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Title: Liberty Memorial Dedication
Description: Interior view of General Armando Diaz, Commander in Chief of the Italian Armies, arriving at Union Station for memorial dedication.
Date: 1921
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Future Liberty Memorial Site
Description: Looking southwest at the area across from the Union Station which would become the Liberty Memorial site. Sweeney School is under construction on the right.
Date: 1916~
Object Type: Photograph

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: Future Liberty Memorial Site
Description: Looking southwest from Main Street and the future Pershing Road, toward the area across from Union Station and the future site of the Liberty Memorial. Sweeney School is in view on the right and a Sunshine Biscuits sign is visible on the left. Possible date on the front of the photograph, 10-4-20.
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Cowtown Chronicles: The Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month--Armistice
Description: Photo, illustration, and history of the Liberty Memorial, dedicated in 1921 as a World War I monument across from Union Station on the former "ugly old Vinegar Hill, shanty-clad, dirty and with many of those derelict elements that often crowd about railroad stations." Description of its plans starting just after Armistice Day in 1918 by Robert Long, or R. A. Long, William Kemper, James Kemper, Nelson Kirkland, H. Van Buren McGonigle (the architect), et al.
Date: 2000-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, Part I
Description: First article of two about the plans for the site for the memorial and its arrangement with nearby features in the city, with a photo of "R. A. Long, chairman of the Liberty Memorial Association," and photos of the Main Branch Library, Union Station, and Penn Valley Park.
Date: 1921-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #04
Description: Architectural detail of the Liberty Memorial design proposal from the New York-based Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry was awarded fourth place by the 1921 memorial jury. This detail depicts the sculpture of an imposing female figure, engraved with SPQR and a variety of scenes, set into the proposed central tower - the figure would not be visible to viewers at Union Station.
Date: 1921
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #21
Description: Three views of the Liberty Memorial design proposal from the New York-based Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry was awarded fourth place by the 1921 memorial jury. The views depict the imposing female figure set into the proposed central tower and how the figure would not be visible to viewers at Union Station.
Date: 1921
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #30
Description: Architectural rendering of the Liberty Memorial design proposal from Kansas City-based Henry F. Hoit, Edwin M. Price and Alfred E. Barnes. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry was unranked by the 1921 memorial jury. "Hoit, Price and Barnes presented plans for a giant, ornamented obelisk that sat atop a large building ringed with columns. Their design was unique in that it set the monument at the extreme south edge of the cultural center's campus, instead of positioning it on the imposing hill opposite Union Station."
Date: 1921
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #31
Description: Site layout included in the Liberty Memorial design proposal from Kansas City-based Henry F. Hoit, Edwin M. Price and Alfred E. Barnes. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry was unranked by the 1921 memorial jury. "Hoit, Price and Barnes presented plans for a giant, ornamented obelisk that sat atop a large building ringed with columns. Their design was unique in that it set the monument at the extreme south edge of the cultural center's campus, instead of positioning it on the imposing hill opposite Union Station."
Date: 1921
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #32
Description: Obelisk detail included in the Liberty Memorial design proposal from Kansas City-based Henry F. Hoit, Edwin M. Price and Alfred E. Barnes. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry was unranked by the 1921 memorial jury. "Hoit, Price and Barnes presented plans for a giant, ornamented obelisk that sat atop a large building ringed with columns. Their design was unique in that it set the monument at the extreme south edge of the cultural center's campus, instead of positioning it on the imposing hill opposite Union Station."
Date: 1921
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Calvin Coolidge and Queen Marie, Guests at the Liberty Memorial Dedication
Description: Postcard commemorating the visit of President Calvin Coolidge and Queen Marie of Romania at the Liberty Memorial Dedication in 1926.
Date: 1926
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Leaders at Liberty Memorial Site Dedication
Description: Postcard of Leaders at the Liberty Memorial Site Dedication, inscribed with Admiral Beatty, Gen. Pershing and presumably Marshal Foch, Baron Jacques, Gen. Diaz,
Date: 1921~
Object Type: Postcard

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