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Title
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Historic Kansas City Architecture
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Description
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Building at 112 West 9th Street by Bradley, Winslow & Wetherel of Boston, architects, in 1888. On National Register of Historic Places.
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Date
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1975
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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New England Building
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Description
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Located at the northeast corner of Ninth and Wyandotte Streets, the building was erected in 1888 and was the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Kansas City Views and Buildings Featured in Harper's Weekly
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Description
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This two-page spread of engravings of views of Kansas City, Missouri, "from photographs by D. D. Thomson & Co.," was published as a supplement to Harper's Weekly, September 15, 1888, pages 702 and 703. It includes the New England Building; Board of Trade Building; Packing House District; YMCA Building; Post Office; New York Life Insurance Building; Kansas City Club House; entrance to the tunnel of the elevated railroad; The Junction at 9th and Main streets; 9th Street Cable Railway Incline; and the view "From the Tower of the Cathedral," centering on the Coates Hotel. The reverse side, pages 701 and 704 (not digitized), has the banner headline "The Gateway of Kansas" for an article written by William Willard Howard and includes engravings of the National Exposition Building; First Congregational Church; Warner Grand Opera House; head portraits of C. Ralph Evans, Manager of the National Exposition Company, Victor B. Buck, President of the National Exposition Company and Edward H. Allen [President of the Board of Trade]; and John Doggett's House.
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Date
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1888
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Object Type
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Artwork