Circa 1925 photograph of Grace English Lutheran Church in the winter at the southeast corner of 43rd Street and Madison Avenue. Part of the Ohio Synod and dedicated October 9, 1921.
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Photograph of boys attending a Sunday morning service in the auditorium of the Boys Hotel Club Memorial Building on Admiral Boulevard between Flora Avenue and Highland Avenue.
1933
Halloween decorations on the Plaza, showing the shack of the Plaza Witch who would read your future for free.
September 28th 1932
An autochrome photograph of Dr. Don Carlos Guffey's house, taken from the southeast. Guffey was a Kansas City physician.
circa ,1930
Photograph of the Philip Reinhardt house at 5637 Cherokee Circle on a snowy winter day circa 1930.
Photograph of Robert Sanders, later to become the first mayor of Fairway, Kansas, carrying his wife Lois Hutchins Sanders in a creek, circa 1940.
1939
A lithograph on paper by Thomas Hart Benton depicting four young fisherman in two boats on a small river.
Photograph of Marguerite Peet mounted on her pony "Skippy" at the American Royal in 1929 or 1930. Peet appears to be a young teenager and is dressed in a riding jacket and cap.
1926
Photograph with caption, "Another view of the 'hump' in Main Street north of 49th St." This vantage point faces north-northeast on the west side of Main Street just south of 49t
Photograph of Bryce B. Smith standing, facing left in the new City Hall at the northeast corner of 12th Street and Oak Street, ca. 1937-39. Source: Bernard Ragan.
Photograph of the Kansas City Post Office, open September 25, 1933 opposite Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri.
1925
Photograph looking north-northeast along the west side of Main Street between 11th Street and 12th Street.
People in Klan costume posing with a Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad car. The railroad was one of the largest employers of KCK Klan members during the 1920s.
October 10th 1934
An autochrome photograph of Miss Harriet O'Brien standing next to "I. D. Ver Warner" dahlia flowers. O'Brien was a Kansas City Christian Science Practitioner.
January 19th 1940
Mugshot for John J. Pryor, Inmate #56309. Pryor was sentenced to two years in the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth for tax evasion.
June 20th 1933
An autochrome photograph of Dan W. Moser's swimming pool, taken from the south and showing four unidentified people. Moser was president of the Western Finance Co.
An aerial view of the Mission Hills Country Club showing the completed club house, with State Line Road running across the center of the picture.
1929
Photograph of members of the Society of Saint Angelo de Licata. Most members were from Licata, Sicily and worshipped at Holy Rosary parish.
September 28th 1932
An autochrome photograph of a fountain at the intersection of Brookside Boulevard and 52nd Street.
1926
Photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Russel Dick with Ben F. and Claudia O. Gregory posed in front of an airplane.
Photograph of City Bank, once located before 1927 at the southeast corner of 18th Street and Grand Avenue (presently Grand Boulevard).
February 12th 1919
Postcard of the drive in Penn Valley Park in Kansas City, Missouri. The back of the postcard includes a short letter.
Circa 1928 photograph with frontal and side view identified on the photograph as the National Fidelity Life Insurance Building, also known as the Continental Building.
May 1924
This photograph of the Triangle Building was taken looking north on 47th Street between Wyandotte and Central Streets.
June 1940
Photograph of members of the East Central Garden Club of Kansas visiting Loose Park in Kansas City, Missouri.
November 26th 1920
Postcard showing the flower beds in Electric Park, once located between The Paseo and Woodland Avenue, south of 45th Street, in Kansas City, Missouri.
1938
Around the corner view of a neighborhood found in the then-new Fairway housing development. The name was chosen because of the development's proximity to three golf courses.
May 28th 1922
Photograph looking north on Oak Street from 18th Street. Advertisements for Coach Corp. and Keystone Auto Wrecking Co. are pictured.
October 1921
Photograph of a group gathered for the Merriam Homemakers Club "Dad's Night" in 1921. The party took place in the home of Lee and Etta Cox.
February 25th 1938
Postcard showing the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, and Atkins Museum of Fine Art, located between Oak Street and Rockhill Road, south of 45th Street, in Kansas City, Missouri.
November 3rd 1936
Clipping entitled "Workers and Voters" from the Kansas City Journal-Post on November 3, 1936 showing Kansas Citians voting at various polling locations on General Election Day.
Photograph of men standing in front of the Kansas City Call Building on 18th Street.
June 20th 1936
Photograph of Helen Finch (far right), winner of the "bathing beauty contest", along with the other 14 contestants after the contest at W. T.
May 10th 1933
An autochrome photograph of a stone wall, tree stump, and iris flowers next to the road entrance to Isaac P. Ryland's residence. Ryland was a Kansas City lawyer.