Image Gallery

October 1934

Photograph of the Women's Christian Temperance Union Carry A. Nation Home at 738 Broadview Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas.

1930

Photograph looking east-northeast from the southeast corner of 8th Street and Tracy Avenue.

Photograph of a woman boarding a Strang Line train, with a motorman standing on a step looking to the right, circa 1930.

1926

Photograph with caption, "proposed trafficway in 48th Street looking west from Oak Street."

Photograph with an exterior view of a group of young ladies posed on the steps at Norman School. This vantage point faces east at the northeast corner of Summit Street and 36th Street.

May 1919

View of military and Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri, at the parade in honor of the return of the 129th Field Artillery from France to Kansas City, Missouri. From: 35th Division Collection.

August 26th 1922

Photograph with a full frontal and corner view of the Brailey Building, once located on northwest corner of 11th Street and McGee Street.

This photograph was taken looking north at the intersection of the Troost Avenue and 18th Street in Kansas City, Missouri.

Photograph of a corner of a tool room in the Vocational Agricultural Department at the Shawnee Mission Rural High School, circa 1935.

Photograph of the Gallatin Flats, once located at the northwest corner of Campbell Street and 8th Street.

1933

Photograph of a home at 5718 County Line Road (now 47th Street), Kansas City, Kansas, taken in connection with Criminal Case No. 33947: State of Missouri vs. Walter H. McGee.

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.

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.

1925

Photograph with full frontal and side view of the Carbide and Carbon Building (later called Union Carbide Building) located on the west side of Baltimore between 9th and 10th Street.

Photograph of Dr. Mary Myrtle Ozias Hill circa 1925. Hill practiced medicine in Kansas City, and was daughter of Dr. Charles O. Ozias, sister of Dr. Charles R. Ozias, and wife of Dr. Howard Hill.

July 28th 1936

Primary campaign mailer for gubernatorial candidate Lloyd Stark.

Photograph of members of the Greek Orthodox Annunciation Church at a picnic, including Apostoli Kartsonis, Tom Jianas, Mrs. Jianis, Mrs. Longas, Mrs.

1925

Photograph of the 1925 Stillwell High School girls basketball team.

Walt Disney's Laugh-O-Gram office, located in the second story of the McConahay Building at 31st Street and Forest Avenue.

Candid photograph of unidentified nurses at The Willows Maternity Hospital.

1935

Head and shoulders portrait of H. Roe Bartle.

Photograph of six men standing outside Campbell's General Store in Merriam, Kansas, circa 1915. Two men wear overalls, two wear aprons, and one appears to be wearing a transit employee uniform.

May 28th 1922

Photograph looking north on Oak Street from 18th Street. Advertisements for Coach Corp. and Keystone Auto Wrecking Co. are pictured.

August 25th 1941

Postcard showing Muehlebach Field (later Ruppert/Blues/Municipal Stadium), once located west of Brooklyn Avenue between 21st and 22nd Street in Kansas City, Missouri.

1932

Photograph of the Johnson County Fair on the grounds of the Shawnee Mission Rural High School in 1932.

1921

Photograph of unidentified men and women with sausages and other meats; meat stamped with "Fowler's" stamp of The Fowler Packing Company.

1940

Pamphlet describing services and offers statistics at the Italian mission in the Northeast district of Kansas City, Missouri, sponsored by the Presbyterian Church.

Circa 1928 photograph with full frontal and side view of the Stats Hotel; located on the northeast corner of 12th and Wyandotte streets.

Photograph entitled "Inspection", showing boys lined up in the playground behind the Boys Hotel.

1924

Exterior view of the Clarence E. Shepard home at 1426 Stratford Road (now reclassified as 2012 Stratford Road, Mission Hills, Kansas).

Photograph of the staff of the College Inn on 12th Street.

Photograph with a distant exterior view of the Morse Public School, showing students outside with playground equipment and playing a game of baseball. The school was named after S. F. B.

Circa 1935 photograph of the Medical Arts Building at the northwest corner of 34th Street and Broadway Boulevard.

May 10th 1935

An autochrome photograph of Maurice R. Smith's house, taken from the south with tulips in the foreground. Smith was an officer of the Kansas City Life Insurance Company.

March 31st 1923

Photograph of storefronts along the southwest corner of 11th Street and Broadway Boulevard. New Broadway Hotel sign in view as well as entrance to Denver Pharmacy.

Photograph of the interior of the Blue Goose Cafe, a restaurant turned speakeasy caught for serving liquor during Prohibition.

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