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Title: Kansas City Livestock Exchange Building
Description: Postcard of the Livestock Exchange Building in the West Bottoms.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Kansas City in 1879
Description: Promotional booklet for Kansas City, Missouri. Item includes sections covering the development of the city's business interests, a list of buildings constructed in 1878, its history, its geographic advantages, descriptions of various businesses and public institutions, descriptions of its suburbs, and advertisements.
Date: 1879

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: Ferguson and Slavens Packing House and Deamon Mills - West Kansas City
Description: View looking west into the West Bottoms from about 6th and Bluff streets showing the Ferguson, Slavens and Company packing house and Deamon Mills. The Missouri River can be seen on the right hand side of the image.
Date: 1870
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4th Street Viaduct and West Bottoms
Description: View looking west of the 4th Street Viaduct stretching over the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad tracks into the West Bottoms. The Intercity Viaduct leading to Kansas City, Kansas, can be seen. Smokestacks from meat packing facilities are in view in the distance.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Livestock Exchange Building Blueprint
Description: Blueprints of the fifth floor plan for the Livestock Exchange Building in the Kansas City Stockyards (part of a set of blueprints).
Date: 1909-12-31
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Livestock Exchange Building Blueprint
Description: Blueprints of the eighth floor plan for the Livestock Exchange Building in the Kansas City Stockyards (part of a set of blueprints).
Date: 1909-12-31
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Livestock Exchange Building Blueprint
Description: Blueprints of the ninth floor plan for the Livestock Exchange Building in the Kansas City Stockyards (part of a set of blueprints).
Date: 1909-12-31
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Livestock Exchange Building Blueprint
Description: Blueprints of the third floor plan for the Livestock Exchange Building in the Kansas City Stockyards (part of a set of blueprints).
Date: 1909-12-31
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Livestock Exchange Building Blueprint
Description: Blueprints of the fourth floor plan for the Livestock Exchange Building in the Kansas City Stockyards (part of a set of blueprints).
Date: 1909-12-31
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Livestock Exchange Building Blueprint
Description: Blueprints of the restaurant and club rooms on ninth floor for the Livestock Exchange Building in the Kansas City Stockyards (part of a set of blueprints).
Date: 1910-07-13
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Livestock Exchange Building Blueprint
Description: Blueprints of the seventh floor plan for the Livestock Exchange Building in the Kansas City Stockyards (part of a set of blueprints).
Date: 1909-12-31
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Livestock Exchange Building Blueprint
Description: Blueprints of the sixth floor plan for the Livestock Exchange Building in the Kansas City Stockyards (part of a set of blueprints).
Date: 1909-12-31
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Kansas City, Mo. Stock Yards
Description: Aerial panoramic view looking west of the Kansas City stockyards in the West Bottoms taken from 500 ft. above 19th and Genesee streets. A note in the lower left hand corner notes that the photograph was taken using the Lawrence Captive Airship. The view stretches across the Kansas River and into Kansas City, Kansas. The Missouri River is in view on the right hand side of the image. The first Livestock Exchange Building at 16th Street and State Line Road can be seen.
Date: 1907-10
Object Type: Photograph

Title: In Kansas City the Town of Wonderful Hills
Description: Postcard with a poem about Kansas City's steep hills and the trouble they present to the city's cable cars and streetcars, notably the descent down the West Bluffs from downtown into the West Bottoms. Illustrations of a woman, a cable car traveling downhill, and pigs representing the livestock industry in the Stockyards District are shown.
Date: 1907
Object Type: Postcard

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