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Title: False Works for Pier No. 4
Description: Photograph showing the temporary structure used to build the fourth pier of the Hannibal Bridge. Workers and the northern bank of the Missouri River can also be seen.
Date: 1868-10-12
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bird's Eye View - Kansas City
Description: Pictorial map showing the cities and towns of Kansas City, Missouri; Harlem, Missouri; Westport, Missouri; Rosedale, Kansas; Argentine, Kansas; Armourdale, Kansas; Armstrong, Kansas; Riverview, Kansas; Kansas City, Kansas; and Wyandotte, Kansas. At the time of its publication, the map had an extensive key listing the numbered buildings, most of which has been removed. Steamboats traveling along the Missouri River can be seen. The map displays the steep bluffs and topography of the region. It also indicates Kansas City's expansion southward away from the Missouri River, the development of the stockyards industry in the West Bottoms and interconnectivity with the surrounding cities and towns that followed completion of the Hannibal Bridge in 1869.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Map

Title: General View from South Side, Showing Progress of Work
Description: Photograph showing work being done on piers of the Hannibal Bridge. The northern bank of the Missouri River and the steamboat Gipsey can be seen in the background.
Date: 1867-12-24
Object Type: Photograph

Title: General View from South Side, Showing Progress of Work
Description: Photograph showing work being done on the first pier of the Hannibal Bridge. The northern bank of the Missouri River and the steamboat Gipsey can be seen in the background.
Date: 1867-09-11
Object Type: Photograph

Title: General View from South Side, Showing Progress of Work
Description: Photograph showing work being done on piers of the Hannibal Bridge. The northern bank of the Missouri River can be seen in the background.
Date: 1868-09-11
Object Type: Photograph

Title: General View from South Side, Showing Progress of Work
Description: Photograph showing work being done on piers of the Hannibal Bridge. Several workers can be seen standing atop the first section of the bridge. The northern bank of the Missouri River and the steamboat Gipsey can be seen in the background.
Date: 1868-05-15
Object Type: Photograph

Title: General View from South Side, Showing Progress of Work
Description: Photograph showing progress on the first section of the Hannibal Bridge extending from the southern bank of the Missouri River. The northern bank of the river can be seen in the background.
Date: 1869-03-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Inter-City Viaduct, Kansas City, Mo.
Description: Postcard showing the Intercity Viaduct leading from the West Bottoms into Kansas City, Kansas. The Missouri River can be seen.
Date: 1913
Object Type: Postcard

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: Missouri River, South
Description: Postcard view of the downtown and riverfront areas of Kansas City in 1855, looking South from the Missouri River.
Object Type: Postcard

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