Postcard: Springs, Waconda Springs, Park Here

Authors

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Identifier

FLSC_TJPC_01272017_0603

Description

This color photographic postcard features the Waconda Springs Sanitarium. The three story building has a wrap around porch and a green automobile on the left side. Three children sit on the steps and one person leans on the porch railing. Signage is erected in front of the building. There is typed print on the back of the card.

Physical Description

4"x 5" photographic postcard

Subject

Waconda Springs (Kan.), Mitchell County (Kan.), Health resorts, Therapeutic baths, Bathhouses, Salt-water, Advertisements

Rights

This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.S.Code)

Publisher

Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections

Collection

Tim Johnson Postcard Collection

Repository

Forsyth Library Special Collections

Comments

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Recommended Citation

"Postcard: Springs, Waconda Springs, Park Here" (2021). Tim Johnson Postcard Collection. 507.
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/tj_postcards/507

Language

eng

Transcription

Waconda Sanitarium and Great Spirit Springs, Mitchell County, Kansas, on Highway #24. This Spring is 54 feet in diameter and situated on top of a mound. First record by General Pike in 1814; an Indian Shrine for centuries, famous for health producing waters. Sanitarium was founded in 1906.