Group photo of Bennie Moten's Victor Recording Artists taken at Fairyland Park by Cresswell's Photo Studio, Kansas City, Missouri; band is seated with instruments, ca. 1930.
Image Gallery
December 11th 1927
Exterior of the Convention Hall in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. This hall was once located on the north side of 13th Street between Wyandotte Street and Central Street.
August 23rd 1919
Postcard of the west end of Cliff Drive in Kansas City, Missouri.
October 3rd 1932
An autochrome photograph of Bruce Dodson, Jr.'s residence, taken from the northwest. Dodson was president of the Bruce Dodson Insurance Company.
Photograph of Our Lady of Good Counsel Church. This vantage point faces west on Washington Street just south of 39th Terrace.
1920
Photograph looking north along the west side of Troost from Linwood Boulevard.
August 25th 1940
A color glass plate positive photograph of people swimming at the Mission Hills Country Club swimming pool.
December 12th 1941
Photograph of the Friars' choir at Kirkwood Hall at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The choir is comprised of members of the local diocese and directed by Reverend Albert Q. Senn, O.F.M.
1925
Photograph of a large crowd gathered for an event at the intersection of 31st Street and Van Brunt Boulevard/Hardesty Avenue.
August 6th 1925
Photograph of young women in costumes posing in front of a building in the Kansas City area, with two men peeking out a window at the group.
April 11th 1921
Postcard showing Union Station at the northwest corner of Pershing Road and Main Street in Kansas City, Missouri.
December 5th 1920
Photograph of several Holy Cross Catholic Church choir members and friends posed in a pipe en route to Jesse James Cave on the Missouri River bluff near Sugar Creek, Missouri.
Photograph of bottles and packages of confiscated liquor outside of the Johnson County Courthouse circa 1938. Law enforcement officers look over the confiscated materials.
September 22nd 1922
Postcard of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Building, located at the northwest corner of 11th and Oak Streets in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
Photograph of the 1921 Merriam High School girls basketball team. Eight student/players pose on steps in front of a school building door with a teacher.
May 1937
Clipping entitled "Graduating Class of Pembroke-Country Day School" from May 1937 showing the graduates on the steps to the main entrance of the school.
1938
Circa 1938 photograph of the Association of Daughters of Elks (St. Louis) marching in Black Elks parade at 18th Street and The Paseo, Kansas City, MO. Source: Black Economic Union.
Circa 1940 photograph of the rectory for St. Peter's Church. This vantage point faces east on Holmes Road between Meyer Boulevard and 64th Terrace.
March 17th 1937
Photograph of Wave Tobin and a group of protestors at a demonstration on March 17, 1937 by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
May 15th 1934
An autochrome photograph of Laura Coates Reed standing under her virgilia tree. Her husband, Homer Reed, was the founder of the Homer Reed Investment Company.
July 18th 1938
Mugshots of Joseph Maher, Inmate #53422. Maher was sentenced to two years in the U.S.
September 27th 1933
An autochrome photograph of the Keneseth Israel Beth Sholom Synagogue. The vantage point faces west at the intersection of 34th Street and The Paseo.
September 22nd 1933
An autochrome photograph of the northeast figure of a set of four sculptures at the intersection of Tomahawk Road and Ensley Lane in Mission Hills, Kansas.
1925
Photograph looking west along the north side of 12th Street from the east side of Main Street. The Sexton Hotel is pictured to the left.
October 9th 1928
Antique well-head originally from Barcelona, standing in the lounge. It concealed a drinking fountain.
Photograph of young men, participants in the Future Farmers of American program, in a Shawnee Mission Rural High School classroom in 1940 or 1941.
June 9th 1932
An autochrome photograph of the Belknap C. Hawkes and Alice Hawkes residence, taken from the north. Belknap was a Kansas City stockbroker.
March 21st 1989
Postcard of the driveway in Penn Valley Park in Kansas City, Missouri. This vantage point faces north-northwest from atop the hill east of Broadway Boulevard.
1937
Group portrait of Donnelly Garment Company employees attending the Instructors Christmas Party event at the Donnelly Clubhouse.
August 8th 1932
An autochrome photograph of Miss Jean Love sitting next to a swimming pool at the Inghram D. Hook residence. This photograph was taken looking east from west of the pool.
September 14th 1941
A color glass plate positive photograph of Myra M. Wilson, wife of William Emmett Wilson, seated holding a rose. William Wilson was a farmer.
Photograph of the W. W. Yates School, known before 1918 as Lincoln School (right) and Lincoln High School (left).
March 26th 1934
An autochrome photograph of an unidentified woman sitting under a magnolia tree in the frontyard on the property of Charles A. Gish.