Kansas City Star Magazine Collection (K0595)

THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI RESEARCH CENTER-KANSAS CITY

K0595 Kansas City Star Magazine Collection [Native Sons Archives] 1924-1926 .3 cubic foot

A near complete set of the short-lived art and culture magazine published by the Kansas City Star newspaper.

HISTORY:

A special project of Laura Nelson Kirkwood, the magazine was printed in Germany and illustrated by well-known artists. It proved too expensive to continue publication.

PROVENANCE:

This gift was received from The Native Sons of Kansas City as part of accession KA0590 on July 17, 1990.

The Donor has given and assigned to the State Historical Society of Missouri all rights of copyright which the Donor has in the Materials and in such of the Donor’s works as may be found among any collections of Materials received by the Society from others.

PREFERRED CITATION:

Specific item; folder number; The Kansas City Star Magazine Collection (K0595); The State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center-Kansas City [after first mention may be abbreviated to SHSMO-KC].

CONTACT:

The State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center-Kansas City 302 Newcomb Hall, University of Missouri-Kansas City

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5123 Holmes Street, Kansas City, MO 64110-2499 (816) 235-1543 [email protected] http://shs.umsystem.edu/index.shtml

DESCRIPTION:

The collection includes original magazine publications. Included in each publication are: a study and description of the cover art or other famous works of art; short stories and serials; articles about famous people, some with local connections; photographs of area homes, people, events; photographs of national or international interest; society news; fashion illustrations by Edna Marie Dunn; illustrated poetry and cartoons by Dale Beronius; and advertisements for local businesses. Early issues contained bible stories. The cover and back pages are printed on smooth paper with full color illustrations, several by Leroy Daniel McMorris. Of particular interest is a series of fashion illustrations by Homer Conant described as “America’s Foremost Designer”. The “Costumes A Series” appeared from December 6-27, 1925.

INVENTORY:

FLAT BOX 001 THE KANSAS CITY STAR MAGAZINE Volume I and Volume II Vol.: Date Year Pages Comment Issue I: 7 September 7 1924 20 Some Residential photos, Country club district, illustrations Dale Beronius I: 8 September 1924 20 Mounted traffic squad, fashion 14 illustrations Edna Marie Dunn I:11 October 5 1924 20 Landscape photos; Gillham, Rockhill. A.S.B. Bridge toll booth I:12 October 12 1924 20 Interior view, residence, 1252 Stratford Rd. Kansas City Country Club polo players I:19 November 30 1924 20 Kansas City Engineer, L.B. Roberts, topographer in expedition to Gobi Desert. Photos of R.A. Long, F.J. Bannister, James McQueeny, Ban Johnson, Sir Carl Busch, Albert Schoenberg, morning rush hour, 18th & McGee, Kansas City Theater I:28 February 1 1925 18 Edith Hawes Quisenberry, Kansas City girl joins chorus of Ziegfeld’s Follies, society weddings, Central College for Women, Wentworth Military Academy. Lexington, MO.

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Vol.: Date Year Pages Comment Issue I:29 February 8 1925 20 Marion Talley, crowd watching ‘Peter Pan’ at Convention Hall. Jefferson City, MO. I:30 February 15 1925 18 “Cable Car days of Forty years ago” (missing cover). Topeka, KS I:31 February 22 1925 20 Jackson County Circuit Judges. Atchison, KS. *wonderful illustration on back cover, advertisement for Crème Oil Toilet Soap I:32 March 1 1925 20 J.C. Nichols, John Lavan, mgr. of Kansas City Blues, I:33 March 8 1925 20 Cover portrait of William Rockhill Nelson; article: “The Kansas City The Steamboats Knew” based on writing of a traveler in 1857. Jefferson City, MO. new capitol building. I:34 March 15 1925 20 Colonel W.E. Halsell, Kansas City man, pioneer Texas rancher. “Kansas City Tries out a prize Bungalow”, 940 West 34th Street, Harry l. Wagner. Topeka, KS. I:35 March 22 1925 20 Dr. A.M. Wilson, Kansas City Physician. Russell “Lena” Blackburne, former Kansas City Blues player. National Flower Show in KC. I:36 March 29 1925 20 Dr. David Jones Evans, Pastor of First Baptist church. Music Supervisors’ National Conference. I:37 April 5 1925 20 Liberty, MO. Early Mormon church, Independence, MO. Bishop Thomas F. Lillis. R.A. Ostertag’s house, 5030 Summit, designed by Mary Rockwell Hook I:38 April 12 1925 20 An interview with Dr. Joseph A. Reilly, physical director of Kansas City Athletic Club I:39 April 19 1925 20 J.H. Foresman, Vice-President, Long- Bell Lumber company I:40 April 26 1925 20 Kansas City homes. I:41 May 3 1925 20 R.O.T.C. in Kansas City; Westport High School, Manual Training, Central, Lathrop, Northeast high school. “Kansas City, Cradle of Remington’s Art”

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Vol.: Date Year Pages Comment Issue I:42 May 10 1925 20 “Kansas City’s Week of Opera Begins Tomorrow”; John Edwin Hogg, son of architect James Oliver Hogg, voyage from Skaguay, Alaska to Seattle. Rex McDonald (horse). I:43 May 17 1925 20 Local tennis stars: Cliff Campbell, Junior Coen, Carl Meyer, John Hubbell I:44 May 24 1925 20 “Thrills that Horses Put into My Life” Loula Long Combs. “Bird’s-Eye View” Swope Park shelter house, gates. “Seventy Years of River Days” Captain James Kennedy. Children’s fashion illustrations by W. Fritschy I:45 May 31 1925 20 Beauty spots in KC; Mission Hills Golf, Lake of Woods at Swope Park, “the ford” 63rd and Club Road, Lake Hiwassee, KC’s newest body of water: Walter McLucas. Women’s Chamber of Commerce officers; Mary Miller, Alice Todd, Jeanie Murray, Harriet Blair, Rose Ohaus I:46 June 7 1925 20 “Building Kansas City” caricatures of C.O. Jones, J.C. Taylor, Fletcher Cowherd, Jr., Charles Phillips, Howard Vrooman, Max Skeer, C.F. Curry, Moseley-Comstock, R.L. Winter, Albert Schoenburg, N.W. Dible, G.H. McCanles. William L. Rock, florist. Interior of residence, Dr. Logan Clendening, 1247 W. 56th St. I:47 June 14 1925 20 1st in series of articles about early settlers in Kansas City: The Conquest of the Wilderness series: “First Settlement of the Fur Traders”. Georgia Brown, dramatic teacher in KC for over 25 years about famous students. Studio of Leroy D. McMorris I:48 June 21 1925 20 Golfers at Ivanhoe Country Club. Crowds at Richards Field (airport). Doniphan and his place in history.

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Vol.: Date Year Pages Comment Issue I:49 June 28 1925 20 Views of Kansas City Life Insurance Company Building. 2nd in series of articles about early settlers in Kansas City: The Conquest of the Wilderness series: “Independence, Westport and the Trail to Santa Fe” I:50 July 5 1925 20 Julius Erickson, amateur astrologer, 6032 Main. Sea Lion fountain, 63rd and Ward Parkway. Kansas City Blues at Muehlebach Field Vol. I 556 Total Vol. I pages=556

Vol.: Date Year Pages Comment Issue II: 1 July 26 1925 20 Part 3- The Conquest of the Wilderness series: “New Santa Fe, and Almost Forgotten Village of Pioneers. Fairyland Park, Club Road Bridge path, Ivanhoe bank II: 2 August 2 1925 20 Part 4: The Conquest of the Wilderness series: “Council Grove, Kansas, “Last Chance” Town on the Santa Fe Trail. . .” Sunken garden by J.C. Nichols, Mission Drive and Overhill Rd. II: 3 August 9 1925 20 “Deaf” Smith and the Alamo II: 4 August 16 1925 20 Pembroke School for Boys 7444 State Line II: 5 August 23 1925 20 Rockhill Homes: Some Studies in Natural Color Photography. Abdallah Shrine Park, Leavenworth, KS II: 6 August 30 1925 20 J.N. Penrod Home, exterior and interior, 815 W. 55th. Baseball fans atop billboard on Brooklyn Avenue outside Muehlebach Field II: 7 September 6 1925 20 M.U., and K.U. II: 8 September 1925 20 “Kit Carson as a Missourian”. Platte City, 13 Henry L. Dillingham II: 9 September 1925 20 Members of Board of Trade in straw hats: 20 Gamage, Fuller, Scott, Lonsdale, Emmons, McKenna, Kelley, Davidson, Izzard, Christopher, Sloan.

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Vol.: Date Year Pages Comment Issue II:10 September 1925 20 Platte County Fair. Part V- The Conquest 27 of the Wilderness series: “Kansas City not the Result of Accident but a Result of Nature’s Design” II:11 October 4 1925 20 “Bill” Williams, Dynamic Missourian” by Frederic E. Voelker. Stockyards photos. II:12 October 11 1925 20 Part VI- The Conquest of the Wilderness series: “Unpublished “Tales of an Old- Timer,” by John C. McCoy, Pioneer City Planner, Reveal His Vision”. Residence of Frank Schopflin, 1633 Stratford Rd. Liberty Memorial sculpture. Dr. Frederick W. Hawley, Park College, Parkville, MO. II:13 October 18 1925 20 Verona Columns, Country Club district, Mission Drive. Home of Mrs. William E. Curtis, 3441 Coleman Rd. Weston, MO. Southwest High School, Alfred H. Monsees, principal. New serials: “King Fuzzy-Paws of Animalia” by Gleb E. Botkin; “The Thirteen Opals” by Allen Raymond; “ David Belasco, Adventurer” by John J. Wallace II:14 October 25 1925 20 Daniel Boone home, Wentzville, MO. Kindergarten children at Humbolt School. Old Mockbee home, 78th & Holmes, 112 years old. II:15 November 1 1925 20 Home of Dr. Elmer D. Twyman, 5620 State Line Road. Northeast High School Girl’s Platoon. Girl’s parade down Grand Avenue. R.O.T.C. “Rookies” of Central High School VOL 300 II FLAT BOX 002 THE KANSAS CITY STAR MAGAZINE Volume II and Volume III Vol.: Date Year Pages Comment Issue II:16 November 8 1925 20 Prominent Citizens and scenes in Kansas City, KS. II:17 November 15 1925 20 Roger T. Sermon, mayor of Independence, MO. J.N. Hanthorn, principal, William Chrisman High School.

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Vol.: Date Year Pages Comment Issue Wild Bill Hickok by Robert M. Snyder, Jr.

II:18 November 22 1925 20 Homes of Rawlings H. Collins, 5717 Wornall Rd., Leo E. Collins, 5163 Wornall Rd., W.H. Collins, 232 W. 52nd. New serial: “Labrador Gold” by John T. Rowland. Rodeo scenes at Stockyards. II:19 November 29 1925 18 Cover missing. Mrs. B.L. Hart, president of KC Athenaeum. Catha Wells, author of children’s stories. New Hotel President under construction. Street view, Baltimore at Eleventh. II:20 December 6 1925 18 Cover missing. Young “Traffic officers” of the Horace Mann school. Rt. Rev. Thomas F. Lillis, Bishop of the Catholic diocese of KC. #1“Costumes A Series” by Homer Conant. “Tom Tobin, a Noted Scout of the Old West” by Velma West Sykes II:21 December 13 1925 20 “Josiah Gregg, Premier Historian of Jackson County” by Robert M. Snyder, Jr. Residences of Kansas Senators, Topeka, KS. #2“Costumes A Series” by Homer Conant. II:22 December 20 1925 20 “The Minister Choirs of Linwood Boulevard Presbyterian Church”. Retaining tanks of new waterworks plant in North Kansas City. #3“Costumes A Series” by Homer Conant. II:23 December 27 1925 14 Pages 3-4, back cover missing. “Order No. 11” by George Caleb Bingham. Old Eighth street tunnel now, good place for raising mushrooms. #4“Costumes A Series” by Homer Conant. II:24 January 3 1926 20 Catholic Community Club, Armour and Forest, Leavenworth, KS. Ft. Leavenworth. The Alamo. Buffaloes in Jackson County. II:26 January 17 1926 20 “The Story of Marion Talley, Kansas City girl who made debut with Metropolitan Opera. Lou Holland article. Lake Hiwassee, view. Country Club Plaza view. New Eastwood Hills golf course.

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Vol.: Date Year Pages Comment Issue II:27 January 24 1926 20 Ice skating at Penn Valley Park. Part II- “The Story of Marion Talley” II:28 January 31 1926 20 Home of Hiram Norcross, 5433 Mission Drive. Dr James Naismith, “The Father of Basketball’ and son, photo. “John G. Neihardt, a Middle Western “Homer””. Local business leaders named Jones: Lawrence M. Jones, Herbert V. Jones, Albert R. Jones, J. Logan Jones, E.C. Jones, Cliff C. Jones, R. Bryson Jones. William A. Shreeve, chief of police, his secretary and police board commissioners. Cyrus Dallin. II:29 February 7 1926 20 Judge Arba S. Van Valkenburgh, “Across North America by Motor Boat” by John Edwin Hogg, former resident of Kansas City. II:30 February 14 1926 20 Home of Mr. T.J. Green, 52nd and Belleview. “Kansas City Girls who Became Stage and Opera Stars”: Jenne Eagels, Marion Talley, Dorothy Dickson, Grace La Rue, Cleo Mayfield, Marie Doro, Felice Lyne, Eleanor Aikens, Ula Sharon. Dr. E.H. and Mrs. Lindley, chancellor of University of Kansas. LeRoy D. McMorris. Glenn Wright, Pittsburgh Pirates’ shortstop, formerly with Kansas City Blues. II:32 February 28 1926 20 Mrs. George Muehlebach, wife of owner of Kansas City Blues, and Mrs. Casey Stengel, wife of manager of the Toledo ball club. II:33 March 7 1926 20 Home of Mr. F.C. Vincent, 627 East 46th Street. The Boys Hotel and Club, 1601 Admiral Boulevard. Theodore Gary, manufacturer of automatic telephones. New Head of the University of Oklahoma at Norman, Dr. William Bennett Bizzell, photos. Mississippi steamboats. II:34 March 14 1926 20 Kansas City Chapter, Reserve Officers’ Association. Consolidated Kansas City Smelting and Refining Co. in Argentine. II:35 March 21 1926 20 Mark Twain letters. Kansas City Art Institute. New Paseo High School.

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Vol.: Date Year Pages Comment Issue Remains of Electric Park. Mounted Guard, Ararat Temple, Shriners of KC. II:36 March 28 1926 20 At home with Judge Henry F. McElroy. The Men’s Bible Class of the Linwood Boulevard Presbyterian Church (595 members). Early pictures of Shawnee Mission. Memories of Old Franklin, birthplace of KC II:37 April 4 1926 20 Dr. F.C. (Phog) Allen, University of Kansas. Kansas City Soccer League. II:38 April 11 1926 20 Cover photo: Laura Nelson Kirkwood. American Society of Civil Engineers: E.B. Black, Ernest E. Howard, O.P. Allee, Charles A. Haskins, Howard A. Fitch. Oil portrait of E.M. Clendening by George Van Millett, Kansas City artist. “In the Days of Old Fort Larned”. II:39 April 18 1926 20 “When the Law Rides Forth in Texas”, Texas Rangers. Women’s Bible Class of Linwood Boulevard Presbyterian Church (425 members). Justice Richard J. Hopkins, Kansas supreme court, advocate of world-wide prohibition. II:40 April 25 1926 20 “Prophets Who Foresaw a Great Kansas City” (Benton, Gilpin, Spalding, others) by Robert M. Snyder, Jr. Warrensburg, MO. II:41 May 2 1926 20 “The Zumwalt Fort” near O’Fallon, MO (Major Heald Home). Civic leaders and county officials in Kansas City, KS. II:42 May 9 1926 20 Colonel Willis Uline, officer in charge of all organized reserve work. II:43 May 16 1926 20 “Longview Farm, The country Estate of R.A. Long”. KC, KS banking/business leaders: Charles L. Brokaw, Peter W. Goebel, Charles C. Daniel. “Marmaduke’s Trek to Santa Fe”, 1824. II:44 May 23 1926 20 Jackson County log house (1818) restored by R.E. Shryock. Loretto Players of Loretto academy. II:45 May 30 1926 20 “Kansas City’s National Air Transport Service”. Civil War leaders from Missouri: Joseph O. Shelby, John S. Marmaduke, Francis M. Cockrell, Sterling

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Vol.: Date Year Pages Comment Issue Price, Claiborne F. Jackson. II:46 June 6 1926 20 Theodore Gary and the road to fortune. R.A. Long home, 3218 Gladstone Boulevard. II:47 June 13 1926 20 Gardens, landscapes: A.R. Jones, 5701 Mission Drive; Robert T. Sutherland, 1200 Santa Fe Road; W.R. Pickering, 59th & State Line; B.C. Moore, 5800 High Drive; W.H. Collins, 232 W. 52nd; Mrs. M.Z. Hibbard, Overhill and Ensley II:48 June 20 1926 20 Homes of Civil War Days near Liberty, MO. II:49 June 27 1926 20 Country Club’s polo field, near Indian Hills golf course. Stark nursery, Louisiana, MO. Franklin Ice Cream. II:50 July 4 1926 20 Home of Edward T. Wilder, 3701 Gillham Road. “Indian Painters and Painters of the Indian”. Kansas City’s first pre-school, Mrs. V.W. Harned, director II:51 July 11 1926 20 “So they Named it ‘Manhattan’(KS). “Studies of Fields, Woods and Streams in Kansas City’s Mission Hills District” II:52 July 18 1926 20 St. Joseph, MO. Vol. 690 II Vol. 300 Total Vol. II= 990 pages II

Vol.: Date Year Pages Comment Issue III:1 July 25 1926 20 “An Etcher’s impressions of Downtown Kansas City”, Mary Huntoon Hoyt, includes Federal Reserve Bank, Petticoat Lane, The Kansas City Club and Hotel President. Steamboat Ella May (ferry). Memoirs of “Yellowstone’ Kelly, Indian Scout. III:2 August 1 1926 20 Longview, WA. R.A. Long’s Model City. Sibley, MO. bridge and marks of Santa Fe Trail. Liberty Memorial. III:4 August 15 1926 20 “The Kansas City Days of “Wild Bill (Hickok)” by Robert M. Snyder, Jr. Plaster model of “The Pioneer Mother” by A. Phimister Proctor, to be presented to

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Vol.: Date Year Pages Comment Issue KC by Howard Vanderslice. Smithville, MO. racetrack. Swimmers at Electric Park. III:5 August 22 1926 20 View of Hahatonka, in Ozarks, includes residence built by R.M. Snyder of KC. Views of Joplin, MO. Kersey Coates home, Pennsylvania Ave. in Quality Hill. III:6 August 29 1926 20 Mrs. Fannie L. Taylor, official Missouri delegate from KC to the W.C.T.U. convention in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1925. Thomas Jefferson, the builder. Vol. 100 Total Vol. III pages=100 III

Missing issues: (unconfirmed beginning and end dates of publication) Vol.: Date Year Pages Comment Issue I: 01 July 27 1924 I: 02 August 3 1924 I: 03 August 10 1924 I: 04 August 17 1924 I: 05 August 24 1924 I: 06 August 31 1924 I: 09 September 1924 21 I: 10 September 1924 28 I: 13 October 19 1924 I: 14 October 26 1924 I: 15 November 2 1924 I: 16 November 9 1924 I: 17 November 16 1924 I: 18 November 23 1924 I: 20 December 7 1924 I: 21 December 14 1924 I: 22 December 21 1924 I: 23 December 28 1924 I: 24 January 4 1925 I: 25 January 11 1925 I: 26 January 18 1925 I: 27 January 25 1925 I: 51 July 12 1925

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Vol.: Date Year Pages Comment Issue I: 52 July 19 1925 II: 25 January 10 1926 II: 31 February 21 1926 III: 07-?

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