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By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News June 12, 2013 Seems fitting with the spring rains we’re experiencing that we run a photo postcard showing a scene in the West Bottoms during…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News June 12, 2013 Seems fitting with the spring rains we’re experiencing that we run a photo postcard showing a scene in the West Bottoms during…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News June 5, 2013 Just in time for Sugar Creek’s annual Slavic Festival this weekend, we bring you this postcard published by the…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News May 29, 2013 Published by the Missouri Pacific & Iron Mountain Railroad by Buxton & Skinner Litho, St. Louis. This promotional postcard bears…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News May 22, 2013 William H. “Dad” Martin of Ottawa, Kan., is considered to be the father of the exaggerated postcard. Some of…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News May 15, 2013 The great Kansas City real estate developer J.C. Nichols is not known to blunder often, especially in matters of real estate.…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News May 1, 2013 Wednesday, May 7, a regular day: The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-4, the Chicago Cubs beat the Brooklyn…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News May 1, 2013 This 1942 Max Bernstein linen postcard depicts the Aircraft Assembly Plant, Fairfax Industrial District, Kansas City, Kan. Sent on Feb. 11, 1942,…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News April 24, 2013 Dedicated on Feb. 22, 1899, Kansas City’s new Convention Hall was as state-of-the-art as you could get for that time period. City…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News April 10, 2013 This early postcard shows the Sugar Creek Refinery, Standard Oil Co., near Kansas City, Mo. The Missouri River and the operations of…