Postcard of the Benton School, located at the southwest corner of 30th Street and Benton Boulevard. Students are pictured performing calisthenics while a Victrola plays a record.
Image Gallery
December 22nd 1933
Group portrait of Donnelly Garment Company employees at company Christmas party.
Photograph of the Annunciation Boys Choir on an Easter Sunday in the early 1940's.
June 29th 1935
An autochrome photograph of Unity Farm (Unity Village) looking northeast through the cloister's arches in the administrative building.
October 11th 1934
An autochrome photograph of an unidentified woman standing next to a large cluster of morning glories on the property of D. Ambert Haley.
1937
KMBC reporter, Paul Henning (who later went to Hollywood and produced Petticoat Junction and The Beverly Hillbillies) interviewing Bernice Claire; flanked by Ruth Warrick and Dick Berger at the Dow
Photograph dated between 1916-1920 of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Choir posed at the entrance to the Cathedral on the south side of 11th Street between Broadway and Washington Street
A color glass plate positive photograph of children swimming at a casting and wading pool in Gillham Park at the southeast corner of 41st Street and Kenwood Avenue.
October 5th 1935
Photograph of The Call newspaper staff outside of their office at 1715 E. 18th Street. Lucile Bluford is shown top row, fourth from left. Chester Franklin is shown seated, front center.
May 9th 1939
An autochrome photograph of tulips growing in front of the Country Club Plaza Theater, taken from the east.
Circa 1940 photograph with an interior view of students at Meservey School kindergarten. The children are playing as Kansas City Fire Department fire personnel.
A color glass plate positive photograph of Ada B. Seibel standing next to regal lilies at her and Louis L. Seibel's residence. Seibel was president of Badger Lumber Company.
Circa 1928 photograph with full frontal and side view of the Stats Hotel; located on the northeast corner of 12th and Wyandotte streets.
1923
Home of Frank Brown at 1604 W. 59th Street (now designated 2204 W. 59th Street). Brown was an elected member of the Mission Hills Homes Company board of directors.
1925
Photograph of the Ford Assembly Plant, located on the east of Winchester Avenue between 10th Street and 12th Street.
Photograph of the Roesland School student orchestra on the school stage circa 1935. Approximately 30 students sit in folding chairs arranged in a semi-circle, holding their instruments.
Photograph of the doctors of General Hospital #2, a hospital for African-Americans once located just north of the intersection of 22nd Street and McCoy Avenue (now Kenwood Avenue).
Postcard of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Temple Lot in Independence, Missouri.
November 1925
This picture was taken looking west at the intersection of 50th Street and State Line Road.
1937
An employee of The Donnelly Garment Company using a shirring machine in the Corrigan Building at 1828 Walnut, Kansas City, Missouri.
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.
Portrait of Carlton Coon and Joe Sanders of the Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra, taken by Bert Studio, K.C.. Source: John Coon.
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.
1941
Photograph of fifteen members of the St. Aloysius Young Ladies Sodality with toys to be donated in their mission work.
1929
Photograph looking east along the north side of 13th Street between Baltimore Avenue and Wyandotte Street.
Photograph of a Rearwin Ken-Royce 2000-C biplane, reg. #NC12579, constructed by Rearwin Airplanes Inc., Fairfax, Kansas City, Kansas.
Circa 1930 photograph of the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks at the Terrace Room in the New Yorker Hotel, NYC. Pictured are top row from left: Pope and Richolson; middle row from left: Krebs, Downing, H.
Count Basie at piano at Municipal Auditorium, showing audience in background, including Jay McShann, no date.
Advertisement for Beta Alpha Tau's '3 Band' Mid-Winter Stagger, featuring Phil Baxter's El Torreon Band, Missouri Quad, and the Egyptian Serenaders, admission: $1.25.
December 23rd 1938
Group portrait of Anderson Photo Company employees at an annual company Christmas party.
Circa 1930 photograph with an aerial view looking west near the 3000 block of East 18th Street; shows tip of Ransom Feed Mills, located at 3028 East 18th Street.
March 17th 1937
Photograph of protestors at a demonstration on March 17, 1937 by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
1933
Photograph of Jackson County Courthouse undergoing renovations.
Circa 1925 photograph of the Sunset Hill Line streetcar looking south from the intersection of 48th Street and Belleview Avenue.
Photograph of Romanelli Fountain at the intersection of 69th Street, Edgevale Road, and Wornall Road. This vantage point faces east towards Wornall Road.