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Local 178, baseball team in Topeka, Kansas

Date: Between 1960 and 1980

A photograph of Local 178, a youth baseball team in Topeka, Kansas. This photograph was collected as part of a collecting project for Topeka’s Oakland community.

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Charles Curtis house, Topeka, Kansas

Date: Between 1993 and 1999

Thirteen photographs of the Charles Curtis house in Topeka, Kansas. Featured in the photographs are owners Don and Nova Cottrell. This house was originally constructed for Topeka Mayor Joseph C.…

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Interior photographs of Charles Curtis house

Date: Between 1993 and 1999

Fifteen photographs of the music balcony, stairway, and upstairs in the Charles Curtis house in Topeka, Kansas. This house was originally constructed for Topeka Mayor Joseph C. Wilson and was…

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Exterior photographs of the Charles Curtis house

Date: Between 1993 and 1999

Fifteen photographs showing the exterior of the Charles Curtis house in Topeka, Kansas. This house was originally constructed for Topeka Mayor Joseph C. Wilson and was completed in 1878. Charles…

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John and Pat Jordan hydroplane photographs

Date: Between 1949 and 1961

A set of loose photographs from John and Pat Jordan’s hydroplane boat racing careers. John Jordan and Patricia Dodds Jordan started racing hydroplane boats from the late 1940’s to the…

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Spirit of 1776 patriotic train, Richmond, California

Date: Between 1972 and 1975

This set of colored transparencies show the “Spirit of 1776” patriotic train in Richmond, California. In November of 1972, the train left from Richmond, California and traveled across the county…

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Hillsboro Orphan Home

Date: 1896

This photograph shows the dedication of the Orphan’s Home in Hillsboro, Kansas. Kansas Governor E.N. Morrill’s visited the orphanage called Gnadenau Village, on October 6, 1896. The governor is third…

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Mrs. Lucinda Todd papers – Oversized Folder

Date: Between 1922 and 1954

Folder 5 of the Mrs. Lucinda Todd papers. This folder contains a Certificate of Recognition from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to the Topeka, Kansas Branch…

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Permelia Theressa “Dolly” Curtis Gann

Date: February 23, 1932

This photograph shows Permelia Theressa “Dolly” Curtis Gann, sister of Vice-President Charles Curtis, greeting Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the United States at the George Washington Bi-Centennial Ball in…

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Permelia Theressa “Dolly” Curtis Gann

Date: October 7, 1932

A photograph of Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, Permelia Theressa “Dolly” Curtis Gann. Gann was the sister of Vice-President Charles Curtis. The photo shows her speaking before the Independent Republican Women…

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Permelia Theressa “Dolly” Curtis Gann

Date: Bewteen the 1920s and 1930s

This photograph shows Permelia Theressa “Dolly” Curtis Gann, sister of Vice President Charles Curtis, standing in the middle with a group of women. The women have been identified from left…

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Permelia Theressa “Dolly” Curtis Gann

Date: Bewteen the 1920 and 1930s

This formal portrait shows Permelia Theressa “Dolly” Curtis Gann, (1863-1953), half sister of Vice-President of the United States Charles Curtis. During the Hoover- Curtis administration Dolly served as the official…

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Permelia Theressa “Dolly” Curtis Gann

Date: Bewteen 1920s and 1930s

This formal portrait shows Permelia Theressa “Dolly” Curtis Gann, (1863-1953), half sister of Vice-President of the United States Charles Curtis. During the Hoover-Curtis administration Dolly served as the official hostess…

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Daniel Read Anthony Jr.

Date: Between 1920 and 1930

This photograph shows Daniel Read Anthony Jr., (1870-1931), newspaper publisher, Kansas politician, civic leader, and nephew of suffragist Susan B. Anthony. As the son of newspaper editor and publisher of…

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Daniel Read Anthony Jr.

Date: Bewteen 1920 and 1929

This photograph shows Daniel Read Anthony Jr., (1870-1931), newspaper publisher, Kansas politician, civic leader, and nephew of suffragist Susan B. Anthony. As the son of newspaper editor and publisher of…

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Daniel Read Anthony Jr.

Date: Between 1910 and 1919

This photograph shows Daniel Read Anthony Jr., (1870-1931), newspaper publisher, Kansas politician, civic leader, and nephew of suffragist Susan B. Anthony. As the son of newspaper editor and publisher of…

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Daniel Read Anthony Jr.

Date: Between 1900 and 1909

This photograph shows Daniel Read Anthony Jr., (1870-1931), newspaper publisher, Kansas politician, civic leader, and nephew of suffragist Susan B. Anthony. As the son of newspaper editor and publisher of…

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Richard C. “Pete” Loux and John Carlin

Date: Between 1974 and 1975

This photograph shows Pete Loux and John Carlin looking over paperwork in the chambers of the Kansas House of Representatives in Topeka, Kansas. Loux, a Democratic from Wichita, Kansas was…

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Sister Jeanne McKenna

Date: 1979

This photograph shows Sister Jeanne McKenna as a passenger on the Inaugural Express to Wichita, Kansas during Kansas Governor John Carlin’s first inauguration as governor. Sister McKenna served in Governor…

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William Curtis

Date: Between 1870 and 1873

This photograph shows William Curtis, (1800-1873), grandfather of U.S. Vic-President Charles Curtis and an early pioneer and settler of Shawne County, Kansas. William and his wife Permelia migrated from Indiana…