Article about the "campaign intended to encourage the wider use of milk as a health food" promoted by Mary Harmon Weeks, or Mary Weeks ("president of the Children's Bureau…

Interior view, taken in the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View includes unidentified children, probably taken in the…

Articles and information about adoption and adoption searches and records in Missouri.

Children participating in cookout at unidentified camp.

Photograph of the Guadalupe Center baseball team.

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,…

Young African American girl seated on a porch ledge eating an ice cream cone. She is holding up a filled Christmas stocking in her right hand.

Advertising card for McFarlan Carriage Co. with portrait of girl in a blue hat. One of two cards with similar portraits. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card:
1413 and 1415 W.…

Photograph of a woman and four boys posing outside.

A boy and girl pose in front of a car parked in front of a house.

Photograph of a group of boys posed in the woods.

Article about Kansas City experiments in organizing its neighborhoods, bolstering of family life, and curbing of juvenile delinquency, through the Community Service Division of the Welfare Department.

Collection of nine Missouri folktales, compiled from 1925 to 1940 but current in the 1880s and 1890s.

Three girls pose in white dresses for a St. Francis class pageant.

Article about Child Welfare Stations and Well Baby Clinics utilized in the growth of care for black babies in Kansas City.

Photos and biographical article about Rand O'Donnell, "the 43-year-old CEO of Children's Mercy Hospital" since about 1993.

Group portrait of the Knotts City clerk, mayor, and city manager; part of the Junior Officer Council program. Identified as Nancy Rice, Jerry Campbell, and Charles Shaeffer.

Photograph of Mrs. Aleck Douglas holding her daughter.

Discusses efforts by fathers to become more active and productive in their children's lives.

Article about the opening of 50 new playgrounds in public parks in Kansas City, including "(1) central areas for use by the whole city; (2) community centers in each of 12 districts; and (3) a…

Group portrait of Story Hour attendees before building entrance.

Photograph of a woman and children standing outside.

Six young men pose in a park.

Photos and biographical article about four area child-care professionals, with discussion on "the state of child care in Greater Kansas City." Description of the following professionals…