Panorama of Rainbow Court (Hays, Kansas)

Item

Identifier: MS 014- series MS 014-3- item 260

Staff Only

Dates

1870-1900

Extent

From the Class: 10 Cubic Feet

Additional Description

General

Front: Panorama of Rainbow Court at Hays, Kansas, East Entrance to Hays on Paved Highway U.S. 40

Back: Rainbow Court, 32 modern and partly modern stucco and frame cottages, centrally located between Kansas City and Denver or Colorado Springs. Natural gas and running water in all cottages, showers, laundry room, grocery. Shell filling station in connection. Western Union branch office. Space for house cars. A comfortable summer of winter home. Hays is home of beautiful state college and park; old Fort Hays, largest experiment station in world. Phone 899. Handwritten: Only 100 miles & we're back to Colorado. "Missed both Dean & feller but games were good. Jim got an autograph book. Sun night went down the Miss. river 10 miles on a pleasure float. That high point with Jim. | Mr. & Mrs. C. D. Campbell, 809 Fillmore St., Denver, Colorado.