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Damming the Osage
Meramec Cave – early tourism
Real photo postcard. Entrance to Meramec Cave in Stanton, Missouri. Probably 1930s Caves have been inhabited and served as…
CAUGHT AT OSCEOLA MO – Spoonbill / Paddlefish
On the back of the low-contrast, rather unfocused postcard is a discussion of the edibility of the “spoonbill catfish,” written…
WHAT A COMBINATION—PHOTO GALLERY AND BUTCHER SHOP!
Cabinet card, Linn Creek, Missouri, circa 1890. F. Lloyd, photographer. Young Sam Clemens grew up in a bigger Missouri river…
Legendary Ha Ha Tonka “Castle”
Robert M. Snyder engaged the services of a Kansas City architectural firm, A. Van Brunt and Brother, to design a…