This digital collection of 900 photographs includes portraits of local business, civic, educational and church leaders as well as famous entertainers. The South Central Business Association, organized in 1919, was a business group located in the area of 31st and Troost. The core of the collection contains 44 scrapbooks with newspaper clippings, photographs, brochures, flyers, correspondence, and a variety of ephemeral items. Only the photographs have been digitized.
Article announcing the upgrading of the Main Postoffice on Pershing Road to central status, now handling direct mailing rather than all mail materials being sent through Washington, D. C., first.
Full, street view of Grand Central Depot (Station) located at 2nd and Wyandotte in Kansas City, Missouri. Sign on building reads “Friedman Bros. Wholesale Groceriesâ€. Identified as “Grand Central Depot†on original photo.