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Title: Gem Theater
Description: View looking south of the entrance of the Gem Theater at 1615 E. 18th Street.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Power and Light Building
Description: View looking northwest of the Kansas City Power and Light Building at 104 W. 14th Street. The image was captured from Walnut Street between 14th Street and Truman Road. The Main Street Theater and the Baltimore Hotel can be seen.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Newman Theater
Description: View looking west of the Newman Theatre building that once stood at 1112-1118 Main Street. The marquee is advertising the 1925 silent film Shock Punch starring Richard Dix and "Radio Franks & Sheik Band."
Date: 1928
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Auditorium Theatre and Hotel
Description: View looking northeast of the Auditorium Theater and Hotel, once located at 9th and Holmes streets.
Date: 1923
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coates Opera House
Description: View looking northeast of the rear of the Coates Opera House from about 10th and Washington streets in the Quality Hill area.
Date: 1877
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Old Coates Opera House
Description: View looking northwest of the Coates Opera House that once stood at 10th Street and Broadway Boulevard.
Date: 1870
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Re-Opening of the Isis Theatre
Description: Three interior and exterior photographs of the Isis Theatre in the Wirthman Building on the southwest corner of 31st Street and Troost Avenue. The left hand photograph shows an exterior view of the Isis Theatre looking northwest along Troost Avenue. Several people standing in the street can be seen. Signs for B&G Hosiery, Bo-Peep Juvenile Shop, Walker's Lunch, Vogue Hosiery, and Linwood State Bank are in view. The middle photograph shows an interior view of the Isis Theatre. The right hand photograph shows an exterior view looking southwest along Troost Avenue. Several people standing in the street can be seen. Signs for Dr. John R. Stivers, L. L. Potts Dentist, Royal Shirt Shop, Thom McAn, Vogue Hosiery, and B&G Hosiery are in view. A Troost streetcar is in view. A label beneath the photograph reads: The Isis Theatre was destroyed by fire on March 9, 1939 and was re-opened to the public on October 6, 1939. The 3100 block on Troost Avenue was closed to traffic and it was estimated that 25,000 people attended the celebration.
Date: 1939-10-06
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Looking Southwest from 4th
Description: View looking southwest from 4th Street west of Wyandotte Street. The Coates House Hotel and the Coates Opera House can be seen in the distance. Early downtown buildings and houses are in view.
Date: 1870
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coates Opera House and Coates House Hotel
Description: View looking northeast of the Coates Opera House and Broadway Hotel, later renamed the Coates House Hotel, at 10th Street and Broadway Boulevard. The Broadway Pond, once located at the southwest corner of the intersection can be seen. Cows can be seen in the image.
Date: 1871
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Lyric Theatre
Description: View of the Lyric Opera building. A sign for KMBC-TV 9 can be seen.
Date: 1989
Object Type: Photograph

Title: New England National Bank Building
Description: View looking southeast of the New England National Bank Building at 10th Street and Baltimore Avenue. Pedestrians, a car and a sign for the 10th Street Theatre can be seen.
Date: 1910
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Aladdin Theatre
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of the Aladdin Theatre building at 6044 E. Truman Road (at the corner of Truman and Belmont). It was designed by the Boller Brothers and opened in 1927. The theater closed in 1959, and housed a church at the time of the photograph.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Aladdin Theatre
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of the Aladdin Theatre building at 6044 E. Truman Road (at the corner of Truman and Belmont). It was designed by the Boller Brothers and opened in 1927. The theater closed in 1959, and housed a church at the time of the photograph.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3200 Independence Avenue
Description: Photograph circa 1980s looking southeast, of the Benton Theater building that was at 3200 Independence Avenue, on the northeast corner of Independence Avenue and Benton Boulevard. It was built ca. 1911 and served as a church after the theater closed in 1952. It was demolished in 2015, after the roof collapsed in 2014. In the Scarritt Point neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Price Building
Description: View looking northwest of the Price Building at the corner of 39th and Main streets in Midtown. Signs for Republic Bank, Foolkiller Folk Theater, and New Earth Bookstore can be seen. Cars parked and traveling along 39th Street are in view. A pedestrian is standing outside of the building.
Date: 1985~
Object Type: Photograph

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