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Elizabeth Ann Watrous Abbott

Date: Between 1860 and 1880

Elizabeth Ann Watrous Abbott, the wife of James Burnett Abbott, was an early settler of Kansas who aided in the Free State cause.

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Chase County Courthouse

Date: Between 1879 and 1885

A view of the Chase County Courthouse, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. The architect for the courthouse was John Haskell and the contractor was James Bannon. It was constructed between 1871 and…

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Chase County Courthouse

Date: Between 1874 and 1879

A view of the Chase County Courthouse building in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. Designed by architect John G. Haskell and completed in 1873 by contractor James Bannon, the courthouse is an…

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Samuel Austin Kingman

Date: Between 1890 and 1900

Portrait of Samuel Austin Kingman, Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, 1861-1865 and Chief Justice, 1867-1876.

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William Agnew Johnston

Date: Between 1888 and 1899

This is a portrait of William Agnew Johnston, who served as the 11th Kansas Attorney General from January 10, 1881 to December 1, 1884, resigning to become an associate justice…

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Samuel Lyle Adair family

Date: 1849

Cased sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of Samuel Adair, Charles Storrs Adair, Florella Brown Adair, and Emma Florilla Adair. The family settled near Osawatomie, Kansas Territory, where Adair was a minister…

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Radio station XERA

Date: Between 1931 and 1932

A postcard view of Dr. John R. Brinkley’s radio station XERA in Villa Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico, across the Rio Grande from Del Rio, Texas.

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Dr. John R. Brinkley

Date: Between 1920 and 1940

Dr. John R. Brinkley, a physician from Milford, Kansas, famous for his goat gland transplants.

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Dr. John R. Brinkley

Date: Between 1920 and 1940

Dr. John R. Brinkley, a physician from Milford, Kansas, famous for his goat gland transplants.

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Dr. John R. Brinkley

Date: Between 1920 and 1940

Dr. John R. Brinkley, a physician from Milford, Kansas, famous for his goat gland transplants.

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Dr. John R. Brinkley

Date: Between 1920 and 1940

Dr. John R. Brinkley, a physician from Milford, Kansas, famous for his goat gland transplants.

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Dr. John R. Brinkley

Date: Between 1920 and 1940

Dr. John Brinkley standing outside of ruins of log building, in Del Rio, Texas.

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Mennonite family

Date: Between 1885 and 1899

A Mennonite family standing in front of their frame house, Marion County, Kansas.

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Harvesting wheat, Ellis County

Date: Between 1900 and 1915

Alex Schumacher and his brothers, Volga-German immigrants, use a steam powered threshing machine to harvest wheat near Munjor, Kansas.

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Johnston Lykins

Date: Between 1840 and 1860

Johnston Lykins was a well-known missionary, physician, and translator who worked with the Pottawatomi and Shawnee Indians who had moved to Indian Territory (present-day Kansas) after the passage of the…

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Pottawatomie Baptist Mission

Date: Between 1880 and 1900

View of the Pottawatomie Baptist Mission in Shawnee county, Kansas, looking southwest from Murray Hill. The Robert Ives Lee house is in the foreground, he purchased the property from the…

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Border ruffians invading Kansas

Date: 1880

Illustration of presumed pro-slavery supporters entering Kansas during the 1850s. The illustration appeared in the 1880 edition of William Cullen Bryant’s “A Popular History of the United States.”

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Abraham Burnett

Date: Between 1850 and 1870

A portrait of Chief Abraham Burnett, 1812-1870, of the Pottawatomie Nation. Also known by his birth name, Nan-Wesh-Mah, and as Abram B. Burnett, in 1838 he and other Pottawatomies were…

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Buffalo

Date: Between 1900 and 1920

View of a buffalo herd grazing in an unknown location.