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.
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Photograph with slide description, "Children's ward in Wheatley Hospital, K.C., Mo."
Photograph of an interior view of customers and waitresses at the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's Fred Harvey House in Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri.
July 20th 1935
An autochrome photograph of E. V. Ingraham seated by logs at Unity Farm (Unity Village).
View looking west along 18th Street. The Boone and Gem Theaters can be seen on the north side of the street.
1933
Photograph of the basement 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.
July 16th 1939
Photograph of the Paseo Baptist Church Adult Choir under the direction of Mrs. D. A. Holmes.
1930
This picture was taken looking north in the median of Ward Parkway just north of Gregory Boulevard.
February 28th 1920
Postcard of the United States Post Office & Custom House in Kansas City, Missouri. This vantage point faces northeast at the intersection of 9th Street and Grand Avenue (now Grand Boulevard).
This photograph was taken looking west on 19th Street just east of Grand Avenue.
July 29th 1935
An autochrome photograph of Frances W. Foulks standing by a doorway at Unity Farm (Unity Village).
October 8th 1932
This 48-page issue of the Jackson County Medical Journal focuses on the "Kansas City General Hospital: Colored Division", also known as General Hospital No. 2.
August 3rd 1935
An autochrome photograph of an unidentified man and woman posed by the swimming pool of Isaac Katz, Co-owner & Co-founder of Katz Drug Store.
June 1923
Fountain at Brookwood Road and State Line Road, found by Mr. Nichols while traveling in London.
Circa 1928 photograph with full frontal and side view of the H. D. Lee Company, located on the southeast corner of 20th and Wyandotte streets.
Photograph of Transcontinental & Western Air employees loading air mail into a Ford 5-AT-B Tri-Motor airplane, NC9606, at Municipal Airport.
An autochrome photograph of a blue jay standing on a street number sign amongst daffodils on the property of Isaac P. Ryland, lawyer.
May 29th 1933
Photograph of Henry F. McElroy, Jr. and Mary McElroy with their father Henry F. McElroy, Sr. (left to right). The photograph was taken at the home H. F.
September 16th 1932
An autochrome photograph of the road entrance to the residence of Albert R. Jones, lawyer. This vantage point faces north on Guilford Lane just east of Overhill Road.
1926
Photograph with caption stating, "Kansas City's Councilmen, the city manager and the mayor, pose for a cameraman. Those in the rear row, left to right - C. Jasper Bell, Ira B. Burns, A.
September 28th 1937
Mugshot, fingerprints, and physical description for Richard Galatas, Inmate #46085, upon his transfer back to Leavenworth, including physical descripton and sentence information.
Circa 1920s photograph looking northeast with full frontal and partial side view of the J. W. Jenkins Sons' Music Co. located at 1013-15 Walnut.
Photograph of City Bank, once located before 1927 at the southeast corner of 18th Street and Grand Avenue (presently Grand Boulevard).
1924
Photograph of the first graduating class of Visitation Church posed with Father Thomas McDonald.
July 22nd 1935
Clipping from Time (magazine) on July 22, 1935 providing a visual and textual portrait of Tom Pendergast.
May 14th 1935
Group portrait of participants in the annual Hair Style Show portion of the annual party of the South Central Business Association, onstage at unidentified location.
September 20th 1932
An autochrome photograph of a fountain in the Country Club Plaza on Broadway between 47th Street and Alameda Road (now Nichols Road).
Photograph of the Electric Cafe on the south side of Rochester Avenue and east of Montgall Avenue.
September 10th 1934
An autochrome photograph of Dr. Solon E. Haynes's garden, taken from the southwest. Haynes was a Kansas City physician.
December 15th 1924
Postcard of Westgate Hotel, once located between Main Street and Delaware Street at 9th Street in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
May 1919
A World War I Color Guard (either 128th or 129th field artillery or 140th infantry) marches down Grand Avenue (now Grand Boulevard) in Kansas City, Missouri, in a parade of soldiers returning home
Photograph of Shawnee Indian Mission buildings, looking north toward 53rd Street, circa 1920.
June 15th 1941
Photograph of the St. Aloysius Corpus Christi Procession on June 15, 1941. This vantage point faces south-southeast from the northwest corner of 11th Street and Prospect Avenue.
Photograph of the Black Hawk Barbecue restaurant, as well as the Lydia Market and Lydia Plaza buildings in the background.