Photos, captions, and article about "the completion of a major remodeling project which reopened the Twenty-third street viaduct to traffic between the cities and to the Central Industrial…

Editor, Mike Fannin, explains how the printed newspaper, The Kansas City Star, will be reorganized to adapt to the difficult economic time. The main news section will be combined with the local and…

Article reports the opening to pedestrian traffic of a bridge linking Union Station to the Freight House District directly to its north. The pedestrian bridge, incorporating an historic 1892 steel-…

Obituary for Dr. Druery Thorn, a physician on the staff of Saint Luke's Hospital since 1928, dying at the age of 64 in 1956.

Biographical sketch of Dr. William Strother, a physician born in Kentucky in 1827 and moving to Lee's Summit, Missouri in 1882.

Descriptions of and references to Octave Chanute, engineer of early railroad bridges and other constructions, including the Hannibal Bridge at Kansas City, Missouri, and the Kinzua Viaduct in…

Biographical sketch of homeopathic physician John Thomas Boland, or John Boland taking part in the Civil War at the age of 13 and later practicing medicine in Saint Louis after graduating from the…

Unidentified bridge.

Looking southwest at east side of bridge crossing Brush Creek at Belleview and Ward Parkway.

Patricia Wilkinson holding champagne bottle at dedication ceremonies.

Photo and biographical article about Dr. Charles Wainwright, a physician born in Lewis County, Missouri in 1858 and becoming county coroner for Shelby County, Missouri before coming to Kansas City in…

Article about the history of the Kansas City Star and Times newspapers and their unique perspectives offered about Kansas City, with photos and biographical descriptions of several of its prominent…

Biographical sketch of Dr. Damon Orian Walthall, or Damon Walthall, a physician at 315 Alameda Road. Born in Paola, Kansas in 1890 and coming to Kansas City in 1920, "specializing in pediatrics…

Biographical sketch of Dr. Joseph Horigan, a physician "born in Georgetown, District of Columbia, [or Washington, D. C.], January 16, 1864," and coming to Kansas City in 1888, opening an…

Distant view, looking west, of Intercity Viaduct.

Group portrait of newsboys and an adult posing behind stacks of newspapers and in front of a newspaper truck in Chillicothe, Missouri.

Photo and bio of Dr. Samuel Anderson, " popular physician of the homeopathic school of medicine," moving from Lawrence, Kansas, to Kansas City in 1881 as a professor of surgery and…

Dr. J. W. Parker was called John as well as James and settled in Westport, Missouri, in 1851 where he practiced medicine among the white settlers and the Shawnee, Wyandotte, and Delaware Indians.…

Obituary for Dr. Frank Hurwitt, a physician here for many years, dying at the age of 92.

Joseph Hoffman seated at piano.

Histories of Kansas City area medical specialty societies, including the American Academy of General Practice, the Greater Kansas City, Missouri, Academy of General Practice, the Industrial Medical…

Construction view from middle of Missouri River of the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railroad bridge; later renamed the Chouteau Bridge.

Head and shoulders portrait of Joe McGuff, Sports Editor for the Kansas City Star.

Photo and bio of John Barrons, "[a]dvertising manager of the Kansas City Star."