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Aerial view of Kansas City Structural Steel facility and grounds; located at 21st Street and Metropolitan Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas.
Date : 1930 (year approximate)
Collection: Aerial Views
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…
Date : 2009-04-06
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
In Pitch's second annual "road trip" in the Kansas City metro area, various authors describe points along State Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas and Wyandotte County. Historic locations…
Date : 2005-09-01
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Photos and article about the food kitchen opened in 1982 at the Saint Mary's Catholic Church at 5th and Ann Streets in Kansas City, Kansas, by Mrs. Wilhelmina Gill, "director of the…
Date : 1982-11
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Obituary for Dr. Druery Thorn, a physician on the staff of Saint Luke's Hospital since 1928, dying at the age of 64 in 1956.
Date : 1956-08-13
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
File contains articles with references to Sauer Castle in Kansas City, Kansas, especially the "Old Mansion" article, with photos of the residence built in 1871.
Date : 1975-07-27
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Biographical sketch of Dr. William Strother, a physician born in Kentucky in 1827 and moving to Lee's Summit, Missouri in 1882.
Date : 1896
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Biographical sketch of homeopathic physician John Thomas Boland, or John Boland taking part in the Civil War at the age of 13 and later practicing medicine in Saint Louis after graduating from the…
Date : 1899
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
South side of Minnesota Avenue from 5th Street.
Date : 1949
Collection: Photographs (General Collection)
Photo and biographical article about Dr. Charles Wainwright, a physician born in Lewis County, Missouri in 1858 and becoming county coroner for Shelby County, Missouri before coming to Kansas City in…
Date : 1901-01
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Article about the conflict between Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas, over the new state of the art railroad "food terminal," with photo.
Date : 1939-12-16
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
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…
Date : 1986-01
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Biographical sketch of Dr. Damon Orian Walthall, or Damon Walthall, a physician at 315 Alameda Road. Born in Paola, Kansas in 1890 and coming to Kansas City in 1920, "specializing in pediatrics…
Date : 1938
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Biographical sketch of Dr. Joseph Horigan, a physician "born in Georgetown, District of Columbia, [or Washington, D. C.], January 16, 1864," and coming to Kansas City in 1888, opening an…
Date : 1908
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Group portrait of newsboys and an adult posing behind stacks of newspapers and in front of a newspaper truck in Chillicothe, Missouri.
Date : 1922-04-28
Collection: Kansas City Star Collection
Photo and bio of Dr. Samuel Anderson, " popular physician of the homeopathic school of medicine," moving from Lawrence, Kansas, to Kansas City in 1881 as a professor of surgery and…
Date : 1896
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Dr. J. W. Parker was called John as well as James and settled in Westport, Missouri, in 1851 where he practiced medicine among the white settlers and the Shawnee, Wyandotte, and Delaware Indians.…
Date : 1851 to 1872
Collection: Local History Index (Citations), Finding Aids
Obituary for Dr. Frank Hurwitt, a physician here for many years, dying at the age of 92.
Date : 1975-02-01
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Obituary for August J. Haner from the "Kansas City Times," August 16, 1898. States that he opened the first grocery store in Kansas City, Kansas. He was also a freighter across the plains…
Date : 2002
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Coming to Kansas City, Kansas in 1998, Sister Vickie Perkins works with early childhood and education agencies in Wyandotte County. Her work is through the Gardner Institute created in 1997 by the…
Date : 2002-01
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Histories of Kansas City area medical specialty societies, including the American Academy of General Practice, the Greater Kansas City, Missouri, Academy of General Practice, the Industrial Medical…
Date : 1956-06-30
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Special section of the magazine concerning positive aspects of the development and redevelopment of Kansas City, Kansas (a consolidated government with Wyandotte County), including the proposed…
Date : 1998-10
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Close-up view of unidentified building at American Smelting and Refining Company.
Date : 1900
Collection: Photographs (General Collection)