Local History Blog
Video Series Shines Spotlight on Mrs. Sam Ray Postcard Collection
We're putting the spotlight on some of our favorite special collections in a new video series from the Missouri Valley Special Collections. First up? The Mrs. Sam Ray Postcard Collection (SC58). Watch and learn how a septuagenarian became Kansas…
Racing Into Scandalous Cycling History with KCQ
Reader Mike McGrew wrote to KCQ and asked, "Has there ever been a velodrome constructed in Kansas City? I understand there was a nationwide wave of competitive cycling races in the late 19th and early 20th century." Here’s what we found.
KCHistory’s New Cache of Historical Photographs Underscores Work of City’s Landmarks Commission
A Map Above the Rest
Postcard Collection Updated with New Additions
Beginning at the age of 72, longtime Kansas Citian and avid postcard collector Mildred Kittle Ray began writing her "Postcards from Old Kansas City" columns for the Kansas City Times and the Kansas City Star newspapers. For nearly 30 years, Ray…
Hundreds of Kansas City Area Yearbooks Now Available on KCHistory.org
The Kansas City Public Library is pleased to announce the addition of 1,109 digitized yearbooks to our digital history site KCHistory.org. Resulting from more than two years of work by Missouri…
KC Q Explores The Four Winds
In this week’s installment of “What’s your KCQ,” a nostalgic reader asks: “What was the name of the upscale restaurant in the downtown Kansas City airport? I remember eating there as a kid about 50 years ago.”
New Slide Collection Captures Kansas City in Flux
The Hannibal Bridge: Keeping it "Rail" since 1869
Minutes and Music
Missouri Valley Special Collections received two unique donations in April 2018. Though completely different from each other in format and content, both illuminate aspects of Kansas City’s past often overlooked or forgotten.