Digital Collections

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.