Photograph taken between 1935 and 1943 of civilians and members of the military at a bookmobile, Fairfax, Kansas City, Kansas.
Image Gallery
January 19th 1940
Mugshot for John J. Pryor, Inmate #56309. Pryor was sentenced to two years in the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth for tax evasion.
Photograph with slide description, "Bathing her baby, Florence Home For Colored Girls, Kansas City, Missouri."
Advertisement for Beta Alpha Tau's '3 Band' Mid-Winter Stagger, featuring Phil Baxter's El Torreon Band, Missouri Quad, and the Egyptian Serenaders, admission: $1.25.
March 1931
Photograph of Defense Attorney James A. Reed talking to the jury at the murder trial of Mrs. Myrtle Bennett. Mrs. Bennett shot and killed her husband John G.
May 10th 1927
Photograph looking north-northwest on McGee Street from just north of 22nd Street. The Coca-Cola Building is pictured to the left.
May 15th 1933
An autochrome photograph of H. A. Fowler's residence, taken from the east. Fowler was president of the Fowler Commission Company.
1942
Photograph of a lily pond on the grounds of the St. Agnes Convent. This vantage point faces south-southeast with the auditorium and gym of St. Agnes Academy in the background.
1930
This picture was taken looking north in the median of Ward Parkway just north of Gregory Boulevard.
Photograph of Chester A. Franklin standing by the door of the Kansas City Call Building.
A color glass plate positive photograph of a man putting on the fifth hole of the Mission Hills Country Club Golf Course.
1922
Photograph of the Overland Park Grade School basketball team in 1922. Seven young men in athleticwear and their coach are pictured in front of a chalkboard.
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.
March 23rd 1921
Postcard of the lake in Penn Valley Park in Kansas City, Missouri. The back of the postcard includes a short letter.
1939
A lithograph on paper by Thomas Hart Benton depicting two farmers and a donkey on a stark Midwestern farm.
1932
1932 photograph of Thamon Hayes’ Kansas City Rockets group posed in front of the Fairyland Park stage at the southeast corner of Prospect Avenue and 75th Street.
1936
Photograph with slide description: "Frieze on N. wall, fountain playing: Liberty Memorial; Kansas City, Mo. (1936)."
May 1940
A color glass plate positive photograph of two unidentified woman standing in front of Sid J. Hare's residence. Hare was a Kansas City landscape architect.
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.
May 29th 1933
An autochrome photograph of Helen H. McDermand's house, taken from the west. Her deceased husband, Frank R. McDermand, Jr., was president of the Columbian Hog and Cattle Powder Company.
May 4th 1936
Group portrait of the 1936 Kansas City Blues baseball team inside Muehlebach Field (later renamed Blues/Municipal Stadium).
Drawing of the Centropolis Baptist Church at 1410 White Avenue. This vantage point faces south-southwest from the east side of White Avenue just south of 14th Street.
Photograph of Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige preparing to throw a baseball in Havana, Cuba.
Photograph of the residence of Professor James D. Bowser, once located at 2400 The Paseo, Kansas City, Missouri.
June 1941
Photograph of businesses at the northeast corner of Walnut Street and 4th Street. Pictured establishments include Walnut Buffet and New Market Cafe.
October 2nd 1936
Photograph of a group of South Central Business Association men and police officers operating parking meters immediately after their installation on Troost Avenue.
1937
Postcard of the Country Club Plaza lights during Christmas 1937.
Postcard showing the Dixon Hotel that once stood on the southeast corner of 12th Street and Baltimore Avenue.
October 21st 1928
Clipping from the Kansas City Journal-Post on October 21, 1928 showing Missouri Governor Alfred E. Smith on his presidential campaign in Sedalia, Missouri. Also pictured are Charles M.
November 1909
Postcard showing Pleasure Lake in Electric Park, once located between The Paseo and Woodland Avenue, south of 45th Street, in Kansas City, Missouri.
1923
Some of the earlier homes built in Armour Hills, this block of homes is part of the Edgevale Road group. The spectators in the photograph include Grace Carlson and Ernest Holt.
Photograph of three boys receiving eyecare at the medical office at the Boys Hotel at the southeast corner of Admiral Boulevard and Flora Avenue.
July 24th 1932
An autochrome photograph of a woman and child on the property of Lionel Benjamin, a buyer for Fred Harvey.
1934
Group portrait of the Kansas City Monarchs. Standing, from the left: Sam Bankhead, T.J.