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Title
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Kansas City in 1879
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1879
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Title
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Area of the Stockyards and Kaw River
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Description
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Area of the Stockyards and the Kaw River between 23rd St. Viaduct and Central Ave, showing buildings including Swift and Co., no date.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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23rd Street Viaduct - Looking South
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1961-07-26
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Bird's Eye View - Kansas City
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Kansas City Stockyards
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Description
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Exterior view of the Kansas City Stockyards presumably taken looking west from the Livestock Exchange Building.
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Date
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1930~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Stockyards
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1950~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Railroad tracks along Kaw River
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1930~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas Avenue Bridge
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Description
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Blueprint for the Kansas Avenue Bridge showing details of portals and handrails. This blueprint is one of a set of 27 blueprints of the Kansas Avenue Bridge showing details for railway truss, substructure, railings, lamp posts, floor drains, wire pole connections, stresses, beams, girders, portals, handrails, columns, etc., 1914. Hedrick and Cochrane (consulting engineers) are identified on some of the sheets.
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Date
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1914
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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4th Street Viaduct and West Bottoms
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1950~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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American Royal Construction
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Description
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Construction site for the American Royal Building, September 22, 1922.
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Date
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1922-09-22
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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American Royal Construction
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Description
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Construction site for the American Royal Building, August 31, 1922.
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Date
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1922-08-31
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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American Royal Construction
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Description
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Construction site for the American Royal Building, June 1, 1922.
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Date
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1922-06-01
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Object Type
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Photograph
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