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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 Buildings
Object Type: Vertical File

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: Water Works Building
Description: Full frontal and side view.
Date: 1900
Object Type: Photograph

Title: K.C. Show Case Works
Description: Full frontal and partial side view.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City: Published by Lonas & Boedtker
Description: One paragraph about the building at 6th and Walnut Streets.
Date: 1889~
Object Type: Book

Title: Hughes Convention Hall Views
Description: Pictorial and descriptive story of the original and reconstructed Convention Halls.
Date: 1900
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City Water Department Building
Description: Partial frontal view identified as old Water Department Building located at southeast corner of 2nd and Main.
Date: 1989
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Recreation Building
Description: Print of a "Recreation Building, Municipal Services Group, Kansas City, Missouri," exact address unknown. Credited to "Department of Public Works Architectural Services," and dated May 31, 1957. "Screen Print" written on image.
Date: 1957-05-31
Object Type: Photograph

Title: New York Life Building
Description: Full frontal view, with horses and buggies in foreground.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: KC Southern Railway Freight House
Description: Full frontal view, with horses and buggies in foreground.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Street Business Scene
Description: Full frontal and partial side view. Also shows horses and buggies in front of building.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: New York Life Building
Description: Full frontal view, with horses and buggies in foreground.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Photograph

Title: John Deere Plow Company Building
Description: Full frontal and side view; located on the southwest corner of 13th and Hickory. Also shows teams of horses and wagons in foreground.
Date: 1900
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 37 with Unrelated Cards
Description: Scrapbook page containing nine advertising cards. Four cards are very small cutouts of people, two playing music, one Asian, one with a monkey. The other five cards show the following:1. A large brown clapboard building.2. Two horses running away with a plow, the farmer in the air behind hanging on.3. People looking at a picture of a man and woman leaving a train in the snow and walking down the platform towards a Fred Harvey sign.4. A winter scene with a barn in the snow.5. Two boys on the street pointing at a women whose skirt has ripped. Card says: "New Home Sewing Machine Co., Orange, Mass. My Dear, you should buy a Light-Running 'New Home' Sewing Machine. Its seams never rip."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Architecture in Kansas City: 1885-1913
Description: Discussion of architects in Kansas City and their origins with photos of a few of their works, including the Scarritt Building.
Date: 1971
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The New Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Mo.
Description: Booklet for the new auditorium constructed with the aid of a Public Works Administration 30 percent grant and Kansas City bond fund.
Date: 1936
Object Type: Book

Title: American Institute of Architects Guide to Kansas City Architecture & Public Art
Description: Book filled with photos, maps, and descriptions of numerous structures of architectural significance in Kansas City including buildings, residences, and public art works and including newer buildings up to 2000 with sections of the book for Downtown, Westside, Old Northeast, East Side, Midtown, Brush Creek and Country Club, Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Independence, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas.
Date: 2000
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
Description: Biographical sketch of John Seddon, "one of Kansas City's most prominent and best known contractors and builders." Born in England in 1849 and emigrating to Kansas City in 1866 with his parents as a brickmason. Builder of "the Midland Hotel building, the Kansas City Board of Trade building, the water works building, the American Bank building and the Catholic Cathedral at [12th Street] and Washington streets."
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Santa Fe Trail Termini
Description: Paper read by W. L. Campbell before the Kansas City Historical Society on December 13, 1906, about the Santa Fe Trail terminus buildings in San Francisco and Kansas City, the latter built in 1856 at the northwest corner of 2nd and Main Streets, with the Mechanics Bank on the second floor, occupied in 1866 by the National Water Works Company, and destroyed by the 1886 cyclone.
Date: 1906
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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