Bennie Moten's Orchestra, posed with instruments, ca. 1926. Source: Duncan Scheidt.
Image Gallery
May 30th 1939
Photograph of Mr. Russell, an automobile mechanic teacher at R. T. Coles Vocational and Junior High School.
1923
The first unit of Country Club Plaza Triangle Building under construction. This picture was taken looking north-northwest at the intersection of 47th Street and Wyandotte Street.
Photograph of an unidentified Overland Park Movie Company cameraman with camera in Aviation Park. The short-lived film company was founded by developer William Strang in 1916.
1938
Circa 1938 photograph of the Black Elks parade crowd on south side of 18th Street, between The Paseo and Vine Street, Kansas City, MO. Source: Black Economic Union.
1920
Six white columns stand erect in a park at Locust Street and Cherry Street, the structure patterned after the columns on the campus at the University of Missouri.
October 1933
Photograph of boys learning to make toys and furniture for themselves in a workshop at the Minute Circle Friendly House.
November 11th 1926
Dedication of the Liberty Memorial, a monument to those who served in World War I. From: Kansas City Chamber of Commerce.
September 24th 1932
An autochrome photograph of Albert R. Jones's residence, taken from the west. Jones was a Kansas City lawyer.
August 3rd 1941
A color glass plate positive photograph of bathers at the beach at Lake Quivira. Lakeshore Drive and the entrance to the Lake Quivira Country Club is shown in the background.
Photograph of two unidentified women seated by swimming pool at Fairyland Park. Sign behind them reads "Fairyland's Crystal Pool".
March 19th 1924
Photograph looking north from the south side of intersection of 39th Street and Main Street.
February 28th 1930
Photograph of the interior and exterior of the Kansas City Tuberculosis Hospital No. 2, built in 1928 as an annex to the Tuberculosis Hospital built in 1914.
January 4th 1937
Photograph of the construction of an unidentified elevator near the Missouri River in Kansas City, Kansas.
Circa 1930 photograph with an aerial view looking north near 12th Street and Grand Avenue; shows the Bryant Building under construction. Missouri River and riverfront area also in view.
June 14th 1933
An autochrome photograph of Miss Nelda Jane in pose to dive into the swimming pool of Dan W. Moser. Moser was president of the Western Finance Company.
August 28th 1936
Postcard of the Country Club Plaza at night in Kansas City, Missouri. The vantage point faces west-southwest from Main Street near its intersection with 46th Street.
June 1940
A color glass plate positive photograph of a reflecting pool opposite the west entrance to Swope Park. This vantage point faces east across the pool (now known as Delbert J.
1920
Photograph looking east along 12th Street at the intersection of Troost Avenue.
Photograph of boys attending a Sunday morning service in the auditorium of the Boys Hotel Club Memorial Building on Admiral Boulevard between Flora Avenue and Highland Avenue.
Illustrated photograph from a pamphlet advertising real estate in the Hocker Grove subdivision of Merriam, Kansas, circa 1915.
Aerial view of Kansas City, Missouri, looking north-northeast with the Missouri River in the background.
May 1938
Library and Administration buildings at the University of Kansas City, later University of Missouri-Kansas City.
This photograph of St. Vincent de Paul Academy was taken looking northwest on Flora Avenue just south of 31st Street. This building is adjacent to the St. Vincent de Paul Church.
July 31st 1923
Photograph of Brownell Cleaners at the northeast corner of Woodland Avenue and Independence Avenue.
November 25th 1940
Postcard of the Kansas City Power and Light Building, located at the corner of 14th Street and Baltimore Avenue.
Chauncey Downs and five unidentified women behind a microphone with instrumentalists in the background.
Calf-length black dress with floral embroidery detail and fabric waist belt created by Nelly Don Inc. in the 1940's.
Circa 1928 photograph with rear and side view of the Walsix Building, located at the southwest corner of 6th and Walnut streets.
Photograph of Walnut Grove, a grassy area surrounded by trees, in downtown Overland Park circa 1920.
Circa 1928 photograph with partial frontal street level view of the Home Trust Company, located at 1117-1119 Walnut Street.
July 14th 1918
Postcard of the Main Lobby of the Hotel Muehlebach, located at the southwest corner of Baltimore Avenue and 12th Street in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
Portrait of Carlton Coon and Joe Sanders of the Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra, taken by Bert Studio, K.C.. Source: John Coon.
Postcard of the Sears, Roebuck & Company warehouse, administration, and retail buildings, built in 1925 at the southwest corner of 15th Street (now Truman Road) and Cleveland Avenue.
1919
Early picture of the 51st Street shopping center, the first business development built by J. C. Nichols Company. At time of photograph, the Country Club Grocery Co.
May 10th 1939
An autochrome photograph of Leslie T. Martin's house and tower on Briarcliff between present-day Route 9 and North Briarcliff Road. Martin was president of Martin Printing Company.