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Title: Unidentified West Plaza Apartment Building
Description: 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.
Date: 1986~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Firestone Building
Description: 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.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Stanford and Sons
Description: 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.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Allen School
Description: 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.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Alameda Plaza Hotel
Description: 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.
Date: 1988~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Board of Trade Building
Description: 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.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: West Junior High School
Description: 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.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Union Station
Description: Photograph of a vacant Union Station and the Kansas City skyline in the late 1980s, looking north from Liberty Memorial.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: Union Station
Description: Photograph of Union Station and the Kansas City skyline in the late 1980s, looking north from Liberty Memorial.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: Royall Hall and Haag Hall at UMKC
Description: 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.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1521 Wyandotte Street
Description: 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.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 712 Highland Avenue
Description: 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.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Royall Hall and Scofield Hall at UMKC
Description: 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.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Embassy Suites and Westport
Description: Photograph, looking northwest from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), toward Westport circa 1987. The Embassy Suites hotel, at at 220 West 43rd Street, occupies the center of the image, with commercial buildings in Westport occupying the background of the image. J. C. Nichols Parkway curves through the upper right, and a building on the St. Luke's Hospital campus occupies the lower left.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: South Plaza Parking Lot
Description: 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.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 50th and Main Intersection
Description: Photograph at the intersection of 50th and Main Streets circa 1987. A portion of the Milgram grocery store is visible at left, and the rears of houses and apartment buildings lining Walnut Street are visible in the background.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Unidentified Parking Lot and Building
Description: Photograph of an unknown building and adjacent parking lot in the late 1970s. The site appears to be near Interstate 435.
Date: 1970~/1979~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Employee Parking Lot
Description: 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.
Date: 1970~/1979~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Loose Park
Description: 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.
Date: 1970~/1979~
Object Type: Photograph

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

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