Assorted Images

Title: Quality Hill Area
Description: Exact location not given, believed to be in the Quality Hill area just west of downtown Kansas City. View includes a parking lot and is looking toward the west/northwest. Street in front may be Washington Street and dwelling just beyond parking lot may be located at 711 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Date: 1956
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Quality Hill Area
Description: Aerial view of Quality Hill area located just west of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Included in the view is the 12th Street Viaduct as well as the Quality Hill Apartments. Looking toward the southwest. Major streets in view from left to right include Broadway Boulevard, Washington Street, and Pennsylvania Avenue. The 8th Street Tunnel is in view on the far mid-right side.
Date: 1956
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Quality Hill Area
Description: Exact location not given, believed to be in the Quality Hill area just west of downtown Kansas City. Photo may have been taken from the back of residence at 711 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Date: 1956
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Mayor James M. Jones
Description: Portrait of Kansas City Mayor James M. Jones, a Republican serving in office from 1896 to 1900.
Date: 1896
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Centennial Cakes
Description: Interior view of tables with various examples of centennial cakes associated with the Kansas City Centennial celebration.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Downtown Looking West from near 10th and Walnut Streets
Description: Panoramic view of downtown buildings facing west from Walnut between 9th and 10th streets. The photograph may have been taken from the roof of the Ridge Arcade Building at 916 Walnut Street. Several downtown buildings can be seen, including: the Victor Building, the New England National Bank Building, the Dwight Building, the Board of Trade Building, the First National Bank Building (current location of the KCPL Central Library), The Elmhurst Building, the Shubert Theater Building, the Huntzinger Building, the Graphic Arts Building, the Western Newspaper Union Building, the Baker-Vawter Building, the University Club Building, the Kansas City School of Law Building, the Cosby Hotel Building, the Savoy Hotel Building, the Gibraltar Building, the New England Life Building, the Bunker Building, the New York Life Building, the Dunlap Building, the Westgate Hotel Building, the Poindexter & Sons Building, the Barton Hat Company Building, and the U.S. Rubber Company Building. The Quality Hill neighborhood and Garment District can be seen in the distance.
Date: 1927
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Margaret Truman at Indian Village
Description: Interior view of Margaret Truman with two unidentified Indian women with examples of items woven there. Identified on the back of the photograph as "Miss Margaret Truman visiting Indian Village" which was a part of the Kansas City Centennial celebration.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: First Jackson County Courthouse
Description: Full, front view of the first Jackson County courthouse located in Independence, Missouri. Originally located at Lynn and Lexington St. In this view it may be at 107 West Kansas where it was moved sometime between 1911 and 1921. Identified as â€œFirst Courthouse of Independenceâ€.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Rich-Con Truck
Description: Photograph of Richards and Conover (Rich-Con) Steel Division truck with driver outside of steel warehouse.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Quindaro Ruins
Description: View of a stone wall remnant, Quindaro ruins, Wyandotte County, Kansas. Identified with photo as â€œQuindaro Ruinsâ€.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bennett Clark Hyde, M.D.
Description: Photograph portrait of Dr. B. Hyde Clark published in the 1901-1903 edition of Register of the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the State of Missouri.
Date: 1903
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Native American Indians
Description: Three unidentified Indians perhaps associated with the Indian Village that was part of the Kansas City Centennial celebration.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Huron Cemetery
Description: View of â€œBarnesâ€ tombstone in Huron Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas. Identified as â€œHuron Cemeteryâ€.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Home on Independence Avenue
Description: Street level view of two story small home above street level with wooden steps leading up to it. Identified as "house on Independence Avenue after grade was made." Good example of the grading down done on the streets.
Object Type: Photograph