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Title: Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains. ..
Description: Photo of the "Metropolitan Block, M'Gee's [sic] addition to Kansas City," on Grand Avenue in the 1850s.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book

Title: Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains
Description: Thorough description of the caravans of covered wagons passing through Kansas City's Grand Avenue, for trade with Santa Fe, New Mexico, "which consisted last year of over nine thousand wagons."
Date: 1858
Object Type: Book

Title: Elliot Sporting Goods Building
Description: View looking west of the Elliot Sporting Goods building, located at 1508 Grand Avenue. A car parked on Grand Avenue can be seen.
Date: 1955
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coca-Cola Building and Vicinity
Description: Promotional drawing produced by the Ennis-Edwards Realty Company and included within a booklet promoting the advantages of the Coca-Cola Building. The illustration highlights the building's close proximity to the Liberty Memorial, Union Station, rail lines, major streets, the downtown hotel district, the retail district, the office building district, and the headquarters of the Kansas City Star and Times newspapers.
Date: 1927
Object Type: Artwork

Title: 12th Street
Description: Photograph of 12th Street, looking west from Grand Avenue. Signs for the Regent Theater, the State Hotel, the Katz Drugstore, the Hotel Phillips, Kresge's department store, and the Jones Store can be seen. The Street is crowded with pedestrians.
Date: 1961~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Streets of Kansas City
Description: Photo of 12th and Grand Avenue in an article about the need for new viewpoints to fully appreciate "the city's growth."
Date: 1914-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Another View of Grand Avenue
Description: Photo of Grand Avenue buildings, "an unusual picture with a striking showing of masses of masonry."
Date: 1914-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Tornado Damage to Buildings
Description: Tornado damage to buildings at 15th and Grand. Side of one building reads Boston Clothing House. Men and buggies and dirt street in view.
Date: 1882
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fashionable Pearl Street
Description: Mention of "the old Norton house" on the east side of Grand Avenue north of 3rd Street, built before the Civil War and still standing in 1911. Uninhabited by that time and in poor condition as the death site of Dr. Joshua Norton (1796-1860).
Date: 1921-10-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: On Grand Avenue in 1855
Description: Article written by Allen B. H. McGee, or Allen McGee, a grandson of James McGee, about Grand Avenue in 1855 Kansas City. Description of McGee's Addition developed by Allen's uncle Milton McGee in 1855, "ma[king] Grand avenue, the widest street in Kansas City's downtown business district today, its central feature." Additional details about the McGee family, including their arrival in 1828 and their early houses and other brick buildings and farmsteads south of 12th Street, McGee's Hotel, and Milton's miniature zoo on his farm.
Date: 1929-09-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Parade Scene
Description: Float in unidentified parade heading south along Grand Avenue near 14th Street.
Date: 1900
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Parade Scene Along Grand Street
Description: Unidentified child watching parade along Grand Avenue near 14th Street.
Date: 1900
Object Type: Photograph

Title: City Window: Wide Berth
Description: Ever wonder why Grand Avenue is wider than other streets downtown? One of biggest givers of land to Kansas City, next to Colonel Thomas Swope, was Milton McGee, who, in 1852, gave the city an entire block now bounded by Oak, Locust, and 14th Street and 14th Terrace and specified that it should be used for a park. McGee made his fortune in gold during the California gold rush, returned to Kansas City and bought land from 12th Street to 20th and Main to Holmes in 1856. It was known as 'McGee's Addition,' but was not in the city limits at the time. When the city limits were extended to 20th Street in 1859, McGee insisted that Grand Avenue be wide enough so he could turn his horse and buggy completely around without having to back up.
Date: 1979-10-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

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