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adminMichael Bushnell Publisher With the dog days of summer wrapping up, it seems fitting to showcase something cool and historic at the same time. Hence, we offer this linen style…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher This real photo postcard was published by the North American Postcard Company of Kansas City, Mo. The view shows vehicles, both motorized and horse drawn, owned by the…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher The intersection of Thompson Avenue and Gladstone Boulevard looks only a little different in 2023 than it did in 1910 when this hand colored postcard was published by…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher In 1886 Thomas Stafford and Charles Murray, students at William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., along with some members of the Olive Street Baptist Church, organized a mission…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher Sweeney’s Army Motor Mechanics School is shown on this real photo postcard dated Aug. 18, 1918. The school was founded by Emory J. Sweeney in 1908 at 429…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher The venerable Densmore Hotel located at 906-914 Locust was part of Kansas City’s downtown for almost 100 years. Built in 1898, the Densmore was unique in that it…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher Making the floods of 1903 and 1908 seem insignificant in comparison, the flood of 1951 was dubbed “The Great Flood” with the local mantra, “May there be no…
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…
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