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 Image: Title: Date: Description:
1. 9th Street 9th Street 1888 Looking east along 9th from Washington. Shows cable car.
2. A Trolley Builder Gone A Trolley Builder Gone June/26/1913 Biographical article about George Townsend, one of the promoters of the Kansas City, Saint Joseph & Excelsior Springs electric line, reported missing.
3. Biography of Robert Gillham (1854-1899), Rapid Transit Pioneer Biography of Robert Gillham (1854-1899), Rapid Transit Pioneer 1999
4. Cable Car Cable Car 1887 Grand Avenue Railway cable car making loop near 1st and Grand.
5. Cable Car and Employees Cable Car and Employees Unidentified employees with cable car 52.
6. Cable Car and Employees Cable Car and Employees Unidentified employees in cable car number 20, Holmes Street to Post Office.
7. 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.
8. Cable Car Employees Cable Car Employees 1895 Group portrait of unidentified employees before cable car number 20, Holmes Street to Post Office.
9. Cable Car Work Cable Car Work 1886 Early view of Kansas City, looking west along 12th from Main at workers laying cable car tracks. First Baptist Church in the background located at 12th and Baltimore.
10. Cable Cars Cable Cars
11. Cable Cars--An Adventure: City's Early Day Transit Line Ran along Old 'Ninth Street' Incline Cable Cars--An Adventure: City's Early Day Transit Line Ran along Old 'Ninth Street' Incline December//1978 History of street cars in its changing forms from the "abortive attempt. ..in 1860 to start a street railway" drawn by horses, to cable cars, electric cable cars, and finally buses.
12. Cable Cars among Crowd Cable Cars among Crowd 1900 Number of cable cars in the midst of a crowd scene at 9th and Walnut.
13. Cable Cars in Kansas City Cable Cars in Kansas City [1969] A 10 page typewritten paper on the history of cable cars in Kansas City from their introduction in 1885 to discontinuation in 1913, with details about their construction and operation as early streetcars....
14. Cable Cars on Bridge Cable Cars on Bridge 1895 Looking north from Independence avenue at cable cars atop Prospect Avenue bridge.
15. Cable Railway in Kansas City Cable Railway in Kansas City June 11, 1972
16. Cable Railways: Their History, and Use in America Cable Railways: Their History, and Use in America July//1889 History of street railways, starting with animal-drawn cable cars in London and Philadelphia in the early 1850s, and later in Kansas City. Career biography of Robert Gillham, as well, with his work with...
17. Crowded Cable Car Crowded Cable Car 1900 Unidentified members of Commercial Club on cable car 167.
18. Did You Know. ..? Did You Know. ..? March-April//1987 Article contains four historic facts about the following: (1) the Holmes Street Railway, (2) the placement of streets in the Midtown district "in a basic grid pattern," (3) the first automobile built in...
19. Dodson Line 65 Dodson Line 65 Summer 1950 75th and Wornall, electric railway. On back of photograph, written in blue ink, "KCPS 1175 (Dodson), 75th @ Wornall, Summer 1950."
20. 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,...