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Stockyards
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Stockyards history: (1871) organized as the "Kansas Stockyards Company" with the first Live Stock Exchange Building erected; (1876) reorganized as the "Kansas City Stockyards Company"; (1886) Kansas City Live Stock Exchange organized; (1951) most of the Stockyards area wiped out by the flood and the development of Kemper Arena and Interstate 670; (post-1975) the remaining 35 acres sold to National Farms, Incorporated, to be demolished and become part of a planned office park project.
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Vertical File
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Stockyards, Kansas City
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Looking northwest from West Bluffs at 20th Street over West Bottoms. Shows stockyards, Livestock Exchange Building, railroad yards, etc.
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Date
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1927
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Photograph
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Kansas City Livestock Exchange Building
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View looking west on 16th Street toward the Livestock Exchange Building. Taken at the intersection of Wyoming and 16th streets with a streetcar in view and a large Budweiser Beer sign on the corner.
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Photograph
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Stockyards, Kansas City
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Birds eye view of cattle pens at the Kansas City stockyards with Livestock Exchange Building in distance.
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Photograph
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Title
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Me and My...Livestock Exchange Building
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Article recalls Jay Dillingham's memories of July, 1951, when the 1951 Flood ravaged the Kansas City Stockyards, of which Dillingham was president and chairman of the board.
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2004-07-11
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Newspaper Article
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Jay B. Dillingham: Ageless at 90
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News of the 90th birthday celebration for long-time livestock and transportation industries leader Jay Dillingham, with photo of his descendants. Description of his career as former president of the Kansas City Stockyards Company and "the only person to serve as president of the chambers of commerce on both sides of the state line," still conducting business at his office in the Livestock Exchange Building in the West Bottoms at 1600 Genesee Street.
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2000-03-26
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Newspaper Article
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Walter Aiken
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Man on horseback identified as Walter Aiken in front of Livestock Exchange building. Back of photograph reads, "Walter Aiken, never owned an automobile, always on a horse. K.C. Stockyards-Exchange Bldg."
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Photograph
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Title
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Livestock Exchange Building
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Partial street-level view of the Livestock Exchange Building, located at 1600 Genesee Street in the West Bottoms. Shows damage from 1951 Flood.
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1951
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Photograph
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Railroad Yards in West Bottoms
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Looking west across railroad yards in West Bottoms from 12th and Bluff; shows Livestock Exchange Building in the distance.
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1888
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Photograph
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Kansas City Stockyards
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Postcard of the Kansas City Stockyards in the West Bottoms.
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Date
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1899
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Postcard
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Livestock Exchange Building
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The new Live Stock Exchange Building at 16th and Genesee is to be finished the last of December (1910). The tenants expect to occupy it January 1 (1911). It cost about $650,000. The present building is to be razed. The 1911 city directory has the first entry for the building at 16th and Genesee. The 1910 directory lists the old building at 16th and State Line Roads.
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1910-11-12
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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