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Fremont Leidy

Date: Between 1903 and 1909

A portrait of Fremont Leidy, the son of Abram and Martha Leidy. He grew up on the family farm in Butler County, Kansas, attended high schools in Augusta and El…

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Train wreck, Selkirk, Kansas

Date: July 23, 1896

This set of photographs show the wreckage from a Missouri Pacific Railroad passenger train near Selkirk, Kansas. The incident happened four miles west of Leoti, Kansas when the east bound…

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Fremont Leidy

Date: Between 1888 and 1889

A portrait of Fremont Leidy, the son of Abram and Martha Leidy. He grew up on the family farm in Butler County, Kansas, attended high schools in Augusta and El…

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Tennis club in Runnymede, Kansas

Date: August, 1891

A photograph of the tennis club in Runnymede, Harper County, Kansas. In the late 1880s, F. J. S. Turnly established an English colony and training school for the sons of…

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Francis J Swehla

Date: 1874

A photograph showing Francis J Swehla with his wife and son Victor. Francis Swehla was one of the first settlers in Wilson, Kansas. This is a copy of a photograph…

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Cattleman, Dodge City, Kansas

Date: Between 1880s and 1890s

This black and white photograph shows a group of cattleman from Dodge City, Kansas. The men have been identified from left to right as: W.H (Hank) Cresswell, Bud Driskill, Richard…

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Coats baseball team, Coats, Kansas

Date: Between 1910 and 1919

These three black and white photographs shows members of the Coats baseball team from Coats, Kansas. In the second photograph, the members have been identified from left to right as:…

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Carl Bernhard Schmidt

Date: Between 1900 and 1910

Two portraits of Carl Bernhard Schmidt who was born September 7, 1843 in Dippoldiswalde, Saxony, now part of Germany. After attending public school, Queen Anna’s College, and Dresden Commercial College,…

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Rural mail carriers, Uniontown, Kansas

Date: July 20, 1913

This black and white photograph shows a family gathered around an automobile with the caption stating they were U.S. mail carriers on Route # 3 in Uniontown, Kansas.

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Hauling water, Overbrook, Kansas

Date: Between 1930 and 1939

This black and white photograph shows horse-drawn wagons hauling tanks of water from an emergency well during drought conditions, near Overbrook, Kansas.