Photograph of the Municipal Auditorium and Power and Light Building in the background, taken along 14th Street, Kansas City, Missouri, ca. 1930s.
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Photograph of three boys receiving eyecare at the medical office at the Boys Hotel at the southeast corner of Admiral Boulevard and Flora Avenue.
April 29th 1941
A color glass plate positive photograph of a hawthorn (crataegus) tree in bloom in the north central section of Penn Valley Park.
May 7th 1937
Letter signed "A disgusted Democrat" to Governor Lloyd C. Stark, including a newspaper clipping about Missouri state senators Joseph H. Brogan, Mike Kinney, and M. E.
1918
Small book containing prints of Kansas City attractions, including the outside and grand lobby of Union Station, Grand Avenue looking south from 8th Street, Petticoat Lane looking east, the lake an
Photograph of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri. This vantage point faces northwest from just west of Rockhill Road.
Snapshot of Lester Young with three unidentified women, no date. Source: Elmer Orrie.
Jam session at St. Mary's Church at the northwest corner of Ann Avenue and North 5th Street, Kansas City, Kansas, no date. Source: John Randazzo.
April 16th 1934
An autochrome photograph of Sid J. Hare's house and rock garden. Hare was a Kansas City landscape architect.
April 2nd 1933
An autochrome photograph of crocuses sprouting after 2000 bulbs were planted on Grant I. Rosenzweig's property. Rosenzweig was a Kansas City lawyer.
1919
Photograph of Visitation Church (right) and rectory (left) at the southeast corner of Main Street and 51st Terrace.
Photograph entitled "Inspection", showing boys lined up in the playground behind the Boys Hotel.
1926
Photograph with slide description: "Weber Gas Engine Plant, Kansas City, Mo.
June 30th 1932
An autochrome photograph looking east over Lake Hiwassee in the Indian Hills subdivision.
Photograph of the E. F. Swinney School, located on the north side of 47th Street between Holly Street and Jarboe Street. The school was named for Edward F.
This photograph was taken looking north at the intersection of the Troost Avenue and 18th Street in Kansas City, Missouri.
October 1922
Photograph looking west on the north side of 3rd Street between Walnut Street and Main Street. Pictured establishments include the Cozy House, B. Ossep Com. Co., and L. Yukon & Son Produce.
October 21st 1921
Negative of air mail planes at American Legion Field, taken by R. S. Knowlson, Kansas City, Missouri, October 31, 1921. The temporary service lasted four days.
Circa 1928 photograph with full frontal and side view of the Pioneer Trust Company.
Photograph of H. O. (Herbert Orvis) Peet and his daughter Marguerite sitting on a fence rail circa 1935.
1939
A Christmas tree, adorned with lights, in the triangular park in front of the Country Club Plaza Theater with Walt Disney's "Fun and Fancy Free" on the theater marquee.
February 11th 1935
Photograph of Mary McElroy who was kidnapped in 1933 at 25 years old and held for ransom. The caption on the back of the image reads, "IC217320...
1937
Photograph of the cutting room at The Donnelly Garment Company in the Corrigan Building at 1828 Walnut, Kansas City, Missouri.
Photograph of the members of the Over the Top Club, part of the congregation of the Vine Street Baptist Church.
March 19th 1937
Photograph of the construction of an unidentified elevator near the Missouri River in Kansas City, Kansas.
January 1st 1926
Photograph of the Amberg Club's Guadalupe Center Settlement House (right) and Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church (left).
circa ,1930
Photograph of Park Street in downtown Olathe Kansas, looking east, circa 1930.
May 29th 1939
Mugshot of Pendergast tax fraud accomplice Robert Emmett O'Malley, Inmate #55296, taken at U.S. Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas.
1938
A lithograph on paper by Thomas Hart Benton (printed by George C. Miller) depicting a donkey on a stark Midwestern farm.
1936
Photograph of Baltimore Avenue looking north from 14th Street. The description on the back of the photograph reads: "Balt. Ave. looking north from 14th St.
Undated photograph of unidentified railroad workers laying tracks in Kansas City, Kansas. Railroad jobs brought many Mexican immigrants to Kansas City, Kansas.
1919
Photograph of DeSoto Rural High School in DeSoto, Kansas, circa 1919. The three-story brick building features many windows and is surrounded by grassy fields.
Postcard of the Sears, Roebuck & Company warehouse, administration, and retail buildings, built in 1925 at the southwest corner of 15th Street (now Truman Road) and Cleveland Avenue.