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adminThe cliffs located in Historic Northeast Kansas City offered noted Landscape Architect George Kessler a great challenge. Kessler, for whom the park that runs along the rocky bluffs north and…
adminBy Michael Bushnell By 1912, Kansas City’s parks and boulevards system had a budget of a little over $7 million per year. The Kessler-designed system of parks connected by wide,…
adminBy Michael Bushnell What Americans celebrate today as Thanksgiving is traditionally tied to a three-day feast involving the Pilgrims after their first American harvest in 1621. The previous winter had…
adminBy Michael Bushnell In today’s world of multi-billion dollar airline mergers and acquisitions, it’s difficult to conceive of a small regional carrier with seven or eight aircrafts with scheduled and…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News In observance of Veteran’s Day, we bring you this circa 1919 postcard dedicated to raising funds for French orphans during and after WWI. This postcard, published…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher These two black and white postcards from roughly 1940 show Assumption Parish and Convent located in the 300 block of Benton Boulevard. Construction of the church building…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News This is the second Historic postcard in a two week series spotlighting the American Legion Convention in 1921, when the Liberty Memorial site was dedicated, and…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher This week we begin a two-card Historic Postcard series that centers on the dedication of the Liberty Memorial site 100 years ago during the American Legion Convention.…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News This week we offer a circa 1913 Detroit Publishing Phost-Tint postcard showing the original Hannibal Bridge over the Missouri River, taken during a period of high…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher General Hospital, or City Hospital as it was originally referred to, got its start in 1870 on a hill overlooking OK Creek near 22nd Street and McCoy…
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