Advertisement for the re-election of Ewing C. Bland as Judge of the Kansas City Court of Appeals, Jackson County, Missouri.
Machine Politics, Organized Crime, and Reform
Image Gallery
Photograph looking north along Baltimore from the southwest corner of 12th and Baltimore.
6 /13 /1928
Clipping from the Kansas City Journal-Post on October 21, 1928 showing Missouri Governor Alfred E.
10 /21 /1928
Certificate showing that William T. Kemper, Sr.
11 /3 /1928
Group portrait of Harry Truman, Senator Thomas P.
11 /12 /1929
Program for the third annual dinner of the Fifteenth Ward Regular Democratic Club, a Joe Shannon "Rabbit" faction organization.
1 /25 /1930
Cartoon from the Kansas City Journal-Post before the local election on March 25, 1930.
3 /20 /1930
Cartoon from the Kansas City Journal-Post on the eve of the local election on March 25, 1930. The drawing depicts Thomas J. Pendergast, Henry F.
3 /24 /1930
Cartoon from the Kansas City Star after the local election on March 25, 1930. The drawing depicts James P.
3 /30 /1930
Clipping from the Pendergast-controlled newspaper The Missouri Democrat on June 13, 1930. This excerpt includes photographs of Thomas J.
6 /13 /1930
Clipping from the Kansas City Times in September 1930 showing Joe Shannon, Peter Kelly and L. C. Johnson.
9 /1930
Clipping from the Kansas City Journal-Post on November 12, 1930 showing Thomas B. Bash, Dr. J. C. Johnson, W. O. Beeman, and Frank C.
11 /12 /1930
Clipping from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat on December 7, 1930 with caption stating, "Thomas J.
12 /7 /1930
Clipping from the Kansas City Star of Tom Pendergast, Joe Shannon, and Cas Welch dressed as old women and knitting while the Kansas City Police Dep
1931
Executive committee at work in preparation of the Ten Year Plan in Kansas City.
1 /13 /1931
Clipping from the Kansas City Star on February 1, 1931 showing Joe Shannon turning over the reins to a rabbit drawn carriage of the "Rabbit Fa
2 /1 /1931