Henry F. McElroy, Kansas City's first city manager and proponent of the Ten Year Plan.
Image Gallery
Photograph of the Hotel Olathe at 100 West Santa Fe Street in Olathe, Kansas, in the 1940s.
September 30th 1929
Postcard showing the Pioneer Mother Statue, located in Penn Valley Park, southwest of Kessler Road and the Liberty Memorial Mall.
1927
The restored dormitory building of the Shawnee Indian Mission. This building is located at the northeastern corner of 52nd Street and Porter Road (now 53rd Street and Mission Road).
1919
Photograph of the founding members of the Order of DeMolay, an organization connected to the Masonic Lodge. It was open for membership to young men between the ages of 12 and 21.
January 3rd 1931
Clipping from the Kansas City Journal on January 3, 1931 showing Julianne Kemper (later Julianne Kemper Gilliam), daughter of James Madison Kemper, Sr. and Gladys Woods (Grissom) Kemper.
July 18th 1938
Mugshot for Thomas Audley, Inmate #53426. Audley was sentenced to one year and six months in the U.S.
September 20th 1932
An autochrome photograph of a fountain in the Country Club Plaza on Broadway between 47th Street and Alameda Road (now Nichols Road).
1931
Photograph of a group of children and teenagers dressed for a Greek Independence Day celebration at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
Photograph of a large group, prior to 1900, baptizing African-Americans at Murphy's pasture near Edwardsville, in Wyandotte County, Kansas.
This photograph was taken looking south-southeast on Main Street just south of 16th Street.
Photograph of Johnson Drive, looking west from Nieman Road, in downtown Shawnee circa the 1910s.
May 25th 1935
An autochrome photograph of Clarence M. Moore's poppy garden, taken from the west. Moore was an executive with Truscon Laboratories.
This photograph was taken looking northeast at the intersection of the Prospect Avenue and 17th Street in Kansas City, Missouri.
June 25th 1934
An autochrome photograph of children at the Arbor Villa Pool at Main Street and 66th Street Terrace.
Circa 1932 photograph with side view of City Ice Company of Kansas City delivery truck. Described as "Chevrolet truck with insulated body used for delivery of ice cubes.
October 1934
Miss May Lowe seated in the campaign "sound" car for Harry S. Truman's 1934 senatorial campaign.
June 12th 1935
An autochrome photograph of the "Blaze" rose arch at the Fuller Pergola at the Municipal Rose Garden (Loose Park Rose Garden).
May 19th 1923
Postcard showing Union Station at the northwest corner of Pershing Road and Main Street in Kansas City, Missouri. This vantage point faces northwest from the intersection of Pershing and Main.
Circa 1930 photograph with an aerial view looking east towards the the Kansas City, Kansas Municipal Plant.
Postcard of the National Cloak & Suit Company, built in 1919 at the southeast corner of Hardesty Avenue and Independence Avenue.
September 22nd 1933
An autochrome photograph of Dr. Thomas G. Orr's residence, taken from the northeast.
1924
Bennie Moten's Orchestra, with instruments on bandstand, likely to be Paseo Hall, 15th Street and Paseo Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri, c. 1925.
April 22nd 1935
An autochrome photograph of lilacs next to William H. Scarritt's driveway and home. Scarritt was Secretary and Assistant Treasurer of the Scarritt Realty Company.
Candid photograph of unidentified nurses at The Willows Maternity Hospital.
1918
Mary Tiera Farrow, more commonly known as Tiera Farrow, photographed in the uniform of the National League of Women’s Services and standing next to an ambulance, ca. 1918.
Photograph looking east on 18th Street from between The Paseo and Vine Street.
Undated photo of identified men in Kansas City, Kansas. They are likely railroad or icehouse workers from the local Mexican community.
June 20th 1933
An autochrome photograph of Dan W. Moser's swimming pool, taken from the south and showing four unidentified people. Moser was president of the Western Finance Co.
December 1925
Clipping from The Missouri Alumnus, Vol. XIV, No. 4, featuring a biography of James Madison Kemper, Sr.
1926
This photograph was taken looking south-southeast on the west side of Troost Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets in Kansas City, Missouri.
Photograph of Kansas City ministers [possibly as part of a New Era District meeting] with leaders of the Women's Missionary Union posed outside of the main entrance to the Paseo Baptist Church
Food baskets for fifth ward residents during the depression. This vantage point faces northwest towards ABC Storage at 3244 Main Street.
1920
This picture was taken looking west in the Marie Antoinette Shop, once located at 6231 Brookside Boulevard in the Brookside Shopping District.
Photograph of the Elsmere Apartments, once located at the southeast corner of Troost Avenue and Linwood Boulevard
Photograph of nurses holding degrees outside of the main entrance to the Wheatley-Provident Hospital, located on the western side of Forest Avenue between 18th Street and 19th Street in Kansas City