Sunday School at Oakley M.E. Church
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News March 13, 2013 In 1885, Mr. Alfred Zartman, assisted by a J.W. Jenkins and a George Larkin, conducted a Sunday School class in the…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News March 13, 2013 In 1885, Mr. Alfred Zartman, assisted by a J.W. Jenkins and a George Larkin, conducted a Sunday School class in the…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News March 6, 2013 This historic postcard was published by the South West News Company of Kansas City, Mo. and shows what was then referred to…
February 20, 2013 This linen style postcard published by the Sanborn Souvenir Company of Denver, Colo., shows the newly constructed Fort Collins Municipal Light Plant in Fort Collins, Colo.…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News February 13, 2013 Around 200 AD (CE), the Roman Emperor Claudius was busy conquering various parts of Europe and Asia, making a general nuisance of…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News February 6, 2013 Once the pride of the Black Ball Line, the Ferry Kalakala was, and quite frankly, still is the world’s first streamlined ferry.…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News January 30, 2013 If you’re noticing a theme here in the historic postcard column over the last couple of weeks, you’d be correct. TWA Stratoliners, quaint…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News January 23, 2013 On Sunday, May 15, 1513, Spanish explorer Antonio de Herrera penned these words upon his discovery of the islands we now call the…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News January 16, 2013 To be repeated in your best airport announcer voice, with feeling and inflection: “Teeee Double UUU AAAY announces the departure of the…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News January 9, 2013 This week, we take a look at an early vocational technical training school in old Kansas City. Sweeney’s Army Motor Mechanics School…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News January 2, 2013 In addition to picture-view postcards that show scenes from cities and towns across America, there used to be millions of cards created…