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Title: Hughes' Kansas City Views
Description: Photo of the "residence of John A. Prescott [or John Prescott], 3416 Baltimore Avenue."
Date: 1900
Object Type: Book

Title: Historic Kansas City Architecture
Description: Book contains a photo and caption about the "early Westport home" built in about 1855, located at 4000 Baltimore Avenue.
Date: 1975
Object Type: Book

Title: Was it Bomb?
Description: Article describes a probable bombing of the First National Bank of Kansas City (14 W. 10th Street). An explosion, which injured nine people, erupted in an employee lavatory near the vault of the bank.
Date: 2008-01-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: William Shelley Home
Description: File containing a nomination form for the National Register for the William Francis Shelley, or William Shelley home at 3601 Baltimore Avenue, built in 1887-1889 as "one of the oldest original remaining residences erected in Hyde Park." Shelley native to Iowa and coming to Kansas City as "treasurer for the Jarvis-Conklin Mortgage Trust Company" before becoming a private broker and accountant dying in 1913.
Object Type: Report

Title: Ruling on Bretton's Bankruptcy Action
Description: Article about the closing of Bretton's Incorporated, once one of Downtown's most popular restaurants.
Date: 1976-03-02
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Auction Claims All That Made Bretton's
Description: Photos and text about the auction of the equipment of the restaurant at 1215 Baltimore Avenue.
Date: 1976-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Defining Downtown
Description: Portion of larger article about downtown. Includes a colored map of the 8 major districts downtown. Also included is a sequence of graphics detailing businesses and buildings of a 4-block area encompassing 9th St. to 11th St. and Main to Wyandotte St. in the 1920s, 1950s, 1980s and the 2000s. This includes 10th and Baltimore, the location of the First National Bank that will become the Central Branch of the Kansas City Public Library.
Date: 2002-09-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: 13th Street
Description: Looking east along the north side of 13th between Baltimore and Wyandotte.
Date: 1929
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Brickyard and Quarry near Brush Creek
Description: View looking south of brickyard and quarry located south of Brush Creek, west of Main Street. Shows grade of 49th Street and Baltimore Avenue (178 ft) and 49th Street and Main Street (147 ft.),
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Baltimore Avenue at 42nd Street
Description: View of northeast corner of 42nd Street and Baltimore Avenue. Includes several houses "to be condemned" to make way for a roadway connecting to Main Street at 41st Street.
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bunker Building
Description: View facing northwest of the entrance to the Bunker Building, 820 Baltimore Avenue. Architect Kenneth M. Frashier received an award for his work on the building's restoration.
Date: 1978
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 10th Street, East from Baltimore
Description: Postcard of 10th Street, facing east from Baltimore Avenue.
Date: 1909-10-04
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Baltimore Avenue, North from Eleventh Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Description: Postcard of Baltimore Avenue facing north from 11th Street in Kansas City, Missouri.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: New York Life Building
Description: Postcard of the New York Life Building on 9th Street at Baltimore Avenue.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: 18th Street
Description: Looking west along 18th at Baltimore.
Date: 1989
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Building at 20th and Baltimore
Description: Full frontal and side view; located at southwest corner of 20th and Baltimore.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Baltimore Street
Description: Looking north along Baltimore from 15th Street. Shows Kansas City Power and Light Building under construction.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Baltimore Street
Description: Looking south along the east side of Baltimore between 10th and 11th.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Baltimore Avnue
Description: Looking south along the east side of Baltimore Avenue from 9th Street. The Shubert Theater sign is visible on the northwest corner of Baltimore and 10th Street, and the Carbide and Carbon Building (later called Union Carbide Building) can be seen in the middle of the block.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Baltimore Street
Description: Looking north along Baltimore from just south of 14th.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

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