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Title: 4th Street Viaduct and Bluff Street Bridge
Description: View looking northeast of the 4th Street Viaduct and the Bluff Street Bridge from the Chicago, Burlington and Qunicy Railroad tracks in the West Bottoms. The second Hannibal Bridge can be seen in the background. A sign near the railroad tracks reads: This Structure Will Not Clear A Man On Side of Cars.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Photograph

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

Title: Kersey Coates Terrace North of Twelfth Street, before Roadway was Graded
Description: Image of a small house located on the West Bluffs area just east of the West Bottoms before the construction of West Terrace Park. Three African American children can be seen looking out from the house. A few structures located in the Quality Hill neighborhood can be seen in the upper portion of the image. Item appears within the 1905 report of the Kansas City Board of Park and Boulevard Commissioners.
Date: 1890~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: West Bluffs from the West Bottoms
Description: Panoramic view looking east showing the West Bluffs and Quality Hill from the West Bottoms. Union Depot, and the Ninth Street Incline can be seen on the left hand side of the image. The 12th Street Viaduct leading up the West Bluffs toward downtown is in the center of the image. Several buildings and railroad cars in the West Bottoms can be seen. Signs for the J. F. Grindell and Company and the Chicago and Alton Railroad Freight Depot are in view.
Date: 1890~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Missouri River
Description: Postcard view of the Missouri River and the West Bottoms taken from downtown. Houses on the rocky bluff that would later form West Terrace Park can be seen.
Date: 1903~
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Looking Northwest from Payne's Addition
Description: View looking northwest into the West Bottoms from Payne's Addition, now 12th Street, from south of Ottawa Street atop the West Bluffs in the Quality Hill area. Several early West Bottoms buildings are in view. The Missouri River can be seen in the background.
Date: 1870-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Aerial View of Downtown Kansas City
Description: Aerial view of downtown Kansas City looking east. At the right side of the image is the Kansas City Power & Light Building, with Municipal Auditorium immediately to the west. To its left, in the bottom half of the image, the 12th Street Bridge descends into the West Bottoms. The double-towered building at the left of the image is the Fidelity National Bank building. Also visible are the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, Kansas City City Hall, and Jackson County Courthouse.
Date: 1958-09
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

Title: Bird's-Eye View of West Terrace Showing Suggested Improvements
Description: Drawing showing the West Bottoms, West Terrace, West Bluffs, and Downtown areas of Kansas City, Missouri, created to display suggested improvements to the area that would become West Terrace Park. Item appears within the first report of the Kansas City Board of Park and Boulevard Commissioners.
Date: 1893
Object Type: Artwork

Title: Streetcar Track
Description: Distant view looking northeast at incline, 8th Street Tunnel, and West Bluffs.
Date: 1892
Object Type: Photograph

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