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Title
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Haldeman Marble Works
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1879
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Keystone Iron Works Company
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Description
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View of Keystone Iron Works building on West Eighth Street, shows horses and wagons in yard.
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Date
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1890
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Water Works Building
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Description
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Front and partial side view of Water Works Building located at 6th and Grand. Horse drawn carriages in front.
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Date
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1890
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City, Missouri: Pictorial and Biographical
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Kansas City, Missouri: Pictorial and Biographical
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Kansas City Wire and Iron Works
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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Handling Doubled Traffic with Dispatch
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Description
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Article about the management of heavy traffic in such large crowds as the American Legion Convention at the Liberty Memorial in 1921, with photos.
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Date
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1921-11-26
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Kansas City Wire and Iron Works
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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Golf Where Horses Raced
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Description
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History of the grounds starting in 1904 as a horse racetrack and later becoming a golf course of Blue Hills Country Club.
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Date
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1959-09-02
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Water Works
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Description
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View of Water Works with Missouri River in background.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Water Works
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Description
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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.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Gas Works
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Description
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Early view of Kansas City gas works on east 1st Street, near the Gillis House, looking west.
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Date
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1868-04
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Works Available
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Description
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Review of show at the Morgan Gallery.
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Date
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1997-11-20
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Water Works
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1952-03
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Object Type
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Negative
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Title
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Men and Children with Horses
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Description
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Men in costume on horseback; man and woman leading riderless horse.
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Date
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1895
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Pictorial Map of Kansas
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Description
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Map of historical events and places in Kansas, including illustrations.
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Date
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1930
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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A Pictorial Historian
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2004-07
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Kansas City Terminal Completes Large Mail-Handling Plant
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1934-08-04
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Object Type
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Magazine
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