The State Historical Society of Missouri-Kansas City

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Photograph of the "9th Street Incline" cable car bridge. This vantage point faces west-northwest towards the West Bottoms and downtown Kansas City, Kansas in the far background.

Looking north along Baltimore Avenue, 9th to 11th Streets, with the New York Life Building in the center.

Letter from James A. Reed to A. W. Thurman discussing a meeting with Senator Francis Wilson who was planning to run for governor.

Henry F. McElroy, Kansas City's first city manager and proponent of the Ten Year Plan.

Photograph portrait of Bryce B. Smith. mayor of Kansas City from 1930 to 1939.

Photograph of George E. Kessler, landscape architect and city planner.

Memorandum describing the stockholders of Ready-Mixed Concrete Company, Centropolis Crusher Company, and P. R. Realty Company and their respective shares of the companies.

Map of Kansas City, Missouri indicating a proposed plan for expenditure of $8.3 million for major traffic arteries in Kansas City.

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Photograph of the Old Detention Home on Oak Street, south of Fifth Street, ca. 1930s. This vantage point faces west-southwest on Oak Street.

Letter from James A. Reed to Tom Pendergast regarding the position of city coroner, recommending Dr. Allen Porter for the job.

Letter from James A. Reed to Tom Pendergast asking for assistance for Samuel M. Cromwell.

Letter from Conrad H. Mann to Senator James A. Reed discussing the Depression and the need for the Charities Fund, and asserts that "it is a fact that as a whole our well-to-do have not carried their fair share of this responsibility" in the charity realm.

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