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1. 28 Years of Cable Cars in Kansas City 28 Years of Cable Cars in Kansas City Summer, 1993 Article about the history and unique facts about cable cars and street railways other than the electric type in Kansas City, detailing each company, with photos.
2. Cable Car Cable Car 1887 Grand Avenue Railway cable car making loop near 1st and Grand.
3. Cable Car and Employees Cable Car and Employees Unidentified employees with cable car 52.
4. Cable Car and Employees Cable Car and Employees Unidentified employees in cable car number 20, Holmes Street to Post Office.
5. Cable Car and Horse-Drawn Wagon Cable Car and Horse-Drawn Wagon 1900 Cable car traveling near 9th and Mulberry in West Bottoms. Also shows 9th Street elevated line.
6. Cable Car Employees Cable Car Employees 1895 Group portrait of unidentified employees before cable car number 20, Holmes Street to Post Office.
7. Cable Cars among Crowd Cable Cars among Crowd 1900 Number of cable cars in the midst of a crowd scene at 9th and Walnut.
8. Cable Cars on Bridge Cable Cars on Bridge 1895 Looking north from Independence avenue at cable cars atop Prospect Avenue bridge.
9. Car Barn Fire (1923) Car Barn Fire (1923) December 25, 1923 News of the destruction by fire of the car barn and armory building at 39th and Main Streets in 1923.
10. Crowded Cable Car Crowded Cable Car 1900 Unidentified members of Commercial Club on cable car 167.
11. Electric Trolley Electric Trolley World's first electric trolley car invented and operated in Kansas City by John C. Henry in 1885, replacing non-electric trolleys by 1913 and quitting themselves in 1959.First application of the word,...
12. Four Cable Cars and Bridge Four Cable Cars and Bridge 1895 Four cable cars coming off Bluff Street Bridge.
13. Intersection of 9th and Main Intersection of 9th and Main 1900 Illustration of intersection of 9th and Main, looking west at cable car traveling along 9th Street.
14. Kansas City Has Had Transit System since the Civil War Kansas City Has Had Transit System since the Civil War August//1971 History of the public transit systems of the city since the Civil War, including mule cars, cable cars, trolleys, electric street cars, and even subways (on 8th Street under the bluff, closed in the 1920s)...
15. Kansas City: An American Story Kansas City: An American Story 1999 Maps, illustrations, photos, and descriptions of Kansas City's streetcar and railway systems in the late 19th century, including the 8th Street Tunnel, the 9th Street Incline, and the 12th Street Incline,...
16. Man near Cable Car Man near Cable Car 1915 Large car making a turn in unidentified street.
17. Marion Smith Obituary Marion Smith Obituary March/3/1970 Obituary for Miss Marion Smith (dying on March 2, 1970), daughter of the late William Smith, one of the founders of the first cable car company in Kansas City.
18. Memories Revived by the Abandonment of the "L" Structure Memories Revived by the Abandonment of the "L" Structure January/1/1923 Photos and caption about the "first type of electric car used over the elevated structure," and the "entrance to the old Eighth street tunnel built to accommodate the old cable cars," initially "at the...
19. Street Car near Car Barn Street Car near Car Barn 1890 Troost, Washington, & Summit Street line cable car near car barn.
20. Street Railway System Street Railway System January-December//1892 Several references and short articles about Kansas City's street railway system, including both cable and electric cars and related topics.