Promotion Souvenir for the 14th consecutive season of Electric Park. Contains band concert programs and advertisements with a cover title.
M. G. Heim, President
Sam Benjamin, General Manager

Promotional booklet published by the Willows Maternity Home. From the inside cover: "A sociological analysis of the patients cared for by the Willows Maternity Sanitarium covering the ten-year period, 1927 t0 1936 inclusive.

Books (Historical KC Texts), Florence Beal Bolte Willows Maternity Home Collection

Summary report of the investigation into the Kansas City Chapter of the Black Panther Party by the House Committee on Internal Security, also known as the Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). Transcripts of testimonies given by individuals familiar with Black Panther Party activates, exhibits presented to the committee, and photographs are included.

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Promotional book published by the The Fletcher Cowherd Company to advertise new homes built by the firm in the Morningside neighborhood. Several photos and drawings of houses with ownership, address and architect information are included. The book also includes several pages of advertisements for firms connected to the home construction industry.

Promotional booklet for the Willows Maternity Home directed at physicians. The front cover reads: "Explaining to our physician patrons some of the refinements in our plans for the protecting of their unfortunate patients."

Books (Historical KC Texts), Florence Beal Bolte Willows Maternity Home Collection

Promotional catalog for the American Poultry School. The school offered correspondence courses designed to teach income earning from poultry raising. Contains many articles and descriptions of individuals employed by the school, current and former students, and its operations. Included with the booklet are several supplementary brochures and handouts. The school's office was located at 115 E. 31st Street in Kansas City. It's experimental farm was located on 63rd Street in Raytown, Missouri.

Promotional booklet for building family homes in 1920s luxury Kansas City suburban tract development now in the Santa Fe Hills neighborhood southeast of 85th Street and Wornall Road. It was to include rare amenities such as an open air theater, bell tower, pool, club house, and Dutch windmill. Built on property owned by Daniel Boone's son Nathan, and featuring the Boone school and home. Businessman developer Emory Sweeney founded an automobile school and WHB radio. Landscape architects Hare & Hare were to handle the project, and George Hamilton Stone was assigned as General Manager. Detailed plat map at center fold. The document claims that the neighborhood will, “exclude undesirable people from the standpoint of morals, character, and integrity.”

Promotional booklet for the Willows Maternity Home. From the inside cover: "Facts brought to life through a sociological analysis of the patients seeking seclusion at the Willows Maternity Sanitarium."

Books (Historical KC Texts), Florence Beal Bolte Willows Maternity Home Collection

A Kansas City history book written for children and young adult readers. From the introduction: Using words, pictures, maps, and activities, this book will take you - along with your friends and imagination - into the history of this place we call Kansas City. You will understand how the place we live affects the patterns of our daily lives. Sometimes, history can seem like a chore - or even a bore. The writers of this book have tried hard to keep from drowning you in details … Each chapter of this book presents the story of an era, or period of time, in our past. Along the way, you will learn the stories that make our city a unique and important place to all our lives. And you will discover how to time travel on your own.

Souvenir program book the Kansas City centennial celebration. The book details the events, organizations involved, and people associated with the celebration. The book contains many advertisements and brief articles detailing the history of various Kansas City area businesses, organizations, and public figures. An index for the book can be found on page 144.

Program for the Second Annual Junior Governor's Cup Basketball Game held in Jefferson City, Missouri. The charity basketball game was played between members of the Kansas City Chiefs and St. Louis Cardinals (playing as the Big Red All-Stars) football teams. The booklet contains advertisements, team rosters, and autographs from Chiefs and Cardinals players.

Promotional booklet for Kansas City, Missouri. Item includes sections covering the development of the city's business interests, a list of buildings constructed in 1878, its history, its geographic advantages, descriptions of various businesses and public institutions, descriptions of its suburbs, and advertisements.

A city directory cataloging Kansas City's Black business and citizen community for the years 1942-1943. The directory defines itself as the name, address, occupation, telephone (if any), property status, auto registration or ownership and family relationship of every Black citizen of high school age or older residing in the city; a complete list of local and state officials; a directory of Black churches, educational institutions, secret and benevolent societies, state institutions, and other organizations; a complete list of Black schools and school teachers; a complete classified business and professional index of Black ownership and management; a cross reference telephone directory of Black telephone subscribers.

Books (Historical KC Texts), Ramos Collection

Volume one of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.

Volume two of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.

Volume three of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.

A brief history of the Kansas City Public Library published at the time of its centennial in 1973. Chapters include: Formative Years, Reaching Outward, Expanding Services, Modern Era and Pathways to the Future. Appendices covering KCPL's chronology, its special collections and librarians are included.

Football shaped program for the 1896 Thanksgiving Day football game played by the Kansas University against the Missouri University at Kansas City's Exposition Park, once located north of 15th Street between Montgall and Kansas (Chestnut) avenues.

A small booklet featuring photographs of Kansas City that have been artistically enhanced to create a nighttime effect.

Booklet published by the Kansas City Public Library summarizing the community, civil rights, and legal activism of Alvin Sykes. The text covers Sykes' early life and passion for self-education through public libraries. His involvement in the 1980 murder case of jazz musician Steve Harvey at the Liberty Memorial is highlighted. Sykes' pursuit of a federal civil rights violation case against Harvey's accused killer, Raymond Bledsoe, after he was declared not guilty by an all white jury in Jackson County court is covered. Sykes' civil rights and legal activism following Bledsoe's conviction in 1983, including his involvement with the reexamination of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, is also covered. The booklet contains an introduction by former Kansas City Public Library executive director R. Crosby Kemper III and concludes with a note from Sykes discussing his life's work.

Ramos Collection, Books (Historical KC Texts)

Report prepared by the Research Bureau of the Board of Public Welfare chronicling the description, demographics, industries, churches, schools, recreational activities, housing, social services available and other problems affecting seven Kansas City districts. The authors of the report pay special attention to the city's immigrant and African American communities. A broad general prospectus of the entire city is also provided. The report contains several photographs and maps provided to illustrate the nature and extant of social and health problems affecting Kansas Citians. The districts covered by the report are: the North West, the North Side, the West Side, the Swope Settlement, the Hospital, Penn Valley and the East Side.

Promotional booklet for the Willows Maternity Home, once located at 2929 Main Street. The booklet features a text introduction to the hospital and its operations and photographs of workspaces, nurses, staff, and children born at the Willows.

Florence Beal Bolte Willows Maternity Home Collection, Books (Historical KC Texts)

Promotional booklet published by the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City to celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs game against the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV. The booklet contains photographs of civic and business leaders and statements from them congratulating the Chiefs on the team's achievement. Brief articles summarizing development projects going on in the city at that time are included. The booklet also contains several advertisements for Kansas City area businesses.

Promotional booklet published by the Willows Maternity Home explaining their services and fees for patients.

Books (Historical KC Texts), Florence Beal Bolte Willows Maternity Home Collection

Booklet published to promote the Country Club District neighborhoods by the J. C. Nichols Company. Images of landscaping, streets and residences are included. Property descriptions for residents are described.