Armour-Holmes Kansas City, Missouri, 1909 – Vintage Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic image captures Armour-Holmes Kansas City, Missouri, 1909 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Armour Blvd. and Holmes St., Kansas City, Mo.
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Armour-Holmes Kansas City, Missouri, 1909
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In 1909 Kansas City, Missouri, was a fast-growing river city whose fortunes rested on cattle, grain, and rail. Its neighbor across the state line, the Kansas City stockyards at Armourdale, drew meatpackers such as Armour and Company, and the packing trade shaped jobs, freight traffic, and the city's reputation as a livestock market across the Plains. The panorama's title, Armour-Holmes, points to that packing and commercial world, which the people living here would have recognized as the source of much of their daily work. Kansas City was also expanding its streetcar lines, its boulevards, and its public parks, and its civic leaders were pressing for better river crossings and wholesale districts. Within a few years the city would count a quarter of a million residents, and this view captures the industrial ambition behind that growth.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | jones, w. h. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Missouri |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,314 × 1,062 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Armour Blvd. and Holmes St., Kansas City, Mo. |
| Reference | MO Armour-Holmes Kansas City 1909 |
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