Communities and Neighborhoods

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Photograph with full frontal view of Business Men's Assurance Co.

Circa 1928 photograph with partial side view of the Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company.

This photograph was taken looking northeast at the intersection of the Prospect Avenue and 17th Street in Kansas City, Missouri.

Circa 1941 photograph of recently demolished buildings on the east side of Walnut Street between 4th Street and 5th Street in the City Market.

Photograph of seven members of the Ferby family, posing with musical instruments circa the 1910s.

Illustration of adults and children performing tasks around the exterior of an Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad car.

1940's photograph of Columbus Park looking west-northwest with an unpaved 4th Street between Gillis Street and Harrison Street in the foregrou

Circa 1925 photograph of Marlborough Heights Presbyterian Community Church at the southeast corner of The Paseo and 74th Street.

A color glass plate positive photograph of the Nelson Galley of Art (now known as the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art), taken from the south.

Photograph of the Jefferson Home for Women and Children, once located to the west and north of the intersection of Garfield Avenue and Minnie Stree

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

Photograph of City Bank, once located before 1927 at the southeast corner of 18th Street and Grand Avenue (presently Grand Boulevard).

Photograph of Kansas City Fire Department Number 15, Kansas City, Missouri, opened in 1925.

Photograph of the residence of L. E. Bailer, once located at 919 Woodland Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri.

Plat map illustrating available lots for development in the Hocker Grove subdivision in Merriam, Kansas, circa 1915.

Photograph of a Hippopotamus named Cleopatra begging for hay at the Swope Park Zoo.

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