Image Gallery

January 26th 1924

Photograph looking east on 53rd Street Terrace towards its intersection with Brookside Boulevard.

1925

Photograph of the Ford Assembly Plant, located on the east of Winchester Avenue between 10th Street and 12th Street.

Circa 1920 photograph with full, front view of the Harris (Kearney) House at its original location at Westport Avenue (now Westport Road) and Main Street.

June 27th 1932

Armour-Swift-Burlington Bridge, with the Mark Twain and the General Ashburn, stern wheelers, carrying Patrick J.

April 1928

Composite of portrait photographs of members of the Kansas City Board of Education, officers, and superintendent, "As organized April 5, 1928." Pictured are Allendoerger, C.

1935

Photograph of the Emery, Bird, Thayer building, once located on the north side of 11th Street between Walnut Street and Grand Avenue (Grand Boulevard).

May 1919

Soldiers returning from Europe at the end of World War I march down Grand Avenue (now Grand Boulevard) in Kansas City, Missouri, as people toss flowers into the street. From: Mrs. D. S.

Photograph of three boys receiving eyecare at the medical office at the Boys Hotel at the southeast corner of Admiral Boulevard and Flora Avenue.

Photograph of the Strang Line car barn and power plant in Overland Park, Kansas, circa the 1910s.

1935

Photograph of James Madison Kemper, Jr., Arch E. Downing, William T. Kemper, Sr., David Woods Kemper, and William T. Kemper, Jr. posed on horseback (left to right).

An autochrome photograph of Harry West with an eremurus flower on the property of Mark J. Morrin's residence on Blue Ridge Boulevard near U.S. 50.

May 10th 1939

An autochrome photograph of Leslie T. Martin's house, tower, and garden on Briarcliff between present-day Route 9 and North Briarcliff Road.

December 22nd 1933

Group portrait of Donnelly Garment Company employees at company Christmas party.

1935

Publicity photograph and signature of J. C. Nichols in 1935.

November 1921

Harry S. Truman and the 129th Field Artillery in front of the Muehlebach Hotel during the November 1921 Armistice parade in Kansas City, MO.

Photograph with full exterior street level view of Horace Mann School, located on the north side of 39th Street between Euclid Avenue and Garfield Avenue.

March 17th 1937

Photograph of a police officers restraining a protester at a demonstration on March 17, 1937 by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.

1937

Photograph of the chapel at the Saint Agnes Convent, Kansas City, Missouri.

1932

Full length group photograph of three of the Blue Devils, taken by Bert Studios, Kansas City, (left to right): Theo Ross, Lester Young, and Buster Smith, ca. 1932. Source: Jimmy Jewel.

Photograph of a newly constructed shelter house with a picnic oven at Swope Park, Kansas City, Missouri, ca. 1930s.

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

Headshot photograph of Lois Hutchins Sanders circa 1930.

Photograph of the residence of Judge Calaway, located at 2546 Michigan Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri. This vantage point faces west-northwest on Michigan Avenue just north of 26th Street.

July 28th 1935

An autochrome photograph of Charles Fillmore seated at Unity Farm (Unity Village).

1931

Photograph of James R. Page, county prosecutor, presenting his case before the jury at the murder trial of Mrs. Myrtle Bennett. Mrs. Bennett shot and killed her husband John G.

June 14th 1933

An autochrome photograph of Miss Nelda Jane in pose to dive into the swimming pool of Dan W. Moser. Moser was president of the Western Finance Company.

1940

Circa 1940 photograph of dancers at Municipal Auditorium, located on 13th Street between Wyandotte Street and Central Street. Source: John Randazzo

Ruth E. Johnson
1940

Photograph of Ruth E. Johnson (10/27/1898 - 06/15/1970), a beautician in Kansas City, Missouri.

Photograph of a boy harvesting in a cabbage field circa 1940. Wearing a light tank top and dark overalls, the boy holds a head of cabbage over a bushel basket.

July 13th 1935

An autochrome photograph of Harriet and Waldo Rickert Fillmore with their children Charles and Rosemary at their home at Unity Farm (Unity Village).

Photograph with an exterior street level view of Sanford B. Ladd School located on the north side of 37th Street, between Bellefontaine Avenue to Walrond Avenue (Benton Boulevard).

Photograph looking east on 18th Street from between The Paseo and Vine Street.

Two photographs of students at the one-room Brauer School in the Piper area of Wyandotte County, Kansas.

October 11th 1934

An autochrome photograph of an unidentified woman standing next to a large cluster of morning glories on the property of D. Ambert Haley.

T. H. Holder’s orchestra posed with instruments; Claude Williams on left end. Source: Claude Williams.

February 20th 1923

Photograph looking north on the east side of the 500 block of Park Avenue.

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