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Title: African American Health Care
Description: Interior view of two African American school children ready to receive immunization shots from an unidentified African American care giver.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: SC127 Gladstone School
Description: Gladstone School opened in 1915 at 335 N. Elmwood Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri and was demolished in 1988 to make room for a new school building. This collection documents annual attendance and scholarship records for students attending Gladstone School from 1915-1938.
Date: 1915/1938
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Globe Shoe Parlors
Description: Advertising card for Globe Shoe Parlors showing a boy leaning against a wall, head down, looking unhappy. Caption says: "The Foot of the Class." One of eight cards with similarly designed pictures of children. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 728 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Globe Shoe Parlors
Description: Advertising card for Globe Shoe Parlors showing a girl in a red dress. Caption says: "The Head of the Class." One of eight cards with similarly designed pictures of children. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 728 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Globe Shoe Parlors
Description: Advertising card for Globe Shoe Parlors showing a boy in a hat carrying books with his head down. Caption says: "Compulsory Education." One of eight cards with similarly designed pictures of children. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 728 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Van Horn School Kindergarten Class
Description: Interior view of a a kindergarten class at Van Horn School. Room is identified as the assembly hall. Students are not identified. This photo appears in the Forty-Second Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the School District of Kansas City, Missouri, for the Year Ending June 30, 1913 [p. 94].
Date: 1913~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Tillery School
Description: Class portrait identified as Tillery School, Oct. 18, 1904, Effie Nevitt, Teacher. Presumed to be a rural country school, location not given nor are the students identified.
Date: 1904-10-18
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Somber Choices Await District and Families
Description: The R. J. Delano school that serves only students with severe disabilities may be closed by the school district. Part of the reason is that the Kansas City school district students with disabilities are spending less time in a general classroom than most special education students around the state. "Federal law directs public school districts to provide a free education to all students with disabilities in settings that place them alongside students without disabilities as much as is appropriate."
Date: 2011-05-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Changing Lives, One by One
Description: Article describes a campaign to enlist 100,000 adults to intervene in the lives of Kansas City schoolchildren through programs like YouthFriends, Big Brothers Big Sisters, YMCA Young Achievers, LNESC, and Kauffman Scholars. It focuses particularly on Kansas City School Board member Alrick Leonard West who benefited from an adult mentor and now is a big brother to Josh Lockhart.
Date: 2009-01-12
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Classmates Remember White Flight
Description: Article records details of a reunion of former students who attended the Sanford B. Ladd School from 1950 - 1957. Attendees are interviewed and describe how the school was changed following the desegregation of Kansas City public schools.
Date: 2013-10-13
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Eerie Tunnel Offered Greenwood Elementary Kids Safe Passage Under Busy KC Intersection
Description: The author reminisces about her experiences as an elementary school student using an underground passage called "The Tunnel" at the intersection of 27th and Cleveland Avenue. Built in the early 1900s, the purpose of the passageway, which connected all four corners of the intersection, was to allow for school children to travel safely to and from the nearby Greenwood Elementary School. It also served as a tornado and fallout shelter in the 1950s. The passage was closed in the late 1980s and Greenwood Elementary followed a decade later, in 1997.
Date: 2013-10-30
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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