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Title: Haldeman Marble Works
Description: Description of a business located on the corner of Missouri Avenue and Walnut Street handling "fine monuments" made of marble. This business is owned by Charles Haldeman.
Date: 1879
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Keystone Iron Works Company
Description: View of Keystone Iron Works building on West Eighth Street, shows horses and wagons in yard.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Water Works Building
Description: Front and partial side view of Water Works Building located at 6th and Grand. Horse drawn carriages in front.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Pictorial and Biographical
Description: Portrait and biographical sketch of Nehemiah Holmes (1826-1873), "called the father of the street railroads of Kansas City," a native of New York "[c]oming to Kansas City with considerable capital" about 1856 (according to this source), investing in real estate and banking and establishing "the Kansas City & Westport horse railroad" in 1868.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Pictorial and Biographical
Description: Photo and bio of George Denslow, "president of the Denslow Coal & Land Company," born in Trenton, Missouri, in 1869. Description of his career, moving to Kansas City as a child and working with the Western Union Telegraph Company, the H. C. Arnold pharmacy until 1885, then with the Eli Lily & Company drug company until establishing his own drugstore in 1900 and in 1905 the Denslow Coal & Land Company.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City Wire and Iron Works
Description: Advertising card for Kansas City Wire and Iron Works showing a woman in flowing green robes and waving black hair swimming with a variety of fish including rays, eels, sea horses, etc. One of two cards with similar design and theme. Front of card says: "Kansas City Wire and Iron Work.." .Manufacturers of Wire Cloth, Cages, Fences; Bank, Office and Desk Railing; Arches, Trellises, Fly Screens, Steel Window Guards, Stable Fixtures, Ornamental Gates, Crested Fencing, and Everything in the Wire and Iron Line." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: Office, 14 E. Eighth St., Factory, 1424 and 1426 Oak St.Kansas City.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Handling Doubled Traffic with Dispatch
Description: Article about the management of heavy traffic in such large crowds as the American Legion Convention at the Liberty Memorial in 1921, with photos.
Date: 1921-11-26
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City Wire and Iron Works
Description: Advertising card for Kansas City Wire and Iron Works showing a woman in flowing green robes and waving black hair swimming with a variety of fish including rays, eels, sea horses, etc. One of two cards with similar design and theme. Front of card says: "Kansas City Wire and Iron Work.." .Manufacturers of Wire Cloth, Cages, Fences; Bank, Office and Desk Railing; Arches, Trellises, Fly Screens, Steel Window Guards, Stable Fixtures, Ornamental Gates, Crested Fencing, and Everything in the Wire and Iron Line." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card:
Office, 14 E. Eighth St.,
Factory, 1424 & 1426 Oak St.
Kansas City.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Golf Where Horses Raced
Description: History of the grounds starting in 1904 as a horse racetrack and later becoming a golf course of Blue Hills Country Club.
Date: 1959-09-02
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Water Works
Description: View of Water Works with Missouri River in background.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Water Works
Description: Aerial view facing southwest of Quindaro Station water works, located on the south bank of the Missouri River near the Qunidaro area of Kansas City, Kansas.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Gas Works
Description: Early view of Kansas City gas works on east 1st Street, near the Gillis House, looking west.
Date: 1868-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Works Available
Description: Review of show at the Morgan Gallery.
Date: 1997-11-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Water Works
Description: View looking southwest of the Kansas City Water Works operation located north of the Missouri River in North Kansas City. The river can be seen in the distance.
Date: 1952-03
Object Type: Negative

Title: Men and Children with Horses
Description: Men in costume on horseback; man and woman leading riderless horse.
Date: 1895
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pictorial Map of Kansas
Description: Map of historical events and places in Kansas, including illustrations.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Map

Title: A Pictorial Historian
Description: Brief article describing a George Catlin exhibit on loan (from the Smithsonian American Art Museum) to the Museum of the American West in Los Angeles from the Smithsonian Institution from Jun 4-August 4, 2004. Includes a brief synopsis of Catlin's life and art.
Date: 2004-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City Terminal Completes Large Mail-Handling Plant
Description: News about the installation of a new railway system in Union Station, in connection with a new post office, expediting the receipt, delivery, sorting-in-transit, and forwarding of mail, with diagram and photographs.
Date: 1934-08-04
Object Type: Magazine

Title: Men and Kansas City Southern Railway Freight Handling Car
Description: Unidentified men atop Kansas City Southern Railway freight handling cart.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Mexican Consulate Opens in KC: Consulate Already Busy Handling Inquiries
Description: The Mexican Consulate for Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma opened in Kansas City August 2, 2002. It is already receives up to 100 calls a day.
Date: 2002-08-08
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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