A color glass plate positive photograph of George Cope's "Rainbow" Garden of peonies, iris, and poppies.
Image Gallery
1940
Photograph of the St. Aloysius Band, W. H. Ragan, director. This vantage point faces east on Prospect Avenue just south of 11th Street.
Circa 1925 photograph looking east at the intersection of Independence Road (presently Wilson Avenue) and Wheeling Avenue. Pictured is a train on the Kansas City Terminal Railway.
November 8th 1918
Postcard of the entrance to Swope Park, located at the intersection of Meyer Boulevard and Swope Parkway in Kansas City, Missouri.
April 28th 1922
Postcard of Hotel Muehlebach, located at the southwest corner of Baltimore Avenue and 12th Street in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
June 1939
Photograph of Felix Street (left) and David Samuels (right) standing on the east side of The Paseo between 19th Street and the railroad tracks.
July 11th 1932
An autochrome photograph of Horace R. Graham's house called "Rockledge", taken from the north-northwest. Graham was president of the Graham-Lux Millinery Company.
March 1st 1934
Photograph of the arraignment of Charles Taibi and Sam DeCaro, who were charged with murdering bank messenger Webster Kemner on February 27, 1934.
February 16th 1937
Clipping entitled, "The Thirteen Jurors Who Will Hear the Vote Fraud Trial" from the Kansas City Times on February 16, 1937.
1918
Grouping of four exterior snapshots of students with teachers on Kensington School lawn.
Photograph of a man posed with a large herd of sheep at the Stockyards in the West Bottoms of Kansas City.
1923
Promotional booklet for building family homes in 1920s luxury Kansas City suburban tract development now in the Santa Fe Hills neighborhood southeast of 85th St. and Wornall.
April 22nd 1922
Postcard of the Inter-City Viaduct in Kansas City, Missouri, now better known as the portion of I-70 between downtown Kansas City, Missouri and downtown Kansas City, Kansas.
February 9th 1934
Photograph of the Beau Brummel Club's 15th anniversary celebration at the Elk's Place Restaurant.
June 20th 1932
An autochrome photograph of Dr. Sam E. Roberts's garden, tea house, and home, taken from the southwest. Roberts was a Kansas City physician.
1930
Photograph of participants including the Board of Governors of the South Central Business Association at the groundbreaking ceremonies for the Shankman Building, located at 3119 Troost.
June 21st 1938
An autochrome photograph of an unidentified woman and child in Arno Leslie Roach's memorial garden at his retirement home in present-day Lake Tapawingo, Missouri.
June 23rd 1934
An autochrome photograph of Minnie Long Sloan standing next to a coster spruce tree in her garden.
Circa 1930 photograph with an aerial view, looking east, across the Armourdale district and towards the Kansas River.
1920
Interior of Brookside Hall, Miss Helen Thomes' dance class in session.
May 19th 1928
Postcard showing the Swope Park Shelter House Number 1, located to the southeast of the main entrance to Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri.
Photograph of Lawrence Zillhart, Future Farmers of America participant, holding a bulletin board outside Shawnee Mission Rural High School in 1940 or 1941.
July 18th 1938
Mugshot for Ernest Williams, Inmate #53428. Williams was sentenced to one year and one day in the U.S.
October 1921
Photograph of a group gathered for the Merriam Homemakers Club "Dad's Night" in 1921. The party took place in the home of Lee and Etta Cox.
1930
An aerial view of the Country Club Plaza in 1930, looking north from the top of the Wornall Road hill. The Walnut Apartments complex is in the foreground.
April 27th 1923
Postcard of the 71st Street (now Gregory Boulevard) bridge across the Blue River in Swope Park, Kansas City, Missouri. This vantage point faces north-northeast just south of the bridge.
January 16th 1924
Postcard of St. Mary's Hospital, located at the southwest corner of 28th Street and Main Street in Kansas City, Missouri.
November 12th 1929
Group portrait of Harry Truman, Senator Thomas P. Gore, and others at a dinner held by the South Central Business Association at the LaSalle Hotel in Gore's honor.
Photograph of the patients' and employees' dining room at Major Clinic. The clinic, owned and operated by Dr. Hermon S.
December 29th 1922
Photograph of men standing on the James Street Station Platform, Kansas City, Kansas before the last streetcar to pass over the elevated street railway, also known as the "L" structure.
March 17th 1937
Photograph of Wave Tobin and a group of protestors at a demonstration on March 17, 1937 by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
October 3rd 1921
Photograph of the Boys Hotel Club Memorial Building (also known as the Boys Hotel Annex) under construction by Fogel Construction Company.
1941
Photograph of fifteen members of the St. Aloysius Young Ladies Sodality with toys to be donated in their mission work.
May 12th 1921
Younger boys and girls participating in a maypole dance at the 1921 Country Club District Field Day on the grounds of the Pembroke-Country Day School.
January 25th 1930
Program for the third annual dinner of the Fifteenth Ward Regular Democratic Club, a Joe Shannon "Rabbit" faction organization.