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.
Image Gallery
1936
Publicity photo of Count Basie at piano and Carmen Miranda holding percussive shaker at Command Performance. Basie is sitting at the piano wearing a white suit and looking forward.
May 9th 1937
An autochrome photograph of lilacs by Brush Creek on the grounds of the Kansas City Country Club.
1915
Photograph of the Morris & Company (left) and the Swift & Company (right background) packing plants in Armourdale, Kansas City, Kansas.
July 18th 1938
Mugshot for Glenn Barnard, Inmate #53424. Barnard was sentenced to one year and six months in the U.S.
1922
Carter home on the south side of 54th Street, between Belinder Road (now Belinder Avenue) and Porter Road (now Mission Road).
Circa 1928 photograph with full frontal and side view of the President Hotel; located on the northeast corner of 14th Street and Baltimore Avenue.
June 20th 1936
Photograph of men ready to serve barbecue at W. T. Kemper, Sr.'s annual picnic and barbecue for employees of Commerce Trust Company and associated banks.
This photograph was taken looking west towards Bell Street from the intersection of 39th Street and Genessee Street in Kansas City, Missouri.
1925
Photograph looking east from the intersection of Broadway Boulevard and 12th Street. The Hotel Missouri, Missouri Theater, and Hotel Rasbach is picture on the left.
May 29th 1933
An autochrome photograph of Helen H. McDermand's house, taken from the southwest. The picture shows urns placed by the house entrance. Her deceased husband, Frank R.
September 13th 1936
Letter and attached photograph from L. L. Hixon to Lloyd Stark, reporting on the state of Stark gubernatorial campaign in his area of Missouri.
May 1936
Photograph of the Daily Drovers Telegram and the stockyards in the West Bottoms of Kansas City, Missouri.
Photograph of White Hall at Camp Bo-Ho-Ca, located on the east side of Blue River Road near 121st Street.
1920
Photograph of the Hoffman Apartments, once located on the south side of 9th Street between Charlotte Street and Campbell Street. The Astor Hotel is pictured adjacent to the left.
Candid photograph of unidentified nurses at The Willows Maternity Hospital.
1920's photograph of a portion of the cattle pens at the Kansas City Stockyards in Kansas City, Missouri.
July 1932
Photograph of the attendees of the Sunflower Grand Lodge Knights of Pythis and Grand Court 39th Annual Session at the 8th Street Baptist Church in Kansas City, Kansas, July 26-28, 1932.
August 18th 1924
Photograph looking east along the north side of 9th Street at May Street. The Hotel Moore and Hotel Savoy are pictured.
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.
Circa 1928 photograph with full frontal view of the Kansas City School of Law.
May 1933
Five women, the "Goddesses" observing annual Country Club District Community Field Day at Southwest High School at the southwest corner of 65th Street and Wornall Road.
January 24th 1924
Mugshot and prison record of Anthony R. Gizzo, Inmate #20547, including biographical data as well as information about his conviction and sentencing.
This photograph was taken looking west on 8th Street from just east of Flora Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri.
Undated photograph of Mexican immigrants building a house in Kansas City, Kansas.
February 12th 1935
Photograph of Henry F. McElroy and Mary McElroy alighting from a TWA airplane. The caption on the back of the image reads, "KC 217231... (Chicago Bureau), MARY McELROY RETURNS HOME.
1935
Photograph of the swimming pool at the rear of the Kittle family home at in Westwood Hills, Kansas, in 1935.
1930
Photograph of the Karnopp Building, located at the southeast corner of 43rd Street and Main Street.
1922
The Indian Lane ford over Brush Creek in Mission Hills, Nichols children in the center, Harriet Smith on the left.
July 3rd 1937
Clipping from the Kansas City Times on July 3, 1937 showing William D. Boyle of Boyle-Pryor Construction Company, Thomas J. Pendergast, and James M.
Photograph of buildings on the south side of Johnson Drive between Nieman Road and Barton Drive circa 1915.
February 8th 1929
Portrait of men and women in costume at the Donnelly Garment Company Valentine's Day Party, February 8, 1929.
May 30th 1929
Photograph of Kansas City clergy preparing for the Corpus Christi Procession on Memorial Day at Mt. St. Mary's Cemetery.
June 15th 1919
The report of a social survey of Armourdale, a community of 12,000 people living in the industrial district of Kansas City, Kansas.
1928
250 year old antique Carrara marble bench from Venice, placed outside the wall surrounding one of the free parking stations, in the park space between the wall and public sidewalk.
April 29th 1941
A color glass plate positive photograph of a hawthorn (crataegus) tree in bloom in the north central section of Penn Valley Park.