Nineteenth-Century Kansas City

Title: Railroad Track
Description: Early view of railroad cut/tracks identified as west of Broadway and 2nd Street looking east.
Date: 1871
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Early Kansas City Scene
Description: View of an unidentified bluff area.
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: Levee at Walnut
Description: Early view of riverfront area identified as levee at the foot of Walnut Street. Shows the bluffs and grading.
Date: 1870
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Walnut Street
Description: Identified as Walnut Street cutting between 7th and 8th Street. Shows street grading of bluffs.
Date: 1871
Object Type: Photograph

Title: River Bluffs
Description: Believed to be an early view of the topography in the area that became Kansas City. Man is seen by what looks like a cave opening in the bluff.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Delaware Street
Description: Early view of Delaware Street looking north from 3rd Street. The Missouri River is in view and shows street grading through bluffs.
Date: 1869-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4th and Grand
Description: View looking west at 4th and Grand; shows unidentified men atop bluffs and with equipment. Shows bluff grading.
Date: 1886
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Walnut Street
Description: Early view identified as Walnut Street just south of 2nd Street. Road grading of bluffs in view.
Date: 1869
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wyandotte Street
Description: Early view identified as Wyandotte Street near 2nd Street looking north across the Missouri River.
Date: 1870
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Railroad Collision
Description: Early view of Kansas City identified as a railroad collision in cut west of Broadway. Shows grading of bluffs.
Date: 1869
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wyandotte Street
Description: Early view of Kansas City identified as Wyandotte Street looking north from 3rd Street. Shows the grading of the street through the bluffs.
Date: 1869-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wyandotte Street
Description: Early view of Kansas City identified as Wyandotte Street looking north from the levee. Shows the cut and grading through the bluffs for the street.
Date: 1871
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Walnut Street
Description: View of street grading in Kansas City. Identified as Walnut Street looking north from 3rd Street with 2nd Street in view.
Date: 1868-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Delaware Street
Description: Early view showing Delaware and 3rd Streets with house perched on top. Good example of road grading.
Date: 1868-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bluff Street and 5th
Description: Identified on photo as 5th and Bluff looking n.e. from West Bottoms near Mo. River, ? at first was graded direct to the Bottom.
Date: 1867-08
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Riverfront View
Description: Early view of the riverfront at Kansas City. Identified as showing the bluffs on the south side of the Missouri River, the streets of Delaware, Wyandotte, and Broadway area in view. Gillis House is partially in view behind the steamboat Gipsey. Also shows early work on the Hannibal Bridge.
Date: 1867~
Object Type: Photograph

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