Postcards

We're putting the spotlight on some of our favorite special collections in a new video series from the Missouri Valley Special Collections. First up? The Mrs. Sam Ray Postcard Collection (SC58). Watch and learn how a septuagenarian became Kansas City's most prolific public historian.

Beginning at the age of 72, longtime Kansas Citian and avid postcard collector Mildred Kittle Ray began writing her "Postcards from Old Kansas City" columns for the Kansas City Times and the Kansas City Star newspapers. For nearly 30 years, Ray would select one of her many postcards and explain its history and significance to her readers.