For more than 145 years, The Star has created the first draft of Kansas City history, from the development of the park system to the upcoming World Cup.
As the city’s paper of record, The Star has decades of archives that tell the stories of Kansas City’s triumphs, tragedies and tensions. While our archives of pages and stories have been accessible to the public through Newspapers.com and the Kansas City Public Library, it’s only been recently that our award-winning photography has been published online.
After The Star donated a copy of our digital image archive to the Kansas City Public Library in 2022, the entire collection — encompassing images that appeared in the 1920s all the way through the late 1990s — was published online last month. It’s open to all at kcstarphotos.org.
Now the library and Star journalists will come together for an event to discuss the importance of local history, The Star’s role in capturing and recording it, and the gems that can be found in the new digital archive…