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1. Young Men's Christian Association Young Men's Christian Association Photos, illustrations, and information on the Young Men's Christian Association, or Y. M. C. A. in Kansas City, established here in 1860 (by Reverend W. M. Leftwich, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church...
2. You Are Making the Future of Kansas City . . . Today! You Are Making the Future of Kansas City . . . Today! 1955 Aerial photograph of downtown Kansas City, Missouri, highlighting 15th Street to City Market, with Broadway Bridge and the Kansas River Bend of the Missouri River in the background. Reverse features photographs...
3. Year End Review Year End Review January/14/1973 Review of major events of 1972 in the city, with several articles and photos about Downtown, convention centers, Crown Center, UMKC, automobile industry, urban renewal and urban planning projects, etc....
4. Year End Review Year End Review January/8/1961 Review of major events of 1960 in the city, with several articles and photos about Downtown, new bank buildings, urban renewal and urban planning projects, including shopping centers, new sewer systems,...
5. Writers Laud City Renewal Action Writers Laud City Renewal Action November/5/1957 Article about "the three-pronged attack" against urban "stagnation and decay that mark a city on the way to mediocrity": urban redevelopment, public housing, and modern trafficways.
6. Working Downtown Working Downtown May 2000 The City Reinvents Itself and Remains the Area's Primary Place of Business.
7. Work Continues on Tribal Casino Work Continues on Tribal Casino May 22, 2007 The Oklahoma-based Wyandotte Nation is progressing in its goal of turning a Masonic temple in downtown Kansas City, Kansas, into a gambling casino, perhaps to be called Wyandotte Palace Casino. Work started...
8. Word of Mouth: Repasts Past Word of Mouth: Repasts Past March//1994 Article about restaurants of the past in Westport and Downtown, visited by various celebrities such as Harry Truman, Joe DiMaggio, Liberace, Carole Lombard, Lyndon Johnson, Mickey Mantle, Nelson Eddy,...
9. Window Display Window Display 1965 Street level view of store window featuring an exhibit on Coon-Sanders Nighthawks. Store may be Jenkins Music Store in downtown Kansas City. Exhibit believed to have been prepared by the Kansas City Public...
10. Willows Maternity Sanitarium Willows Maternity Sanitarium November 5, 1909 Postcard of the Willows Maternity Sanitarium
11. Willis Wood Theater Profile Willis Wood Theater Profile 1999
12. Willis Wood Theater Willis Wood Theater Postcard of Willis Wood Theater
13. William Thornton and Charlotte Crosby Kemper Memorial Fountain William Thornton and Charlotte Crosby Kemper Memorial Fountain 1999 View of the William T. and Charlotte Crosby Kemper Memorial Fountain located in downtown Kansas City on the southwest corner of Main and 10th Street. View is looking toward the northwest.
14. William Thornton and Charlotte Crosby Kemper Memorial Fountain William Thornton and Charlotte Crosby Kemper Memorial Fountain 1999 Full, street corner view of the William T. and Charlotte Crosby Kemper Memorial Fountain located at the southwest corner of Main and 10th Street in downtown Kansas City. View is looking toward the southeast...
15. Wild West Photograph Collection Finding Aid Wild West Photograph Collection Finding Aid The majority of photographs in this collection came from the Brookings Montgomery photograph collection purchased by the library in the 1960s. Images are of outlaws, cowboys, Indians, lawmen, judges, western...
16. Why Kansas City Needs a New Downtown Arena Why Kansas City Needs a New Downtown Arena January//2003 Author advocates that Kansas City needs a Downtown arena which will in turn be a catalyst for other development in the area. It will compliment the new Performing Arts Center and an expanded Bartle Hall....
17. Wholesale District Wholesale District Nomination form for the National Register for the "sixty-one (61) important buildings of the Wholesale District, mainly along Broadway, West 7th, and West 8th Streets."
18. Wholesale (Garment) Historic District Wholesale (Garment) Historic District File contains clippings, articles and nomination for National Register of Historic Places for Garment District.
19. Who's Who in Kansas City Who's Who in Kansas City December/18/1921 Biographical article about Hughes Bryant, a Kansas City lawyer starting in 1900. He was born in 1877 in Independence, becoming an advisor in the construction and manager in the operation of several Downtown...
20. Who's Who in Kansas City Who's Who in Kansas City August/26/1923 Portraits and biographical article about Henry McGrew, a Kansas City, Kansas, lawyer born in Iowa in 1857 and moving to Wyandotte, Kansas, in 1857. City and county attorney there until later becoming a...