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Title: Rail Systems and Principal Connections Serving Kansas City
Description: United States map illustrates railroads connecting Kansas City to cities across the contiguous 48 states.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Map

Title: Kearney, Missouri Church
Description: Full view of the Kearney [United] Methodist Church located in Kearney, Missouri.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Business Men's Assurance Co. Building
Description: Full frontal view of BMA building on Pershing Road with weather beacon on roof. Former Sweeney School for auto, tractor, and aviation.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Phi Beta Sigma
Description: File contains two issues of The Crescent, "Official Organ of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc." Issues are, Special Issue - Thirty Five Years of Sigma, and Fall 1951 issue.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Roller Service Station
Description: View looking northwest of the Roller Service automobile service station at the intersection of 39th Street and Warwick Boulevard. Automobiles parked outside of the building can be seen. Signs for Goodyear Tires, Coca-Cola, and Skelly Oil are in view. The rear side of the Netherlands Hotel can be seen. A sign indicates that the Roller Service station is operated by G. G. Roller.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Meadow Lake Greenhouses at 79th Street and State Line Road
Description: View of the Meadow Lake Greenhouses Building, once located and the intersection of 79th Street and State Line Road. A car on the street can be seen.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Meadow Lake Greenhouses and Gasoline Pump at 79th Street and State Line Road
Description: View of the Meadow Lake Greenhouses Building and a Cities Service Oil Company gasoline pump once located at the intersection of 79th Street and State Line Road.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Switzer School
Description: Architectural model of Switzer School, Primary Unit, location at 18th Street and Madison Avenue. Architects listed as Peterson & Mantel.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library
Description: Interior view, taken in the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View includes a motion picture projector and operator with both children and adults looking at the projection. Other people can be seen in the background as well as a library desk with library personnel.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Lane's Sinclair Service Station
Description: View of Lane's Sinclair Service Station, located on the southeast corner of 75th Street and State Line Road. Cars in the station's parking lot and traveling along State Line Road can be seen.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: David E. Harrison
Description: Portriat of Col. David E. Harrison, Superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Harrison spoke to the South Central Business Association on the subject of safe driving, November 28, 1950.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Southwest Trafficway Looking North From Southwest Boulevard
Description: View facing north along Southwest Trafficway from where it passes over Southwest Boulevard. Several cars and trucks can be seen traveling along Southwest Trafficway. Trucks, a city bus, and cars can be seen along Southwest Boulevard. The downtown skyline is in view in the background. The Jensen-Salsbery Laboratories, Inc., Building can be seen in the background. Signs for Graves Auto Service and the Tri-State Equipment Company are in view.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Lane's Sinclair Service Station
Description: View of Lane's Sinclair Service Station, located on the southeast corner of 75th Street and State Line Road. Cars in the station's parking lot can be seen.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Big Eleven Lake
Description: View of people fishing at Big Eleven Lake at 11th Street and State Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Meat Exhibit at American Royal Livestock Show
Description: View of the Meat Exhibit at the American Royal Livestock Show. A sign reads: Meat Exhibit - National Live Stock and Meat Board - Kansas City Stock Yards Company, Kansas City Live Stock Exchange, Producers Commission Association, Missouri Live Stock Association, Kansas Live Stock Association, Kansas State College, American Meat Institute, University of Missouri, and the American Royal Live Stock Show. Several exhibit visitors can be seen.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Unidentified Brick House
Description: View of an unidentified brick house. The house is missing its windows and appears to be in a state of disrepair.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Unidentified Brick House
Description: View of an unidentified brick house. The house is missing its windows and appears to be in a state of disrepair.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Leawood, Kansas
Description: File contains a pamphlet with illustrations, map, and information on the city of Leawood, Kansas located just west of State Line Road from Somerset Road (79th Street) to 103rd Street in 1950. Originally a "1,000-acre farm estate of O. G. Lee, a wealthy Oklahoma and Kansas City oilman" until bought after his death and developed "by Kroh Bros., home builders."
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Vertical File

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