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Title: Heinrich Wilhelm Helmreich
Description: Portrait of Henrich Wilhelm Helmreich, German immigrant to Kansas City and one of the owners of the Western Brewery.
Date: 1900
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Visitors to Electric Park
Description: View of a crowd gathered at Electric Park, once located in East Bottoms at Rochester and Montgall avenues. Also shows Ferd Heim Brewing Company.
Date: 1900
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ferd. Heim Brewing Company Bottling Plant
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of the dedication engraving by the construction company, Hucke & Sexton on the westside face of the Ferd. Heim Brewing Company Bottling Plant which reads, "Hucke & Sexton Contracting and Building Co., 318 New York Life Bldg." Construction on the building - designed by Charles A. Smith - was completed in 1901. The building has served as a bottling plant since that time. In 2018, J. Rieger and Company Distillery purchased the building. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. Located in the East Bottoms neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Union Avenue Flood
Description: View looking southwest along a flooded Union Avenue near Union Depot. Horses, carts, and carriages traveling along Union Avenue can be seen. Signs for George Eyssell Drugs, Alpha Floral Company, Old Kentucky Whiskey, Dick Brothers, the Blossom House, and J. C. O'Keefe Wholesale and Retail Liquor are in view. The exterior of Union Depot can be seen on the left hand side of the image.
Date: 1900~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: East Bottoms Looking North from Cliff Drive
Description: View facing north along Montgall Avenue and Chestnut Trafficway in the East Bottoms from Cliff Drive. The former Ferd. Heim Brewing Company Bottling Plant Building, serving as the home of the Abner Hood Chemical Company when this photograph was captured can be seen. Several cars and trucks are in view. Houses, churches and other East Bottoms industrial buildings can be seen.
Date: 1960~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Muehlebach Brewery
Description: Muehlebach Brewery trucks delivering goods to Grand Slam Liquor Store, located at 201 E. 6th Street Trafficway.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Gillis Building
Description: View looking southwest of the Gillis Building at 500 Walnut Street, the southwest corner of 5th and Walnut streets. A car parked on 5th Street can be seen. Built on the site of the Gillis Opera House, the Gillis Building opened in 1926, and housed the River Market Brewery when this photograph was taken.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: East Bottoms
Description: View looking northwest from the bluffs above the East Bottoms in North Terrace (now Kessler) Park along Gladstone Boulevard. Several buildings, house and the Heim Brewery can be seen.
Date: 1900~
Object Type: Photograph

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