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1. Advertising Card Collection Finding Aid Advertising Card Collection Finding Aid ca. 1860-1910s Collection of cards used for advertising purposes in the late 19th century. Includes colorful illustrations for many types of products. The over 600 cards from Kansas City businesses have been digitized....
2. Banquet, Missouri Library Association Banquet, Missouri Library Association 1944-11-01 Group shot of a dinner meeting at the Hotel Continental for what is believed to be the Missouri Library Association. Music provided by man in back holding an accordion.
3. Biography of Carrie Westlake Whitney (?-1934), Librarian and Director of the Kansas City Public Library Biography of Carrie Westlake Whitney (?-1934), Librarian and Director of the Kansas City Public Library 1999
4. Biography of Mildred Kittell Ray (Mrs. Sam) (1895-1996), Teacher, Historian, and Writer Biography of Mildred Kittell Ray (Mrs. Sam) (1895-1996), Teacher, Historian, and Writer 1998
5. Carrie Westlake Whitney Carrie Westlake Whitney May 26, 2010 Transcript of a talk given at The Kansas City Public Library sponsored by the Women's City Club. Carrie Westlake Whitney was the first librarian of The Kansas City Public Library and the author of a three-volume...
6. Censored: Censorship at the Library Censored: Censorship at the Library April 1963 Article about the censorship and practical censorship through under-ordering of controversial and best-selling novels by the Kansas City Public Library under management of several anonymous librarians...
7. Editorial Forum: The Kansas City Meeting Editorial Forum: The Kansas City Meeting April/1/1938 Article describing Kansas City's tourist attractions and general features (climate, history, etc.) for "the Kansas City meeting, the sixtieth annual conference of the American Library Association." Places...
8. Father of Miss Capitola Jones Dies in Topeka Father of Miss Capitola Jones Dies in Topeka March 14, 1952 Vertical file containing an obituary for John Paul Jones, a Kansas City lawyer dying at the age of 96 on March 7, 1952. Jones was born in a log cabin "of slave parentage" and "was licensed to practiced...
9. I Like a Convention: Memories of Kansas City and Thereafter I Like a Convention: Memories of Kansas City and Thereafter June//1939 Description of memorable sites of libraries and their surroundings across "the Illinois and Missouri plains," including the Main Branch Library of the Kansas City Public Library at 9th and Locust Streets,...
10. James F. Spalding Papers Finding Aid James F. Spalding Papers Finding Aid 1860-1950 James F. Spalding, born July 28, 1835, was an early pioneer resident in Kansas City, arriving in 1865. According to his obituary, in October of that year founded the first school in Kansas City, two years...
11. Kansas City Public Library Kansas City Public Library circa 1955 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 adults as well as two African American children, all...
12. Kansas City Public Library Kansas City Public Library circa 1955 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 a librarian, an African American man as well as two...
13. Kansas City Public Library Kansas City Public Library circa 1955 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 two librarians assisting two adults at the library card...
14. Kansas City Public Library Kansas City Public Library circa 1955 Interior view, taken in the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View believed to have been taken in the Reference area with a sign...
15. Kansas City Public Library Kansas City Public Library December 2001 Interior view taken at the Plaza branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 48th and Main in the Country Club Plaza. In view is a plaque which appears to be attached to the wall, exact location...
16. Kansas City Public Library Kansas City Public Library circa 1940s An interior view of unidentified people in the cataloging office at the Kansas City Public Library, Main branch at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
17. Kansas City's Brain Kansas City's Brain February//1975 Article about information systems at the Kansas City Public Library and other area libraries, including the Mid-Continent Library, in the context of the "knowledge explosion" and a "new breed of librarians"...
18. Librarians Work Together Librarians Work Together September//1949 Description of programs bringing library customers together efficiently with short library staff.
19. Library Directors of the Kansas City Public Library Library Directors of the Kansas City Public Library First librarian: Mrs. Carrie Westlake Whitney, or Carrie Whitney, March 1881-June 1, 1911. Second librarian: Mr. Purd B. Wright, June 1, 1911-July 1, 1938. Acting librarian: Ms. Irene Gentry, 1937-March...
20. Library Related Parade Float Library Related Parade Float circa 1950s-60s Exterior view of a parade float with nine women on it, identically dressed. Sign on side of float reads: "Operation Library" with additional lettering for Arkansas ...Location and event not identified....