Assorted Images

Title: Rialto Building
Description: Identified on front of photograph as old Rialto Building located at 9th and Grand. Indicates it burned and was 8 degrees below zero.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Jaccard Jewelry Company Ruins
Description: View of the ruins at the rear of the Jaccard Jewelry Company building after a fire. Photograph is dated January 13, 1893
Date: 1893
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fire Scene
Description: Fire ruins of overall factory, paper box factory and Ramsey Printing Company. Time noted is 12:40 a.m. and 6 below zero. Written on the photographs is "Central bet.." Same as I.D.#210724.
Date: 1893-01-17
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 9th Street Theater Ruins
Description: Street level view of the ruins from the 9th Street Theater fire, dated January 18, 1893. Firemen and equipment in view. Theater located at 324 W. 9th Street.
Date: 1893
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Armourdale Fire
Description: Ruins of an Armourdale, Kansas City, Kansas fire identified as the Reed Bros. Packing House. Also visible is the Fire Department's water tower. Dated March 24, 1895.
Date: 1895
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fire Ruins at Browning, King and Company
Description: Icy remains from a fire identified as Browning, King and Company and dated January 17, 1892 with the temperature 17 degrees below zero. A newspaper clipping with the photo indicates it was the Deardorff building fire with several different businesses within the building.
Date: 1892
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fire Ruins
Description: Identified on photograph as Peak Bros. Overall Fact[ory] and Rigly Ramsey Printing Co. Remains of fire dated January 17, 1892. Same photograph as I.D. 210718.
Date: 1892
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ninth Street Theater
Description: Identified as the 9th Street Theater after a fire dated January 18, 1893, 3:44 A.M. Appears to have been extensively damaged. According to the 1893 Kansas City city directory, theater was located at 324 W. 9th Street.
Date: 1893
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nichols & Shepard Implement House
Description: Exterior view of remains after a fire at the Nichols & Shepard Implement House. According to the 1893 Kansas City, Missouri city directory it was located at 1323 Hickory Street. Time of fire noted as 7:23 p.m.
Date: 1893-08-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Baird Building
Description: Full street view of the Baird Building located on the southwest corner of 6th and Wyandotte. Taken after a recent fire. According to information written on the photograph, the building burned October 25, 1894 and the alarm went off at 9:05 P.M.
Date: 1894
Object Type: Photograph