Photograph, circa 1941, of a two-story clapboard house at 51st and Quivira in Shawnee, Kansas. Owned by Wilhelmina Loercher, the house was purchased by her father John G.
Image Gallery
April 24th 1935
Clipping from the Kansas City Post on April 24, 1935 showing Thomas J. Pendergast, Jr. and Mary Louis Weyer Pendergast leaving St. Peter's Catholic Church after their marriage.
March 30th 1922
Photograph looking east along Armour Boulevard from the west side of Gillham Road.
May 1st 1933
An autochrome photograph of tulips by a window of Robert Sutherland's residence. Sutherland was President of Sutherland Lumber Company.
January 24th 1923
Photograph looking north on the east side of Bennington Avenue between Lee Street (15th Terrace) and 16th Street.
1920
Photograph of the Central Exchange National Bank building, once located on the east side of Grand Avenue (Grand Boulevard) between 10th Street and 11th Street.
May 2nd 1934
An autochrome photograph of a Bechtel's crabapple tree on the property of Lillian Hoover. Her husband Orves U. Hoover was vice president and treasurer of Hoover Bros.
An autochrome photograph of Allen Logan's rose fence, taken from the west looking east. Logan was the founder of Logan Brothers Grain Company.
Photograph of city council meeting in the "old chambers" of City Hall at the northeast corner of 5th Street and Main Street.
Circa 1928 photograph with full frontal and side view of the Southwest Motor Car Company, located at the southeast corner 26th Street, Walnut Street, and Grand Avenue.
June 7th 1935
An autochrome photograph of Margaret J. Helmers with "Mary Wallace" roses on the property of William C. Helmers, Executive, Helmers Manufacturing Company.
July 3rd 1922
Postcard of Hotel Baltimore, located at the northeast corner of Baltimore Avenue and 12th Street in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The back of the postcard includes a short letter from Mabel E.
1925
Photograph looking south along the west side of Oak Street between 11th Street and 12th Street.
Photograph of a grassy open field with telephone lines, parked cars, and trees in the background, circa 1937.
June 20th 1936
Photograph of many automobiles and a few buses parked in a field at W. T. Kemper, Sr.'s annual picnic and barbecue for employees of Commerce Trust Company and associated banks.
1926
Photograph with caption, "looking northeast from 55th and Summit Streets toward Wornall Road." The photograph's annotations label streets and show proposed road improvements.
Photograph of the boys of Boys Hotel attending a party at the Liberty Theater. This vantage point faces southwest towards the theater on Main Street from just south of 11th Street.
Portrait of Walter Prescott Neff, or Walter Neff, chairman of the board of the Daily Drovers Telegram newspaper at 1505 Genesee Street.
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.
May 1940
Photograph with an interior view of children in the Troost School kindergarten room.
Portrait photograph of Dr. Solomon H. Thompson, who began a “Black Hospital Movement” in the Kansas City area that began to address the health concerns of non-white communities.
1938
Circa 1938 photograph of a men marching west in the Black Elks parade at 18th Street and The Paseo. The Street Hotel, Country Club Beer, Elnora's Cafe, and Crown Drug Co.
August 28th 1932
Clipping from the Kansas City Journal-Post with caption stating, "Twenty Years of Skyline Change in Kansas City.
Circa 1940 photograph of the Park Central Hotel located at 300-02 E. Armour Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri. Entrance to the building is in view from street level.
June 6th 1933
An autochrome photograph of William M. Hand's residence, taken from the east at J. C. Nichols Company's old site. Hand was manager at the General Electric Company.
Photograph of Johnson County Fair exhibit booths and demonstrations in the Shawnee Mission Rural High School gymnasium in 1931.
Early 1940s photograph of Grace Allen, Reverend Preston Allen, Sr., and Vernetta Allen standing in front of Preston's home at 2439 Forest Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri.
August 8th 1932
An autochrome photograph of John E. Horn's court, pool, and home entrance, as seen from the southeast. Horn was secretary-treasurer of the Paragon Royalty Corporation.
Circa 1940 photograph with aerial view looking down onto the City Market and the neighborhood directly to the northeast, including the ASB Bridge.
April 13th 1935
The Tower Orchestra at Tower Theatre, 213 E 12th St., Kansas City, Mo.
June 12th 1922
Photograph looking north from south end of McGee Street Viaduct, near Gillham Road.
Interior photograph of the Strang Line's Milburn Station in Overland Park, Kansas, circa 1925.
September 29th 1932
An autochrome photograph of a fountain at the intersection of Edgevale Road and 69th Street. This vantage point faces east with the home at 6851 Edgevale Road in the left background.
Circa 1925 photograph of Broadway Methodist Episcopal Church located at the northwest corner of 74th Street and Broadway Boulevard (now Wornall Road). Dr. Grant A.
October 16th 1932
An autochrome photograph of The Walnuts west building, taken from the south in October.
September 20th 1933
An autochrome photograph of the croton flowers outside of the Swope Park Shelter House, taken from the east.