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Title: Main Street Storefronts
Description: View looking east of storefronts on Main Street in Midtown east of its intersection with 40th Street. Cars parked along Main Street can be seen. Signs for Clint's Comics, 90 Min. Dry Cleaners, A1 Sewing Machines, and Old Westport Cash Saver are in view. The Ten-Forty Apartments Building can be seen in the background.
Date: 1985~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street Storefronts
Description: View looking northeast of storefronts on Main Street in Midtown from between its intersections with 39th and 40th streets.Signs for the Christian Science Reading Room, the Second Fiddle Thrift Shop, The Salvation Army Thrift Store, Westport Distributors, Jo Art's Jewelry, and Moten's Shoe Repair can be seen. The Southwell Building is in view.
Date: 1985~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kelly's Bar & Stanford and Sons
Description: Photograph of Kelly's Bar at the corner of Westport and Pennsylvania in the late 1970s. Stanford and Sons restaurant and bar stands to its south at 504 Westport Road.
Date: 1970~/1979~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Southwell Building
Description: View looking east of the Southwell Building on Main Street at its intersection with Westport Road. Signs for JR's Discount, The Shape Shop, and Love Records can be seen.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4134-36 Broadway Boulevard
Description: Photograph circa 1980s, looking west, of an apartment building at 4134-36 Broadway Boulevard. At some point after 1986, the building was demolished and a parking lot replaced that space in 1989. Located in the Westport neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street Storefronts
Description: View looking southeast of storefronts on Main Street in Midtown from just south of its intersection with 39th Street. Cars traveling along Main Street are in view. Signs for the Christian Science Reading Room, the Second Fiddle Thrift Shop, the Salvation Army Thrift Store, Westport Distributors, Jo Art's Jewelry, Moten's Shoe Repair. JR's Discount, Harling's Upstairs, Clint's Comics, and Love Records can be seen. St. Paul's Episcopal Church and the Southwell Building can be seen.
Date: 1985~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bird's Eye View - Kansas City
Description: Pictorial map showing the cities and towns of Kansas City, Missouri; Harlem, Missouri; Westport, Missouri; Rosedale, Kansas; Argentine, Kansas; Armourdale, Kansas; Armstrong, Kansas; Riverview, Kansas; Kansas City, Kansas; and Wyandotte, Kansas. At the time of its publication, the map had an extensive key listing the numbered buildings, most of which has been removed. Steamboats traveling along the Missouri River can be seen. The map displays the steep bluffs and topography of the region. It also indicates Kansas City's expansion southward away from the Missouri River, the development of the stockyards industry in the West Bottoms and interconnectivity with the surrounding cities and towns that followed completion of the Hannibal Bridge in 1869.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Map

Title: Kelly's Bar
Description: Photograph of Kelly's Bar at the corner of Westport and Pennsylvania circa 1974. Mack-Lang Printing stands to its southwest in the Bridger Building at 504 Westport Road.
Date: 1974~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4300 Block of Belleview Avenue
Description: Photograph of the 4300 block of Belleview Avenue, looking north toward Westport Road, circa 1986. An apartment building at 4324-26 Belleview can be seen at the left edge of the image. A yellow and black film developing kiosk can be seen in the background of the image, at the intersection of Belleview, Westport Road, and Summit Street/Southwest Trafficway.
Date: 1986~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kelly's Bar & Mack-Lang Printing
Description: Photograph of Kelly's Bar at the corner of Westport and Pennsylvania circa 1974. Mack-Lang Printing stands to its southwest in the Bridger Building at 504 Westport Road.
Date: 1974~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Southwell Building
Description: View looking southeast of the Southwell Building on Main Street in Midtown from just north of its intersection with Westport Road. Cars parked along Main Street can be seen. Signs for JR's Discount, the Shape Shop, Harling's Upstairs, Love Records, and Clint's Comics are in view.
Date: 1985~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Stanford and Sons
Description: Photograph of Stanford and Sons restaurant and comedy club, at 504 Westport Road, circa 1980. Standing to its east, at the right of the photo, is Kelly's Bar at 500 Westport Road. Both buildings were built circa 1850 and are among the oldest buildings in Kansas City. The Manor Bakery building is visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4026 Central Street
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of the single family home at 4026 Central Street in the Westport neighborhood. It was demolished in 1986. James B. Nutter & Company built an office building in that location.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Office Building at 4177 Broadway
Description: View looking northeast of an office building at 4177 Broadway Boulevard near its intersection with 42nd Street in Westport. Constructed in 1964 and designed by architects Linscott, Kiene, and Haylett, this "Doctor's Building" was occupied by Drs. Frederick J. McCoy, R. Allen Chandler, and Pat Anthony Barelli. Cars and pedestrians along Broadway Boulevard can be seen. A portion of the building located to the southeast is in view on the right hand side of the image.
Date: 1985~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Stanford and Sons
Description: Photograph of the southwest side of Stanford and Sons restaurant and comedy club, at 504 Westport Road, circa 1980. Sanford and Sons' main building is known as the Bridger Building, one of the oldest buildings in Kansas City.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza and Midtown Satellite View
Description: Satellite image of the Plaza and surrounding areas in the 1980s. The photo spans from roughly 39th Street on the north to 52nd Street on the south, and Rainbow Boulevard in Kansas on the west to Paseo Boulevard on the east. Neighborhoods including the Plaza and Westport are pictured, as are parks including Mill Creek Park, Southmoreland Park, and Gillham Park.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Osco Drugstore
Description: Photograph of Osco Drugstore at 3948 Main, at the corner of Main Street and Westport Road, circa 1990. The building was originally designed by local architect Clarence Kivett and opened as a Katz Drug Store in 1934. After Skaggs acquired the Katz chain in 1971, the stores began operating under the Skaggs name. In 1985, the store became an Osco drug store after another round of mergers and rebranding.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Skaggs Drug Center
Description: Photograph of Skaggs Drug Center at 3948 Main, at the corner of Main Street and Westport Road, circa 1982. The building was originally designed by local architect Clarence Kivett and opened as a Katz Drug Store in 1934. After Skaggs acquired the Katz chain in 1971, the stores began operating under the Skaggs name. In 1985, the store became an Osco drug store after another round of mergers and rebranding.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Southwell Building Architectural Detail
Description: Detail photograph of the Art Deco terra cotta detail on the second floor of the Southwell Building, at 3935-41 Main Street, at the intersection of Main Street and Westport Road in the late 1970s. The building was designed by architects McKecknie and Trask and opened in 1929.
Date: 1970~/1979~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: J. C. Nichols Parkway and Main Street through Midtown
Description: Photograph looking northwest from the top of the Fountain View building (later American Century north tower) along J. C. Nichols Parkway/Broadway Boulevard from roughly 44th Street circa 1987. Buildings on the St. Luke's Hospital campus can be seen at the left edge of the image, and an Embassy Suites Hotel at 220 West 43rd Street at the center of the photo. Buildings in Westport, along Armour Boulevard, and Downtown can be seen in the background of the image. Baltimore Avenue runs north/south at the right edge of the image.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

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