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Title: Kansas City in 1879
Description: Promotional booklet for Kansas City, Missouri. Item includes sections covering the development of the city's business interests, a list of buildings constructed in 1878, its history, its geographic advantages, descriptions of various businesses and public institutions, descriptions of its suburbs, and advertisements.
Date: 1879

Title: Area of the Stockyards and Kaw River
Description: Area of the Stockyards and the Kaw River between 23rd St. Viaduct and Central Ave, showing buildings including Swift and Co., no date.
Object Type: Photograph

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: Entrance to Kansas City Stock Yards, 16th and Genesee Streets
Description: Postcard of entrance to the Kansas City Stockyards, where the 12th St. Cable transfers with the Armourdale Electric Line.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Kansas City Livestock Exchange Building
Description: Postcard of the Livestock Exchange Building in the West Bottoms.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Kansas City Stockyards
Description: Postcard of the Kansas City Stockyards in the West Bottoms.
Date: 1899
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: Kansas City Stockyards
Description: Exterior view of the Kansas City Stockyards presumably taken looking west from the Livestock Exchange Building.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

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: Railroad tracks along Kaw River
Description: Santa Fe main line tracks between the Kaw River and the adjacent bluffs, looking east from the 7th Street Bridge. Photograph is part of proposed flood control projects to raise levees and railroad tracks along the Kaw River.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4th Street Viaduct and West Bottoms
Description: View looking west of the 4th Street Viaduct stretching over the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad tracks into the West Bottoms. The Intercity Viaduct leading to Kansas City, Kansas, can be seen. Smokestacks from meat packing facilities are in view in the distance.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ferguson and Slavens Packing House and Deamon Mills - West Kansas City
Description: View looking west into the West Bottoms from about 6th and Bluff streets showing the Ferguson, Slavens and Company packing house and Deamon Mills. The Missouri River can be seen on the right hand side of the image.
Date: 1870
Object Type: Photograph

Title: American Royal Construction
Description: Construction site for the American Royal Building, September 22, 1922.
Date: 1922-09-22
Object Type: Photograph

Title: American Royal Construction
Description: Construction site for the American Royal Building, August 31, 1922.
Date: 1922-08-31
Object Type: Photograph

Title: American Royal Construction
Description: Construction site for the American Royal Building, June 1, 1922.
Date: 1922-06-01
Object Type: Photograph

Title: American Royal Construction
Description: Construction site for the American Royal Building with worker, August 1, 1922.
Date: 1922-08-01
Object Type: Photograph

Title: American Royal Construction
Description: Construction site for the American Royal Building, March 10, 1922.
Date: 1922-03-10
Object Type: Photograph

Title: American Royal Construction
Description: Construction site for the American Royal Building, July 3, 1922.
Date: 1922-07-03
Object Type: Photograph

Title: American Royal Construction
Description: Construction site for the American Royal Building, July 3, 1922.
Date: 1922-07-03
Object Type: Photograph

Title: American Royal Construction
Description: Construction site for the American Royal Building, June 1, 1922.
Date: 1922-06-01
Object Type: Photograph

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