map of the northern part of Jackson County, Missouri, showing railroads, electric railroads, highways (macadamized, graded, main), rural mail routes, streams, churches, school houses,…

Author Sinclair Lewis spent time in Kansas City while researching and preparing to write his book "Elmer Gantry," or what he called his "preacher novel." Local ministers such as…

Joseph Hoffman seated at piano.

Notes about magazine articles written by Kansas City author R. Richard Wohl in "Manuscripts" (volume 8), the "University of Kansas City Review" (volume 22), and "Journal of…

Map showing layout of Rotary Club Boys' Camp located in southeastern Jackson County, Missouri.

Head and shoulders portrait of Joe McGuff, Sports Editor for the Kansas City Star.

Photo and bio of John Barrons, "[a]dvertising manager of the Kansas City Star."

File containing the article about the Writer's Place, a castle-like residence in the "historic Valentine district" at 3607 Pennsylvania Avenue, built in 1909. Home to organization…

Descriptive history of the townships of Jackson County, Missouri: (1) Westport, (2) Fort Osage, (3) Kaw, (4) "Sni Abar", (5) Blue, (6) Van Buren, (7) Brooking, (8) Washington, and (9)…

Article with some stories about slavery in Jackson County, including the sometimes violent experiences related to slavery of the Bundschu family (family of the author), William Gillis, Jabez Smith,…

Photo of and booklet by Juliet McCoy Bass, a daughter of John Calvin McCoy, about a (fictional?) Southern belle (Marjoram McNeill) being courted against the backdrop of the Civil War at "…

Photo and biographical article about James Seidelman, former director of education at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, "appointed the director of a new cultural center to be built in Lexington,…

Property atlas of Jackson County, Missouri, compiled from personal surveys and records by E. A. Hickman and engraved by A. L. Thornton. An index, a township map, a variety of range maps, and a list…

Information on Bill Vaughan (1915-1977), "longtime resident humorist at the paper [The Kansas City Star]," writer of "the Starbeams column for more than 30 years," and native of…

Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes a photo and article, continued on page 8, about "Dr. Schorer," a 54-year…