An autochrome photograph of the French salon from the grand hall in R. A. Long's residence. Long was co-founder of Long-Bell Lumber Company.
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Circa 1940 photograph with an interior view of students at Meservey School kindergarten. The children are playing as Kansas City Fire Department fire personnel.
September 20th 1930
Postcard of Scarritt Spring on Cliff Drive in Kansas City, Missouri. The back of the postcard includes a short letter to Mrs. Aron Leher of Clarksburg, Missouri.
April 4th 1924
Clipping from the Kansas City Journal on April 4, 1924 showing the cancelled check for $5,000 from Kelly-Dennis Company to T. J. Pendergast. Also pictured are Mrs. Harvey W.
1921
Forty students of the William Cullen Bryant School who pulled dandelions in the Country Club District. Prizes were given for those who pulled the most.
Fifteen member of the Chauncey Downs Orchestra with conductor to the right. "CD" is printed in the upper right corner of each of the five bandstands in front of the musicians.
September 14th 1932
An autochrome photograph of Eugene W. Goebel's residence, taken from the east. Goebel was a Kansas City oil producer.
1938
Circa 1938 photograph of marching band with majorettes in front marching west in the Black Elks parade at 18th Street and The Paseo. The Street Hotel and a streetcar are pictured in background.
An autochrome photograph of Broadway/Wornall Bridge across Brush Creek and the apartments near the Country Club Plaza, including the Locarno, the Riviera, and the Casa Loma.
1927
Group photo of Bennie Moten's Victor Recording Orchestra with instruments; handwritten notation states "Oklahoma City 1927".
August 17th 1942
Photograph of Kansas City Mayor John B. Gage, who served from 1940 to 1946, with members of the City Council.
June 24th 1932
An autochrome photograph of the grandchildren of James Neal Foster in his garden.
This photograph was taken looking west on 31st Street just west of Gillham Road in Kansas City, Missouri.
Circa 1930 photograph with full frontal view of City Ice Company of Kansas City, Plant No. 53, built in 1919. It was located on the west side of Oak Street between 48th Street and 49th Street.
A damaged autochrome photograph of two women and one child posed by the entrance to the Kansas City Country Club. This view looks west over Brush Creek and towards the entrance.
September 8th 1928
Mugshot of Tony Laptino, Inmate #30647. Laptino was sentenced to time in the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth after being convicted of violating the Prohibition Act.
June 6th 1932
An autochrome photograph of Walter G. Basinger's house from the East, A. I. A. Medal Award of 1931. Basinger was director of the J. C. Nichols Company.
October 15th 1932
An autochrome photograph facing north-northeast across Penn Valley Lake with downtown Kansas City, Missouri in the background.
1929
Publicity photo of Chic Scoggin, Pla-Mor Orchestra director, standing and holding a conducting baton.
Photograph showing an Armourdale baseball team in Kansas City, Kansas, likely taken in the 1910s. Noted on the back of the image is that the team was managed by Sandy Hanson.
Portrait of Frank P. Walsh, progressive lawyer and labor advocate. Taken between 1910 and 1925.
October 1934
Photograph of the Women's Christian Temperance Union Carry A. Nation Home at 738 Broadview Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas.
1926
Photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Russel Dick with Ben F. and Claudia O. Gregory posed in front of an airplane.
Photograph of the Troost Avenue School, once located at the northwest corner of 60th Street and Troost Avenue. It was named after Dr. Benoist Troost, an early Kansas City physician.
Photograph with exterior, street view of the Harris House located at the northeast corner of Westport Avenue (now Westport Road) and Pennsylvania Avenue.
Candid photograph of unidentified nurses at The Willows Maternity Hospital.
July 5th 1935
An autochrome photograph of two automobiles parked next to a bed of flowers in the Country Club Plaza at the southeast corner of Alameda Road (now Nichols Road) and Central Street.
March 17th 1937
Photograph of a demonstration on March 17, 1937 by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union at the Gordon Brothers Garment Company, Gernes Garment Company, and Missouri Garment Company buildi
June 29th 1936
WPA orchestra rehearsing at Union Hall, William Shaw, director, June 29, 1936.
September 3rd 1918
Postcard of the fountain located between the northbound and southbound lanes of The Paseo just south of 9th Street in Kansas City, Missouri.
Cityscape photograph of 18th Street from atop the Kansas City Call Building, looking northwest with downtown Kansas City in the background.
Photograph of first grade students working in a garden across the street from the Kansas City Teacher's College.
October 29th 1921
Postcard showing the sunken gardens on The Paseo in Kansas City, Missouri. This vantage point faces north towards 12th Street and the William T.
1939
Photograph of Edward L. Schneider attached to a photograph of police searching for Schneider's body at the bottom of the Missouri River with nets.
September 22nd 1935
Photograph of the crowd at Convention Hall attending the Golden Jubilee of Bishop Thomas F. Lillis.