Category Archives: Vintage Image of the Week

CATFISH AND EELS CAUGHT IN THE OSAGE RIVER

Posted on October 24, 2012 by admin

Real photo postcard, circa 1910 Handwritten’ labels’ on the card beside each fish identify  three blue catfish and two American eels, the largest of which is 27 pounds. At the end of the card is written: “These are fish from … Continue reading →

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MYSTERY STEAMBOAT PHOTOGRAPH, OSAGE RIVER?

Posted on October 17, 2012 by admin

Real photo postcard, 1915-1925 This came with the identified Lock & Dam #1 photo. It looks like an excursion boat and is named the S. Katherine. Don’t see any smokestacks but it’s also got staple holes, similar to the Lock … Continue reading →

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JERICO SPRINGS, MISSOURI

Posted on October 10, 2012 by admin

Real photo postcard, circa 1910, by Surtle Today virtually a ghost town, Jerico Springs has suffered the population loss of many villages in the Osage basin. As well as being a trade center for small prairie farms, there was a … Continue reading →

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OSAGE CHIEF BACON RIND

Posted on October 3, 2012 by admin

Real photo postcard, 1920s Wah-she-hah was called Bacon Rind, but the real translation of his Osage name was Star-That-Travels. He was born in Kansas a decade before the Osage tribe bought their reservation in northeast Oklahoma. He was a superb … Continue reading →

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OSCEOLA DAM

Posted on August 20, 2012 by admin

Real photo postcard, postmarked May 22, 1951 In the late 1920s, Ozark Utilities Company of Bolivar built a low hydroelectric dam at Osceola. While it did block spawning runs of fish (except during very high water), the reservoir it created, … Continue reading →

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Lock and Dam No. 1

Posted on July 20, 2012 by admin

Real photo postcard, 1910-1920. Businessmen along the Osage River agitated for generations for engineering improvements that would facilitate steamboat traffic on the river. Finally in the late 1800s, politicians bullied the Army Corps of Engineers into building a disastrous lock … Continue reading →

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