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Kansas City Cable Railway - 9th Street Incline Engraving
Title
Kansas City Cable Railway - 9th Street Incline Engraving
Description
Photograph of an engraving of the Ninth Street Incline with cable cars ascending from and descending to the West Bottoms. Buildings in the Quality Hill area can be seen.
Date
1880~
Object Type
Photograph
In Kansas City the Town of Wonderful Hills
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