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Title: Kansas City Star
Description: Interior view of the Kansas City Star press room addition. Newspaper production equipment can be seen. The caption on the photograph reads: Press Room Addition - Haydite Concrete, Kansas City Star, Jarvies Hunt - Architect, Peter Larson - Builder.
Date: 1925~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Deaner Dental Institute Building Construction
Description: View looking southeast of the construction of the Deaner Dental Institute Building at 101 Linwood Boulevard. Construction equipment and three individuals posing in front of the structure can be seen. The caption on the photograph reads: The Deaner Dental Institute. Artur Frederick Adams - Architect. Collins Brothers Construction Company - Contractors, Haydite Concrete Throughout. Kansas City, MO. Aug. 3. 1923.
Date: 1923-08-03
Object Type: Photograph

Title: L.P. Cookingham and Staff
Description: Formal group portrait of City Manager L.P. Cookingham and staff. Probably taken in City Hall. Includes future mayor, William Kemp, 3rd from left.
Date: 1942-08
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Newman Theater
Description: View looking west of the Newman Theatre building that once stood at 1112-1118 Main Street. The marquee is advertising the 1925 silent film Shock Punch starring Richard Dix and "Radio Franks & Sheik Band."
Date: 1928
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Group Around a Whippet
Description: Unidentified men in and around a Whippet at unidentified location, at night.
Date: 1925
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Star Building
Description: View looking northeast of the Kansas City Star building at 18th Street and Grand Avenue. Cars parked along Grand Avenue can be seen. The caption on the photograph reads: Exterior View Kansas City Star. Jarvies Hunt - Architect, Peter Larson - Builder, Haydite Concrete in Addition.
Date: 1925~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Annual Picnic - Donnelly Garment Company - Winnwood Beach
Description: Panoramic group portrait of employees of the Donnelly Garment Company and their friends and family members taken at Winnwood Beach. Several employees in attendance are wearing Nelly Don hats.
Date: 1930-07-19
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Oakland Motor Cars Building
Description: View looking northeast of the Oakland Motor Cars Building that once stood at the corner of Grand Avenue and 24th Street, also known as Pershing Road. The reverse side of the photograph identifies the structure as the Seested Building. Cars parked along 24th Street can be seen. A sign for the Skelly Oil Company is in view.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport High School Gym
Description: Interior view of the Westport High School gym. Basketball goals and bleachers on each side of the court can be seen. The caption on the photograph reads: Haydite Reinforced Slab at Top pf View. Westport High School.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Gillham, McGee and Grand at 22nd
Description: Elevated view looking southwest along Gillham Road (left), McGee Street (center), and Grand Avenue (right). The first General Hospital Building, Later General Hospital #2, can be seen on the left hand side of the image. The Franklin Hudson Publishing Company Building, later the Kansas City Journal-Post Building, is also on the left. The Carnie-Goudie Company Building is on the right. Signs for Packard automobile company, Kelly-Springfield Tires, and Schutte Lumber are in view. Several cars and pedestrians can be seen.
Date: 1915~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Central Junior High School
Description: View looking northeast of the construction of Central Junior High. Construction equipment can be seen. The building was completed in 1924. Houses in the background are in view.
Date: 1924~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Haydite Concrete Company Plant
Description: View of the Haydite Concrete Company's plant, once located near the intersection of 32nd Street and Roanoke Road. Concrete production equipment, buildings, trucks, two individuals and houses in the background are in view.
Date: 1925~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westinghouse ElectricBuilding
Description: View looking northwest of the Westinghouse Electric building at 2120 Wyandotte Street. A car parked outside of the building can be seen.
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: McPike Drug Company Employees
Description: Panoramic group portrait looking west of McPike Drug Company employees posed in front of the business at 612-620 Central Street.
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Blues Silver Anniversary Cake
Description: Kansas City Blues officials cutting a 25th anniversary cake at a South Central Business Association luncheon. Blues Manager George A. Selkirk was present at the event on April 15, 1952, as well as "the entire personnel of the team." City Manager L.P. Cookingham is standing on the left.
Date: 1952-04-15
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Speas Vinegar Plant Office Building
Description: Photograph of Speas Vinegar plant office building, erected in 1925 in the East Bottoms of Kansas City at 2400 Nicholson Avenue.
Date: 1925~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Commonwealth Hotel
Description: View looking west of the Commonwealth Hotel that once stood at 1216 Broadway Boulevard under construction. Construction workers can be seen on the sidewalk and posed in some of the building's windows. The building was completed in 1925. Several cars parked along Broadway Boulevard can be seen. Sings for the Burnerator Brown Bed Company, Haydite Concrete, Quality Builders, the Weatherproof Products Company, the Thomas L. Dawson Company, Millwork Complete Sowers-Taylor Company, and Star Tobacco are in view. The building that once stood at 1224-1226 Broadway Boulevard can be seen on the left hand side of the image. The building that once stood at 1210-1212 Broadway Boulevard is in view on the right.
Date: 1925~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Israel Motor Transfer Trucks Loaded with Haydite Concrete
Description: View of trucks loaded with blocks of Haydite Concrete for Memorial Building in Independence, Missouri, taken from Grand Avenue just south of its intersection with 19th Street. A sign for C&D Auto Salvage can be seen. Workers are posed on Grand Avenue standing outside their trucks. The buildings at 1916-1924 Grand Avenue can be seen on the left hand side of the image. Buildings that once stood on Grand Avenue south of 19th Street are in view on the right. The Thomas Corrigan Building at the corner of 19th and Walnut streets can be seen in the background.
Date: 1925~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Down-town Garage
Description: Elevated view looking northeast of the construction of a Down-Town Garage at 1219 Wyandotte Street. The building was completed in 1922. Signs for the Gayety Theater and the Fogel Construction Company are in view. Three figures are standing atop the structure. A small portion of the Kansas City Club Building can be seen on the right hand side of the image. The image caption reads: Down Town Garage. Hans Von Unwerth, Engineers - Fogel Construction Company Contractors - Haydite Aggregate sold by the Haydite Company.
Date: 1922~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pickering Lumber Company
Description: Frontal and side view of Pickering Lumber Company offices. The 1928 City Directory has the building located at 307 W. 11th Street. The address later changed to 301 W. 11th Street. The company's letterhead and logo was on the facing scrapbook page, the back of photograph #15.
Date: 1928~
Object Type: Photograph

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