Photograph with an exterior view of an unidentified group of students standing by the east door at Mount Washington School.
Image Gallery
Photograph of the First Presbyterian Church, once located at the southwest corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 40th Street in Westport.
October 25th 1946
Modified photograph of Kansas City gambler and Mafia associate Morris "Snag" Klein.
December 22nd 1933
Group portrait of Donnelly Garment Company employees at company Christmas party.
June 24th 1938
An autochrome photograph of two seated women looking across Lake Tapawingo on the property of George W. Allan, President of the Kansas City Pump Company.
January 23rd 1929
Advertisement in the Kansas City Times for the American Beauty Macaroni Products featuring Enid J. Kemper (wife of R. Crosby Kemper, Sr.) with her children Sarah Ann (Sally), R.
1920
Photograph of an exterior view of a house at 4156 Cambridge Street, in the Hanover Heights neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas circa 1920.
1920's photograph of a portion of the cattle pens at the Kansas City Stockyards in Kansas City, Missouri.
Photograph of a road under construction in the Countryside area, later Mission, Kansas, circa 1940.
Photograph with an exterior, full street level view of Martin School. The school was named after school board member Judge Edward L. Martin.
Photograph of a Church of the Annunciation pastor and group of children dressed for a Greek Independence Day celebration during the 1920s.
An autochrome photograph of the library in R. A. Long's residence. Long was co-founder of Long-Bell Lumber Company.
Photograph of the entrance to Jacob L. Loose Memorial Park, Kansas City, Missouri. This vantage point faces south-southwest from the intersection of 51st Street and Wornall Road.
November 12th 1930
Clipping from the Kansas City Journal-Post on November 12, 1930 showing Thomas B. Bash, Dr. J. C. Johnson, W. O. Beeman, and Frank C. Beck at the Blue Springs farm of Dr. Johnson.
Photograph of VeEssa Spivey posing with two other women and a car that has been decorated for a parade and with an advertisement for Black Hawk Barbecue.
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.
Postcard of the Sears, Roebuck & Company warehouse, administration, and retail buildings, built in 1925 at the southwest corner of 15th Street (now Truman Road) and Cleveland Avenue.
1920
View shows the south wing of St. Luke's Hospital under construction. This was the first addition to the original building.
July 18th 1938
Mugshots of Joseph Maher, Inmate #53422. Maher was sentenced to two years in the U.S.
Photograph of the Kansas City School District Repair Department at 1520 Campbell Street. As of 2017, the building still stands with an addition to its frontage.
1927
Close up exterior view of the Oak Street entrance to the J. C. Nichols School, now known as Académie Lafayette.
1926
Photograph with caption, "looking east from the heights of the old quarry. Note that Main Street is higher than the land on either side."
Circa 1930 photograph of the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks at the Terrace Room in the New Yorker Hotel, NYC. Pictured are top row from left: Pope and Richolson; middle row from left: Krebs, Downing, H.
Circa 1930's photograph of six men in white coveralls kneeling in front of a Curtiss-Wright Flying Service single-engine aircraft at the Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, Kansas.
This photograph was taken looking west on 19th Street just east of Grand Avenue.
Photograph of James A. Reed and Nell Donnelly Reed's living room in their home at 5236 Cherry Street, Kansas City, Missouri.
June 26th 1939
Photograph of Felix Street standing with a pipe near the Crown Drugstore at the northeast corner of 18th Street and The Paseo.
February 11th 1918
Photograph looking west at a streetcar stopped at the intersection of Hickory Street and the 12th Street Viaduct.
Photograph of an elderly woman, identified as Alida Van Keirsbilck, standing with a small herd of cattle circa 1933. The Van Keirsbilck farm was located at 75th and Quivira in Lenexa, Kansas.
June 11th 1928
Exterior of the Convention Hall that housed the 1928 National Republican Convention in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
March 23rd 1921
Postcard of the lake in Penn Valley Park in Kansas City, Missouri. The back of the postcard includes a short letter.
1929
Advertisement in the El Torreon News for Fletcher Henderson Orchestra at the Pla-Mor Ballroom, starting Thursday, September 5, 1929. Source: Cliff Haliburton.
Photograph of downtown Merriam, Kansas, circa 1935. Looking north from the corner of Main Street and Merriam Avenue, the unpaved road is lined with businesses, utility poles, and parked vehicles.
Undated photo of identified men in Kansas City, Kansas. They are likely railroad or icehouse workers from the local Mexican community.
Candid photograph of unidentified nurses at The Willows Maternity Hospital.