Askren Photograph Collection

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Title: Loose Park
Description: View of the Shelter House area at Loose Park located at 51st Street and Wornall Road in Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1936
Object Type: Negative

Title: Municipal Auditorium
Description: Interior view of the arena in Municipal Auditorium packed with people. Identified on photograph as: "President Franklin D. Roosevelt, speech at the new Kansas City Municipal Auditorium, October 13, 1936." President Roosevelt may be standing at the podium.
Date: 1936-10-13
Object Type: Negative

Title: Petticoat Lane
Description: View of 11th Street or Petticoat Lane, looking east from Main Street in downtown Kansas City.
Date: 1936
Object Type: Negative

Title: Penn Valley Park
Description: View of Penn Valley Park, looking toward the north/northeast, shows lake in foreground and Kansas City skyline in distance.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Smokestack
Description: Limestone smokestack just northwest of the museum. As of 2002, it is near the parking garage entrance and part of the renovated sculpture park and pool on the north side of the building.
Object Type: Negative

Title: American Legion Memorial
Description: View of the American Legion Memorial located near the Meyer Boulevard entrance to Swope Park.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Municipal Auditorium
Description: View of main foyer, empty
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Rafiner Elevator Works
Description: Group portrait of "employees of Rafiner Elevator Works, Kansas City, MO." Company was at 636 Prospect Avenue.
Date: 1943-09-20
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Baltimore Avenue
Description: The description on the back of the photograph reads: "Balt. Ave. looking north from 14th St. Bldg on left is the K.C. Club bldg. and on the right is Kansas City's largest retail furniture store, the Robt. Keith Co." The building immediately across from the Kansas City Club is the President Hotel. The furniture store is just north of the hotel. The New York Life Insurance Building is in view at the end of the street. A city bus is also in view on the street going south.
Date: 1936
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Juvenile Court Building
Description: View of Jackson County Juvenile Court Building, also known as Jackson County Parental School, at 1305 Locust Street.
Date: 1936
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Aerial View of West Bottoms and Downtown Kansas City
Description: Aerial view of West Bottoms and downtown Kansas City looking primarily east. Kemper Arena in middle of foreground.
Date: 1977-10-21
Object Type: Negative

Title: Aerial View of Downtown and West Bottoms Kansas City
Description: Aerial view of downtown Kansas City, Missouri, with the west portal of the 8th Street Tunnel in the left foreground. Quality Hill, the West Bluffs, a portion of the West Bottoms, and I-70 to the left and the 12th Street Bridge (viaduct) also appear. No print image; negative and digital only.
Object Type: Negative

Title: Downtown Kansas City
Description: View of downtown Kansas City, Missouri, looking toward the south from the 8th and Main streets area. A portion of the New York Life Insurance building is visible on the right. Construction site is seen in the center, possibly Commerce Tower area. A Commerce Trust sign and a Bunting Hardward Co. sign are also visible.
Date: 1957-07-22
Object Type: Negative

Title: Loose Park
Description: View of the Rose garden area located in Loose Park in Kansas City, Missouri.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wildwood Lake
Description: Identified as one of the lakes at Wildwood Lakes, an entertainment facility located in the Raytown, Missouri, area of Jackson County. It was situated on Woodson Road between what was then Highway 40 and 50. The area was developed in the late 1920s. This view shows the swimming and picnic area.
Object Type: Negative

Title: Aerial View of Downtown Kansas City
Description: Aerial view looking north from approximately 27th Street. Union Station, Liberty Memorial, and Crown Center Buildings are visible as well as downtown Kansas City.
Date: 1977-10
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bryant Building
Description: View of the Bryant Building at the corner of Grand and 11th looking southwest. Corners of the Emery, Bird, Thayer Building and the Lathrop Building are also visible. Corner of roof and sign of Browning, King and Co. shows in the foreground.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Airplane and Pilot Ben Gregory
Description: Pilot identified as Ben Gregory in cockpit of plane that says "Passenger Service, Gregory Front D[rive] Motor Cars & Tr[ucks]."
Date: 1923
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Municipal Airport
Description: View from west side of runway looking at terminal building and Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. hangar with two planes. Kansas City downtown skyline in background.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Municipal Airport Airplane Christening Ceremony
Description: 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.
Date: 1929-06-26
Object Type: Negative

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