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Title: Leeds, Missouri, Street Scene
Description: View down a street in Leeds, Missouri. A truck is visible on right. Polfer & Renick General Merchants sign and store is visible on left.
Date: 1916-02
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Independence, Missouri, Courthouse
Description: Front and side view of the Courthouse in Independence, Missouri.
Date: 1916-01
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Gnome Aeroplane
Description: Man cranking the motor of a Gnome Aeroplane in Overland Park, Kansas. A man stands watching him in the foreground and two people sit in grass behind.
Date: 1916-05-07
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Troost Park
Description: Troost Park in winter with leafless trees in Kansas City, Missouri. A car drives along road on right side of photo and a line of house is partially visible behind it.
Date: 1916-02-20
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Gas Holder
Description: View of a gas holder at 20th and Indiana in Kansas City, Missouri. Houses are visible in front.
Date: 1916-01-23
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Gnome Aeroplane Taking Flight
Description: Gnome Aeroplane taking off in Overland Park, Kansas in front of a crowd of people watching. A photographer is shooting the plane.
Date: 1916-05-07
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Richards-Gebaur Airport
Description: View of an unidentified building located at Richards-Gebaur Airport.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Richards-Gebaur Airport
Description: Aerial view of the Richards-Gebaur Airport located near Belton, Missouri. The airport's runway is in view as well as areas adjacent to the airport. Richards-Gebaur was deactivated as a full-fledged Air Force base in 1976 but kept some military reserve and air defense activity into the early 1990s. The airport officially closed in 2000.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City International Airport
Description: Aerial view of Kansas City International Airport looking toward the northeast. The TWA overhaul buildings are also in view. The control tower and runways are in view as well as airplanes located around the A, B, and C terminals. Parking lots and other buildings adjacent to the airport also can be seen.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Richards-Gebaur Airport
Description: Aerial view of Richards-Gebaur Airport located near Belton, Missouri.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Linwood Blvd. and Paseo Blvd. Intersection
Description: Intersection of Linwood and Paseo boulevards in Kansas City, Missouri. Two cars drive through intersection. The building on the northwest corner is the St. Regis Hotel.
Date: 1916-02-20
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Linwood Boulevard
Description: Looking east down Linwood Boulevard from Wayne in Kansas City, Missouri. Cars are driving along road.
Date: 1916-02-20
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Burlington Bridge
Description: View of the Burlington Bridge of the CB & QRR [Chicago, Burlington & Quincy] Railroad in Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1916-01-22
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 23rd Street Bridge Construction
Description: Photograph of construction of the 23rd Street Bridge over the Kaw River in Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1916-01-22
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Mount Washington Cemetery Entrance
Description: The Van Horn Road entrance to the Mt. Washington Cemetery.
Date: 1916-01-24
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Jackson County Highway Engineers
Description: Five men identified as County Highway Engineers standing by a car which says Jackson County No. 3. Location identified as Blue Avenue.
Date: 1916-01-24
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Grove, Playing Baseball
Description: Distant view of boys playing baseball on the lawns at the Grove in Kansas City, Missouri. The bathhouse building is visible in background.
Date: 1915-07-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Girls Seated By Window
Description: Two girls identified as Anna and Etta sitting by a window with lace curtain.
Date: 1915-09-19
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Clyde and Jess Metcalfe
Description: Two women and a man identified as CHM [Clyde Metcalfe], GH [Gertrude Heinz], JM [Jess Metcalfe] standing in front of what appears to be a train car. All three wear hats, the man smokes.
Date: 1915-07-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kaw River
Description: View of the Kaw River. The handwriting on photo says, "Kaw River from L south." A bridge and chimneys are visible in background.
Date: 1915-07-18
Object Type: Photograph

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