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Title
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Streetcar In Flood
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Description
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View of a loaded streetcar being pulled through a flooded area by two mules. Exact location and date are unknown.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Mule Car
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Description
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Postcard of a mule drawn streetcar, or hayburner, photographed in 1870 between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets on Grand Avenue.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Streetcar
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Description
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Walnut and Grand line car with passengers at unidentified location.
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Date
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1870
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Main Street
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Description
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Looking north along Main near 18th Street. Shows streetcar in distance.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Mule-drawn Streetcar
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Description
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Mule-drawn Troost line car (Troost) atop float in parade introducing new streetcars.
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Date
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1941-07-13
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Union Avenue
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Description
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Rooftop view looking south along Union from the north end of Union Depot.
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Date
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1880
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Louis Vogel
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Description
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Short biographical article about Louis Vogel who arrived in Westport in 1839 and in addition to illegally selling whiskey to the Indians, began buying real estate. "Among his achievements was his helping to fund the first street car system in Kansas City, started by Nehemiah Holmes in 1869." Vogel died in 1879. His name is spelled various ways including Lewis and Vogle.
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Date
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2008
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Drove the First Street Car Here
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Description
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Article recalls the early work of Hannibal H. Colvin, who drove a streetcar from Kansas City to Westport from 1872 to 1874. Colvin describes the job as "driving two mules hitched to a decrepit street car which rattled and shook with every turn of the wheels."
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Date
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1905-11-01
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
