[Graphics-Photographs collection]. 1706-1991.

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[Graphics-Photographs collection]. 1706-1991.

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The Graphics-Photographs Collection is an artificial collection of nearly 1,000 photographs, engravings, lithographs, and other two-dimensional graphic formats. Subject matter varies widely, encompassing architecture, the military, foreign countries, portraits, political scenes, caricatures, landscapes, advertising, religion, and more. Materials of note include: a series of photographs depicting domestic structures designed by noted Kansas City architect Clifton B. Sloan; a collection of photographs showing of the construction of Pennsylvania Station in New York City in 1913-1914; a small group of photographs of the West Bottoms along Mulberry Street in Kansas City; and a lithograph by Thomas Hart Benton entitled "Homecoming - Kaw Valley", which was created after the 1951 flood and sent to members of Congress in an attempt to generate relief funds for those affected by the disaster.

6 ft. (17 boxes)

University of Missouri-Kansas City, Miller Nichols Library; Health Sciences Library; Dental Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7309319

University of Missouri-Kansas City, Miller Nichols Library; Health Sciences Library; Dental Library

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Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975

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Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 – January 19, 1975) was an American painter and muralist. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. The fluid, sculpted figures in his paintings showed everyday people in scenes of life in the United States. His work is strongly associated with the Midwestern United States, the region in which he was born and which he called home for most of his life. He also studied in Paris, lived in New York City f...

Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.)

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Sloan, Clifton B. (Clifton Breeden), 1870-1958

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