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121. Pioneer Blood Pioneer Blood Manuscript of reminiscences about pioneer experiences of Mary Long in mid-1800s Kansas City.
122. Ramos Vertical File List Ramos Vertical File List A list of the file names in the Ramos collection. This collection includes books, pamphlets, newspaper articles, and vertical files relating to the African American experience. Begun around 1920 by librarians...
123. Local Schools Collection Finding Aid Local Schools Collection Finding Aid This Local Schools Collection consists of various pamphlets, booklets, brochures, etc., about different types of area schools. It does not include the public schools.
124. Finance Building Finance Building Postcard of the Finance Building at 10th and Baltimore
125. Leed's Eight to the Bar Leed's Eight to the Bar Photo and biographical description of Pete Johnson, "probably the most famous keyboard artist in the [Leed's] Eight [music group] to the bar category among musicians," specializing in "boogie woogie" piano...
126. Richard Bolling Richard Bolling Information about United States Representative for Missouri from Kansas City, Richard Bolling, including an article about Bolling's autobiographical book with photos, "House Out of Order," describing his...
127. African Americans in Kansas City African Americans in Kansas City File contains copied pages from a book called "Reflections in Black" about the history of African Americans in Kansas City.
128. Memoirs of W. A. Hill, Grand View, Missouri, Written in 1921 Memoirs of W. A. Hill, Grand View, Missouri, Written in 1921 Autobiography of William A. Hill, starting in the 1830s at the birth of his sister in Saint Louis and continuing from the 1840s through the 1910s in Ray County, Missouri, about friends, family, and local...
129. On the Trail of 'Pretty Boy' Floyd: A Reporter's Thrilling Report of an Outlaw's Story On the Trail of 'Pretty Boy' Floyd: A Reporter's Thrilling Report of an Outlaw's Story Biographical paper about Charles Arthur Floyd known as Pretty Boy Floyd (1904-1934), by the author, a Kansas City Journal-Post writer following his trail during his criminal career from 1925 to 1934, with...
130. Coleman Highlands Coleman Highlands File contains a homes tour guide book for the Coleman Highlands Fall Homes Tour of 1999.
131. Confederate Soldiers Home In Higginsville, Missouri Confederate Soldiers Home In Higginsville, Missouri Photos and information on Civil War Confederate veterans pertaining to the Confederate Soldiers Home in Higginsville, Missouri, or buried at the Confederate Memorial Cemetery there (in Clay County, Missouri)....
132. Coates House Hotel Coates House Hotel Postcard of the Coates House Hotel
133. You Should Have Been Along: Auto-Biography of Edward F. Bowman You Should Have Been Along: Auto-Biography of Edward F. Bowman Chapter of the autobiography of the author about the amateur Astronomy Club of the 1930s in Kansas City, memorialized in the carvings on the interior and exterior of City Hall at 12th and Oak Streets by...
134. American Royal Barbecue American Royal Barbecue Photos, illustrations, and description of the American Royal Barbecue, "The World Series of Barbecue Contests" that began in 1979.
135. Frontiers in American Catholicism Frontiers in American Catholicism Photo and review (with no date or page listed) of the book "Frontiers in American Catholicism" by Reverend Walter Ony, a Saint Louis Catholic priest growing up in Kansas City.
136. Menninger Foundation Menninger Foundation Photos and information on Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger, or Karl Menninger, a psychiatrist and co-founder of the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, in 1925 (a nationally top-ranked psychiatric hospital)...
137. Oldest Books in the Missouri Valley Room Oldest Books in the Missouri Valley Room A search of the online catalog in May 2005 revealed the oldest book in the MVSC collection to be Mathematical Tables by Sir Jonas Moore published in 1653 [MV-Y 510.8 M82]. It was part of the James M. Greenwood...
138. Dale Carnegie Dale Carnegie Information about Kansas City associations relating to Dale Carnegie, author of the best-selling self-help book "How to Win Friends and Influence People," from Maryville, Missouri.
139. Prudence Crandall Prudence Crandall File contains one biographical article with photo (of Elizabeth Yates) about Prudence Crandall, a nineteenth-century Kansas teacher. The article is a book review titled “White Teacher Dared Whole Community...
140. City of the Future: A Narrative History of Kansas City, 1850-1950 City of the Future: A Narrative History of Kansas City, 1850-1950 Description of the turbulent 1930s in Kansas City, especially 1933, "a year of culminating evil and achievement."