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Title: Saver's Chandelier Company Building
Description: View looking southwest of the Saver's Chandelier Company Building that once stood at 1310 Walnut Street. Parked cars can be seen. Signs for Camel cigarettes, the Kansas City Gas Company, Vincent's Doll Hospital, the Great Western Home Appliance Company, the Hurst Loan Company, the KC Secretarial School, and H. R. Williams Mill Supplies are in view. The Hotel President and the Keystone Building can be seen in the background.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street Looking South from 9th Street
Description: View looking south along Main Street from its intersection with 9th Street. A sign for H. Gross - House, Sign and Fresco Painter can be seen. Pedestrians on the street and a horse drawn cart are in view.
Date: 1869~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: K-M Supply Corporation
Description: View looking south of the K-M Supply Corporation Building that once stood at 123 W. 8th Street. A sign for Electric Park can be seen.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Tent & Awning Company
Description: View looking west of the Kansas City Tent and Awning Company Building that once stood at 1407 Grand Avenue.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: East Bottoms
Description: View looking northwest from the bluffs above the East Bottoms in North Terrace (now Kessler) Park along Gladstone Boulevard. Several buildings, house and the Heim Brewery can be seen.
Date: 1900~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Boley Building
Description: View looking northwest of the Boley Building at 12th and Walnut streets. At the time the photograph was taken, the building was under renovation. The Town Pavilion Building and a sing for it from J. E. Dunn Construction Company can be seen in the background.
Date: 1986-06
Object Type: Photograph

Title: West Bottoms Buildings
Description: View looking northwest of the rear side of buildings along 8th Street west of its intersection with Madison Avenue. The J.G. Peppard Seeds, Loose-Wiles Cracker and Candy Company, and Faultless Starch Company buildings. A train is also in view on flooded railroad tracks.
Date: 1900~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Building for the George Rushton Baking Company, Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Photos of the building for the George Rushton Baking Company, Kansas City, Missouri, Brostrom and Drotts, architects.
Date: 1924-02
Object Type: Magazine

Title: Getting Taxes Equalized
Description: Story about the sweeping real estate tax reassessments across Jackson County, Missouri, in 1941 and in the wake of political reform after the ousting of the corrupt Pendergast machine. Description of the completeness of the records for every parcel of land to be taxed in the county, both of farms in rural areas and of buildings in urban areas.
Date: 1941-06
Object Type: Magazine

Title: Kansas City Power and Light Building
Description: View looking north up Baltimore Avenue from near 15th Street.The Kansas City Power and Light Building is in full view in the center of the photograph. Business names in view include Lowe & Campbell Athletic Goods Co., General Tire (Kansas City branch), and Canned Foods Warehouse. A Folger's coffee sign is visible on the left. Cars on Baltimore Avenue can be seen.
Date: 1935~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Downtown Kansas City Skyline
Description: View of skyline looking southwest from Chase Hotel. Central High School building, City Hall, Jackson County Courthouse, Telephone Building and Drake, and Schuyler hotels are clearly visible.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: John Taylor Dry Goods Store
Description: View looking west of the John Taylor Dry Goods Company Building that once stood on Main Street between 10th and 11th streets. The building was built in 1881 and known as the Ridge Building.
Date: 1881~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bird's Eye View of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Sepia-toned aerial view from the northeast, showing the Missouri River, Hannibal Bridge, and the city of Kansas City with streets and buildings marked. Points of interest (churches, etc.) numbered; key on back of map. Also on the back is handwritten, "Star, Sept. 30, 1928."
Date: 1869
Object Type: Map

Title: 1600 Block of West 39th Street
Description: Photograph of buildings on the north side of the 1600 block of West 39th Street circa 1990. Atomic Electric Company, at 1610 W. 39th, and Mr. Z's In and Out convenience store, at 1600 W. 39th, are among the businesses pictured.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 6600 - 6602 Independence Avenue
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of a building at the northeast corner of Independence and Bennington avenues at 6600-02 Independence Avenue. It was built in the early 1910s as a fire station (Hook and Ladder Co. No. 10 at Station 21). Located in the Sheffield neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport, Missouri
Description: Looking northwest from the southeast corner of Westport Road and Pennsylvania Avenue in Westport, Missouri. Boone's Trading Post can be seen on the right.
Date: 1892
Object Type: Photograph

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