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Title: 13th Street
Description: View looking east on 13th Street from McGee. The Mutual Building, Crest Hotel, and several service stations are visible.
Date: 1948-06-10
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Ancient Vogel-Wiedenmann Dwelling, Seventy-two Years Old, Is Razed
Description: Illustration and caption about the demolition in 1924 of the former Louis Vogel home (also called the Vogel-Widenmann home), built about 1852 at 1303 West 43rd Street and planned for replacement "by a gasoline station."
Date: 1924-10-12
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Betting Dollars to Donuts: How Kansas City's Lord of the Long John Nearly Lost His Business [and Making the Rounds and Sweet Revenge]
Description: Photos and biographical articles about Ray Lamar, founder and owner of "LaMar's Donuts, arguably one of the most successful and long-surviving doughnut shops in America," starting in 1960 at "a former gas station on Linwood, two blocks east of Main" Street (240 East Linwood Boulevard) and expanding with other locations in the Kansas City metro area. Description of Lamar's life and career, born in Kansas City about 1910 and entering the donut business in 1933 at "Jack Frost Do-Nuts, in the LaSalle Theater building at 34th and Broadway."
Date: 1997-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Biography of Mary Hudson (1912-1999), Oil Baroness
Date: 2003
Object Type: Biography

Title: Broadway Boulevard
Description: Looking southwest from the northeast corner of Broadway and Linwood.
Date: 1931
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Brookside Changes
Description: Brief article about the Brookside district or Brookside neighborhood and the demise of the Brookside Amoco Station, among other traditional neighborhood institutions, with the advent of modern city planning.
Date: 2000-09-30
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Cities Service Oil Company Station
Description: View of front and south side of Cities Service Oil Company station at 3441 Broadway Boulevard.
Date: 1957-10-25
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Cities Service Oil Company Station
Description: Distant frontal and side view of unidentified Cities Service Oil Company station.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: City Ice House Company Oil and Ice Station
Description: Full side view of unidentified City Ice House Company Oil and Ice Station being a Standard Oil Company station selling Red Crown gasoline.
Date: 1932~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: City Ice House Company Oil and Ice Station
Description: Full side view of City Ice House Company Oil and Ice Station A-1; located in Overland Park, Kansas. Station is selling Red Crown gasoline.
Date: 1932~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Columbian Steel Tank Company
Description: Promotional postcard from the Columbian Steel Tank Company.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Conoco Station at 51st and Oak Streets
Description: View of the Ray Waugh Conoco Station, once located at 51st and Oak streets.
Date: 1960~/1969~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: A Gasoline Filling Station in Fashionable Architectural Garb
Description: Illustration and caption about the aesthetically disguised gasoline station built by the Standard Oil Company at 62nd Street Terrace and Brookside Boulevard and designed by architect John Van Brunt.
Date: 1916-04-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: H. H. Trenton Tires and Accessories
Description: Partial front and side view of H. H. Trenton Tires and Accessories and of Monark Gasoline and Oil Company, located on either side of Monroe Avenue at Independence Avenue.
Date: 1924-08
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Hudson Station
Description: Full frontal view of unidentified Hudson Station.
Date: 1955
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Mobil Oil Station
Description: Mobil Oil Service Station, located at the intersection of Troost Avenue and Armour Boulevard. Architect Eliot Noyes received an award for simplicity in commercial architecture and site use for its design.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pay at the Pump
Description: Discusses practices used by the gasoline industry that are unfair to independently-owned service stations. Part 1 of a 2-part article. Part 2 continued in the November 2-8, 2000 issue (vol. 20, no. 16).
Date: 2000-10-26
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Phillips 66 Service Station
Description: View of the Phillips 66 station located at the intersection of Gregory and Wornall roads. Phillips Oil and the J. C. Nichols Company received an award for their design of this site.
Date: 1964
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Play to Win: Mary Hudson Survives the Crisis
Description: Photos and biographical article about Mary Hudson, founder and owner of "Hudson Oil Company, now [1974] owner of over three hundred [gas] stations," headquartered in the Kansas City area. Description of her life and career. During the Great Depression she was "left a widow in her early twenties with a baby daughter," yet starting her own service station and continuing her business through the fuel crisis of the early 1970s, with plans of "building a major oil refinery."
Date: 1974-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: President Hotel
Description: Full frontal and side view of the President Hotel; located on the northeast corner of 14th Street and Baltimore Avenue. A gasoline station called Pen-Jac and a parking lot also in view.
Date: 1928~
Object Type: Photograph

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