Panoramic view looking north showing the opening of Union Station. Spectators are crowded along the front of the station and down Main Street. Many cars are in view.
View looking to the northwest from the area across the street from Union Station where the Liberty Memorial was soon to be built. In view, Union Station, Coca Cola Building and buildings surrounding it as well as the Kansas City skyline of the time.
Photograph of a crowd gathered near Union Station to see the Freedom Train, which traveled the country from 1947 to 1949 with displays of historically significant historical documents, including the Bill of Rights and the Emancipation Proclamation. Airplanes flying in formation are passing overhead. A train and a tent are in view. A sign for Fox Midwest Theaters can be seen. The Freedom Train stopped in Kansas City June 6-7, 1948.
Professional boxer Jack Dempsey standing against an outside wall at Union Station. He is wearing a hat and overcoat. Dempsey was in Kansas City for a November 18, 1931, exhibition fight at the Convention Hall.
Photograph of a crowd gathered near Union Station to see the Freedom Train, which traveled the country from 1947 to 1949 with displays of historically significant historical documents, including the Bill of Rights and the Emancipation Proclamation. A train, tracks and cars can be seen. A sign for W. E. Murray Transfer & Storage is in view. The Freedom Train stopped in Kansas City June 6-7, 1948.
The Central Plains Region of the National Archives will move into a former freight building (Adams Express building) beside Union Station. The group is currently located in the Bannister Federal Complex. he move will involve a 20-year lease to be signed with Union Station. "The $10 million project calls for the 36,000-square-foot Adams Express building to be renovated and an 8,000-square-foot addition built. The plan also will include a 42-space parking lot and 15 spaces in the nearby Union Station garage." Opening date should be fall of 2008. This branch of the National Archives includes records collected by nonmilitary federal agencies in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska from 1821 to 1990 and the holdings come to over 3 million cubic feet.
Article documents a celebration to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the construction of Union Station that occurred on Friday, September 5, 2014. The author states that the event began with a Kansas City Chiefs Red Friday pep rally that was followed by a $175,000 animated film that was projected onto the front of Union Station. A list of topics covered in the film includes: Union Station construction, World War I and II, the Great Depression, the Union Station massacre, and Kansas City jazz. Production details of the film project are also provided.