Askren Photograph Collection

Title: The Junction
Description: Street level view of the downtown Kansas City area known as the Junction located on 9th Street between Main and Delaware streets. View includes the Kay Hotel which was built in 1916 and razed in 1954. It originally was called the Westgate Hotel.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Negative

Title: 12th and Main Streets
Description: Looking north along Main Street from 12th Street. On the right is the southwest corner of the Jones Store building. Harzfeld's Department Store is visible one block south, and signs for King Joy Lo Restaurant, Liggett's Drugs, B & G Hosiery, Newman Theater, and Berkson's line the west side of the street from south to north. The block on the west side of Main was razed in the early 1970s and now occupied by City Center Square.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Negative

Title: R. J. Delano School
Description: Exterior, partial street level view of the R. J. Delano School located at 3708 Linwood Boulevard. The school was designed for children with disabilities.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Park Central Hotel
Description: Street level view of the Park Central Hotel located at 300-02 E. Armour Boulevard. The main entrance to the building is in view. A car parked on Armour Boulevard can be seen. The structure was built in 1929 and is part of the Armour/Gillham Historic Apartment-Hotel District.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Hotel Commonwealth
Description: Full, street level view of the Hotel Commonwealth located at 1216 Broadway Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri. View includes entrance to the hotel's Blue Grass Room. The Humphrey Hotel is located to the right at 1210 Broadway Boulevard.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Downtown Kansas City Skyline
Description: View looking toward the north of the Kansas City, Missouri skyline. Photograph taken from the Hospital Hill area at approximately 22nd and Oak streets.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Negative

Title: United States Courthouse and Post Office
Description: Full frontal and side view of building at 811 Grand Avenue, looking northeast. Shows Victoria Hotel to the east.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: R. J. Delano School
Description: Exterior, full view of the R. J. Delano School located at 3708 Linwood Boulevard. Small white sign in front reads: "PWA, Federal Emergency, Administration Public Works, R. J. Delano School, (last line unreadable)." School was designed for children with disabilities.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: City National Bank Parking Garage
Description: Parking garage for City National Bank, west side of Grand Avenue between 9th and 10th streets.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Negative

Title: R. J. Delano School
Description: Exterior, full street level view of the R. J. Delano School located at 3708 Linwood Boulevard. Small white sign in front reads: PWA, Federal Emergency, Administration Public Works, R. J. Delano School, (last line unreadable). Designed as a school for children with disabilities. No print image, negative and digital only.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Country Club Plaza Christmas Lights
Description: View looking toward the southwest of the Christmas lights on the Country Club Plaza at the intersection of 47th Street and Mill Creek Parkway. The Plaza Theater is in view in the center of the photograph.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kersey Coates Drive
Description: Street level view looking north along Kersey Coates Drive near the end of 10th Street. The palisades or cliffs of West Terrace Park are in view. Area is in Quality Hill neighborhood, just west of downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Municipal Auditorium
Description: Interior view of the exhibition hall area located at Municipal Auditorium. Name of exhibition in progress not given.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Liberty Memorial
Description: View of the north side of the Liberty Memorial with automobiles parked at Union Station parking lot in foreground.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Oak Street
Description: Oak Street looking toward the north from just south of 13th Street in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View includes Telephone Building on the left and both the City Hall and the Jackson County Courthouse on the east side of the street. An "Auto Loans" sign with a clock is in view on the right Also the "Crest Hotel" sign is in view on the left.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Downtown Kansas City Skyline
Description: View looking toward the southwest of a portion of the eastern side of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Photo taken from the Chase Hotel around 9th and Holmes. Buildings in view include from left to right: Jackson County Courthouse, City Hall, Kansas City Power and Light Building and Telephone Building. A portion of the old Central High School/Junior College located on the corner of 11th and Locust can be seen on the left. Also the Schuyler Hotel and Drake Hotel are in view.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Liberty Memorial
Description: Photograph taken from Union Station looking toward the south across Pershing Road, with the full north side of the Liberty Memorial in the view. Automobiles, including taxicabs, can be seen parked in the Union Station parking lot in foreground as well as a clock situated in the lot.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Downtown Kansas City Skyline
Description: View of skyline looking southwest from Chase Hotel. Central High School building, City Hall, Jackson County Courthouse, Telephone Building and Drake, and Schuyler hotels are clearly visible.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Photograph

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