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 Image: Title: Date: Description:
1. Cowden Manufacturing Company Cowden Manufacturing Company Full frontal and side view; located at 412 W. 8th. Also shows eastern entrance to 8th Street tunnel.
2. Cowden Manufacturing Company Cowden Manufacturing Company Full frontal and side view. Also shows eastern entrance to 8th Street tunnel.
3. 8th Street Tunnel, Wholesale District 8th Street Tunnel, Wholesale District 2 postcard views of the 8th Street Tunnel and Wholesale District
4. Robert Gillham Robert Gillham Photos and information on Robert Gillham (1854-1899), the leading cable car engineer of Kansas City and designer of the 9th Street Incline and the 8th Street Tunnel, connecting Union Depot in the West...
5. 8th Street Tunnel 8th Street Tunnel West entrance to 8th Street Tunnel.
6. Broadway & 8th Street Broadway & 8th Street Postcard view of Broadway & 8th Street
7. 8th Street Tunnel 8th Street Tunnel
8. Aerial View of Downtown and West Bottoms Kansas City Aerial View of Downtown and West Bottoms Kansas City Aerial view of downtown Kansas City, Missouri, with 8th Street tunnel's west portal in left foreground, Quality Hill, West Bluffs, portion of the West Bottoms, and I-70 to the left and the 12th Street...
9. Street Railways Street Railways Information about the Kansas City and Westport Horse Railroad, streetcars, trolleys, cable cars, the 8th Street tunnel, and incline as well as about the men responsible like Nehemiah Holmes, Bernard Corrigan,...
10. Hughes' Kansas City Views Hughes' Kansas City Views //1898-1899 Photo of "The Eighth Street Tunnel" for the elevated street railway through the bluff.
11. Kansas City Views and Buildings Featured in Harper's Weekly Kansas City Views and Buildings Featured in Harper's Weekly 1888 This two-page spread of engravings of views of Kansas City, Missouri, "from photographs by D. D. Thomson & Co.," was published as a supplement to Harper's Weekly, September 15, 1888, pages 702 and 703....
12. History of Kansas City, Missouri History of Kansas City, Missouri 1888 Portrait and biographical sketch of Robert Gillham, "one of the pioneers in cable railway construction" and "the founder of Kansas City's Cable Railway System," born in New York in 1854 and coming to Kansas...
13. Union Depot Painting Union Depot Painting 1890 A large painting of Union Depot and surroundings was donated to the Kansas City Public Library in the 1960s by its painter George Fuller Green.
14. Streetcar Track Streetcar Track 1892 Distant view looking northeast at incline, 8th Street Tunnel, and West Bluffs.
15. Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1, 1895-1907, Page p011 Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1, 1895-1907, Page p011 1895-1907 Northern edge of early Kansas City. Quality Hill area showing buildings, railroad lines, and streets. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page showing adjoining area.
16. Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1, 1895-1907, Page p012 Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1, 1895-1907, Page p012 1895-1907 Northern part of early Kansas City from W. 8th Street south to W. 10th Street and from Bluff Street east to Washington Street, showing buildings, railroad lines, and streets. Large numbers at edges of...
17. Hughes' Kansas City Views Hughes' Kansas City Views 1896 Photo of "The Eighth Street Tunnel" for the elevated street railway through the bluff.
18. Kansas City Illustrated, 1902 Kansas City Illustrated, 1902 1902 Photo of the "Eighth Street Tunnel" for street cars through the bluff.
19. General Plan and Profile of Proposed Eighth Street Tunnel General Plan and Profile of Proposed Eighth Street Tunnel 1903 Map of proposed 8th Street Tunnel providing both above ground and underground depictions.
20. Transportation Photograph Scrapbook Finding Aid Transportation Photograph Scrapbook Finding Aid 1910-1917 (bulk 1915) The collection includes 549 negatives and 318 original prints of images taken in the 1910s focusing on railroads and transportation and rural and urban life. The geographic scope is the Midwest, primarily...