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Title
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Muehlebach Hotel
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Description
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Postcard of the Muehlebach Hotel.
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Date
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1915~
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Dixon Hotel
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Description
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Postcard of the Dixon Hotel.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Hotel Commonwealth
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Description
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Postcard of the Hotel Commonwealth that once stood at 12th Street and Broadway Boulevard.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Baltimore Hotel
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Description
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Postcard of the Baltimore Hotel, 11th Street entrance
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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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Westgate Hotel
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Description
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Postcard of the Westgate Hotel that formerly stood at the Junction of Main and Delaware streets at 9th Street.
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Date
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1919~
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Orpheum Theater
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Description
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Postcard of the Orpheum Theater that once stood on Baltimore Avenue between 12th and 13th streets.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Orpheum Theater
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Description
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Postcard of the Orpheum Theater.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Gayety Theater
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Description
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Postcard of the Gayety Theater that once stood on the southeast corner of 12th and Wyandotte streets.
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Date
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1912~
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Broadway & 8th Street
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Description
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Postcard view of Broadway Boulevard and 8th Street.
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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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Gayety Theater
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Description
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A promotional postcard for the Gayety Theater.
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Date
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1912~
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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
