Post Cards from Old Kansas City II
Author | : Mrs. Sam Ray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Kansas City (Mo.) |
ISBN | : 9780914160052 |
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Author | : Mrs. Sam Ray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Kansas City (Mo.) |
ISBN | : 9780914160052 |
Author | : Mrs. Sam Ray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Kansas City (Mo.) |
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Author | : Darlene Isaacson |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738531793 |
Kansas City, Missouri, has long been a bustling center of activity in the heart of the Midwest, hosting the railroads that rambled through its stockyards and the jazz pioneers who made a lasting mark on music history. This collection of vintage postcards from the late 1800s through the 1950s brings to life the people, places, and events of old Kansas City. The unique postcards printed in this book capture the historic downtown area and the Country Club Plaza as well as the private notes of a homesick visitor, paying homage to a time long gone, but not forgotten.
Author | : Michael G. Bushnell |
Publisher | : Leathers Pub |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781585972005 |
Author | : Randall Gabrielan |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1999-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738549545 |
Jersey City in Vintage Postcards features selected postcard images, some actual photographs, that depict Jersey Cityas early-twentieth-century rise as one of the Northeastas great urban areas. Many of the views seen here remained intact into the 1940s and 1950s. More than two hundred thirty postcards and photographs, organized geographically, also suggest an evolving Jersey City, while well researched captions describe the changing cityscape.
Author | : James R. Shortridge |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2012-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0700618821 |
Think of Kansas City and you'll probably think of barbecue, jazz, or the Chiefs. But for James Shortridge, this heartland city is more than the sum of its cultural beacons. In Kansas City and How It Grew, 1822-2011, a prize-winning geographer traces the historical geography of a place that has developed over 200 years from a cowtown on the bend of the Missouri River into a metropolis straddling two states. He explores the changing character of the community and its component neighborhoods, showing how the city has come to look and function the way it does—and how it has come to be perceived the way it has. Proximity to Great Plains ranches and farms encouraged early and sustained success for Kansas City meatpackers and millers, and Shortridge shows how local responses to economic realities have molded the city's urban structure. He explores the parallel processes of suburbanization and the restructuring of older areas, and tells what happens when transportation shifts from rivers to railroads, then to superhighways and international airports. He also reveals what historians have missed by tending to focus attention only on one side or the other of the state boundary. The book is a virtual who's who of KC progress: without selective law enforcement under political boss Thomas Pendergast, Kansas City would not enjoy its legacy of jazz; without the gift of Thomas Swope's namesake park, upscale residential expansion likely would have gone east instead of south; and without J. C. Nichols, Johnson County suburbs would have developed in a less spectacular manner. Its insight into important molders of the city includes nearly forgotten names such as William Dalton, Charles Morse, and Willard Winner, plus important figures from more recent years including Kay Barnes, Charles Garney, and Bonnie Poteet. With more than 50 photos and dozens of maps specially created for this book, Kansas City and How It Grew is unique in treating the entire metropolitan area instead of just one portion. With coverage ranging from ethnic neighborhoods to development strategies, it's an indispensable touchstone for those who want to try to understand Kansas City as both a city and a place.
Author | : Robynn Clairday |
Publisher | : Square One Publishers, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780757001024 |
"Postcards From World War II" is a unique look at the history of our nation at war presented through postcard images and messages. 150 full-color postcards.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 766 |
Release | : 1905-03 |
Genre | : Bookbinding |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 734 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Printing |
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Author | : Daniel D. Arreola |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2019-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0816539952 |
Just a trolley ride from El Paso, Ciudad Juárez was a popular destination in the early 1900s. Enticing and exciting, tourists descended on this and other Mexican border towns to browse curio shops, dine and dance, attend bullfights, and perhaps escape Prohibition America. In Postcards from the Chihuahua Border Daniel D. Arreola captures the exhilaration of places in time, taking us back to Mexico’s northern border towns of Cuidad Juárez, Ojinaga, and Palomas in the early twentieth century. Drawing on more than three decades of archival work, Arreola uses postcards and maps to unveil the history of these towns along west Texas’s and New Mexico’s southern borders. Postcards offer a special kind of visual evidence. Arreola’s collection of imagery and commentary about them shows us singular places, enriching our understandings of history and the history of change in Chihuahua. No one postcard tells the entire story. But image after image offers a collected view and insight into changing perceptions. Arreola’s geography of place looks both inward and outward. We see what tourists see, while at the same time gaining insight about what postcard photographers and postcard publishers wanted to be seen and perceived about these border communities. Postcards from the Chihuahua Border is a colorful and dynamic visual history. It invites the reader to time travel, to revisit another era—the first half of the last century—when these border towns were framed and made popular through picture postcards.