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Title
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Christmas
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Description
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A Christmas postcard showing two children being pulled by a horse in a sleigh.
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Date
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1907~
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Bandstand in Lenexa, KS
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Description
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Postcard of bandstand in Lenexa, KS with the inscription: Let me know if it will be alright. Plan to go with me to see Cousin Kate.
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Date
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1909~
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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A Merry Halloween
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Description
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A Halloween postcard showing children bobbing for apples.
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Mission Hills Kansas, Old Well
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Description
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Postcard of the old well in the Country Club District in Mission Hills, Kansas. The well was located at State Line and Brookwood roads.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Cliff Drive
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Description
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Postcard of Cliff Drive in North Terrace Park.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Swope Park, Cliffs
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Description
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Postcard of the cliffs in Swope Park.
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Date
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1900~
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Christmas
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Description
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A Christmas postcard featuring a young girl dressed in red and picking holly.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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SC58 Mrs. Sam Ray Postcard Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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Mildred Kittell Ray was born in Halstead, Kansas, on September 22, 1895. An avid collector of postcards (buttons, too), Mrs. Ray, at the age of 72, initiated a column in the Kansas City Times and Kansas City Star entitled "A Postcard from Old Kansas City." The columns ran for 23 years. They proved to be extremely popular with the reading public, and two selected sets of articles were collected and published in book form; the first volume won a national design award from the American Institute of Graphic Arts. The collection consists of over 16,000 postcards and materials associated with Mrs. Ray's writing career. Subjects in the postcards include Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas, the other states of the US, a large number of foreign countries, an assortment of different topics (humor, holidays, etc.), and card format (wood, leather, copper, etc.). Items related to Mrs. Ray's career as a writer include: correspondence; research materials such as newspaper clippings and handwritten notes; draft, manuscript, and published versions of early "pre-postcard" historical articles; postcard articles that were rejected by the publisher; and the texts of lectures and presentations given by Mrs. Ray. Graphic materials make up another part of the collection, with items like advertising envelopes, ephemera from Emery, Bird, Thayer, and a number of photographs. An audiotape of a speech given by Dick Ray (Mrs. Ray's son), on February 13, 1998, at the official debut of the Library's online version of the newspaper column is included in the collection.
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Date
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1890/1998
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Independence, MO, Central High School
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Description
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Postcard of Central High School that once stood on the corner of Pleasant Street and Maple Avenue in Independence, Missouri.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Missouri River, South
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Description
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Postcard view of the downtown and riverfront areas of Kansas City in 1855, looking South from the Missouri River.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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