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Title: Main Street
Description: Full frontal view of buildings on the east side of the 600 block of Main.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street
Description: Full frontal and partial side view of buildings on west side of the 700 block of Main.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1617 Main Street
Description: Full frontal view.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Manhattan Building
Description: Distant frontal and side view; located at 726 Main. Also shows surrounding buildings.
Date: 1949
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street, Cyclone Damage
Description: Exterior view of the 500 block on Main Street that sustained damage from a tornado in Kansas City, Missouri. One of the destroyed buildings was the Jones Dry Goods Store (557 & 561 Main Street). The building in the forefront sold playing cards. The sign remaining on the window says "DOERR/603/...of PLAYING CARDS," and what looks like a cigar store Indian also remains with the words Playing Cards on its base. Written on the front of the photograph in ink, "wrecked by cyclone K. C. Mo." The 1899 Kansas City city directory has a Chris Doerr at 603 Main Street listed as cigar manufacturer.
Date: 1899-11-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pennock Building
Description: Full frontal and partial side view looking northwest; located on the northwest corner of 12th and Main.
Date: 1900
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 39th and Main
Description: Full frontal and side view of building located on northwest corner of 39th and Main.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Frank's Hall
Description: Book II, Numbers 8-9, from "The Native Sons of Kansas City," page 3, February 4, 1955: "[I]t [Frank's Hall] was on the third floor in the building at the northwest corner of 5th and Main Streets."
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Victor Building
Description: Postcard of the Victor Building that once stood on the northwest corner of 10th and Main streets.
Date: 1914~
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Demolished: January 1987
Description: Short article with photo about the demolition of "two of the last three 1880s commercial structures on Main Street in the Central Business District," at 1219-1223 Main Street.
Date: 1987-03
Object Type: Magazine Article