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Title
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Midland Hotel
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Description
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Photos, illustrations, and information on the Midland Hotel, built in 1888 at 7th and Walnut Streets (705 Walnut Street) and later used as the Railway Exchange office building before being demolished in 1966.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Midland Hotel
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Description
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Photo of the hotel.
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Date
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1890
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Men Who Are Making Kansas City
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Description
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Photo and bio of William Blood, a hotelier arriving in Kansas City from New York in 1884, becoming the manager of the Midland Hotel and Washington Hotel after working "as collector on Santa Fe trains to the employ of Fred Harvey" and managing other hotels in the Midwest and Kansas City, including the Brunswick Hotel, Henrietta Hotel, Auditorium Hotel, and the Richelieu Hotel.
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Date
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1902
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Railway Exchange Building
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Description
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Opened on September 6, 1888. Designed by John Wellborn Root. Granite base with clean cut exterior walls of red pressed brick and terra cotta. Fine architectural decorations on the capitals at 6th and 8th floor levels.
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Date
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1965-06-05
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Railway Exchange Building - Former Midland Hotel
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Description
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Full frontal and side view of the Railway Exchange Building on the southwest corner of 7th Street and Grand Avenue. Letterhead for the Railway Exchange Building is on the opposite page of the scrapbook.
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Date
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1928
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Cyclorama and the Midland Hotel
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Description
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Rooftop view looking northwest from near 8th and McGee at the Cyclorama theater and the Midland Hotel under construction. The cyclorama is advertising the showing of the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Date
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1887
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Midland Hotel
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Description
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Unidentified men posted near the Midland Hotel after the collapse of the dining room ceiling, in which Frank Edison was killed.
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Date
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1888
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Midland Hotel Construction
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Description
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Looking east at construction of Midland Hotel; located on 7th Street between Grand and Walnut.
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Date
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1886
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Midland Hotel
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Description
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Interior view of doorways and office area.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Midland Hotel
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Description
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Skyline view looking northeast from New York Life Building showing hotel on far left. Also shows Federal Building and Studebaker Brothers.
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Date
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1900
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Midland Hotel
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Description
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Interior view of buffet table and dining area.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Midland Hotel
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Description
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Interior view of lobby with guests.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Midland Hotel. Kansas City, Mo.
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Description
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Postcard showing the Midland Hotel Building that once stood along 7th Street between Walnut Street and Grand Avenue.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Walnut Street
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Description
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Looking northwest from the southwest corner of 8th and Walnut.
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Date
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1910
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Walnut Street
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Description
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Looking south along Walnut from 7th.
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Date
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1910
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Grand Avenue
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Description
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Looking north along Grand Avenue from 8th Street.
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Date
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1900
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Midland Hotel
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Description
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Interior view of buffet table and hotel employees.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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