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Title: Rail Welding
Description: Men welding rail joints on Broadway at 20th Street, Kansas City, Missouri. The sign on side of side of railroad car says Littlefield, Fry & McGough, Incorporated, General Contractors, Chicago, Track Welding Department.
Date: 1915-11
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Gray and Company Window Interior
Description: View of the Gray & Co. drugstore display window from inside the shop located at 31st Street and Woodland Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1915-12
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Blue Avenue Subway
Description: View down a sunken, rutted dirt road identified as the Blue Avenue subway showing a viaduct and men working in distance. It appears to be construction of a road or railroad, perhaps the precursor to Van Horn Boulevard.
Date: 1915-11-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City View
Description: View looking north from the Kansas City Courthouse in Kansas City, Missouri. A bridge and the river can be seen in background.
Date: 1915-08-21
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Union Station and Railroad Tracks
Description: View of Union Station from Penn Street Viaduct showing railroad tracks leading to the station. The slight double exposure shows the viaduct faintly in the sky.
Date: 1915-11-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Gray and Company Interior
Description: Interior view of Gray & Co. drugstore at 31st Street and Woodland Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. A man and woman sit at a table. The store is decorated with crepe paper.
Date: 1915-12
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Box Culvert
Description: View of a 6' x 6' box culvert on James T. Harris Road.
Date: 1915-08
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Leavenworth, Kansas, Chestnut Street
Description: Looking west on Chestnut Street from 5th Avenue in Leavenworth, Kansas. A church is partially visible.
Date: 1915-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Man Lying In Grass
Description: Man identified as A. W. Graham, Deputy Co. Surveyor, lying in grass, smoking a pipe and smiling.
Date: 1915-07-14
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Blue Avenue Viaduct for Chicago and Alton Railroad
Description: View of the west end of Chicago and Alton Railroad Blue Avenue Viaduct under construction.
Date: 1915-10-15
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Automobile On Sibley Road
Description: Four men in a car on Sibley Road near Blue Mills, Missouri.
Date: 1915-09-24
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Leavenworth, Kansas, Man, Woman, and Girls
Description: A man, woman, and two girls identified respectively as E.T.T., Jr. (Ed), Elsie, Anna, and Etta standing on the sidewalk in Leavenworth, Kansas. The woman holds a camera.
Date: 1915-09-19
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Automobile On Wallingford Rock Road
Description: Car by mud hole on country road identified as Wallingford Rock Road. Car has top down and driver is visible.
Date: 1915-09-20
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Chicago Great Western Railroad Bridge
Description: Partial view of the Chicago Great Western Railroad Bridge (identified on photo as C & GW Bridge) over the Kaw River in Kansas City, Kansas. Water is high.
Date: 1915-07-18
Object Type: Photograph

Title: West Bluffs, Old Union Depot Site
Description: Looking northwest to the old Union Depot site in the West Bluffs, Kansas City, Missouri. Railroad yard and cars are visible in foreground, buildings including those of biscuit and manufacturing companies in background.
Date: 1915-07-18
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Airplane Taking Flight
Description: Airplane taking flight at airshow in Overland Park, Kansas. Line of cars and people watching in background. Handwriting on the back of the photo describes it as Military Tractor.
Date: 1915-08-15
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Air Show
Description: A gathering of many people in an unidentified field in Overland Park, Kansas presumably watching the airplane pictured in subsequent photographs dated the same day. Handwriting on the back of the photo describes it as Military Tractor.
Date: 1915-08-15
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Women and Man On Steps
Description: Four women and one man identified as Bert and Minnie Jordan, Nell T., Lorren, and Grandma seated on outside steps at home. Excellent view of shoes and hat fashions of the time.
Date: 1915-08-22
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Walnut Street Streetcar Tracks
Description: View down Walnut Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Men are working in the street which is is torn up around streetcar tracks.
Date: 1915-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Jackson County Highway Engineers
Description: Four men identified as County Highway Engineers standing by a car which says Jackson County No. 4. Location identified as Leeds, Missouri. Leeds Hotel is visible behind them.
Date: 1916-02
Object Type: Photograph

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