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Title
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Intercity Viaduct and Kansas City, Missouri, Skyline
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Description
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View facing east that captures the Kansas City, Missouri, downtown skyline taken from Saint John's Park in the Strawberry Hill neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas. Interstate 70 and the Intercity Viaduct can be seen.
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Date
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1966-05-27
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Skyline from Southeast Trafficway
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Description
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View facing northwest that captures the downtown Kansas City, Missouri, skyline, taken from the southeast corner of the downtown expressway loop. City Hall, St. Mary's Episcopal Church, the Jackson County Courthouse, and other downtown buildings can be seen. Construction of Highway 71 is also in view.
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Date
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1962-10-14
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Saint Mary's Hospital from Liberty Memorial
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Description
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View facing south taken from the Liberty Memorial. Saint Mary's Hospital, a portion of Main Street, a portion of Memorial Drive, and Midtown buildings can be seen.
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Date
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1959-06-07
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Union Station and Skyline
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Description
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View looking north showing Union Station and the downtown skyline from the grounds of the Liberty Memorial.
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Date
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1945
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Country Club Plaza
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Description
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Elevated view looking southwest along W. 47th Street in the Country Club Plaza at night.
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Date
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1980~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Downtown Aerial View
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Description
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Aerial view of the downtown Kansas City. The image is framed by Charlotte Street on the left hand side, the Kansas City Terminal Railway tracks at the top, Wyandotte Street on the right hand side, and 6th Street and the Downtown Loop at the bottom. Several prominent downtown buildings are in view.
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Date
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1986~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Downtown Skyline from Penn Valley Park
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Description
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View looking northeast of the downtown skyline taken from Penn Valley Park. The Penn Valley Park Lake, the Kansas City Power and Light Building, the Fidelity National Bank Building, and the Jackson County Courthouse can be seen.
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Date
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1934~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Elevated Plaza View
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Description
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Elevated view of the Plaza in the 1980s, looking southwest from near the intersection of 47th and Main Streets. The Giralda Tower, built by J. C. Nichols in a smaller imitation of La Giralda tower in Seville, Spain, is photographed in the foreground at left. Other Plaza commercial and residential buildings are also visible in the image.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph, Cityscapes
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Title
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Union Station
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Description
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Photograph of a vacant Union Station and the Kansas City skyline in the late 1980s, looking north from Liberty Memorial.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph, Cityscapes
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Title
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Union Station
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Description
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Photograph of Union Station and the Kansas City skyline in the late 1980s, looking north from Liberty Memorial.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph, Cityscapes
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Title
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Plaza Lights
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Description
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Photograph of the Plaza Christmas lights, looking northeast across Ward Parkway and Brush Creek from the grounds of the Alameda Plaza Hotel in the 1980s. The hotel, later the Intercontinental, stands on the southwest corner of Ward Parkway and Wornall Road.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph, Cityscapes
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Title
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Chicago, Milwaukee, and Saint Paul Railroad Yard
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Description
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Panoramic view looking north of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and Saint Paul Railroad yard at the future Union Station site. The D. A. Morr Storage and Warehouse Building can be seen on the left hand side of the image. The Belt Line Storage and Warehouse Company Building is in view on the right hand side of the image. Wyandotte Street heading north toward downtown is in the center of the image.
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Date
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1905~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Plaza Aerial View
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Description
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Aerial photograph looking west along 47th Street in the 1980s, Main Street west to Jarboe Street. The Nelson-Atkins Museum's grounds can be seen in the lower right, with Westwood, Kansas, at the top edge. Brush Creek is visible at the left of the image, with Plaza commercial and residential buildings filling the bulk of the picture.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph, Cityscapes
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Title
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Plaza Tennis Courts & Residential Buildings
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Description
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Photograph of the east side of the Plaza in the 1980s. Brookside Boulevard, and just beyond it, the Plaza Tennis Center courts occupy the foreground at the bottom of the image. Residential buildings, including the Casa Loma, Hemingway, and Locarno apartment buildings, and the Alameda Plaza Hotel line Ward Parkway.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph, Cityscapes
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Title
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Crossroads Aerial View
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Description
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Aerial view, taken from an elevated location near Oak Street and Truman Road, of the Crossroads area of Kansas City in the 1980s. Liberty Memorial, the KCPT broadcast tower, and the BMA Tower are among the structures visible in the background of the image. Buildings on the blocks at the lower left of the image were later demolished to make way for the construction of the Kansas City Star printing building and to create additional surface parking lots.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph, Cityscapes
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Title
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View Southeast from the Liberty Memorial
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Description
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View looking southeast from the top of the Liberty Memorial tower. Portions of Main Street, Grand Avenue, and 26th Street are in view. Several buildings that once stood in the area can be seen. Signs for REO Sales Corporation, Mack Trucks, Buick, Edward Stewart Motor Repair, Allison's Super Service, Sheaffer's Pen & Pencil, Greiner-Fofoeld Commercial Lithography, Gordon Brothers Manufacturing Company, Hudson-Brace Motor Company, and Chevrolet are in view. The Hall Brothers Building can be seen left of center in the image. Several cars parked and traveling along the streets can be seen.
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Date
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1935~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Scout Statue
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Description
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View of the Scout Statue looking toward the northeast and the downtown Kansas City skyline. Statue is located in Penn Valley Park. The figure has the head feather and the bow in this view.
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Date
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1960~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Quality Hill
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Description
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Aeriel view photograph looking northeast over the block bound by 10th and 11th Streets on the north and south, Pennsylvania Avenue on the west, and Washington on the east. Neighboring blocks are also pictured. Pictured buildings include the Virginia Hotel building at 1080 Washington, the Jarboe Hotel building at 501 West 10th, and the Musicians Building at at 1021 (later 1051) Washington.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph, Cityscapes
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Title
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Plaza Aerial View
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Description
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Aerial photograph looking west along 47th Street in the 1980s, with the intersection of 47th and Main Streets near the center of the image. The Nelson-Atkins Museum's grounds can be seen in the lower right, with Westwood, Kansas, at the top edge. Brush Creek is visible at the left of the image, with Plaza-area commercial and residential buildings filling the bulk of the image.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph, Cityscapes
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