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Title: Making Uniform Caps
Description: In 1886, the company of M. J. Gelhaar began producing uniform caps in their factory located at 720 Walnut Street. The various caps produced include kinds used in fire departments, orchestras, bands, military organizations, secret societies, railroads, and hotels.
Date: 1899-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: McWilliams, Crooke and Co.
Description: Short description of "Wholesale Dealers in Hats, Caps, and Gloves, 308 Delaware Sts."
Date: 1879
Object Type: Book Section

Title: J. E. Vincent and Co.
Description: Advertising card for J. E. Vincent and Co. showing a woman wearing a hat and shawl standing among trees. Below this image is one of daisies and butterflies. Front of card says: "Vincent's Millinery Opening, April 19 and 20, 1883." Card folds and inside says: "Our 4th Annual Opening of Fine French Millinery and Hair Goods, and Exhibition of Pattern Bonnets and Round Hats, also all the Latest Novelties, Thursday and Friday, April 19th and 20th, 1883." Back of card has image of a birds flying and tiny text: "Harrington, Typ." Address given inside card: 701 Main St., cor. Seventh, Kansas City.
Date: 1883
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 43 with Santa and Children
Description: Scrapbook page containing ten advertising cards, all cut to the shape of their image, showing the following:1. Santa carrying presents (two cards).2. A girl with ringlets and a hat, holding a ball (two identical cards).3. A girl with ringlets and a hat holding a teddybear.4. A woman in lace head cover.5. Flowers, two cards with hands and doves, one with birds, and one with a book.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 28 with Women
Description: Scrapbook page containing nine advertising cards depicting women and girls arranged in three rows. The central image is of a girl in a feathered hat holding flowers. It is cut to shape. The corner cards each show a portrait of a woman from the waist, two with hands on hips, one seated. Four other cards are cut to shape and show shoulder portraits of women, three in fancy hats, one leaning on her hand.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 54 with People and Horses
Description: Scrapbook page containing seven advertising cards showing the following:1. A woman feeding an old man who appears sick.2. Two children looking at an African American man holding a sign (which is blank).3. A man being fitted for a hat. Card says:.."."."" Booksellers and Stationers, 105 Main St, Norwich, Conn." Lower right corner says: "Ketterlinus Philada."4. A large card (14 x 23 cm.) with a man riding a farm machine pulled by two horses. Machine is labeled: "The Deering All Steel Binder."5. A man being measured.6. A man sitting yawning next to a suitcase. Card says: "Trade with Lane and Ullery, The Leading Furniture Dealers, Troy, Ohio."7. A woman and a man.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 58 with Women and Children
Description: Scrapbook page containing seven advertising cards showing the following:1. A couple looking into each other's eyes as the woman plays a mandolin.2. A winter scene of a house in snow.3. A woman in fancy dress and large hat holding a fan.4. Flowers and a banner that says: "Knowledge is Power."5. Three children posing for a studio style portrait.6. A woman in fancy dress with fan. Card is cut to shape and says: "Fiametta."7. A baby with spoons and a can of preserved milk that says: "Gail Borden Eagle Brand."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Men with Matching Hats
Description: Group of men, most wearing matching caps. The man in the foreground has a Kansas City-Heart of America button and Reception ribbon on his coat.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Unidentified Couple
Description: Portrait of unidentified man and woman; each has a ribbon pinned to their clothing.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Man Seated
Description: Unidentified man in a suit seated in a school chair in the corner of a room; a fedora hat is resting next to him.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 16 with People
Description: Scrapbook page containing nine advertising cards arranged in three rows. Each card depicts a person (usually a shoulder portrait) and is cut to the shape of the image. The top three cards depict men, two with mustaches. Four other cards depict women, one with a large feathered hat and one in a fur-trimmed coat, hat, and muff. Two cards depict girls, one holding cherries.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 75 with People
Description: Scrapbook page containing ten advertising cards showing the following:1. A man standing on two stones in a river offering to help a woman on the bank into a boat. Card says: "Wade and Cumming Clothing, Cor 8th Av. and 23d St., Grand Opera House." Lower right corner says: "Chas. Shields Sons, 20 and 22 Gold St. N.Y."2. A team of two horses and a man plowing a field.3. A woman wearing a yellow dress and hat in the woods.4. A person with sword in black Elizabethan dress including tights, collar, cloak, and hat.5. A woman in blue dress and feathered hat.6. Two men in the street carrying boxes with crank handles. One has a monkey. A spool of thread hovering over them says: "J. and P. Coats Best Six Cord."7. A man walking along smoking and carrying a stick and a bottle of "Pond's Extract." Card says: "Bound for Donnybrook Fair, Fully Equipped. Copyrighted 1892 by Pond's Extract Co."8. Three calling cards with images of flowers and a windmill for Mrs. Christian Harmon, Miss Lou Neal, and William Cook.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Two Women Dressed Up
Description: Two women both wearing a coat and hat and holding purses. The older woman on the right is also holding a flower bouquet. Other people, including a young boy, are visible in the background.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 55 with People and Pets
Description: Scrapbook page containing eleven advertising cards. Four small cards are cut to the shape of their image and show three cats and a dog. The other seven cards show the following:1. A girl picking apples. Card says: "Use Acme Soap .."." Best bar soap made."2. A girl in fancy hat and collar. Card says: "Muzzy's Corn Starch. Purity." Lower left corner has number I 65 and right corner says: "Shober and Carqueville, Chicago."3. A clown running from his shadow. Card says: "Middleboro Skating Rink, Town Hall, Middleboro, Mass..."""4. Ten African American children and babies gathered around an old man in a rocking chair next to a stove. Card says: "What Uncle Obadia says about Dixon's Stove Polish. Dixon's Carburet of Iron Stove Polish. Copyright 1887."5. A short, fat man with cymbals and a tall, thin man with a flute or whistle. Card says: "The Latest Importation, Coney-Island Musicians." Compliments of Bush and Bull, Largest Dry Goods Dealers, 305, 307, 309 and 311 Northampton St. Easton, Pa."6. A British, a Confederate, and a Union soldier holding hands and dancing around an obelisk marked "Bunker Hill." Next to them a grave says "Hatchet." and three dates are marked on card: 1861, 1776, and 1876.7. A woman sitting on a bench under a tree with a man in uniform.
Date: 1887~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: If the Hat Fits
Description: Profile of businessman Dan Saferstein, president of the Sportsman Cap Network. Saferstein is the great-grandson of Jacob Yeddis and grandson of Abe Yeddis, two generations of hatmakers who started the Kansas City-based Pioneer Hat Company in 1935. The company became Promotional Headwear International (PHI) in 1978 and Sportsman Cap Network in 2001. Saferstein joined the family business in 1993.
Date: 2008-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: From Czar's Capmaker to American Cap Czar
Description: Article about the rags to riches story of Jacob Yeddis, a Jewish capmaker of Kansas City. Born in Russia about 1894 and emigrating to Kansas City about 1914, becoming founder of the Pioneer Cap Company (in 1980 "one of the top three cap manufacturing companies in America") here in 1937.
Date: 1980-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

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