Postcard Cancelled at Army City, Kansas in 1918
‘Army City’ was founded near Camp Funston, Kansas, to provide services to the troops training nearby.
That facility, along with Fort Riley, were large Army camps in Kansas, located near Junction City. The number of troops was so large, and the area so remote, that a group of businesses were allowed to establish at the boundaries of the camp. This area was called ‘Army City’ and it had a Post Office. This postcard scan is not very good, but images of the hand cancel of this Post Office are very uncommon.
Before I saw these images, the only evidence I had of Army City was a studio photo of a soldier that bore a notation that it was taken in this ’town’.
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