Local history & genealogy
The Missouri Valley Special Collections (MVSC) consist of the non-circulating local history and genealogy resources of the Kansas City Public Library as well as the Library’s archives. More...
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View of Liberty Memorial from Union Station, ca. 1940s
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The Digital Gallery features images of material from the Missouri Valley Special Collections.
The Local History Index collection in the Digital Gallery—with more than 36,000 entries—provides information and references to articles in magazines, newspapers, and books on topics of interest from the Missouri Valley area.
This Week in Kansas City History
Take One
May 23, 1922: The Missouri secretary of state issues a certificate of incorporation for Walt Disney’s new animation studio, Laugh-O-gram Films, Inc., founded with $15,000 of other investors' money.
Missouri Valley Sundays
Farewell to the Kansas City Board of Trade
Sunday, June 9, 2013
2:00pm
Central Library
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As the Kansas City Board of Trade prepares to move to Chicago, its CEO Michael Braude traces the history, development, and economic impact of the 157-year-old futures exchange specializing in hard red winter wheat. It was said that more money changed hands at the Board of Trade than anywhere else in the Missouri Valley region. Braude joined the Board of Trade in the 1980s. He is a longtime civic leader and columnist for the Kansas City Business Journal.
