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Quality Hill Area
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Description
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Exact location not given, believed to be in the Quality Hill area just west of downtown Kansas City. View includes a parking lot and is looking toward the west/northwest. Street in front may be Washington Street and dwelling just beyond parking lot may be located at 711 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Date
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1956
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Unidentified West Plaza Apartment Building
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Description
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Photograph of an unidentified apartment building circa 1986. The Plaza West office building, at 4600 Madison Avenue, can be seen in in the upper left edge of the image.
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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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Firestone Building
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Description
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Photograph of the Firestone Building at 2001 Grand Boulevard, the southwest corner of 20th and Grand, in the early 1980s. Built to serve as the Kansas City branch of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, the building was completed in 1916. At the time of the photograph, it still served as a Firestone outlet, with a retail operation on the first floor.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Stanford and Sons
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Description
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Photograph of the southwest side of Stanford and Sons restaurant and comedy club, at 504 Westport Road, circa 1980. Sanford and Sons' main building is known as the Bridger Building, one of the oldest buildings in Kansas City.
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Date
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1980~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Allen School
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Description
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Photograph of a parking lot at the Allen School at 706 West 42nd Street circa 1980. Founded in 1853, the school was the first public school in Westport and Kansas City, and pictured building was built in 1912. Renovations to turn the building into a community center focused on senior citizens began in 1980, and the space also provided offices for the ballet and several other organizations.
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Date
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1980~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Empire - Main Street Theater
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Description
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View looking southwest of the Empire Theater, also known as the Main Street Theater, at 1400 Main Street. The theater's doors and windows were boarded up when this photograph was captured. Cars traveling and parked along Main Street can be seen. A sign for Allright Parking is in view.
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Date
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1995~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Alameda Plaza Hotel
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Description
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Photograph of the north side of the Alameda Plaza Hotel, looking southeast from a parking lot between the Thomas Carlyle and Robert Louis Stevenson apartment buildings, circa 1988.
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Date
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1988~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Board of Trade Building
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Description
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Photograph of the Board of Trade building, at 4800 Main Street, circa 1980. The Kansas City Board of trade moved to this building, notable for the sculpture of wheat and corn on its east facade, in 1966.
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Date
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1980~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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West Junior High School
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Description
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Photograph of the west side of the West Junior High building at 1936 Summit Street in the 1980s. Designed by architect Charles A. Smith, the junior high building and attached library opened in 1926 and were connected to the adjacent Switzer School by a bridge. The Switzer/West campus closed permanently in 2006 and was sold for redevelopment as a residential property in 2015.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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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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Royall Hall and Haag Hall at UMKC
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Description
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Photograph of buildings on the UMKC campus in the early 1980s. Haag Hall stands in the background at left, and Royall Hall at right. Haag Hall was built in 1937 and named for the Haag family, early Kansas City settlers. Royall Hall, originally known as the Haag Hall Annex, was renamed in 1983 after professor Normal Royall.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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1521 Wyandotte Street
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Description
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Photograph of buildings and a driveway at 1521 Wyandotte Street in the early 1980s. All structures on the block were later demolished and the area used for a parking lot.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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712 Highland Avenue
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Description
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Photograph circa 1980s of a single family home at 712 Highland Avenue. It was demolished at some point after the photograph was taken and paved for a parking lot for the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences campus, sometime before 2011. Located in the Pendleton Heights neighborhood.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Royall Hall and Scofield Hall at UMKC
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Description
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Photograph of buildings on the UMKC campus in the early 1980s. Royall Hall stands in the background at left, and Scofield Hall in the foreground at right. Scofield Hall was built as a private home for newspaper publisher Walter S. Dickey; upon his death in 1931, it became the university's first site. It was later named for former president and chancellor Clarence Scofield. Royall Hall, originally known as the Haag Hall Annex, was renamed in 1983 after professor Normal Royall.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Aladdin Hotel Construction
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Description
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View looking northeast of the construction of the Aladdin Hotel at 1215 Wyandotte Street. Cars parked along Wyandotte Street can be seen. Signs for parking lots and the Down-Town Garage are in view. a portion of the Down-Town Garage Building can be seen on the right hand side of the image.
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Date
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1925~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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South Plaza Parking Lot
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Description
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Photograph of a parking lot in the 4900 block of Main Street, looking south along Main, circa 1987. A small United Missouri Bank building can be seen at the right edge of the building.
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Date
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1987~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Unidentified Parking Lot and Building
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Description
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Photograph of an unknown building and adjacent parking lot in the late 1970s. The site appears to be near Interstate 435.
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Date
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1970~/1979~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Plaza Employee Parking Lot
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Description
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Photograph of a Country Club Plaza employee parking lot, near the northeast corner of 47th and Main Streets, in the late 1970s. The Oak Hall apartment building stands in the background of the image. Construction of the Gilbert Robinson Plaza office building began on the site in 1981.
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Date
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1970~/1979~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Loose Park
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Description
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Photograph, looking north, of people gathered near a parking area adjacent to the Loose Park tennis courts in the late 1970s. The courts stand just east of Summit Street, south of its intersection with 52nd Terrace. The park's rose gardens can be seen beyond the tennis court fencing, at right.
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Date
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1970~/1979~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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