Nineteenth-Century Kansas City

Title: Cyclorama and the Midland Hotel
Description: 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.
Date: 1887
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Knight Templar Parade
Description: 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.
Date: 1892
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Junction
Description: 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.
Date: 1886
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Market Square
Description: Distant view of activity in Market Square; located at 4th and Main.
Date: 1886
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 9th Street
Description: Looking east along west 9th Street during 1881 flood. Sign in view for I.H. Spake, a boot maker.
Date: 1881
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Cable Car Work
Description: 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.
Date: 1886
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street at 8th
Description: 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.
Date: 1886
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Junction
Description: 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.
Date: 1884
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 9th Street
Description: Looking east along 9th from Washington. Shows cable car.
Date: 1888
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Junction
Description: 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.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Photograph