Photograph of a police officer restraining a protester at a demonstration on March 17, 1937 by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
Image Gallery
January 26th 1937
Photograph of the unidentified participants at the South Central Business Association Inaugural Dinner Dance and 17th Annual Frolic at the Hotel Bellerive. Garrett L.
September 19th 1938
Postcard showing the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, located between Oak Street and Rockhill Road, south of 45th Street, in Kansas City, Missouri.
Photograph of a man standing in the construction site of a Baptist church in Overland Park, Kansas, circa 1920.
Composite photograph showing the various talents of musician, dancer, and singer L.C. “Speedy” Huggins. This photograph was likely taken in the late 1930s or early 1940s.
April 11th 1921
Postcard showing Orpheum Theater on the west side of Baltimore Avenue between 12th and 13th Street in Kansas City, Missouri.
1922
This picture of the Crestwood Shops was taken looking east-southeast on 55th Street between Brookside Boulevard and Oak Street.
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.
Undated postcard view of businesses and automobiles on Minnesota Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas.
1926
Photograph with caption, "looking east on 48th Street from Charlotte Street." The photograph's annotations label streets and show proposed road improvements.
March 6th 1931
Photograph of Judge Ralph S. Latshaw "has a parting word with James A. Reed, one of the attorneys for the defense" after the verdict in the murder trial of Mrs. Myrtle Bennett. Mrs.
June 3rd 1933
Clipping entitled "Group, Held in McElroy Kidnaping, Makes Bedraggled Return" in Kansas City Journal-Post on June 3, 1933 showing the kidnappers of Mary McElroy that escaped to Amarillo,
Circa 1928 photograph with full frontal and partial side view of the Waggener Paint Company associated with Pratt & Lambert, Inc.
December 1st 1934
An autochrome photograph of the Japanese garden at the Kansas City Art Institute in winter.
1935
Clipping of a photograph by Strauss-Peyton showing "Mrs. James Madison Kemper, Publicity Chairman for the Notre Dame de Sion Recital, Friday, April 20, Hotel Kansas Citian."
Photograph of boys attending a night school at the Boys Hotel at the southeast corner of Admiral Boulevard and Flora Avenue.
Photograph of the Alpha Lyra Glee Club, under the direction of Mrs. D. A. Holmes.
June 12th 1942
Kansas City Police Department mugshot of organized crime figure Frank DeLuca.
July 6th 1935
An autochrome photograph of the Unity Farm (Unity Village) Club House, taken from the east.
May 1936
Photograph of cattle merchants in the West Bottoms stockyards in Kansas City, Missouri.
June 22nd 1933
An autochrome photograph of Helen H. McDermand's house, taken from the southeast. The picture shows an automobile parked by the house entrance.
1922
Smoke clouds arising from Lyle Rock Company quarry, located at 48th Street and Baltimore Avenue.
1934
Group portrait of the Kansas City Monarchs. Standing, from the left: Sam Bankhead, T.J.
1924
The defunct Lake Hiwassee in Mission Hills, Kansas was bordered by Indian Lane to the west, Wenonga Road to the east, and 63rd Street to the north.
Photograph of a boy receiving a medical examination at the Boys Hotel at the southeast corner of Admiral Boulevard and Flora Avenue.
Photograph with a street view of man sitting on a pedal powered grinder sharpening a knife or other instrument.
May 12th 1921
Children racing on tricycles at first Country Club District Community Field Day in 1921 on the grounds of the Pembroke-Country Day School. Six schools and one kindergarten participated.
1926
Photograph with caption, "southwest corner of Main and 41st Streets where the proposed Brookside Boulevard and Mill Creek Drive connections would enter Main Street." The photograph's
January 26th 1924
Photograph looking north on Brookside Boulevard just south of its intersection with 53rd Street Terrace.
Photograph of the Electric Cafe on the south side of Rochester Avenue and east of Montgall Avenue.
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.
Circa 1925 photograph of Marlborough Heights Presbyterian Community Church at the southeast corner of The Paseo and 74th Street.
Photograph of H. O. (Herbert Orvis) Peet on horseback on the lawn of his home, "Chatteris," in Prairie Village circa 1937. Peet is wearing a dark riding habit and cap on a dark horse.
Circa 1925 photograph of Saint Monica's Church and school, located at northeast corner of 17th Street and Lydia Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri.
1925
Photograph looking east from the intersection of Broadway Boulevard and 12th Street. The Hotel Missouri, Missouri Theater, and Hotel Rasbach is picture on the left.