Image Gallery

1940

Photograph of Columbus Park community volunteers constructing the St. John Bosco Center, Roman Catholic community hall.

February 11th 1924

Postcard of the Grand Avenue Temple Building, located at the southeast corner of 9th and Grand Avenue (now Grand Boulevard) in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.

1912

An early J. C. Nichols Company sign located on Brookside Boulevard by Countryside Park. In the background is the "Rock House" located at 5230 Brookside Boulevard.

March 27th 1932

Clipping from the Kansas City Times on March 28, 1932 that shows Kansas City Democrats boarding trains the previous day to the Democratic State Convention in St. Louis, Missouri.

May 1936

Photograph of merchants discussing a deal for beef cattle in the West Bottoms stockyards in Kansas City, Missouri.

July 13th 1935

An autochrome photograph of Harriet and Waldo Rickert Fillmore with their children Charles and Rosemary at their home at Unity Farm (Unity Village).

June 4th 1937

An autochrome photograph of Sara Gee standing next to her rose bush. Her husband, Werter L.

June 17th 1932

An autochrome photograph of Paul Uhlmann's residence, taken from the southeast. Uhlmann was President of Uhlmann Grain Company.

June 7th 1928

Exterior of the Convention Hall that housed the 1928 National Republican Convention in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.

August 14th 1924

Photograph looking east along the south side of 13th Street between Locust Street and Cherry Street. St. Mary's Church is pictured in the background.

1930

Photograph of the Forest Hill Mausoleum, located near the northeast corner of Troost Avenue and 69th Street. This vantage point faces west-northwest towards the building.

July 1st 1926

Photograph of Anderson Photo Company employees posed at a "steak-fry" event at an unidentified location.

Photograph of a zookeeper using a water hose on a pair of elephants at the Swope Park Zoo.

1920

This picture of Chandler's Flower Shop was taken looking southwest at the intersection of 47th Street and Mill Creek Parkway (now J C Nichols Parkway).

1940

Photograph of Sister Mary Alexis, Mother Superior of St. Agnes Convent for six years.

Photograph of a boy harvesting in a cabbage field circa 1940. Wearing a light tank top and dark overalls, the boy holds a head of cabbage over a bushel basket.

April 13th 1935

The Tower Orchestra at Tower Theatre, 213 E 12th St., Kansas City, Mo.

March 2nd 1928

Construction of the Country Club Plaza Theater began on March 2, 1928.

June 22nd 1933

An autochrome photograph of Edward O. Faeth's residence, taken from the east. Faeth was president of the Stowe Hardware & Supply Company.

October 1933

Photograph of the members of the Children's Bureau providing preventive health examinations to pre-school children at the Humboldt School at the northeast corner of 11th Street and Holmes Stre

February 25th 1938

Postcard showing the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, and Atkins Museum of Fine Art, located between Oak Street and Rockhill Road, south of 45th Street, in Kansas City, Missouri.

June 26th 1940

Anonymous postcard accusing Kansas City officials of misdeeds.

Photograph of the exterior of the Kansas City Call building that appears to have been taken from inside an automobile.

1925

Photograph looking west along 12th Street from Broadway Boulevard.

March 28th 1932

Clipping from the St. Louis Star on March 28, 1932 of "Tom Himself". The photograph of Thomas J. Pendergast was taken that day at the Democratic State Convention for Missouri in St.

Photograph of two Douglas DC-3 and two Douglas DC-3B airplanes parked outside of the Transcontinental & Western Air hangar at Municipal Airport.

Circa 1928 photograph with full frontal and side view of the President Hotel; located on the northeast corner of 14th Street and Baltimore Avenue.

Photograph of the intersection of Johnson Drive and Nieman Road in Shawnee, Kansas, circa 1920, looking west down Johnson Drive from its intersection with Nieman.

November 1st 1921

Postcard showing a portion of the spectators from the Liberty Memorial dedication ceremony on November 1st, 1921.

circa ,1930

Photograph of Park Street in downtown Olathe Kansas, looking east, circa 1930.

January 2nd 1926

Photograph looking south along McGee Street Trafficway from just north of the 26th Street overpass.

September 28th 1937

Mugshot, fingerprints, and physical description for Richard Galatas, Inmate #46085, upon his transfer back to Leavenworth, including physical descripton and sentence information.

Home built by Edward Dickinson at 810 W. 52nd Street, and then resided in by Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schutte.

Photograph of Central School in Olathe, Kansas circa 1920.

1940

Reproduction of a photograph of saxophonist Earl Malcolm "Jock" Caruthers, Sr. (1910-1971). Caruthers played extensively in St. Louis and Kansas City throughout his life.

Two-piece dress and petticoat created in the 1940's by the Gernes Garment Company for the Gay Gibson brand.

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