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1963 Wichita Dreamliners baseball bat

Date: 1963

These photographs show the commemorative baseball bat received by Gil Carter as a member of the Wichita Rapid Transit Dreamliners semi-pro baseball team in 1963. That year, the Dreamliner team…

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1962 Wichita Dreamliners baseball bat

Date: 1962

These photographs show the commemorative baseball bat received by Gil Carter as a member of the Wichita Rapid Transit Dreamliners semi-pro baseball team in 1962. That year, the Dreamliners won…

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Gil Carter home run baseball

Date: 1959

These photographs feature the home run baseball hit by Kansan Gil Carter on August 11, 1959 while playing for the minor league Carlsbad Potashers in New Mexico. The official scorer…

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Four generations of the Southwick family

Date: Between 1920 and 1925

This is a photograph showing four generations of the Southwick family. Millard F. Southwick (left) and either Frank or Harry is standing on the right. The Millard F. Southwick family…

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James LeRoy Faulkner

Date: Between 1927 and 1929

This is a photograph of James Faulkner who played professional baseball for the Giants from 1927 to 1930. Faulkner was born July 27, 1899 in Beatrice, Nebraska, but spent much…

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Gil Carter, softball player in Wichita, Kansas

Date: Between 1963 and 1970

Gil Carter of the Wichita Truckers softball team is shown in this snapshot believed to have been taken in the 1960s. The Truckers twice finished second in the national slow-pitch…

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Baseball players in Newton, Kansas

Date: Between 1920 and 1923

These 10 snapshots from the early 1920s show players from the Newton town team at their ballpark. Only one of the players has been identified. Ross Kirkpatrick (whose last name…

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Baseball scorebook from Newton, Kansas

Date: 1922-1924

This scorebook was used to record games played by the Newton, Kansas baseball team in the early 1920s. Most of the games documented in the scorebook were played in 1922…

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Baseball team in Newton, Kansas

Date: Between 1920 and 1923

This photograph from the early 1920s features the Newton, Kansas semi-pro baseball team. The only individual identified in the photo is Ross Kirkpatrick, the team’s first baseman (standing, third from…

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Northern League All-Star baseball team

Date: 1960

The Northern League All-Star Team is featured in this photograph from 1960. Among those pictured is Kansan Gil Carter (standing, far left). Also pictured is future Hall-of-Famer Joe Torre (standing,…

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Carlsbad Potashers baseball team

Date: Between 1958 and 1959

The Carlsbad Potashers minor league baseball team is featured in this photograph from the late 1950s. Among those pictured is Kansan Gil Carter (kneeling in the front row, third from…

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Gil Carter baseball scrapbook

Date: 1957-1963

This scrapbook contains clippings and photographs about the baseball career of Kansan Gil Carter. Carter was an outfielder for the minor league Carlsbad Potashers (1958-59) and the St. Cloud Rox…

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Gil Carter, baseball player

Date: Between 1957 and 1959

Kansan Gil Carter is pictured in this photograph from the late 1950s. In 1957, Chicago Cubs scout Buck O’Neil signed Carter to a minor league baseball contract. He spent the…

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Knute Rockne Memorial

Date: March 1981

This photograph shows Wayne Rogler, to the left, and Ed T. Baker posing in front of the Knute Rockne Memorial. The memorial honors legendary Norte Dame football coach Knute Rockne…

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Margaret Jane “Madge” Overstreet MacLennan

Date: Between 1921 and 1951

These two photographs show Margaret Jane “Madge” Overstreet MacLennan, 1863-1955, the wife of newspaper editor and publisher Frank P. MacLennan. In 1928 the couple built a three-story French chateau home,…

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Frederick Douglass

Date: Between 1885 and 1890

This is a carte-de-visite showing abolitionist leader, lecturer and author Frederick Douglass. He was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland, and became one of the most famous intellectuals of…

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Frederick Douglass

Date: Between 1885 and 1890

This is a carte-de-visite showing abolitionist leader, lecturer and author Frederick Douglass. He was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland, and became one of the most famous intellectuals of…

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Frederick Douglass

Date: March 24, 1868

This is a cabinet card showing abolitionist leader, lecturer and author Frederick Douglass. He was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland, and became one of the most famous intellectuals…

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Frank Pitts MacLennan

Date: Between 1880 and 1933

These four photographs show newspaper editor and publisher Frank Pitts MacLennan, 1855-1933, a native of Springfield, Ohio. Frank moved with his family to Emporia, Kansas in 1870 and began his…

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Ernest Sterling Marsh

Date: Between 1957 and 1973

This is a photograph of Ernest Sterling Marsh, who was Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway’s president and chairman of the board from 1957-1973.