A black-and-white photograph of the Union Station building in Kansas City, Missouri — Open the full imageJPG, 1024 × 719 px, 0.2 MB

[Union Station, Kansas City, Mo.] (Detroit Publishing Company, between 1910 and 1930)

A glass-negative photograph of Kansas City's Union Station made between 1910 and 1930; the catalog notes it is a photograph of a photographic print.

Date: 1910/1930
Kind: photograph
Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division (Detroit Publishing Company Collection)
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Rights: No known restrictions on publication. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection, call number LC-D419-118.

The item (title devised by a cataloger) is a photograph of a photographic print of Kansas City Union Station, dated between 1910 and 1930, from the Detroit Publishing Company Collection. It is a period view of the building and shows nothing of the 1933 shooting.

itemKansas City Massacre and "Pretty Boy" Floyd (FBI history page)The FBI's history essay on the June 17, 1933 shooting in front of Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri, in which four officers and their prisoner Frank Nash were killed. It places the car directly in front of the station's east entrance.