This picture was taken looking west at the intersection of 50th Street and State Line Road.
Image Gallery
1924
Postcard view of the skyline of downtown Kansas City, looking north from 17th Street and showing Main Street (left, center).
Photograph of South Side Baptist Church, once located at the southwest corner of 54th Street and Montgall Avenue.
Home of Edwin W. Shields at 5110 Cherry Street, completed shortly after World War I. This vantage point faces south-southeast towards the main entrance of the home.
Photograph of Dr. Charles E. Rhoades, dentist, holding a young boy in his Overland Park dental office circa 1939. Dr.
Photograph of the Lenexa baseball team, circa 1920. Twelve men are pictured, with ten in baseball uniforms reading LENEXA on the front.
Circa 1925 photograph looking south on Winchester Avenue from just north of the intersection of Winchester and 10th Street.
September 9th 1920
Postcard showing Kansas City, Missouri from atop the R. A. Long Building at the northwest corner of 10th Street and Grand Avenue (now Grand Boulevard).
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 Troost Avenue School, once located at the northwest corner of 60th Street and Troost Avenue. It was named after Dr. Benoist Troost, an early Kansas City physician.
1925
Photograph of the Ford Assembly Plant, located on the east of Winchester Avenue between 10th Street and 12th Street.
1940's photograph of Columbus Park looking east with an unpaved Harrison Street between 3rd Street and 4th Street in the foreground and the intersection of Gillis Street and 4th Street in the
July 28th 1936
Primary campaign mailer for gubernatorial candidate Lloyd Stark.
July 12th 1922
Postcard showing the Kansas City Union Station and its train sheds to the west.
Photograph of a man spraying water from a large hose near another man riding a tractor in the Kansas City Stockyards.
Circa 1932 photograph with full side view of City Ice House Company Oil and Ice Station A-1; located in Overland Park, Kansas. This station also sold Red Crown gasoline.
November 1925
This picture was taken looking northwest just south of the intersection of 71st Street (now Gregory Boulevard) and Wornall Road.
Circa 1928 photograph with full frontal view of the Merry Building; located at 1009-11 Walnut Street.
March 15th 1929
Mugshot of Kansas City Mafia boss Frank "Chee-Chee" DeMayo, Inmate #31989, taken at U.S. Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas.
March 17th 1937
Photograph of a police officers restraining a protester at a demonstration on March 17, 1937 by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
July 13th 1935
An autochrome photograph of a large picnic oven at Unity Farm (Unity Village), as seen from the west. The oven could use wood or gas as fuel.
1932
Photograph looking northwest towards the Newman Theater and storefronts on the west side of Main Street between 11th Street and 12th Street.
1895
Photograph of "Hell’s Half Acre", an area in the late 1800's and early 1900's consisting of the north side of the West Bottoms between the bluffs and the state line.
1926
This photograph was taken looking east-northeast on 31st Street just west of Walnut Street in Kansas City, Missouri. An advertisement for the film "Outside the Law" is pictured.
July 1923
Photograph of unidentified boys before a grocery and drugstore at the northeast corner of 23rd Street (presently Avenida Cesar E Chavez) and Summit Street.
1937
Exterior photograph of the Major Clinic at 31st and Euclid as seen from Euclid Avenue looking west. The clinic was owned and operated by Dr. Hermon S.
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
Circa 1930 photograph with frontal and side view of City Ice Company of Kansas City, Plant No. 3, Sheffield, built in 1912 and remodeled in 1927-28.
Photograph with full frontal and side view of Kansas City Club building looking northwest from 13th Street and Baltimore Avenue. A small gas station is visible on the south side of 13th Street.
February 28th 1930
Photograph of the interior and exterior of the Kansas City Tuberculosis Hospital No. 2, built in 1928 as an annex to the Tuberculosis Hospital built in 1914.
1930
Photograph looking east along the south side of 13th from the east side of Holmes. St. Mary's Episcopal Church is pictured to the right.
September 30th 1929
Postcard showing the Pioneer Mother Statue, located in Penn Valley Park, southwest of Kessler Road and the Liberty Memorial Mall.
January 13th 1931
Executive committee at work in preparation of the Ten Year Plan in Kansas City.
March 31st 1923
Photograph of storefronts along the southwest corner of 11th Street and Broadway Boulevard. New Broadway Hotel sign in view as well as entrance to Denver Pharmacy.
This photograph was taken looking south on The Paseo just north of 45th Street in Kansas City, Missouri.