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KC-1940
In 1940, over a period of eight months, more than 58,000 images of Kansas City structures were photographed and assembled as the 1940 Tax Assessment Photograph Collection. View buildings, homes, stores, shops, banks, schools, and parks which, all together, convey a sense of what life was like in Kansas City at that time.