Nineteenth-Century Kansas City

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Title: President Grover Cleveland
Description: Crowd scene at the speech given by President Grover Cleveland at the Federal Building located on the southeast corner of 9th and Walnut. Included in view is a sign advertising the Battle of Gettysburg which showed at the Cyclorama.
Date: 1887-10
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coates Opera House
Description: Full frontal and side view of the Coates Opera House; located on the northwest corner of 10th and Broadway.
Date: 1886
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coates House Hotel and Coates Opera House
Description: Early view of Kansas City with the Coates Opera House on the left and the Coates House Hotel on the right. Located at 10th and Broadway.
Date: 1871
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Early Kansas City Scene
Description: Early view of Kansas City identified as looking southwest from 6th Street.
Date: 1869-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Riverfront View
Description: View looking south across the Missouri River to the Kansas City. Taken from Harlem area. Bluff in view across the river.
Date: 1871-03
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Public Square
Description: View of Kansas City in the River Market area, identified as the public square.
Date: 1870
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Covered Wagons at 2nd and Delaware
Description: View of 2nd and Delaware streets with covered wagons, a buggy and figures in view. Shows the bluffs and road grading.
Date: 1869-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Early Kansas City View
Description: Sun rising or setting over early unidentified buildings.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Early Kansas City View
Description: Sun rising or setting over unidentified area.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Early Kansas City View
Description: Sun rising or setting over unidentified area with houses.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fire Damaged Building
Description: Unidentified men posed near unidentified building covered with ice after a fire.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas Rolling Mill in Rosedale, Kansas
Description: Distant view of Kansas Rolling Mill; located in Rosedale, Kansas.
Date: 1885
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Early Kansas City Scene
Description: View of an unidentified bluff area.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Dodge City Cowboy Band
Description: Group portrait of the uniformed Dodge City Cowboy Band posed before the Exposition Building; located at 13th and Agnes. Flag with the band reads: Dodge City Cow Boy Band Presented By Andy J. Snider & Co. $20,000,000.
Date: 1886
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bluff Street
Description: Early view of Bluff Street, looking south to 6th Street.
Date: 1870
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Early Kansas City Scene
Description: View of pond and bluffs with house on top, unidentified as to exact location.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Buffalo Herd
Description: Herd of buffalo in pen at unidentified location. Written beside photograph: Last Buffalo in KC. From 1870 to 78 buffalo meat sold at 2-5 [cents] a # and stacks 10ft high were piled up at the end of the old state line depot, hides & robes sold from 2-6 dollars a piece.
Date: 1888
Object Type: Photograph

Title: View Along Creek
Description: Early scene which is not identified. Includes small stream, trees, and hillside.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Midland Hotel
Description: Unidentified men posted near the Midland Hotel after the collapse of the dining room ceiling, in which Frank Edison was killed.
Date: 1888
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Police Officers
Description: Group portrait of uniformed day force police officers posed at unidentified location.
Date: 1886
Object Type: Photograph

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