View looking north along Grand Avenue from 15th Street. A sign for the first retail store for the Western Auto Supply Company at 1426 Grand Avenue can be seen.
View of the old Grand Avenue train station and the Main Street Viaduct from railroad tracks. Workers are visible along the tracks. The station was located at Grand Avenue and 22nd Street.
Photo, caption, and article about the monthly fees charged to businesses at the Schutte Building with excessive signage on Grand Avenue, including a movie theater and Chinese restaurant. Addresses affected including 1205, 1209, and 1211 Grand Avenue.
View facing east along 18th Street from its intersection with Grand Avenue. The Grand Avenue Bank Building can be seen on the south side of the street. A sign for an unidentified restaurant reading Jerry's can be seen on the south side of the street. Sings for the Central Pontiac automobile dealership attached to the building on the southeast corner of 18th and McGee streets can be seen. Cars and pedestrians along 18th Street are in view.
View facing east along 19th Street from its intersection with Grand Avenue. Signs for the Berry Berl automobile dealership attached to the building on the southeast corner of 19th and McGee streets can be seen. Cars and trucks along 19th Street are in view. A bicyclist on the north side of the street can be seen.
View looking southeast of the Mastin Building that once stood at the corner of 19th Street and Grand Avenue. At the time this photograph was taken, the building was occupied by the Hall-Ware Motor Company, a Chrysler and Plymouth car dealership.
The Kansas City Star newspaper company was founded in 1880 by William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel Morss. Nelson and his family went on to retain ownership of the company until their deaths in 1926 when ownership was bought by employees of the newspaper. Local stockholders owned the newspaper until 1977 when it was sold to corporate ownership. This collection, made up of a portion of the company’s records, documents the history of the newspaper and its founding family.