Materials that document the history, achievements, and cultural experiences of this community are found in the Special Collections Department. Included are civic and scholarly studies, newspapers and newspaper articles and oral histories. The purpose of the Kansas City Latino Heritage Collection is to identify books, newspapers and special collections that focus on Mexican Americans in metropolitan Kansas City. The Special Collections department seeks memorabilia, photographs, scrapbooks, programs and other kinds of material that help to document the lives, history and experiences of all Latin Americans in the Kansas City metropolitan region. Examples of resources in the collection are listed here.
Collection contains scrapbook albums, photograph albums, and official files and reports.
Material from the Guadalupe Center, a Hispanic community center on the city's West Side. Includes 4 scrapbooks which primarily contain newspaper clippings and clippings from other sources. Also contains 3 separate photograph albums with pictures that relate to the events and services of the center. There are also several histories of the organization in manuscript. The Guadalupe Center was founded in 1925 by the Agnes Ward Amberg Club, a Catholic women's organization.