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Photograph of the entrance to College Inn, including signs advertising the Drumboogie Cavaliers playing nightly, as well as floor shows and dancing

Photograph of William H. Spivey (left) and VeEssa Spivey (right), owners of Black Hawk Barbecue.

Photograph of male students at Shawnee Mission Rural High School having a snowball fight in 1940 or 1941.

A billboard for the KMBC radio program Phenomenon: Electrifying History.

Photograph taken between 1935 and 1943 of men playing horseshoes in Kensington Park, Kansas City, Kansas.

Photograph of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri.

Head and shoulders portrait of Joan Crawford. She inscribes on the photo, "To Frank Britt, Best Wishes from Joan Crawford."

Photograph of the boys of Boys Hotel attending a party at the Liberty Theater.

Photograph of men, identified as William H. Spivey (left) and J. Jones (right), posing with the Black Hawk Barbecue delivery scooter.

Photograph of a a women's softball team in Edgerton, Kansas, circa 1935.

Photograph of a Church of the Annunciation pastor and group of children dressed for a Greek Independence Day celebration during the 1920s.

Photograph of an outside dining area behind Black Hawk Barbecue restaurant.

Photograph of a young man running a gauntlet of classmates trying to whip him with belts on the Shawnee Mission Rural High School football field in

Staged shot with a fake camera on the roof of the Laugh-O-Gram building.

Photograph taken between 1935 and 1943 of a baseball game at the North American Aviation Athletic Field, Fairfax, Kansas City, Kansas.

Photograph of the entrance to Swope Park, Kansas City, Missouri.

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