Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
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Title
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Cyclorama and the Midland Hotel
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Description
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Rooftop view looking northwest from near 8th and McGee at the Cyclorama theater and the Midland Hotel under construction. The cyclorama is advertising the showing of the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Date
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1887
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Knight Templar Parade
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Description
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Rooftop view of Knight Templar parade marching north along Main Street at 10th; shows onlookers. Includes a sign for St. George Hotel, Manning and Mann Manufacturing and Confectioners, The Williams Sign Works, Pixley and Company, etc. Appear to be African Americans in view also.
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Date
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1892
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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The Junction
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Description
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Looking northwest from the southeast corner of 9th and Main at the Junction. Includes cable cars identified as Kansas City Cable Railway. The Kansas City Times building in view.
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Date
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1886
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Market Square
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Description
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Distant view of activity in Market Square; located at 4th and Main.
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Date
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1886
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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9th Street
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Description
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Looking east along west 9th Street during 1881 flood. Sign in view for I.H. Spake, a boot maker.
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Date
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1881
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Cable Car Work
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Description
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Early view of Kansas City, looking west along 12th from Main at workers laying cable car tracks. First Baptist Church in the background located at 12th and Baltimore.
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Date
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1886
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Main Street at 8th
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Description
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Early view of Kansas City, looking northwest from the southeast corner of 8th and Main. Sign on corner building reads: Underwood Clark & Co. Loan Office.
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Date
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1886
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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The Junction
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Description
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Looking north along Main Street from 10th Street at the Junction area of Main, Delaware, and 9th streets. Business in view includes J. T. Welden, Undertaker. Also has view of what appears to be a delivery wagon and street railway tracks.
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Date
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1884
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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9th Street
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Description
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Looking east along 9th from Washington. Shows cable car.
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Date
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1888
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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The Junction
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Description
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Looking north along Main Street from the south side of 9th Street at the Junction. Shows the Kansas City Times Building earlier called Vaughan's Diamond building. First floor has the Grand Junction Ticket Office for the Chicago & Alton Railroad, Kansas City, Fort Scott, and Memphis Railroad, and Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City Railroad.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Photograph