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Photograph of young women, Campfire Girls participants, posed as a group circa 1920.

Exterior photograph of the Black Hawk Barbecue restaurant advertising meals and delivery.

Photograph taken between 1935 and 1943 of children are playing baseball at Waterway Park in Kansas City, Kansas.

Yates Drive, which provided a new entrance to Swope Park from the north, Kansas City, Missouri, ca. 1930s.

Photograph of six boys performing a play at the Boys Hotel at the southeast corner of Admiral Boulevard and Flora Avenue.

Carlton Coon and Joe Sanders of the Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawks Orchestra posed with mule and cart. Source: John Coon.

Photograph of a Strang Line trolley car passing in front of tall wooden fence at Aviation Park in the 1910s.

Photograph of a group of nine women seated near a flock of chickens at the Schultzel Farm circa 1937.

Photograph of the staff of Black Hawk Barbecue & Buffet, posed in front of the restaurant.

Photograph of nine young women, Campfire Girls participants, posed as a group circa 1920.

Photograph of the Kansas City Monarchs playing baseball at Muehlebach Field in Kansas City, MO.

Circa 1920 photograph of Coon-Sanders Novelty Orchestra, Gayety Theatre Bldg., Kansas City Missouri.

Photograph of Edward "Eddie Spitz" Ochadsey behind his bar at the College Inn and presenting Himm Walker's De Luxe Straight Bourbon

Circa 1926 portrait photographs of the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks musicians assembled to resemble a microphone.

1930's photograph of the Kansas City Monarchs baseball team. The franchise was organized in 1920 and located in Kansas City, Missouri.

People waving U.S. flags on top of double-decker bus headed north on Main Street as part of a "baseball parade." The sign on the bus reads: Baseball Game Today, Muehlebach Field, Mercy Hospital - K.C. Orphans Boys' Home. This vantage point faces west-southwest towards the Hotel Stag at 414 Main Street. Source: Bernard Ragan.

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