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Title: Greater Kansas City
Description: Street map of Kansas City and surrounding area including Wyandotte and Johnson Counties in Kansas, North Kansas City, Independence, and Liberty in Missouri. Shows parks, airports, schools, hospitals, and police stations. Includes street index.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Map

Title: Pocket Map of Greater Kansas City
Description: Road map of Kansas City and surrounding counties including Platte and Clay counties in Missouri, Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas. Includes indexes to streets, public schools, and parochial schools.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Map

Title: Garment District Building
Description: Building located in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, at the corner of 10th Street and Broadway Boulevard with an address of 1000 Broadway Boulevard. The 1953 Kansas City city directory identifies the building as the W. R. Nelson Trust Building. Building contained mostly clothing related businesses which included: basement - Ti-Pi Company; 1st floor - Rose Mercantile Company; 2nd floor - Lan Mar Manufacturing Company; 3rd floor - Jenny Garments, Inc.; 4th floor - Herdan Morris Inc.; 5th floor - Danny Dare Boys Wear, Inc.; and 6th floor - Vic-Gene Manufacturing Company.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Bankers & Merchants Lithographing Co.
Description: Street level view of a building identified on the outside as Bankers & Merchants Lithographing Co. On the left at the rear of the building can be seen what appears to be a large replica of a beer bottle sitting on top of a business called Texas Tavern and a sign which says Milwaukee's Finest Beer. Location given as 400 Admiral Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Municipal Airport, Hangars
Description: Image looks west across Missouri River to Fairfax Industrial District. Shows runways in the foreground and airplane hangars in the center of the frame. Signs on hangars identify them as belonging to Executive and K. C. Flying Service. Across the river, Fairfax (KS) Airport can be seen on the right.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Country Club Plaza Christmas Lights
Description: View of the Country Club Plaza decorated with Christmas lights looking west along Nichols Road from Broadway Boulevard. The Jack Henry store is on the south and Helzberg's jewelry store on the northwest corner of Nichols and Broadway.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Union Station
Description: View of Union Station, looking toward the north with the Kansas City skyline in the background. Photograph was taken from the Liberty Memorial grounds.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Business Men's Assurance Co. Building
Description: Full frontal view of BMA building on Pershing Road with weather beacon on roof. Former Sweeney School for auto, tractor, and aviation.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: City National Bank Parking Garage
Description: Parking garage for City National Bank, located on the west side of Grand Avenue between 9th and 10th streets.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Petticoat Lane
Description: View of 11th Street or Petticoat Lane looking toward the west at the Grand Avenue intersection in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The Emery Bird Thayer store is in view on the northwest corner of 11th Street and Grand Avenue, and Zales Jewelers is seen on the southwest corner. Macy's department store located on Main Street can be seen at the end of 11th Street.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Aerial View of Downtown Kansas City
Description: View of downtown Kansas City looking northeast from around 15th Street.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Missouri Theater, Exterior
Description: Exterior view of side of Missouri Theater at 14th and Main streets, looking southwest along 14th Street. Theater opened as the Main Street Theater in 1921, changing to the Missouri Theater in 1941. It was later purchased by RKO and renamed the Empire Theater. It was renovated by AMC Entertainment and reopened in 2009 as AMC Main Street Theater, a first-run cineplex.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Graphic Arts Building
Description: View of the Graphic Arts Building located on the northwest corner of 10th and Wyandotte streets in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Looking toward the northwest.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Negative

Title: African Americans in Sports
Description: File contains two copies of a booklet entitled The Negro in Sports, highlighting the accomplishments of black athletes such as Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, and Jackie Robinson. The author, Nat Low, was a sports writer for the New York Daily Worker and The Daily People's World.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Roeland Park, Kansas
Description: File containing a pamphlet with illustrations, photos, map, and information on the city of Roeland Park, Kansas located about 5 miles southwest of Downtown centered about 50th and Roe Boulevard in Johnson County, Kansas.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Leawood, Kansas
Description: File contains a pamphlet with illustrations, map, and information on the city of Leawood, Kansas located just west of State Line Road from Somerset Road (79th Street) to 103rd Street in 1950. Originally a "1,000-acre farm estate of O. G. Lee, a wealthy Oklahoma and Kansas City oilman" until bought after his death and developed "by Kroh Bros., home builders."
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Board of Education Building on 12th Street
Description: Interior view of Wentworth Griffin and Roland B. Hewitt, both Board of Education members, looking at a model of the Board of Education/Library building to be built at 12th and Oak streets. Building also housed the Main Branch of the Kansas City Public Library.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: William E. Phifer, Jr.
Description: Portrait of Dr./Rev. William E. Phifer, Jr., minister of Central Presbyterian Church and past president of the Council of Churches. He spoke at the dinner meeting of the Radio Council of Greater Kansas City held September 28, 1954, at the Wishbone Restaurant located at 4455 Main Street in Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

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