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Group portrait in Council Grove, Kansas

Date: 1884

This is a group portrait, possibly of the Kaw Kaw Club, in Council Grove, Kansas. Picture in the upper row are, left to right: Frank Reid, Ed Gildemenster, Charlie Loy,…

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Monument of the Old Bell on the Hill

Date: 1920s

This postcard shows a bird’s eye view of Council Grove, Kansas. In the foreground is a monument built by school children in 1901. According to the donor of the postcard,…

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Crowd at a baseball game, Burdick, Kansas

Date: 1912

In this photograph, a crowd has gathered in Burdick, Kansas for a baseball game. The attendees have arrived on horseback and in horse-drawn buggies and wagons. A church, a house…

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Kaw Nation stone agency building

Date: 1920s

This photograph shows a stone building constructed by the United States government’s Bureau of Indian Affairs for communication with the Kaw Nation in Morris County.

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Miser Grade School

Date: 1976

This photograph shows the exterior of the Miser Grade School building south of Diamond Springs, Morris County, Kansas.

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Little Brown Jug School

Date: September 29, 1950

A photograph of the Little Brown Jug School, built in 1858, one of the first schools in Kansas. The photograph was published in the Council Grove Republican in the article,…

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School children, Morris County

Date: 1888

A group portrait of students with their teacher, Joshie Burton, at a school two miles south of White City in Morris County, Kansas. Fifty-two students attended the school. The boy…

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Mammoth Bone from 14RN304

Date: Unknown

This photograph shows mammoth bone found on the surface and extending down into the red clay of Reno County. Erosion at Cheney Lake had exposed the mammoth. The broken fragments…

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Trail Ruts from the Sun City Trail, 14RN315

Date: September 13, 1994

This slide shows two parallel ruts oriented northeast to southwest that are approximately 125cm apart. The view is towards the northeast. They were part of the Sun City Trail used…

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Porcelain Whistle

Date: Unknown

This porcelain whistle was recovered in Rawlins County, as an isolated find, between a road and a railroad. It has an eagle’s head on one end and a whistle on…

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Animal pelts on a barn wall

Date: 1920s

In this photograph, a dog sits in front of several rows of animal pelts, which have been hung on an exterior barn wall.

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Neosho Valley harvest

Date: December 08, 1897

In this photographic landscape, stalks of harvested crops are pictured in the fields of the Neosho Valley near Council Grove.