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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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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 9 with Women, Horses, and Country Scenes
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Description
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Scrapbook page containing seven advertising cards. Three cards are cut to the shape of their image. One shows a yellow rose; the other two each show a woman in a blue dress. The other four cards show:1. A man riding a horse jumping over a brook.2. A man driving a horse pulling a rake over a field. Card says: “The Tiger, King of Rakes. Manufactured by J. M. Childs and Co., Utica, N.Y.”3. A steamboat on a river with men working on bank nearby.4. A man and woman looking at a painting. Lower left corner says: "Depose."
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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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Fire Department Horses
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Description
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Unidentified men standing with group of horses.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Costumed Woman with Horses
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Description
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Unidentified woman in show costume leading two horses.
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Date
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1949
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Fire Department Horses
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Description
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Two unidentified men with horses outside a building.
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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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Horses Pulling Wagon
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Description
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Interior view of Wilson & Company wagon drawn by Clydesdale horses.
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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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View of Water Works with Missouri River in background.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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