Photograph of businesses at the northeast corner of Walnut Street and 4th Street. Pictured establishments include Walnut Buffet and New Market Cafe.
Image Gallery
June 1939
Photograph of a "colored wading pool" located in the median of The Paseo just south of 15th Street (now Truman Road), Kansas City, Missouri.
Photograph of the Sumner School, once located on west side of Wyoming Street between 9th Street and St. Louis Avenue.
March 1938
Northwest view from the southeast corner of U.S. Route 50 (now Shawnee Mission Parkway) and Belinder Road (now Belinder Avenue), showing a gas station.
1925
Photograph looking south-southeast from the southwest end of the McGee Street Viaduct. The intersection of McGee, 22nd Street, and Gillham Road is pictured.
Home of Jackson County Democratic Party boss, Thomas J. Pendergast, at 5650 Ward Parkway, built by the J. C. Nichols Company.
Photograph looking toward the northeast of the Pickwick Hotel located on the east side of McGee Street between 9th and 10th streets in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
Photograph of a group of 21 young men posing and drinking milk out of bottles circa 1935. The young men, participants in the Future Farmers of America program, stand next to a a barn.
June 29th 1920
Looking west at 61st Terrace and Summit Street. In the foreground is an automobile, and in the background is a row of houses.
1925
Photograph of the congregation of the St. George Serbian Orthodox Church on the occasion of its consecration in 1925.
April 3rd 1920
Postcard showing The Paseo looking north from Armour Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri. The back of the postcard includes a short letter.
Postcard of the Kansas City-Smithville Race Track, once located east of Bridge Street and north of Little Platte River in Smithville, Missouri.
Photograph with an exterior, street level view of Lincoln High School. This vantage point faces northeast on Woodland Avenue between 21st Street and 22nd Street.
1926
Bennie Moten's Victor Recording Artists posed around piano taken by Bert Photo Studio, Kansas City, Missouri, ca. 1926. Source: Charles Goodwin.
May 9th 1939
An autochrome photograph of tulips growing in front of the Country Club Plaza Theater, taken from the east.
June 24th 1932
An autochrome photograph of Maude Blackburn standing in her garden. Her husband, Schuyler C. Blackburn was president of ABC Fireproof Warehouse Company.
June 18th 1934
An autochrome photograph of Louise Herman with her regal lilies on her and her husband's property. Her husband, Herman Schulte, was a manager at the Goetz Beer Company.
Photograph with an exterior street level view of Lowell Public School located at the southeast corner of 27th Street and Madison Avenue. The school was named after James Russell Lowell.
Circa 1928 photograph with frontal and side view of the Kansas City Life Insurance Company. This vantage point faces west from the northeast corner of Armour Boulevard and Broadway Boulevard.
Photograph of a Missouri and Kansas Interurban Railway, also known as the Strang Line, car circa 1920.
Candid photograph of unidentified nurses and Mrs. E. P. Haworth, superintendent, at The Willows Maternity Hospital.
1920
Photograph of the Our Lady of Sorrows Music Class of 1920. Some of the students are hold lutes, violins, and classical guitars.
1935
Photograph of the swimming pool at the rear of the Kittle family home at in Westwood Hills, Kansas, in 1935.
October 29th 1939
Unsigned postcard, postmarked Kansas City, Kansas, addressed to Judge Arthur D. Wood, asking if he is "going to pardon that crook from KC," Tom Pendergast.
Circa 1928 photograph with interior view of the lobby of Kansas City Life Insurance Company building.
1919
The J. C. Nichols Company sales office at the southeast corner of 59th Street and Ward Parkway in 1919.
Undated, unidentified photograph of a home in Kansas City, Kansas. A car can be seen to the left of the house.
Circa 1928 photograph with full frontal and side view of the Montgall Hotel, located at the northwest corner of 15th Street (Truman Road) and Montgall Avenue.
September 29th 1918
Street photograph of the Wheatley-Provident Hospital Dedication Parade at the intersection of 18th Street and The Paseo on September 29, 1918.
Photograph of the exterior of Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium, ca. 1930s. This vantage point faces southwest from the intersection of 13th Street and Wyandotte Street.
Photograph of 11 young girls gathered around and feeding a flock of birds on the Schutzel Farm, circa 1935.
1927
Group photo of Bennie Moten's Victor Recording Orchestra with instruments; handwritten notation states "Oklahoma City 1927".
August 26th 1922
Photograph with a full frontal and corner view of the Brailey Building, once located on northwest corner of 11th Street and McGee Street.
1926-1927 photograph of LeRoy Anthony, Thelma Anthony-Scott, and Ruby Anthony-Miller posed on an imitation reindeer during their visit with Santa Claus at the Jones Store in downtown, Kansas City,
1923
Photograph of Ben Gregory in the cockpit of a plane with inscription "Passenger Service, Gregory Front D[rive] Motor Cars & Tr[ucks]." Ben Gregory (1889-1974) was a Kansas City pilot
Interior of speakeasy/nightclub Dante's Inferno, once located at 1104 Independence Avenue. This photograph was taken circa 1934 by Kaufman Photo Studio, Kansas City, Missouri.