Image Gallery

Photograph of students at the one-room Brauer School in the Piper area of Wyandotte County, Kansas circa 1925.

September 3rd 1932

An autochrome photograph of the Visitation Church and Parish House, taken from the northwest.

October 3rd 1921

Photograph of the Boys Hotel Club Memorial Building (also known as the Boys Hotel Annex) under construction by Fogel Construction Company.

1941

Photograph looking east along the north side of 12th Street between Holmes Street and Charlotte Street at night. The Hotel Troy is pictured in the background.

Circa 1925 photograph looking east at the intersection of Independence Road (presently Wilson Avenue) and Wheeling Avenue. Pictured is a train on the Kansas City Terminal Railway.

March 25th 1924

Photograph looking north along the west side of Olive Street from 11th Street. Sidewalk and car in view.

August 8th 1932

An autochrome photograph of the southeast corner of John E. Horn's estate. The vantage point faces north-northwest towards the Horn residence.

Home of Jackson County Democratic Party boss, Thomas J. Pendergast, at 5650 Ward Parkway, built by the J. C. Nichols Company.

Photograph with view of the downtown skyline from just north of the Missouri River.

January 6th 1931

Jackson County Judges Harry S. Truman, William O. Beeman, and Eugene I. "Buck" Purcell took the oath of office on January 6, 1931.

Postcard of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Temple Lot in Independence, Missouri.

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."

Portrait of Thomas J. Pendergast around 1900. From the book, "Independence As It Is."

1935

Promotional postcard from KMBC radio station featuring a photograph of Phil Evans and Tex Owens from 1935.

Resonator guitar owned and played by Leroy "Buster" Berry while he was a member of Bennie Moten's Band. The only inscription on the instrument is "Pat.

June 9th 1935

An autochrome photograph of Margaret Ryan standing next to climbing roses at Romanelli Court (intersection of Wornall Road, 69th Street, and Edgevale Road).

Circa 1940 photograph with an interior view of students at Meservey School kindergarten. The children are playing as Kansas City Fire Department fire personnel.

Photograph of a Strang Land Company building at 80th and Santa Fe Road in the early 1900s. A man stands at the front of the building.

1940

Photograph of members of the East Central Garden Club of Kansas visiting Loose Park in Kansas City, Missouri. Nine women are pictured accompanied by five children.

Circa 1925 photograph of St. John's Episcopal Church in winter. This vantage point faces east from the west side of Kensington Avenue between Thompson Avenue and Independence Avenue.

1924

Interior of Wolferman's Grocery Store at 47th Street and Wyandotte Street in the Country Club Plaza, female shoppers are shown browsing a sweets display.

Photograph of Brauer School, a one-room school in the Piper area of Wyandotte County, Kansas.

June 13th 1942

Kansas City Police Department mugshot of organized crime figure Frank DeLuca.

February 8th 1932

Photograph of Detective Charles Fredericks holding a shotgun. The scene is part of investigation that took place after an attempted robbery at the Mercantile Trust Company on February 8, 1932.

Photograph of two men standing next to two trucks in Lenexa, Kansas, circa 1920.

June 26th 1935

An autochrome photograph of children at the Jacob L. Loose Memorial Park Wading Pool.

Photograph of postal carrier Cornelius Jackson in the 1920s. Jackson, a former slave, transported mail by horse cart between Merriam and the Shawnee Mission Post Office.

1895

Photograph of "Hell’s Half Acre", an area in the late 1800's and early 1900's consisting of the north side of the West Bottoms between the bluffs and the state line.

1934

Photograph of the Gumbel Building on the southeast corner of 8th Street and Walnut Street. Architect John McKecknie designed the Gumbel Building which was completed in 1904.

April 29th 1941

A color glass plate positive photograph of two girls sitting under hawthorn (crataegus) trees in bloom by Brush Creek and Indian Lane.

March 22nd 1935

Dust Bowl period photograph of school children in Kansas City during a dust storm on March 22, 1935.

October 10th 1936

Photograph of the construction of an unidentified elevator near the Missouri River in Kansas City, Kansas.

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.

Circa 1930 photograph of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church located at 901 W. 23rd Street (now Avenida Cesar E Chavez).

Undated photo of identified men in Kansas City, Kansas. They are likely railroad or icehouse workers from the local Mexican community.

1930

An aerial view of the Country Club Plaza in 1930, looking north from the top of the Wornall Road hill. The Walnut Apartments complex is in the foreground.

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