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Title
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Municipal Airport
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Description
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View of the terminal building at Municipal Airport, looking toward the southeast with the Kansas City skyline in the background. There are TWA airplanes on the ground and the Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. (TWA) airport hanger building is in view.
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Date
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1939
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Municipal Airport Airplane Christening Ceremony
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Description
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Three individuals stand on a platform to christen a tri-motor airplane, "The Kansas City," at a Municipal Airport terminal building groundbreaking. The individuals include Eleanor Beach, daughter of Kansas City Mayor Albert I. Beach, and City Manager Henry McElroy.
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Date
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1929-06-26
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Object Type
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Negative
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Title
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Municipal Airport
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Description
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View of Municipal Airport Terminal, looking toward the west. Includes parking lot and cars.
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Date
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1939
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Object Type
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Negative
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Title
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Municipal Airport Terminal Building and Parking Lot
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Description
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Looking north, view shows automobiles in parking lot to the east and south of the main terminal building. Handwritten on the back in pencil, "New Parking Lay-out. Grading and landscaping completed early Spring, 1942."
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Date
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1942
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Municipal Airport Terminal Building Groundbreaking Ceremony
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Description
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Henry McElroy, Jr., Eleanor Beach (mayor's daughter), and other unidentified people on raised platform and surrounding crowd at groundbreaking for the new terminal building, or as it was called then, airport station.
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Date
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1929-06-26
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Municipal Airport and Skyline
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Description
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Distant view of airport with Kansas City skyline in background.
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Date
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1940~/1949~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Municipal Airport Terminal Building
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Description
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Full frontal and side view of the second terminal building with a TWA plane to the left, looking northeast.
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Date
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1940~/1949~
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Object Type
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Photograph
