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adminMichael BushnellPublisher West Terrace Park was one of Kansas City’s first parks, originally proposed by landscape architect George Kessler in his plan to develop a “city within a park” in…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher This week, we feature a promotional postcard for the Southwest Milling Company showing the company’s A and B Flour Mills. The “A” mill was built in 1913 near…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher Seventeen carloads of 8-inch ice, direct from the Nemaha River near Lincoln, Nebraska were received in this city on Sunday last by the K.C. & Wyandotte Ice Company.…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher This week’s Historic postcard is a C.T. American Art Blue-Sky postcard published by E.D. Zellner of Junction City, Kan., showing the first Territorial Capitol Building, now located on…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher This Linen era postcard published by The Allis Press of Kansas City shows The Plaza Hotel located on Pershing Road just West of Main Street, directly across…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher This week, we offer this advertising postcard from the Blue Valley Creamery Company, spotlighting three of the company’s facilities in Sioux City, Iowa; St. Joseph, Mo.; and…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher This week’s Historic Postcard is a Chrome era postcard depicting Christmas at the Wornall House. The house was built in 1858 by John Wornall, who emigrated to…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher This promotional postcard was published by Kansas City-based postcard publisher James Tetirick, located at 619 W. 33rd. The Royal Family of Downtown Merchants commissioned the picture postcard…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News Swope Park was a donation to the City of Kansas City made by Col. Thomas Swope, a prominent area real estate developer. Swope arrived in Kansas…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher When John Warneke arrived in Jackson County, Mo., in 1866, Kansas City’s population barely topped 15,000 souls, all intent on making a life in the newly-settled boom…
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