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Douglas Avenue in Wichita, Kansas

Date: Between 1890 and 1899

A view of business buildings and horse drawn wagons on Douglas Avenue looking east from the 200 block, Wichita, Kansas. Ross Brothers Seed Company at 309 E. Douglas is visible…

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Chanute, Kansas

Date: Between 1900 and 1909

This photo shows a bird’s-eye view of Chanute, Kansas, looking east.

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Business street in Dodge City, Kansas

Date: Between 1920 and 1929

This photo shows automobiles and trucks on a business street in Dodge City, Kansas. Research in the 1920 Ford County directory suggests this is Second Avenue at the intersection of…

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Business street in Atchison, Kansas

Date: Between 1943 and 1949

This photo shows automobiles and trucks parked along a business street in Atchison, Kansas. Business buildings are on both sides of the street.

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Kansas Capitol

Date: Between 1895 and 1899

A view of the Kansas Capitol after construction was completed, Topeka, Kansas.

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Lena Hicks Penny

Date: August 21, 1960

This is a newspaper photograph of Lena Hicks Penny. She came to Ellis, Kansas, with the first African American colony of emigrants from Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky, in 1877.

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Myrl Walker and George Sternberg

Date: Between 1925 and 1930

This photograph shows Kansas paleontologists Myrl V. Walker, 1903-1985, and George F. Sternberg, 1883-1969, examining the ground next to a parked truck.

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Wellington Girl’s Band

Date: 1914

This photo, dated 1914, showes the Wellington Girl’s Band standing in front of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Reading Room. In 1913, the Welington Girls’ Band played at both…

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Phillipsburg Girl’s Band

Date: Between 1900 and 1910

This item contains individual photos of the members of the Phillipsburg Girl’s Band. They are in uniform and each girl is holding her instrument. The instruments are primary brass instrument…

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Wellsville Ladies’ Band

Date: 1909

This photograph of the Wellsville Ladies’ Band of Franklin County, Kansas, shows fourteen women holding their brass instruments.