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Title: Coca-Cola Building
Description: Distant view, looking northeast from atop Union Station, of Coca-Cola Building under construction.
Date: 1915
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Petticoat Lane
Description: View looking west along 11th from Grand. The second Bryant Building under construction can be seen.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Grand Avenue
Description: Looking north along Grand from just south of 13th Street. The second Bryant Building under construction can also be seen.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: United Missouri Bank Construction Site
Description: Photograph circa early 1980s of the construction site of the United Missouri Bank building at the northwest corner of 10th Street and Grand Boulevard, looking northeast from 11th ;amp; Walnut Streets. The Lathrop Building, at 1005 Grand, can be seen at the center of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Country Club Plaza
Description: Elevated view looking southeast toward the intersection of 47th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in the Country Club Plaza. The Skelly Building at 47th and Pennsylvania is in view. The Sears Building under construction to the south of the Skelly Building is also in view. Cars parked and traveling along 47th Street can be seen.
Date: 1960~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Star Building
Description: View looking northeast of the Kansas City Star building at 18th Street and Grand Avenue. Cars parked along Grand Avenue can be seen. The caption on the photograph reads: Exterior View Kansas City Star. Jarvies Hunt - Architect, Peter Larson - Builder, Haydite Concrete in Addition.
Date: 1925~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Aladdin Hotel Construction
Description: View looking northeast of the construction of the Aladdin Hotel at 1215 Wyandotte Street. Cars parked along Wyandotte Street can be seen. Signs for parking lots and the Down-Town Garage are in view. a portion of the Down-Town Garage Building can be seen on the right hand side of the image.
Date: 1925~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Star
Description: Interior view of the Kansas City Star press room addition. Newspaper production equipment can be seen. The caption on the photograph reads: Press Room Addition - Haydite Concrete, Kansas City Star, Jarvies Hunt - Architect, Peter Larson - Builder.
Date: 1925~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Israel Motor Transfer Trucks Loaded with Haydite Concrete
Description: View of trucks loaded with blocks of Haydite Concrete for Memorial Building in Independence, Missouri, taken from Grand Avenue just south of its intersection with 19th Street. A sign for C&D Auto Salvage can be seen. Workers are posed on Grand Avenue standing outside their trucks. The buildings at 1916-1924 Grand Avenue can be seen on the left hand side of the image. Buildings that once stood on Grand Avenue south of 19th Street are in view on the right. The Thomas Corrigan Building at the corner of 19th and Walnut streets can be seen in the background.
Date: 1925~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Down-town Garage
Description: Elevated view looking northeast of the construction of a Down-Town Garage at 1219 Wyandotte Street. The building was completed in 1922. Signs for the Gayety Theater and the Fogel Construction Company are in view. Three figures are standing atop the structure. A small portion of the Kansas City Club Building can be seen on the right hand side of the image. The image caption reads: Down Town Garage. Hans Von Unwerth, Engineers - Fogel Construction Company Contractors - Haydite Aggregate sold by the Haydite Company.
Date: 1922~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fidelity Building Construction
Description: View of construction of the second Fidelity National Bank Building showing a Black laborer at work.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Deaner Dental Institute Building Construction
Description: View looking southeast of the construction of the Deaner Dental Institute Building at 101 Linwood Boulevard. Construction equipment and three individuals posing in front of the structure can be seen. The caption on the photograph reads: The Deaner Dental Institute. Artur Frederick Adams - Architect. Collins Brothers Construction Company - Contractors, Haydite Concrete Throughout. Kansas City, MO. Aug. 3. 1923.
Date: 1923-08-03
Object Type: Photograph

Title: A Score of Slender Towers: Skyscraper Development in Kansas City, Missouri, 1929-1932
Description: Article discusses architectural, economic and cultural factors that drove a surge in skyscraper construction in the late-1920s and early-1930s. The design and building of the Telephone Building, the Professional Building, the Bryant Building, the Fidelity Building, and the Kansas City Power and Light Building are described in detail.
Date: 2017-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

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