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Title: Stockyards District Has a New Direction
Description: Article describes efforts "to build a new hub for creative culture" in the West Bottoms beginning with the opening of the new Bill Brady Gallery in the former Daily Drovers Telegram Building (1505 Genesee Street). Gallery owners Bill Brady and John O'Brien, along with West Bottoms developers Bill Haw and Bill Haw, Jr., are collaborating to rebrand the area and attract "creative class" businesses. Other tenants scheduled to move into the space at 15th and Genesee include Amigoni Urban Winery and KEM architects
Date: 2012-02-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: 23rd Street Viaduct - Looking South
Description: View facing south along the 23rd Street Viaduct during construction in the West Bottoms. A small portion of the American Royal Livestock and Horse Show Exhibit Building can be seen on the right side of the photograph. Workers for the Clarkson Construction Company are pouring concrete on the road. Road construction equipment is in view.
Date: 1961-07-26
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Golden Ox
Description: Unused postcard of a chef at the Golden Ox. Lithograph created by Henry McGrew. The advertisement reads "Golden Ox - at the Stockyards - Where Steak is Born, 1600 Genesee - Victor 2-2866 ...one of the world's unique dining spots, in the heart of Kansas City's famed stockyards - synonymous everywhere with the best steak. Western charm and friendly hospitality are combined with fine service."
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Golden Ox
Description: Unused postcard depicting a horse rider waving his hat to a group of people entering the Golden Ox restaurant. The artwork is signed Shortino. The back of the postcard includes an advertisement of the restaurant as "...one of the world's unique dining spots..." The address label for a Mrs. Carl L. Thompson in St. Joseph, Missouri is affixed to the back of the postcard.
Object Type: Postcard

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: Stockyards
Description: Aerial view looking southeast of the Stockyards district in the West Bottoms. The Livestock Exchange and American Royal buildings can be seen. Serval livestock pens are in view.
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 second floor plan for the Livestock Exchange Building in the Kansas City Stockyards (part of a set of blueprints).
Date: 1909-12-30
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Live stock Exchange Building Blueprint
Description: Blueprint of the Live Stock Exchange Building's East Elevation (front view). Wilder and Wight are listed as architects on this blueprint.
Date: 1909
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 first floor plan for the Livestock Exchange Building in the Kansas City Stockyards (part of a set of blueprints).
Date: 1909-12-30
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: 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

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: Map of the Kansas City Stock Yards
Description: Map of the Kansas City Stock Yards vicinity with pens designated as Bull Dealers, Calf Dealers, Live Stock Commission Men, Cow Traders, and Steer Traders. The map also has individual names listed under each category.
Date: 1917
Object Type: Map

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