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Title: Field Notes from the Farm Country
Description: Announcement of record livestock numbers for the Kansas City area despite protein supply running low.
Date: 1943-06
Object Type: Magazine

Title: Coates Opera House and Coates House Hotel
Description: View looking northeast of the Coates Opera House and Broadway Hotel, later renamed the Coates House Hotel, at 10th Street and Broadway Boulevard. The Broadway Pond, once located at the southwest corner of the intersection can be seen. Cows can be seen in the image.
Date: 1871
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Geo. E. Wisner's Saloon and Restaurant
Description: Advertising card for Geo. E. Wisner's Saloon and Restaurant showing a rear view of five bulls standing in a row. The first bull has small horns and its tail sticks straight up in the air. As you move right down the line, each bull has longer horns, but a droopier tail. One of two cards, identical except for background color (this one is white). Front of card says: "How Old are You?" and each cow is labeled, from left to right: "20 .."." 30 .."."40 .."." 50 .."." 60." Along side of card it says: "High Water Mark, 8 Feet 9 Inches in the Room." On the bottom it says: "Dan Griffin, Nights. Eugene Potts, Days. Geo. E. Wisner, Prop." Back of card says: "Geo. E. Wisner's Saloon and Restaurant, Stock Yards. Anheuser-Busch Budweiser Beer." Address given on back of card:
1605 Genesee St.,
Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Flood Scene
Description: View of people trying to get a car through an unidentified flooded street, with cows walking in front.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Geo. E. Wisner's Saloon and Restaurant
Description: Advertising card for Geo. E. Wisner's Saloon and Restaurant showing a rear view of five bulls standing in a row. The first bull has small horns and its tail sticks straight up in the air. As you move right, down the line, each bull has longer horns, but a droopier tail. One of two cards, identical except for background color (this one is pink). Card is damaged; some of image is torn off. Front of card says: "How Old are You?" and each cow is labeled, from left to right: "20 .."." 30 .."."40 .."." 50 .."." 60." Along side of card it says: "High Water Mark, 8 Feet 9 Inches in the Room." On the bottom it says: "Dan Griffin, Nights. Eugene Potts, Days. Geo. E. Wisner, Prop." Back of card says: "Geo. E. Wisner's Saloon and Restaurant, Stock Yards. Anheuser-Busch Budweiser Beer." Address given on back of card:
1605 Genesee St.,
Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Hall & Willis Hardware Co.
Description: Advertising card for Hall & Willis Hardware Co. showing two men giving hay to cattle in the snow. Front of card says: ?ǣHolt's Lightning Hay Knife.?ǥ Back of card says: ?ǣGreat Saving to Farmers! Before purchasing, examine the Lightning Hay Knife, manufactured only by Hiram Holt & Co., East Wilton, Maine..."" Company information stamped on back of card: "Hall & Willis Hardware Co., Wholesale Hardware, Kansas City, Mo." No street address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: American Hereford Association
Description: Promotional postcard for the American Hereford Association showing the cattle breeder's building at 300 W. 11th Street.
Date: 1921~
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Kansas City, Mo. Stock Yards
Description: Aerial panoramic view looking west of the Kansas City stockyards in the West Bottoms taken from 500 ft. above 19th and Genesee streets. A note in the lower left hand corner notes that the photograph was taken using the Lawrence Captive Airship. The view stretches across the Kansas River and into Kansas City, Kansas. The Missouri River is in view on the right hand side of the image. The first Livestock Exchange Building at 16th Street and State Line Road can be seen.
Date: 1907-10
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Two Men near Full Cattle Pen
Description: Group of cattle in stockyard pen. A nearby sign reads "Matador Land & Cattle Company, Denver, Colorado."
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Photograph

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