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adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News The Collinwood Apartments, located at 2501-2519 E. Linwood Boulevard, were developed and built by William H. Collins and his architect John W. McKecknie. The design was…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News Depending on whom you ask, the geographic center of the United States could be one of four different places, all in various midwestern states. Kansas is…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News Arguably one of the finest examples of Art Deco architecture in the country, rivaled only by the Chrysler Building in New York City, the Kansas City…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News This view of The Paseo, between 15th and 16th Streets, looks north toward the old Chace School, circa 1907 or 1908. The Chace Public School was…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News This Halloween, we depart from our traditional jack-o-lantern or witching-style postcard and offer this literary postcard published by the Webb Freyschlag Company of Kansas City. The…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News The roots of today’s American Royal can be traced to 1899 when the fledgling event was referred to as the National Hereford Show. Billed as the…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News Advertising postcards such as these were used widely by automobile dealers from the early 1920s through the golden age of picture postcards, the late 1950s. These…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News Print advertisements placed by the Oldsmobile Company in 1939 tout the new Olds “60” as the “car that tamed the Belgian Block,” referring to how well…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News William H. “Dad” Martin of Ottawa, Kansas, is considered to be the father of the exaggerated postcard. Some of his better work featured huge ears of…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News Today is National Cheeseburger Day! With that, we acknowledge that some of the best burgers can be found in the most interesting places. For example, St.…
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