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Coal mine
Date: Unknown
Coal Mine in Pittsburg, Kansas
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Appeal to Reason newspaper office
Date: 1900's
Appeal to Reason newspaper office in Girard, Kansas.
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John James Ingalls
Date: 1848
Portrait of John James Ingalls at age fifteen.
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Locomotive at Dodge City, Kansas
Date: 1879
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad locomotive on tracks at Dodge City, Kansas, 1879.
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Topeka Daily Capital delivery boys, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1900
A view of Topeka Daily Capital delivery boys with bicycles and a dog in front of the newspaper’s office in Topeka, Kansas.
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Beechcraft Bonanza Model 35
Date: 1947
A photograph of a Beechcraft Bonanza Model 35 airplane in flight. Aviation pioneers Walter H. and Olive Ann Beech founded the Beech Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kansas, in 1932.
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Constitution Hall
Date: Possibly between 1857 and 1900
This is a view of Constitution Hall in Lecompton, Kansas. This building was where pro-slavery delegates to the Constitutional Convention debated the divisive issue of slavery in Kansas. It is…
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Smith Auto Factory
Date: Possibly between 1910 and 1930
Interior view of the Smith Auto Factory, located in Topeka, Kansas. Shown are factory workers and various automobile parts.
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Smith automobile factory, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1902 and 1911
Interior view of the Smith Auto Factory, located in Topeka, Kansas. Shown are the factory workers, and automobiles in various stages of assembly.
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John Brown’s rifle
Date: 1880s
A photograph showing a Sharps carbine owned by John Brown, abolitionist and Free State advocate. The Sharps rifles are a series of large-bore, single-shot, falling-block, breech-loading rifles, beginning with a…
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Joseph McCoy
Date: 1880
At the end of the Civil War when millions of longhorns were left on the plains of Texas without a market, the Union Pacific was building west across Kansas. Joseph…
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Leavenworth Penitentiary
Date: Possibly between 1895 and 1910
View of the United State Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas.
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8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry
Date: 1862
This tintype shows members of the 8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry, Company E. Soldiers in the tintype are: (standing) Elisha D. Rose, James Hunter, Volney Brown, Henry Davidson, (kneeling) Lewis V.…
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John Greenleaf Whittier
Date: Possibly between 1870 and 1892
A portrait of Quaker poet, John Greenleaf Whittier.
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H-K Salt Company
Date: Possibly between 1887 and 1910
A photograph of the H-K Salt Company in Hutchinson, Kansas. Shown are company workers, a large salt supply, and barrels containing salt.
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Market Street in Ft. Scott, Kansas
Date: 1863
Copied from “Early Days in Ft. Scott”, this photograph shows Market Street in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1863. The fort’s hospital is also shown in the picture.
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Boeing plant
Date: 1945
Taken on V-J Day, August 15, 1945, this aerial photograph shows the Boeing Plant in Wichita, Kansas. The Plant II facilities in the lower left corner, produced 1,644 B-29 Superfortresses.…
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William Clarke Quantrill
Date: Possibly between 1850 and 1865
A portrait of “The Guerrilla Chief” William Clarke Quantrill, 1837-1865, as copied from the book “Quantrill and the Border Wars” by William Elsey Connelley (1st Ed., 1909). Early in the…
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Henry Leavenworth
Date: 1812-1834
Henry Leavenworth, after whom Ft. Leavenworth was named, was a prominent military figure in the white settlement of the American West. Born in 1783, Leavenworth’s military career began in 1812…
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Hugh Cameron, “The Kansas Hermit”
Date: Between 1890 and 1908
Cameron, Hugh-“General: The Kansas Hermit”; lived near Lawrence
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Edmund Gibson Ross
Date: Between 1861 and 1865
Edmund Gibson Ross, serving in Company E of the 11th Kansas Cavalry. Ross helped raise and then served in the Eleventh Kansas during the Civil War. After James H. Lane’s…
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Clyde Cessna
Date: 1916
Clyde Cessna and his 1916 airplane, the first Cessna aircraft built in Wichita, Kansas. This photo was taken at Beaver, Oklahoma, with part of the Beaver Boosters.
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Wagon caravan, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Possibly between 1860-1890
A photograph of horse drawn wagons traveling through Topeka, Kansas. The view is looking south along the east side of Kansas Ave. between Fifth and Sixth streets. The Peoples Store,…
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Bartel’s broom shop in Hillsboro, Kansas
Date: 1927
A photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bartel in their broom shop in Hillsboro, Kansas.
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Men in a field
Date: Unknown
Men standing in front of a fence in an open field. Also pictured is farm equipment, two horses, and farm crops.