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adminMichael BushnellPublisher This 1920 Fred Harvey postcard is entitled “Gladstone Boulevard looking North” and shows the 400 block of one of Kansas City’s first two boulevards. Kansas City’s impressive park…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher This week’s linen style postcard features a typical boat and fishing dock at Lake of the Ozarks, Mo.An 1893 relief map of the Osage River shows a meandering…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher In their 1950 book, “City of the Future,” which celebrates Kansas City’s first 100 years, Henry Haskell Jr. and Richard B. Fowler give this description on the inaugural…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher In 1889, when cattle, pigs and all manner of livestock still roamed the streets of Kansas City, voters approved the then massive sum of $300,000 for the construction…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher Downtown Kansas City’s Stats Hotel at 12th & Wyandotte was proclaimed to be at the center of everything when it was built in 1923 by Samuel J. Stats.…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher On October 4, 1946, “Pearle” sent this black and white, photo postcard to her mother, Mrs. Walter Cochran of Frankfort, Kan. The personal message reads: “Dear Mother, how…
adminBy Michael Bushnell, Publisher This week, in tandem with our summer interns’ story on Juneteenth, we spotlight the Paseo YMCA located at 18th and The Paseo. It is a prominent…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher This week, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening of Worlds of Fun on May 26, 1973, we offer this Chrome-era postcard of the Cotton Blossom, one…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher Upon its completion in 1914, the Montgomery Ward Distribution Center in Historic Northeast Kansas City was billed as the largest building west of the Mississippi River. Measuring a…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher This week’s Historic Postcard is a Real Photo Postcard published by the North American Postcard Company of Kansas City, Mo., showing the handsome, new three-story Morse Elementary School…
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