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Downtown Looking West from near 10th and Walnut Streets
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Description
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Panoramic view of downtown buildings facing west from Walnut between 9th and 10th streets. The photograph may have been taken from the roof of the Ridge Arcade Building at 916 Walnut Street. Several downtown buildings can be seen, including: the Victor Building, the New England National Bank Building, the Dwight Building, the Board of Trade Building, the First National Bank Building (current location of the KCPL Central Library), The Elmhurst Building, the Shubert Theater Building, the Huntzinger Building, the Graphic Arts Building, the Western Newspaper Union Building, the Baker-Vawter Building, the University Club Building, the Kansas City School of Law Building, the Cosby Hotel Building, the Savoy Hotel Building, the Gibraltar Building, the New England Life Building, the Bunker Building, the New York Life Building, the Dunlap Building, the Westgate Hotel Building, the Poindexter & Sons Building, the Barton Hat Company Building, and the U.S. Rubber Company Building. The Quality Hill neighborhood and Garment District can be seen in the distance.
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Date
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1927
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Downtown Aerial View
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1986~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Downtown Skyline from Penn Valley Park
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Description
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View looking northeast of the downtown skyline taken from Penn Valley Park. The Penn Valley Park Lake, the Kansas City Power and Light Building, the Fidelity National Bank Building, and the Jackson County Courthouse can be seen.
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Date
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1934~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Elevated Plaza View
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Description
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Elevated view of the Plaza in the 1980s, looking southwest from near the intersection of 47th and Main Streets. The Giralda Tower, built by J. C. Nichols in a smaller imitation of La Giralda tower in Seville, Spain, is photographed in the foreground at left. Other Plaza commercial and residential buildings are also visible in the image.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph, Cityscapes
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Title
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Union Station
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Description
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Photograph of a vacant Union Station and the Kansas City skyline in the late 1980s, looking north from Liberty Memorial.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph, Cityscapes
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Title
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Union Station
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Description
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Photograph of Union Station and the Kansas City skyline in the late 1980s, looking north from Liberty Memorial.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph, Cityscapes
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Title
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Chicago, Milwaukee, and Saint Paul Railroad Yard
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Description
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Panoramic view looking north of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and Saint Paul Railroad yard at the future Union Station site. The D. A. Morr Storage and Warehouse Building can be seen on the left hand side of the image. The Belt Line Storage and Warehouse Company Building is in view on the right hand side of the image. Wyandotte Street heading north toward downtown is in the center of the image.
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Date
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1905~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Plaza Aerial View
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph, Cityscapes
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Title
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Crossroads Aerial View
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph, Cityscapes
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Title
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View Southeast from the Liberty Memorial
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Description
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View looking southeast from the top of the Liberty Memorial tower. Portions of Main Street, Grand Avenue, and 26th Street are in view. Several buildings that once stood in the area can be seen. Signs for REO Sales Corporation, Mack Trucks, Buick, Edward Stewart Motor Repair, Allison's Super Service, Sheaffer's Pen & Pencil, Greiner-Fofoeld Commercial Lithography, Gordon Brothers Manufacturing Company, Hudson-Brace Motor Company, and Chevrolet are in view. The Hall Brothers Building can be seen left of center in the image. Several cars parked and traveling along the streets can be seen.
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Date
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1935~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Quality Hill
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph, Cityscapes
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Title
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Plaza Aerial View
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph, Cityscapes
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Title
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The BMA Tower
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1963~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Downtown Skyline
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Description
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View of skyline looking northeast from Southwestern Bell Telephone Building at 11th and Oak streets. The Baltimore Hotel and the steeples of the Oratory of Old St. Patrick can be seen. The Missouri River is in the distance.
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Date
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1920
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City Skyline
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Description
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Photograph of downtown Kansas City in the 1980s, looking southwest from the intersection of Walrond and Norledge avenues, in Kessler Park. Among the buildings pictured are City Hall, Jackson County Courthouse, the Fidelity National Bank and Trust Building, and Town Pavilion.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph, Cityscapes
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Title
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West Bluffs from the West Bottoms
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Description
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Panoramic view looking east showing the West Bluffs and Quality Hill from the West Bottoms. Union Depot, and the Ninth Street Incline can be seen on the left hand side of the image. The 12th Street Viaduct leading up the West Bluffs toward downtown is in the center of the image. Several buildings and railroad cars in the West Bottoms can be seen. Signs for the J. F. Grindell and Company and the Chicago and Alton Railroad Freight Depot are in view.
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Date
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1890~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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River Market and North Kansas City
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1990~
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Object Type
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Photograph, Cityscapes
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Title
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View South from atop Coca-Cola Building
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Description
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Panoramic view looking south from the roof of the Coca-Cola (later Western Auto) building at 2107 Grand Avenue. Neighborhoods and business districts south of downtown can be seen. Several buildings are in view, including: General Hospital, General Hospital No. 2, Rahe's Automobile and Tractor (also known as the Kansas City Journal Post) Building, Schutte Lumber Company, Union Station, and the Sweeney Automobile School (later the BMA Building). In view are signs for: Oldsmobile, Holsum Bread, Melton Tire & Battery, Norwalk Tires, Kelly Tires, Racine Tires, White Rose Butter, Sunshine Biscuits, Merit Bread, Camel cigarettes, National Biscuit Company, and Folger's Coffee Company. Signboard Hill can be seen to the northwest of Union Station. The view spans the Kansas City Terminal Railway tracks, which are in view on the right hand side of the photograph.
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Date
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1922~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Sixth Street Trafficway - Paseo Bridge Approach
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Description
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Elevated view looking southwest of the northeast corner of the downtown expressway look where 6th Street Trafficway meets the Paseo Bridge approach. The downtown skyline can be seen in the background. Cars traveling along the streets can be seen. A portion of the Columbus Park neighborhood is in view on the right hand side of the image.
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Date
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1954-10
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Union Station and Skyline
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Description
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View looking north from the grounds of the Liberty Memorial of Union Station with the Kansas City skyline in the background. Several cars in the stations lot can be seen.
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Date
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1945~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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