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Title: Petticoat Lane
Description: View of 11th Street or Petticoat Lane looking toward the west at the Grand Avenue intersection in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The Emery Bird Thayer store is in view on the northwest corner of 11th Street and Grand Avenue, and Zales Jewelers is seen on the southwest corner. Macy's department store located on Main Street can be seen at the end of 11th Street.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Petticoat Lane
Description: View of 11th Street or Petticoat Lane, looking east from Main Street in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Includes partial views of stores such as Emery Bird Thayer, Woolf Brothers, and Harzfeld's.
Date: 1955~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Emery, Bird, Thayer Building
Description: View looking northwest of the Emery, Bird, Thayer Building that once stood along 11th Street between Walnut Street and Grand Avenue. Cars and Pedestrians along Grand Avenue can be seen.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Waldheim Building
Description: View of the Waldheim Building; located on the northeast corner of 11th and Main streets. Located on the first floor is the Frisco Line Ticket Office. Partial view of Commerce Trust Company in the background. Letterhead for the Waldheim Building, Hughes Bryant, Agent is on the back of photograph #24.
Date: 1913~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Women Rule These Streets: The Daily Scene on Petticoat Lane, the Shopper's Mecca
Description: Illustration and description of the appearance and behavior of women and men in the busy shopping area of Petticoat Lane, including comments on women's hat fashions.
Date: 1908-04-29
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Petticoat Lane
Description: Statue advertising the Red Cross in the middle of 11th Street between Main and Walnut.
Date: 1919
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Not All about Women
Description: Article about the origin of the name of Petticoat Lane--11th Street from Walnut to Main Streets--in an 1890s poem by Minne McIntyre.
Date: 1953-05-05
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: 11th Street
Description: Looking west from the south side of 11th Street at Grand Avenue. Streets outfitted in political bunting and decoration in honor of the Republican National Convention.
Date: 1928-06-13
Object Type: Photograph

Title: A Young City Will Greet You
Description: Photos and article about tourist sites in Kansas City for the "1939 Biennial Convention of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs in Kansas City. Description and history of the city and its various landmarks including the following: Petticoat Lane shopping district (pictured), Union Station, the Kansas City Power & Light Building and City Hall, various airports, packing plants and American Royal, Municipal Auditorium, the park and boulevard system, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and the Country Club District, etc.
Date: 1939-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Altman Building and Alpha Floral
Description: View looking northeast of the Altman Building and occupants Alpha Floral Company, once located at 1101-1105 Walnut Street. The Emery, Bird and Thayer Building is in view across 11th Street in the background. Pedestrians, cars, and a horse and buggy can be seen traveling along Walnut Street.
Date: 1915~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: One of Kansas City's Streets on a Summer's Day
Description: Photo of 11th Street looking west from McGee Street, Petticoat Lane.
Date: 1917
Object Type: Book

Title: These Missourians [and] Missouri Mirrors of 1946
Description: Color photos and article about the state of Missouri, with much description of Kansas City, including its history and (largely agricultural) economy, James Kemper, J. C. Nichols, William Rockhill Nelson, W. A. Cochel (editor of "the 'Weekly Kansas City Star'"), Sni-a-Bar Farms, Quality Hill, the Stockyards and cattle industry, the Kansas City Star, transportation and other industries, etc. Photos of Petticoat Lane, Union Station and surroundings, and the Municipal Airport, later called the Downtown Airport.
Date: 1946-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Annual Review of Greater Kansas City, 1908
Description: Photo of "Secretary Taft" or President William Howard Taft visiting Kansas City on February 10, 1908 on Petticoat Lane "on his way to the University Club in a 'Stoddard-Dayton' Automobile, furnished by Ettwein Motor Car Company."
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

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