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Title: Quality Hill and Downtown Kansas City
Description: Aerial view looking toward the southeast with the Quality Hill area and portions of downtown Kansas City, Missouri, in view. The 8th Street Tunnel is visible in the lower right side. Other buildings in view include the Quality Hill Apartments, Municipal Auditorium, the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Kansas City Power and Light building, and many other structures.
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. View includes a parking lot and is looking toward the northeast. Adams Transfer & Storage Company can be seen in the distance as well as what appears to be the ASB bridge. Photo may have been taken from the back of residence at 711 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Date: 1956
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Quality Hill Area
Description: Portion of Pennsylvania Avenue in the Quality Hill area. Identified on back as: "3rd house from right-Fisher home at 711 Penn, K.C., Mo. - M.R."
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.
Date: 1956
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Quality Hill Area
Description: View of Pennsylvania Avenue in the Quality Hill area, looking toward the north/northeast. Back of photograph reads: "711 Penn home of James E. Fisher and Annie Taylor Fisher, their first home. My mother, Kate Fisher (Kittell) the first baby was born here. Mildred Kittell Ray."
Date: 1956
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Quality Hill Area
Description: View looking toward the northeast and identified as 701-07 Pennsylvania Avenue, located in the Quality Hill area just west of downtown Kansas City.
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, looking toward the north.
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. 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: The Falcon: Van Horn High School
Description: Photos and history of Van Horn High School, opened in 1955 at Arlington and Truman Roads on the site of the former "Van Horn Mansion [residence of Colonel Robert Van Horn, a former mayor and journalist], razed in 1952." Description of the school's origins starting in 1929 with plans for a new high school by "the people of Inter-City" (between Kansas City and Independence).
Date: 1956
Object Type: Book

Title: Hotel Muehlebach and the Muehlebach Towers
Description: Promotional pamphlet for the Hotel Muehlebach and Muehlebach Towers. Includes photographs of the rooms and dining facilities as well as a street diagram of the area. Also has floor plans for the Mezzanine on the 2nd floor, and 3rd and 4th floors.
Date: 1956
Object Type: Pamphlet

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: Gisele MacKenzie with SCBA Group
Description: Gisele MacKenzie, 2nd from left; SCBA president David L. Blair, middle, and N. Emerson Paton, SCBA secretary, right.
Date: 1956
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Gisele MacKenzie
Description: SCBA president David L. Blair presents Gisele MacKenzie with bouquet of flowers. MacKenzie was in Kansas City to perform at Starlight Theater.
Date: 1956
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Father Charles Cooper, Bishop Edward R. Welles, and Confirmation Class Members
Description: Group portrait of the Rev. Charles Cooper, the Rt. Rev. Edward R. Welles, and members of a confirmation class standing outside of the church.
Date: 1956
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Political Facts Forum
Description: Tuesday Night, June 12, 1956, 6:30 pm, the South Central Business Association, Inc., held a ''Political Facts Forum'' in the Grand Ballroom of the World War II Memorial Building, Linwood at The Paseo. Panel of experts included: Hon. James T. Blair, Lt. Governor of Missouri; Hon. Bernard F. Sisk, Congressman from California; Hon. Warren W. Shaw, State Representative of Kansas; and Hon. John J. Rhodes, Congressman from Arizona.
Date: 1956
Object Type: Photograph

Title: SCBA Thanksgiving
Description: SCBA president David L. Blair (left) and N. Emerson Paton (right) at microphone announce winner of drawing for turkey. Rev. Maurice Van Ackeren, president to the left of the little girl.
Date: 1956
Object Type: Photograph

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