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Title
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9th Street
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Description
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Looking east along the south side of 9th between Central and Wyandotte streets. Yeager Hotel sign in view as well as part of the New England Building and the New York Life Insurance Building.
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Date
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1924-08-18
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Broadway, East
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Description
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Postcard of downtown Kansas City, looking east from Broadway Boulevard.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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9th Street Between Main and Wyandotte
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Description
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Looking west from Main Street along the north side of 9th Street. The second building on the north is the New York Life Building with its bronze eagle designed by sculptor Louis Saint-Gaudens. The building in the next block on the corner of 9th and Baltimore is the Delmar Hotel with the New England Building next door on the corner of 9th and Wyandotte which appears to be the location for TWA airline training.
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Date
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1949
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Object Type
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Photograph
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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
