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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: Water Works, Kansas City
Description: Illustration of the Water Works Building (p. 10) and illustration of the Water Works Office at 6th and Grand Avenues (page 11).
Date: 1890
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Kansas City: Its Resources and Their Development
Description: Photos of Charles Morse (general manager), E. E. Richardson (secretary and treasurer), and Harry Child (superintendent), officers of the KansasCity Stockyards.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Its Resources and Their Development: A Souvenir of the Kansas City Times
Description: Illustration of the water works on page 11 and history of the water department and water works on page 9, starting with 1873 when the Missouri state legislature's approval led to the construction of the water works by the "National Water-Works Company of New York."
Date: 1890
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City: Its Resources and Their Development
Description: Photo and bio of Major Benjamin Jones, or B. F. Jones, "superintendent of the National Water-Works Company, at Kansas City," a native of Georgia coming to Kansas City in 1874 as a Civil War veteran and head of the water works, with a photo of the Water Works Building.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Book

Title: City Market Building
Description: View of old City Market building with horses and wagons in front.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City: Its Resources and Their Development
Description: Photo and bio of Lucius Smith, "the senior member of the firm" of Smith & Bradbury, "railway and public works contractors" in the Baird Building, with the contract for the Kansas City Belt Line Railway.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Book

Title: Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas: Historical and Biographical
Description: Description of the operations and management of the "Consolidated Kansas City Smelting Company, with headquarters at [Kansas] city and smelting works at Argentine. ..the largest smelting and refining company in the world." Description of the company's lead and silver production.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City: Its Resources and Their Development
Description: Photo and bio of James Smith, founder and president of "the Keystone Foundry." Arriving in Kansas City in 1865 as founder of the company, changing its name in 1868 "to the State Line Machine Shop" and then in 1872 to the Keystone Iron Works with a plant built in 1881 on West 8th Street. Iron foundry called "the largest of its kind in Kansas City, and the largest west of Chicago."
Date: 1890
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Its Resources and Their Development: A Souvenir of the Kansas City Times
Description: Photos and bios of Robert Douglass, John Deveney, Edwin Bradbury, and C. L. Walter. Description of Douglass as the co-executive of the Douglass & Walter Cut Stone Company at 19th and Olive Streets with C. L. Walter. Description of Deveney as president of the Builders' and Traders' Exchange. Description of Bradbury as co-executive and engineer for Smith & Bradbury, "railway and public works contractors" in the Baird Building. Description (and photo on page 64) of Walter as a partner in the Douglas & Walter Cut Stone Company.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City: Its Resources and Their Development
Description: Photos and descriptions of building contractors George Youmans and George Whelen. Description of Youmans as a contractor at 806 Delaware Street since 1880 with residence at 1313 Charlotte Street. Description of Whelen as a native of Canada and a contractor here since 1887.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Book

Title: Fountain Place Apartments
Description: Front and side view, looking south, of Fountain Place Apartments, 1450 Independence Avenue. Horse-drawn carriage in front.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Photograph

Title: St. Charles Bridge
Description: Looking east from the west bank of the Missouri River toward St. Charles, Missouri, showing the low bridge and two horse and buggies crossing. Handwritten on the back is, "Edna McE(?) Olson/PERMIT GIVEN TO BUILD 12/16/1889/IT FELL IN NOV. 1890/ONLY USED 6 MONTHS."
Date: 1890
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Shewey's Map - City St. Louis
Description: Map of the city of St. Louis showing streets, parks, ward boundaries, public buildings and institutions, railroad lines and depots, the Mississippi River, and routes for cable cars, electric cars, horse cars, and proposed elevated lines. Includes an inset map of Carondelet.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Map

Title: Union Depot Painting
Description: A large painting of Union Depot and surroundings was donated to the Kansas City Public Library in the 1960s by its painter George Fuller Green.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Archival Material

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