Greetings from Kansas pictorial map postcard, circa 1950

Subjects: Agriculture & Farms Large Letter Maps
Card type: Linen
Date: c. 1907 (Golden Age)

Back of Greetings from Kansas pictorial map postcard, circa 1950, c. 1907 linen postcard — Back

About this postcard

A mid-century pictorial map of Kansas titled "Greetings from KANSAS," with the state outlined and filled with small drawings of its products, industries, and landmarks. Icons include hogs, cattle, wheat, corn, sugar beets, oil derricks, a flour sack, airplanes, a printing press, and a buffalo, alongside labeled towns such as Topeka (marked with a red star as capital), Dodge City, Wichita, Abilene, and the Eisenhower Memorial. The state bird (meadowlark) and state flower (sunflower) are drawn at the lower corners, and the map notes the geographic center of the U.S. and the site of the last Indian raid on Kansas soil, 1878. Such large-letter greeting cards were popular souvenirs from the 1930s through the 1950s.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Dear Mathu! We are must through Kansas our to where you see the sugar beets. It is a beau tiful state but windy all the time. We all wish you could be with us. We are staying in a Cabin to-night. Love from all, Mary.

PublisherTichnor Bros., Inc.

Greetings from KANSAS Hogs NORTON Geographic Center of the U.S. MARYSVILLE Apples Site of Last Indian Raid on Kansas Soil 1878 Horses BELOIT Old Auto Collection ATCHISON Covered Bridge GOODLAND Flour Cattle Clay The Eisenhower Memorial, Abilene MANHATTAN KANSAS CITY Corn Kansas Sphinx Monument Rocks HAYS SALINA Oil TOPEKA LAWRENCE SCOTT CITY Wheat Salt Poultry EMPORIA Sugar Refining GREAT BEND Printing GARDEN CITY HUTCHINSON Airplanes EL DORADO FORT SCOTT Oil Refining DODGE CITY Cattle WICHITA CHANUTE Sugar Beets PRATT Clark Buffalo Ranch Dalton Gang Graves PITTSBURG LIBERAL ARKANSAS CITY COFFEYVILLE State Bird The Meadow Lark State Flower Sun Flower --- Nickname—Sunflower State 1950 Population—1,905,299 Area in Sq. Miles—82,158 Entered the Union, Jan. 29, 1861 POST CARD REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. MADE ONLY BY TICHNOR BROS., INC., BOSTON 15, MASS.

PostmarkedAkron, KS, August 20, 1959, 09:00

Addressed to

Susan C. Young

Irvine, KY

Postcard record

Postmarked	August 20, 1959, 09:00, Akron, KS
Publisher	Tichnor Bros., Inc.
Condition	Good
Place addressed	Susan C. Young, Irvine, KY
Place depicted	Kansas, KS
Publisher	Tichnor Bros., Inc., Boston, MA
Stamp	3c Gunston Hall, green
Notes	White border; linen-textured stock typical of mid-century greeting cards. Postmark: AKRON AUG 20 9 AM 1959 KANS (with "Lutheran" slogan cancel). Divided-back chrome-era card, 3c Gunston Hall stamp, Tichnor Bros. imprint; light edge wear and toning.

Cite this card

Greetings from Kansas pictorial map postcard, circa 1950, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/greetings-from-kansas-pictorial-map-postcard-circa-1950. Accessed October 25, 2026.