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OSAGE RIVER BLUFFS NEAR OSCEOLA
Real photo postcard, Osceola Missouri, 1913 The bluffs along the Osage may not have been as spectacular as the larger bluffs along New York’s Hudson, but they excited a similar esthetic appreciation in the writer of an 1888-something booklet extolling … Continue reading
Mansion South Side of Linn Creek
Real photo postcard Atop a small hill is a large frame house with an encircling porch (“veranda” they might have called it). In Kansas City or St. Louis, this would probably not have been considered a mansion, but in the … Continue reading
Spring and Park, Jerico Springs, MO by Suttle
Real photo postcard by Suttle This is an earlier version of the spring and basin (such as it is). Even in the early days, it didn’t pour forth a volume of water. Originally there was a sandstone or limestone rock … Continue reading
Foster, Missouri Railroad Station and Handcar
Cabinet card of Foster, Missouri, circa 1910 The watershed of the upper Osage/Marais des Cygnes, Little Osage and Marmaton rivers is more crisscrossed by railroads than that of the main Osage and contains a number of much-diminished towns like Foster. … Continue reading
SOUVENIR DECAL OF BAGNELL DAM
Water-based Decal, 1950s Water dip decals are colorful cartoonish icons of vintage vacations. They decorated luggage and car windows, commemorating many a family vacation at Niagara Falls, a visit to a buffalo ranch, or Disneyland. Hobbyists have for generations used … Continue reading
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Tagged Bagnell Dam, Damming the Osage, Lake of the Ozarks, osage river, souvenir
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NIGHT HAWKS TAVERN, Camdenton, Missouri
Real photo postcard, 1935-1945 Inscription on back reads – “We enjoyed a fine meal here today with Toots and Jack.” Toots and Jack Stotler operated this thriving business from 1933 until selling to Buford and Anna May Foster in 1945. … Continue reading
Junction of Sac and Osage rivers near Osceola
Real Photo postcard, circa 1920 People have been taking pictures from the overlook on Highway 82 above the junction of the Sac and Osage rivers for a long time. Though the scenery along the Osage was not celebrated in oil … Continue reading
OSAGE RIVER in Flood at the Town of Bagnell
8 x 10 press photo from Chicago. 4/21/41 The cutline reads: “BAGNELL, MO. – This bantam rooster, caught in the flood that has inundated several Ozark towns, found himself floating on a log down the Main Street of Bagnell, Mo., … Continue reading
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Tagged Bagnell, Bagnell Dam, Crystal Payton, Damming the Osage, flood, Lake of the Ozarks, Leland Payton, osage river
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KAYSINGER BLUFF, Warsaw, Missouri
Real photo postcard by McKinney A hundred years before the Army Corps of Engineers Visitor Center was built at the overlook, locals came to picnic and gawk. With a distant view of the Pomme de Terre entering the Osage, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Army Corps of Engineers, osage river, Osceola, pomme de terre, Truman Dam, Warsaw
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LOVERS LEAP, LAKE OF THE OZARKS
Real photo postcard, probably 1940s Lovers Leap was a cliff near Linn Creek, about which J. W. Vincent, editor of the local paper, penned a fanciful tale of a suicidal India maiden. Virtually every declivity more than 25 feet high … Continue reading