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Title: West Bottoms - Kansas City, Kansas
Description: View facing northwest. The West Bottoms, industrial buildings, the James Street Bridge, the Intercity Viaduct, the Kansas River, Strawberry Hill, and the downtown area of Kansas City, Kansas, can be seen.
Date: 1964-05-08
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Downtown Aerial View
Description: 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.
Date: 1986~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Aerial View
Description: 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.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: Crossroads Aerial View
Description: 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.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: Quality Hill
Description: 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.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: Plaza Aerial View
Description: 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.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: The BMA Tower
Description: Aerial view of the Business Men's Assurance (BMA) Tower at 700 W. 31st street. Cars can be seen traveling on 31st Street along the bottom of the image and on Southwest Trafficway along the left hand side. Penn Valley Park and downtown Kansas City can be seen in the background.
Date: 1963~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Area Aerial View
Description: Aerial photograph of the downtown Kansas City, West Bottoms, and Kansas City, Kansas areas. The Intercity Viaduct, later renamed the Lewis and Clark Viaduct, spanning the Kansas River is center in the photograph.
Date: 1966~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: River Market and North Kansas City
Description: Photograph taken from a elevated location of the River Market neighborhood, North Kansas City, the Missouri River, and the Downtown Airport circa 1990. The image appears to be taken from a building on the site currently occupied by Ilus W. Davis Park, which was cleared in 1994 and developed into a park and civic mall shortly thereafter. The United States Courthouse building, at 9th and Grand, can be seen in the lower left of the image. The Broadway Bridge is visible at far left, and the Heart of America Bridge, which opened in 1986, at right.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

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