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adminMichael BushnellReporter In honor of the upcoming Veteran’s Day holiday, we offer this historic postcard, titled “United States Troops Crossing Intercity Viaduct, Kansas City, Mo.,”which shows what seems to be…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher Looking east on Armour Boulevard from Main Street today, this is hardly the sight we see. That said, in the 1920’s when the SouthWest News Company took the…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher Since the initial construction of Cliff Drive in the late 1890’s and early 1900’s, it was often thought that the Scarritt Spring was under where the existing Carl…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher This postcard published by Max Bernstein of Kansas City, Mo., shows the mid-1920’s Kansas City skyline. The printed description on the back of the card reads, “This shows…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher Hardly the downtown of today, this black and white lithographed postcard shows a view looking east-northeast from the Coates House Hotel at 11th Street and Broadway Boulevard. Published…
adminBy Michael Bushnell, Publisher The streetcars dominate the scene in this postcard published by Max Bernstein in the late teens or early 1920’s. Several automobiles are also in view, but…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher “Dear Cousin, I like the chickens fine. We got two eggs today. They are all counted here. Jennie, if you have the lard you don’t need to save…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher Shortly after lumber baron Robert A. Long completed his palatial Gladstone Boulevard mansion in 1910, he began to assemble large tracts of what was then farmland just…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher While the Charles E. Whitaker Federal Courthouse might be an iconic addition to Kansas City’s skyline, the now long forgotten and demolished YMCA building at 10th and Oak…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher This Linen-era, Art Tone, “Glo-Var” finished postcard was published exclusively by the Beals Postcard Company of Des Moines, Iowa. It shows LCT-291 being launched into the Missouri…
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