Assorted Images

Title: Old Westport Shopping Center
Description: Architect's drawing of what the proposed Old Westport Shopping Center would look like. Location is on the northwest corner of Westport Road and Southwest Trafficway. Drawing by Folger and Pearson, A.I.A. Architects located at 1009 Baltimore Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. Drawing was used on the front cover of the P17 collection.
Date: 1960~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Allen (Westport) Library
Description: Street level view of the main entrance side of the Allen Library, later named the Westport Library of the Kansas City Public Library. Located at 118 Westport Road.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: World War I Related Portrait
Description: Portrait of an unknown young man. Found in Series V of SC7 which contains the Gold Star League Papers (World War I related).
Date: 1918~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Charles S. Wengert of Battery A
Description: Head and shoulder portrait of World War I soldier in uniform identifed as Lieutenant Wengert. Information on page nine indicates his name was Charles S. Wengert, a Jr. 2nd Lieutenant, Battery A., 1st Battalion, Missouri Field Artillery when the organization was mustered into service on May 16, 1917.
Date: 1917~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Roy Olney
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of a World War I soldier in uniform identified as Captain Olney of Battery A. Notations in scrapbook indicate that he gave a talk about Camp Doniphan to an afternoon meeting in 1918 of the local DAR Committee of Battery A.
Date: 1918-02-20
Object Type: Photograph

Title: St. George's Hospital
Description: Full photograph of St. George's Contagious Disease Hospital which was built on a barge in 1889. The boat was hauled to the shore near the Monarch Vinegar Works to have the bottom caulked. An island in the Missouri River used for the quarantine and treatment of smallpox patients known as "Pest House Island" had been destroyed by flooding in 1887, and residents subsequently protested the construction of an inland facility on Raytown Road. The "floating pest house" pictured was used as a replacement. Man on the end at the left of the barge is Keeper, James McLain. Others identified in the photograph are Charles Miller, Albert, Charles Brewer, and W.S. White.
Date: 1889-07
Object Type: Photograph

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