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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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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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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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

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FORT OSAGE MOVIE

Movie Lobby Card, 1952 Fort Osage, a 72 minute B movie from Monogram Studio,has Red Cameron guiding a wagon train through Indian Territory. The Osages are unhappy with the Anglo-Saxon immigrants because of the treating-violating proclivities of the white men. … Continue reading

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BRIDGING THE OSAGE

 Hand colored postcard, circa 1910 Marais des Cygnes, variously creatively spelled, is the principal extension of the Osage River. Through Kansas it’s a more bridge-able stream, and was crossed in many places by iron truss bridges beginning in the 1870s. … Continue reading

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