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Nineteenth-Century Kansas City

These late nineteenth-cenutry images of early Kansas City, primarily the 1870s-1890s, provide unique views such as the Board of Trade building under construction, exterior and interior views of the glass Exposition Building, unusual weather events, hotels, and businesses. Early transportation is depicted by bridges, street cars, trains, railroad stations, etc. The bulk of these photographs are from the William Hyde collection and two scrapbooks-Number 1 and Number 3.
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Elevated Railway Image 1885~ Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
Elevated Railway Bridge Image 1885~ Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
Elevated Railway to Chelsea Park, Kansas City, Kansas Image 1885~ Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
Elevated Railway Tracks Image 1888 Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
Ellsworth Zouaves Image 1900 Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
Engine Room Workers Image 1888-03-25 Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
Exposition Building Image 1887 Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
Exposition Building Under Construction Image 1887 Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
Ferguson and Slavens Packing House and Deamon Mills - West Kansas City Image 1870 Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
Fire Damage Image Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
Fire Damaged Building Image Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
First Elevator in Kansas City Image 1870~ Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
First National Bank Building Image 1870 Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
Flooded Harlem, Missouri Image 1881 Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
Flooded Missouri River Image 1881 Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
Flooded Residential Area Image Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
Garnott School Image 1888-07-17 Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
Gas Works Image 1868-04 Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
Gaston Park (later Observation Park) Image 1878 Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
Gillis House Image 1867~ Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
Gillis House and Missouri River Image 1870~ Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
Gillis House Hotel and Missouri River Image 1869 Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
Gillis House Hotel and Missouri River Image 1869 Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
Grand Avenue Ravine Image 1879-08 Nineteenth-Century Kansas City
Group Portrait Image Nineteenth-Century Kansas City