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Title: Union Bus Terminal and Pickwick Hotel
Description: Postcard 71: - Union Bus Terminal and Pickwick Hotel. 10th and McGee Street. Kansas City, Mo. Numbered 44027
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Pickwick Hotel
Description: Partial frontal and side view.
Date: 1989
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pickwick Hotel
Description: Distant frontal view.
Date: 1955
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Anderson Photo Company Employees
Description: Group portrait of employees at 30th anniversary breakfast at the Pickwick Hotel. Individuals indentified on photograph.
Date: 1941-12-20
Object Type: Photograph

Title: McGee Street
Description: Looking south along McGee from just north of 9th.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pickwick Hotel
Description: Rooftop construction view.
Date: 1935
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pickwick Hotel
Description: Rooftop construction view.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pickwick Hotel
Description: Rooftop construction view.
Date: 1930-02-01
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pickwick Hotel
Description: Frontal construction view of clock tower and bus terminal area.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pickwick Hotel
Description: Full frontal and side view.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: KMBC Radio
Description: Happy Hollow cast and others, including Brookings Montgomery, outside entrance to Pickwick Hotel at the start of troupe's European and African tour.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1, 1939-1958, Page p022
Description: A portion of Kansas City from E. 9th Street south to E. 11th Street and from McGee east to Oak, showing buildings and streets. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1939/1958
Object Type: Map

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: SC219 Pickwick Hotel Card Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains a courtesy card from the Pickwick Hotel.
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Interurban Central Station Company
Description: Folder contains a pamphlet from the Committee of One Hundred (1909), project report which includes maps, and photograph connected with the proposed office building, hotel and bus terminal for the Interurban Central Station Company. The vertical files in this collection were formerly a part of the department's regular vertical files.
Date: 1929
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Kansas City Chamber of Commerce First Spring Goodwill Tour
Description: Group portrait of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce posed in front of four Pickwick Greyhound buses at the Pickwick Hotel and Union Bus Terminal at 913-915 McGee Street. The group is wearing white hats.
Date: 1932-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Developer Devises New Plan For Vacant Hotel
Description: Gold Crown Properties of Overland Park is making an attempt to redevelop the historic Pickwick block of downtown Kansas City. The hotel sits between 9th and 10 streets and faces McGee. With the aid of tax incentives, the $35 million project would convert the 10-story hotel into 219 apartments and the 7-story office building into 59 units of senior housing. If plans are approved, construction would begin next summer with the apartments completed in 2012.
Date: 2010-09-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Big Plans for Historic Pickwick
Description: Article reports on a plan to to renovate the historic Pickwick hotel and bus terminal complex located between 9th and 10th streets on McGee. Overland Park developer Tom Smith wants to redevelop the complex as apartments and plans to begin construction in the spring of 2014. The Pickwick Hotel was built in the 1930s by the architectural firm of Wight & Wight. The building was converted into a housing development in the 1970s and closed in 2009.
Date: 2013-09-19
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Move Buoys Hopes for Hotel
Description: A proposal by the city council's housing committee to remove federall low-income restrictions could make it easier to sell the Pickwick Hotel. The complex at McGee between 9th and 10th streets has sat empty since early 2009.
Date: 2009-06-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Place Where All Men Strive To Be: Harry S. Truman on the Eve of the 1934 Senate Campaign
Description: Two-part series detailing Harry S. Truman's early political career including his two terms as Presiding Judge of Jackson County, Missouri. In the early 1930s Truman "began to write long memorandums to himself, or to posterity." Because he wrote his notes on stationery from the Pickwick Hotel, they are sometimes called the "Pickwick Papers." Article talks about Thomas J. Pendergast as the Democratic political boss of Kansas City and with whose support Truman declared candidacy for the Senate in 1934, his first political office, and won.
Date: 2004
Object Type: Magazine Article

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