Photograph with partial front view of Perky Brothers Transfer and Storage Company on the north side of Independence Avenue between Benton Boulevard and Indiana Avenue.
Image Gallery
Photograph of a Lockheed Orion 9E airplane, NC12283, and a Northrop Alpha 4A airplane, NC933Y, at Municipal Airport in winter. Both aircraft were owned by Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA).
June 20th 1936
Photograph of many automobiles and a few buses parked in a field at W. T. Kemper, Sr.'s annual picnic and barbecue for employees of Commerce Trust Company and associated banks.
1922
Men, mules, and machines constructing the Country Club District.
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 1938
Library and Administration buildings at the University of Kansas City, later University of Missouri-Kansas City.
June 1941
Photograph of businesses at the northwest corner of Grand Avenue (presently Grand Boulevard) and 3rd Street.
Advertisement for a ladies choice program at the El Torreon, "Where the Clouds Roll By." The El Torreon Ballroom was located at the southeast corner of 31st Street and Gillham Road (now G
Photograph of the members of the Over the Top Club, part of the congregation of the Vine Street Baptist Church.
Photograph of jazz trumpet player Lammar Wright, who was active in Kansas City from the early 1920's until 1927.
July 2nd 1936
An autochrome photograph of the center of the gardens at The Walnuts, taken from the south atop the apartment building.
May 31st 1934
An autochrome photograph of a pergola at the Municipal Rose Garden (Loose Park Rose Garden) dedicated to the memory of Ernest E. Smith and his family.
Photograph of pioneering social worker Minnie Crosswaithe wearing a coat and hat.
March 21st 1918
Postcard of the B.P.O. Elks Club No. 26 in Kansas City, Missouri. The vantage point faces northwest at the intersection of 7th Street and Grand Avenue (now Grand Boulevard).
Circa 1940 photograph of the rectory for St. Peter's Church. This vantage point faces east on Holmes Road between Meyer Boulevard and 64th Terrace.
Circa 1928 photograph with frontal and side view of the Montgomery Ward's building, located on the northeast corner of Belmont Boulevard and Saint John Avenue.
Photograph of the boys of Boys Hotel attending a party at the Liberty Theater. This vantage point faces southwest towards the theater on Main Street from just south of 11th Street.
1920
Two residents, a man and a woman, of Greenway Fields walk near the Rams' Heads, a decorative motif for a trellis over the sidewalk on Valley Road near 62nd Street.
An autochrome photograph of Fletcher Cowherd's house, taken from the east-northeast.
A color glass plate positive photograph of a group of people at a picnic in Swope Park.
December 3rd 1921
Photograph of Mrs. White and boys of the Boys Hotel posed on the front steps of the recentely completed Boys Hotel Club Memorial Building.
1927
Photograph of the first confirmation in 1927 in front of the original rectory of St. Peter's, Kansas City, Missouri. Bishop Thomas F. Lillis is present and pictured.
1926
Composite of staff (heads only) of Lincoln Theatre, with building in background, 1926.
1934
Photograph of a cafe/delicatessen at 5824 Swope Parkway, taken in connection with Criminal Case No. 34750: State of Missouri vs. John Gadwood.
People in Klan costume posing with a Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad car. The railroad was one of the largest employers of KCK Klan members during the 1920s.
An autochrome photograph of eight children posed next to Dr. Fred Irving's swimming pool.
Photograph entitled "Clean Up", showing boys washing each other's hair in the bathroom at the Boys Hotel at the southeast corner of Admiral Boulevard and Flora Avenue.
August 2nd 1932
An autochrome photograph of Herbert F. Hall's residence, taken from the southwest. Hall was president of the Hall-Baker Grain Company.
1926
Photograph with caption, "The former brickyard and rock quarry south of Brush Creek and west of Main Street." This vantage point faces south from near the intersection of Wyandotte Street
September 1932
Clipping from the September 1932 issue of The Jeffersonian showing a portrait photograph of the Honorable James A.
1939
Pla Mor pool without swimmers, taken by Cresswell's Photo Studio, Kansas City, Missouri, ca. 1939. The Pla-Mor was located at 3142 Main Street in Kansas City, Missouri.
Candid photograph of an unidentified nurse at The Willows Maternity Hospital.
Undated postcard view of businesses and automobiles on Minnesota Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas.
Photograph of a small structure at the northeast corner of Pine and Santa Fe Streets in Olathe, Kansas, circa 1940.
1934
An oil on canvas painting by Fred Bergere of downtown Kansas City in the winter.