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Title: Hughes' Kansas City Views
Description: Photo of the "residence of John A. Prescott [or John Prescott], 3416 Baltimore Avenue."
Date: 1900
Object Type: Book

Title: Historic Kansas City Architecture
Description: Book contains a photo and caption about the "early Westport home" built in about 1855, located at 4000 Baltimore Avenue.
Date: 1975
Object Type: Book

Title: Was it Bomb?
Description: Article describes a probable bombing of the First National Bank of Kansas City (14 W. 10th Street). An explosion, which injured nine people, erupted in an employee lavatory near the vault of the bank.
Date: 2008-01-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: William Shelley Home
Description: File containing a nomination form for the National Register for the William Francis Shelley, or William Shelley home at 3601 Baltimore Avenue, built in 1887-1889 as "one of the oldest original remaining residences erected in Hyde Park." Shelley native to Iowa and coming to Kansas City as "treasurer for the Jarvis-Conklin Mortgage Trust Company" before becoming a private broker and accountant dying in 1913.
Object Type: Report

Title: Baltimore Street
Description: Photos and information about the development of various buildings and other structures on Baltimore Avenue since the 19th century.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: New Delaware Street
Date: 2011-10-13
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Ruling on Bretton's Bankruptcy Action
Description: Article about the closing of Bretton's Incorporated, once one of Downtown's most popular restaurants.
Date: 1976-03-02
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Auction Claims All That Made Bretton's
Description: Photos and text about the auction of the equipment of the restaurant at 1215 Baltimore Avenue.
Date: 1976-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Baltimore Avenue
Description: The description on the back of the photograph reads: "Balt. Ave. looking north from 14th St. Bldg on left is the K.C. Club bldg. and on the right is Kansas City's largest retail furniture store, the Robt. Keith Co." The building immediately across from the Kansas City Club is the President Hotel. The furniture store is just north of the hotel. The New York Life Insurance Building is in view at the end of the street. A city bus is also in view on the street going south.
Date: 1936
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Defining Downtown
Description: Portion of larger article about downtown. Includes a colored map of the 8 major districts downtown. Also included is a sequence of graphics detailing businesses and buildings of a 4-block area encompassing 9th St. to 11th St. and Main to Wyandotte St. in the 1920s, 1950s, 1980s and the 2000s. This includes 10th and Baltimore, the location of the First National Bank that will become the Central Branch of the Kansas City Public Library.
Date: 2002-09-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: 13th Street
Description: Looking east along the north side of 13th between Baltimore and Wyandotte.
Date: 1929
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Brickyard and Quarry near Brush Creek
Description: View looking south of brickyard and quarry located south of Brush Creek, west of Main Street. Shows grade of 49th Street and Baltimore Avenue (178 ft) and 49th Street and Main Street (147 ft.),
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Baltimore Avenue at 42nd Street
Description: View of northeast corner of 42nd Street and Baltimore Avenue. Includes several houses "to be condemned" to make way for a roadway connecting to Main Street at 41st Street.
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bunker Building
Description: View facing northwest of the entrance to the Bunker Building, 820 Baltimore Avenue. Architect Kenneth M. Frashier received an award for his work on the building's restoration.
Date: 1978
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 10th Street, East from Baltimore
Description: Postcard of 10th Street, facing east from Baltimore Avenue.
Date: 1909-10-04
Object Type: Postcard

Title: 10th Street, East from Baltimore
Description: Postcard of 10th Street, facing east from Baltimore Avenue.
Date: 1909
Object Type: Postcard

Title: 10th Street, East from Baltimore
Description: Postcard of 10th Street, looking east from Baltimore Avenue.
Date: 1907
Object Type: Postcard

Title: 10th & Baltimore Streets, Looking South
Description: Postcard of the intersection of 10th Street and Baltimore Avenue, looking south along Baltimore.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: New York Life Building
Description: Postcard of the New York Life Building on 9th Street at Baltimore Avenue.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Baltimore Avenue
Description: Street level view looking south on Baltimore Avenue between 11th Street and 12th Street in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View includes the Italian Gardens restaurant located at 1110 Baltimore with a building identified on an old building sign as the Hotel Bray next to it. The Muehlebach Hotel can be seen farther down the street. The Italian Gardens restaurant was demolished in 2006.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

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