Photograph of the Jackson County Courthouse, Kansas City, Missouri, ca. 1930s. This vantage point faces southeast from the intersection of Oak Street and 12th Street.
Image Gallery
1940
Photograph of Columbus Park community volunteers constructing the St. John Bosco Center, Roman Catholic community hall.
1940
Photograph of the Columbia National Bank in the Gloyd Building, once located on the east side of Walnut Street between 9th Street and 10th Street.
1930
Photograph showing staff and patients in waiting room of the Alfred Benjamin Dispensary, once located on the north side of Admiral Boulevard between Harrison Street and Troost Avenue.
1920
View of Jesse Clyde Nichols home at 1214 Santa Fe Road (now 1214 West 55th Street).
Photograph of an elderly Black woman standing in the doorway of a home in Olathe, Kansas, circa 1940.
November 28th 1923
Photograph with full frontal view of the Palace Cafe, located on the southwest corner of 9th and Oak streets. Hotel Gladstone is also pictured in the same building.
1934
Photograph of a cafe/delicatessen at 5824 Swope Parkway, taken in connection with Criminal Case No. 34750: State of Missouri vs. John Gadwood.
1938
Photograph of a young man holding a wheelbarrow outside of Shawnee Mission Rural High School in 1938.
May 6th 1933
An autochrome photograph of the entrance to Charles M. Howell's home while the tulips are in bloom. Howell was a Kansas City lawyer.
1934
Group portrait of the Kansas City Monarchs. Standing, from the left: Sam Bankhead, T.J.
1912
An early J. C. Nichols Company sign located on Brookside Boulevard by Countryside Park. In the background is the "Rock House" located at 5230 Brookside Boulevard.
Photograph of a large pavilion building standing in Overland Park, Kansas's Aviation Park.
1925
Photograph of the Ford Assembly Plant, located on the east of Winchester Avenue between 10th Street and 12th Street.
1930
Photograph of the Western Auto Supply Building, located at the northeast corner of 21st Street and Grand Avenue (Grand Boulevard).
Circa 1925 photograph of a man posed on top of the Sunset Hill Line streetcar bridge over Brush Creek at Belleview Avenue.
1939
Pla Mor pool without swimmers, taken by Cresswell's Photo Studio, Kansas City, Missouri, ca. 1939. The Pla-Mor was located at 3142 Main Street in Kansas City, Missouri.
Photograph of the W. W. Yates School, known before 1918 as Lincoln School. Once located at the northwest corner of Campbell Street and 11th Street in Kansas City, Missouri.
September 11th 1933
An autochrome photograph of the Lake of the Woods from the north, located in the southeast corner of Swope Park.
Photograph of the Herman and Ella Voigts house at 2405 West 103rd Street in Leawood. The Prairie-style stone house was built in 1923 by Frank Bayrel for Herman J.
July 22nd 1936
An autochrome photograph of the gardens at The Walnuts, taken looking northeast from inside the apartment building.
March 27th 1932
Clipping entitled "A Real Goat Makes the Trip" from the Kansas City Times on March 28, 1932 that shows Kansas City Democrats boarding trains the previous day to the Democratic State Conve
1919
This picture of the Brookside Shopping District was taken looking northeast at the intersection of Brookside Boulevard and 63rd Street.
May 19th 1923
Postcard showing Union Station at the northwest corner of Pershing Road and Main Street in Kansas City, Missouri. This vantage point faces northwest from the intersection of Pershing and Main.
1915
Photograph of the Morris & Company (left) and the Swift & Company (right background) packing plants in Armourdale, Kansas City, Kansas.
May 1940
Photograph of units of the 137th Infantry of the Kansas National Guard, parading on Memorial Day in Kansas City, Kansas.
October 28th 1918
Postcard showing The Scout Statue, located in Penn Valley Park between Penn Drive and Summit Street. This vantage point faces east towards The Scout Statue.
October 16th 1932
An autochrome photograph of The Walnuts west building, taken from the south in October.
August 12th 1932
An autochrome photograph of Herbert V. Jones's residence, taken from the northeast. Jones was chairman of the Herbert V. Jones & Co. (real estate).
Postcard of Troost Avenue looking north towards its intersection with 31st Street.
February 2nd 1931
Postcard of the Ararat Temple at the northeast corner of 11th Street and Central Street in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
Photograph of George DeBrabander handling a plow next to a pile of stacked lumber and assembled wooden frames circa 1932.
Postcard of the intersection of 47th Street and Mill Creek Parkway (presently JC Nichols Parkway) in the Country Club Plaza.
Circa 1939 photograph of Yeager School kindergarten students participating in a mock zoo. The Yeager School was located at the northwest corner of Indiana Avenue and 19th Street.
Photograph of ten young men, participants in Future Farmers of America, holding adult goats and kids circa 1940.
Photograph of the Church of God (Holiness) at the northwest corner of Askew Avenue and Victor Street (now 29th Street).