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Title: Kansas City Star Building
Description: Illustrations and newspaper articles about the buildings owned by the Kansas City Star.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: There Is No Limit: Architecture and Sculpture in Kansas City
Description: Origins of the Kansas City Star Building at 18th and Grand Avenues and history of previous addresses for the Kansas City Star headquarters, including (1) 11th and Grand Avenues in 1894, (2) 407-409 Delaware Street, (3) 115 West 6th Street, (4) 14 West 5th Street, and (5) 304-306 Wyandotte Streets.
Date: 1934
Object Type: Book

Title: Night in Kansas City
Description: A small booklet featuring photographs of Kansas City that have been artistically enhanced to create a nighttime effect.
Date: 1912
Object Type: Book

Title: Commitment to Downtown KC: The Star Will Help Rejuvenate City's Core with Its New Printing Plant
Description: Groundbreaking for The Star's new printing plant, May 12, 2003. A feature of the new plant, to be completed by 2006, allows passers-by to view the computer-driven equipment. The slope-roofed building stretches between McGee and Oak streets, Truman Road to 17th Street.
Date: 2003-05-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Kansas City Star Building
Description: Full frontal and side view, looking northwest; located at northeast corner of 18th and Grand.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Star Building
Description: Full frontal and side view; located at northeast corner of 11th and Grand.
Date: 1900
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Star Building
Description: Full frontal view; located at northeast corner of 18th and Grand.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Star
Description: View looking north on Grand Avenue. The Kansas City Star newspaper building is in view in the center, located at 18th and Grand just south of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. There are vehicles in view on Grand Avenue and the WDAF radio towers are visible on top of the Star building.
Date: 1928
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Star Building
Description: Full frontal and side view; located on northeast corner of 11th and Grand.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Star Building
Description: Full frontal and side view; located at northeast corner of 11th and Grand.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Star Building
Description: Full frontal and side view of 11th and Grand building. Shows crowd surrounding building during ceremony in which Colonel Craig's Regiment received flag.
Date: 1899-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Star Building
Description: Partial frontal view; located at northeast corner of 18th and Grand.
Date: 1989
Object Type: Photograph

Title: P42 WDAF Radio Studio Photographs Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains three oversize photographs of the WDAF Radio Studio from the 1920s and 1940s-1950s. The station began broadcasting on June 2, 1922, from the basement of the old Kansas City Star Building at 18th and Grand.
Date: 1920/1950
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC225 Kansas City Star Collection Finding Aid
Description: The Kansas City Star newspaper company was founded in 1880 by William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel Morss. Nelson and his family went on to retain ownership of the company until their deaths in 1926 when ownership was bought by employees of the newspaper. Local stockholders owned the newspaper until 1977 when it was sold to corporate ownership. This collection, made up of a portion of the company’s records, documents the history of the newspaper and its founding family.
Date: 1829/2007
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: The Business District of Kansas City
Description: Panoramic photograph showing the downtown area. The photograph is labeled: The Business District of Kansas City, June 7, 1922. Panoramic photograph from the General Hospital, showing the new Union Station and the city's growing skyline. Labels written on the photograph include: General Hospital, Entrance to Penn Valley Park, Overland Building, Memorial Park, Indications of Approximate Location of Pershing Road, Union Station, J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company, D. A. Moor Building, Coca-Cola, Film Exchange, Kansas City Club, K. C. A. C. Bldg., Kansas City Star, Waldheim Bldg., Commerce Bldg., R. A. Ling Bldg., Federal Reserve Bank Bldg., Telephone Bldg., Densmore Hotel, Locust, Oak, Hospital Hill, proposed Oak St. Viaduct and Approach, Gillham Road, McGee St. Viaduct, Proposed Cut in Grade 21 Feet, and 23rd. Several buildings are in view, including: Schutte Lumber, the Sweeney Automobile School (later BMA) Building, Union Station, the Rahe Auto & Tractor School (also the Kansas City Journal Post) Building, the Coca-Cola (later Western Auto) Building, the Firestone Building, and General Hospital No. 2. In view are signs for: Racine Tires, Camel cigarettes, Kelly Tires, Carey Roofing, and Franklin Ice Cream. The Signboard Hill area can be seen to the southwest of Union Station.
Date: 1922-06-07
Object Type: Photograph

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