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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: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 9 with Women, Horses, and Country Scenes
Description: 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."
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: Clydesdale Horses and Wagon
Description: Interior view of Clydesdale horses hitched to wagon.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fire Department Horses
Description: Unidentified men standing with group of horses.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Performing Circus Horses
Description: Horses and trainer performing in circus.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Costumed Woman with Horses
Description: Unidentified woman in show costume leading two horses.
Date: 1949
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fire Department Horses
Description: Frontal and side view of two horses.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fire Department Horses
Description: Unidentified man feeding horses.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fire Department Horses
Description: Two unidentified men with horses outside a building.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Horses Pulling Wagon
Description: Interior view of Wilson & Company wagon drawn by Clydesdale horses.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fire Department Horses
Description: Frontal view of horses wearing harness gear.
Object Type: Photograph

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

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