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Color photograph of an interior view of the new Main Library in Kansas City, Kansas. Looking Northwest

Black and white photograph of Head Librarian, Willard Dennis, sitting at a desk in the Main Library in Kansas City, Kansas.

Black and white photograph of library staff looking at microfilm in the Kansas Room at the Main Library in Kansas City, Kansas. L-R: Sandra Poole, Robert Walker, Willard Dennis.

Black and white photograph of patrons listening to records in the Fine Arts Department at the Main Library in Kansas City, Kansas. When the library opened, it held a collection of 850 records that was planned to increase to 3,000. Pictured are Steve…

Black and white photograph of patrons reading at the Main Library in Kansas City, Kansas.

Black and white photograph of patrons studying and taking notes in the reading area of the Main Library in Kansas City, Kansas.

Black and white photograph of a patron using a typewriter at the Main Library in Kansas City, Kansas.

Black and white photograph of Rose Mary Colovich and Cathy Overcash inventorying records in the Main Library record collection.

Black and white photograph of staff working in the technical services department of the Kansas City, Kansas Public Library.

Black and white photograph of the artist Tom Russell, librarian Gwen Rose, and library director Willard Dennis in front of Mr. Russell's mural on the second floor of the Main Library.

Black and white photograph of the reference area of the Kansas City, Kansas Public Library shortly after opening. Study tables, bookshelves and microfilm visible.

Librarian Rose Mary Colovich listens to a record at the Main Library in Kansas City, Kansas.

Black and white photograph of the Kansas City, Missouri Elks Club Christmas party at the Carnegie Library in Kansas City, Kansas. Note on reverse reads: Santa___---CPL Bob Cox, Right---Eugene.

Black and white photograph of Lowell P. T. A. officers standing in front of the school in Kansas City, Kansas. Pictured are Mrs. Arthur Ashley, Sec., Mrs. Avery Birge, Pres., Mrs. King Kirk, Vice Pres., Mrs. Lloyd Baird, 2nd Vice Pres., Mrs. Kenneth…

Black and white portrait photograph of Mrs. Avery Birge, President of Lowell P. T. A.

Black and white photograph of teachers standing in front of Lowell School in Kansas City, Kansas. Pictured are Miss Mildred Kellquist, Kindergarten, Miss Shirley Sparling, 1st grade, Mrs. Barbara Fleming, 1st and 2nd grades, Miss Ann Stanton, 2nd…

Black and white photograph of a group of teachers standing in front of Lowell School in Kansas City, Kansas. Pictured are Miss Elizabeth Hardy, 3rd grade, Miss Nellie McGuinn, 7th grade, Mrs. Elizabeth Finn, 4th grade, and Miss Dorothy Hostetler, 6th…

Black and white photograph of Miss Helen Boner, standing in front of Lowell Elementary School in Kansas City, Kansas. Miss Boner was the principal of Lowell.

Postcard featuring a color photograph of the Aladdin Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. The Kansas City Power and Light Building, Barney Allis Plaza, and Municipal Auditorium visible as well.

Color photograph of children sitting in front of a Christmas tree.

Black and white photograph of six people picnicking in the woods. Table is set with a tablecloth, watermelon, bread, and eggs.

Black and white photograph of three women, three men, and a child outside of a home in Kansas City. One man holds a brownie camera while a woman wearing a bowler hat looks on.

Black and white photograph of two women and three men posing on a wooden fence outdoors. 1899 written in upper right corner.

Black and white photograph of a woman and 13 boys standing in front of an unidentified school building. Taken in 1910 written in ink at the bottom of the photo.

Color photograph of five unidentified children sitting on a blue car in Lawrence, Kansas.

Color photograph of an unidentified seated couple in front of a small acrylic Christmas tree at a home in Lawrence, Kansas.

Color photograph of a brick house on an unidentified street in Lawrence, Kansas.

Color photograph of two girls standing in a rose bush next to a white clapboard house in Lawrence, Kansas.

Trinity Episcopal Church in Lawrence, Kansas engulfed in smoke during a fire as a crowd looks on. Fire engine and First Christian Church in the foreground.

Color photograph of firefighters spraying water on the fire at Trinity Episcopal Church in Lawrence, Kansas while a crowd looks on from the street.

Color photograph of smoke billowing from Trinity Episcopal Church in Lawrence, Kansas. Crowd in the street watches the fire.

Color photograph of crowd watching fire at Trinity Episcopal Church in Lawrence, Kansas. Fire engine in foreground.

Color photograph of a fire engine and ladder in front of Trinity Episcopal Church in Lawrence, Kansas during a fire, a crowd looks on.

Color photograph of a firefighter and crane during the fire at Trinity Episcopal Church. First United Methodist Church in the background.

Color photograph of Trinity Episcopal Church burning in Lawrence, Kansas. Detail of roof damage.

A crowd of onlookers gathers as Trinity Episcopal Church burns in Lawrence, Kansas.

Color photograph of two firefighters spraying water from a hose into a burning Trinity Episcopal Church in Lawrence, Kansas.

Color photograph of Trinity Episcopal Church burning with crowd looking on.

Color photograph of the fire at Trinity Episcopal Church in Lawrence, Kansas. View of building from side angle with fire in rose window and smoke pouring from the roof.

Color photograph of a man pushing on a derailed train car after the 1951 flood in Lawrence, Kansas.

Color photograph of three men standing on top of a building being demolished in Lawrence, Kansas. Exact location unknown. Dusty Rhodes Burgers and car in the foreground.

Color photograph of a car driving on flood damaged road in Lawrence, Kansas, water tower and buildings in the background.

Color photograph of a flooded field with railroad tracks in the foreground after the 1951 flood in Lawrence, Kansas.

Color photograph of a man and a boy during the 1951 flood in Lawrence, Kansas. Damaged cabins and boats in the mud in background.

Color photograph of an unidentified girl looking at the flooded Kansas River after the 1951 flood in Lawrence.

Color photograph of Kansas River after the 1951 flood in Lawrence, Kansas.

Color photograph of small cabins surrounded by floodwaters during the 1951 flood in Lawrence, Kansas.

Color photograph of a boy with a brownie camera standing near the water after the 1951 flood in Lawrence, Kansas. Two adults stand in the background.

Color photograph of Cole's IGA, damaged by floodwaters during the 1951 flood in Lawrence, Kansas.

Color photograph of a house underwater after the 1951 flood in Lawrence, Kansas.