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Iola Oilers, Iola, Kansas

Date: Between 1920 and 1929

This black and white photograph shows members of the Iola Oilers men’s baseball team from Iola, Kansas.

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Carpenters in Holyrood, Kansas

Date: Between 1915 and 1920

A postcard showing a group of carpenters (and one little boy) at a construction site in Holyrood, Kansas, wearing aprons from A. Aitken Lumber and Building Materials.

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Philip Patterson

Date: Between 1850 and 1870

Uncased ninth plate ambrotype portrait of Philip Patterson.

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William C. Menninger, M.D.

Date: 1965

A portrait of William C. Menninger. His father, Dr. C. F., and his brother, Dr. Karl, and Dr. Will founded the Menninger Clinic in 1919 in Topeka. Menninger is a…

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Catharine Menninger

Date: Between 1990 and 1994

These two photographs show Catharine W. Menninger in her cottage at Brewster Place, a retirement community in Topeka. She was the wife of William C. and the mother of Roy,…

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Catharine Wright

Date: 1900-1925

These photographs show Catharine Bratton Wright as a baby and as a young woman. She married William C. Menninger in 1925. They had three sons, Roy Wright, Philip Bratton, and…

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William C. and Catharine W. Menninger

Date: December 11, 1965

This photograph was taken for the 40th wedding anniversary of Dr. Will and Cay. Dr. C.F. Menninger and his sons, Dr. Karl and Dr. Will, founded the Menninger Clinic in…

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Sarah P. Benning

Date: Between 1878 and 1880

A cabinet card showing Sarah P. Benning who lived in Auburn, Shawnee County, Kansas.

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Armilda C. Benning Williams

Date: Between 1870 and 1875

A tintype showing Armilda C. Benning Williams who lived near Auburn, Shawnee County, Kansas. She appears in the 1870 census, age 22, born 1848, and she was born in Missouri.…

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Allen Williams

Date: Between 1865 and 1870

A tintype showing Allen Williams who lived and farmed near Auburn, Shawnee County, Kansas. He appears in the 1865 Kansas State census, age 20, born about 1841 (other censuses lists…

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Ranch hands

Date: Between 1850s and 1890s

Unmounted tintype portrait of unidentified Tarbox ranch employees.

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Luke Douglas Nihart

Date: Between 2001 and 2010

A photograph of Kansas Wildlife and Parks’ Officer Luke Douglas Nihart, who was killed in an ATV accident while working the Country Stampede music festival at Tuttle Creek State Park.…

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Samuel A. Smith

Date: 2009

A photograph of Deputy Samuel Smith, who was killed in an automobile accident on California Road in Franklin County, Kansas, while responding to a domestic disturbance call. His patrol car…

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Vada Watson Hoskinson

Date: January 29, 1925

These two black and white photographs show Miss Kansas Wheat Girl Vada Watson Hoskinson, (1905-2000), presenting a bag of wheat to the thirtieth President of the United States Calvin Coolidge,…

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Vada Watson Hoskinson

Date: 1925

This black and white photograph shows Miss Kansas Wheat Girl, Vada Watson Hoskinson (1905-2000), promoting the state’s number one crop at the Atlantic City boardwalk in New Jersey. In the…

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Lizzie Cardish

Date: June 15, 1906

A photograph of Lizzie Cardish, a United States civilian prisoner at Fort Leavenworth and housed at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas. Cardish, a Native American, was found guilty…