Nineteenth-Century Kansas City

Title: Main Street
Description: Early view of Kansas City, looking north along Main Street from 3rd.
Date: 1871
Object Type: Photograph

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: Junction of Main and Delaware
Description: View looking north of the junction of Main and Delaware streets at 9th Street. Vaughn's Diamond Building and several horse drawn carts can be seen. Signs for S. D. Vaughn and Company, Security Life Insurance Company, Kansas City Business College, and H. Ganz and Brothers Clothing are in view.
Date: 1871
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: 9th Street
Description: Early Kansas City view identified as 9th Street from Broadway, looking east. Good view of street grading.
Date: 1871
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coates House Hotel
Description: View looking east of the Broadway Hotel, later renamed the Coates House Hotel, at 10th Street and Broadway Boulevard. A house once located to the south of the hotel can be seen. The Broadway Pond, once located at the southwest corner of the intersection is in view.
Date: 1871
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coates Opera House and Coates House Hotel
Description: View looking northeast of the Coates Opera House and Broadway Hotel, later renamed the Coates House Hotel, at 10th Street and Broadway Boulevard. The Broadway Pond, once located at the southwest corner of the intersection can be seen. Cows can be seen in the image.
Date: 1871
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: 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: Looking East from 7th and Walnut
Description: View looking east from the corner of 7th and Walnut streets. Several early houses once located in the downtown area can be seen.
Date: 1871
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Corner of 9th and Wyandotte Streets
Description: View of the intersection of 9th and Wyandotte streets. Several early downtown buildings and houses can be seen.
Date: 1871
Object Type: Photograph

Title: John S. Campbell Residence
Description: Group posed outside of the John S. Campbell residence that once stood at 7th and Walnut streets.
Date: 1871
Object Type: Photograph

Title: West Kansas City from Bluff
Description: View looking west into the West Bottoms from the Quality Hill area.
Date: 1871
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Looking West from Hannibal Bridge
Description: View looking west from the Hannibal Bridge over the Missouri River. The West Bottoms can be seen in the background.
Date: 1871
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Riverfront View
Description: Early view of Kansas City identified as looking east from 7th and Walnut streets. The Missouri River is visible in the background.
Date: 1871
Object Type: Photograph