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Title: West Bluffs
Description: Looking northeast along railroad yards toward bluffs. Also shows Union Depot, 9th Street Incline.
Date: 1895
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Streetcar Track
Description: Drawing of a view looking northeast from railway entrance in West Bottoms towards West Bluffs.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Streetcar Line
Description: Looking southeast from north side of incline in West Bottoms. Shows West Bluffs.
Date: 1895
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Streetcar Track
Description: Looking northeast from railway entrance in West Bottoms towards West Bluffs. Shows car making its way along the incline.
Date: 1895
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pre-1900 Downtown Kansas City Skyline
Description: Looking northeast from south end of West Bottoms at West Bluffs.
Date: 1900
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Streetcar Track
Description: Looking east along south side of incline from West Bottoms towards West Bluffs.
Date: 1900
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: 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: 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: Streetcar Track
Description: Distant view looking northeast at incline, 8th Street Tunnel, and West Bluffs.
Date: 1892
Object Type: Photograph