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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Date: 1897
A formal portrait of the members of the 1897 Executive Committee of the Kansas chapter of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.
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Kitchen workers, Topeka State Hospital
Date: Between 1900 and 1920
A view of kitchen workers at the Topeka State Hospital in Shawnee County, Kansas.
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Osawatomie State Hospital, Osawatomie, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1930
View of the women’s dormitory building of the Osawatomie State Hospital in Osawatomie in Miami County, Kansas. Established in 1866 as the Kansas Insane Asylum and renamed the Osawatomie State…
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Osawatomie State Hospital, Osawatomie, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1920
A view of four men seated on the front porch of the first Osawatomie State Hospital building in Osawatomie in Miami County, Kansas. Established in 1866 as the Kansas Insane…
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Osawatomie State Hospital, Osawatomie, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1930
View of the administration building of the Osawatomie State Hospital in Osawatomie in Miami County, Kansas. Established in 1866 as the Kansas Insane Asylum and renamed the Osawatomie State Hospital…
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Women’s Christian Temperance Union billboard
Date: 1965
A view of a Women’s Christian Temperance Union billboard erected along a Kansas highway which states that “Alcohol is the No. 1 Killer on America’s Highways.” This photograph was part…
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Missourians going to Kansas to vote
Date: Between 1854 and 1860
An illustration showing Missourians going to Kansas to vote, drawn by Felix Octavius Carr Darley.
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Free-State prisoners on their way to Lecompton
Date: Between 1854 and 1860
Illustration showing free-state prisoners on their way to Lecompton. It was copied from Century Illustrated Magazine, May, 1887.
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Carry Amelia Nation
Date: Around 1900
A view of temperance leader Carry Amelia Nation, 1846-1911, of Medicine Lodge, Kansas on an elevated lecture platform addressing a large crowd of people in Wheeling, West Virginia.
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Ferrying Missouri voters to the Kansas shore
Date: Between 1854 and 1860
An illustration showing Missouri voters being ferried to Kansas Territory to oppose its entry into the Union as a free state. It was copied from the April, 1887, issue of…
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Carry Amelia Nation
Date: Around 1900
An informal portrait of temperance leader Carry Amelia Nation, 1846-1911, of Medicine Lodge, Kansas reading from the Bible to three ladies.
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Carry Amelia Nation
Date: Around 1900
A portrait of temperance leader Carry Amelia Nation, 1846-1911, of Medicine Lodge, Kansas reading a bible.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Date: Between 1860 and 1865
Portrait of Henry Ward Beecher,1813-1887. Beecher was a prominent, theologically liberal American Congregationalist clergyman and social reformer, and famous speaker who was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the son of famous…
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Carry Amelia Nation
Date: Around 1900
Carry Amelia Nation, 1846-1911, of Medicine Lodge, Kansas on the steps of the Temperance Hotel in London, England during a speaking tour of England.
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Susan C. Sorgatz and Carry Amelia Nation
Date: Around 1900
This is a studio portrait of Mrs. Susan C. Sorgatz (standing) of Beloit, Kansas and temperance leader Carry Amelia Nation, 1846-1911, of Medicine Lodge, Kansas.
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El Capitan in Yosemite National Park
Date: Between 1945 and 1959
View of two women and a man on an elevated wooden walkway near the base of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, California.
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Garner Edward Shriver
Date: 1955
Portrait of Garner Edward Shriver, 1912-1998, who was born in Towanda, Kansas and who served as a U.S. senator from Kansas from 1961 to 1977.
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company’s “Little Buttercup.”
Date: September 1880
This photograph represents the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company’s steam locomotive number 100 “Little Buttercup” at the Union Depot corner stone dedication in Atchison, Kansas.
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Mary Dillon Holliday
Date: Between 1855 and 1859
Mary Dillon Holliday, the wife of Cyrus Kurtz Holliday, with an unidentified friend.
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Delegates to the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1916
A photograph showing a group of delegates to the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association in Topeka, Shawnee County. This group voted to affiliate with the national association as support for a…
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William Allen White, Emporia, Kansas
Date: Between 1915 and 1929
An informal view of newspaper editor William Allen White (1868-1944) standing next to a car parked in front of “The Emporia Gazette” office in Emporia, Kansas. White gained national fame…
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William Inge at the typewriter
Date: Between 1950 and 1959
Portrait of William Inge, 1913-1973, born in Independence, Kan., graduated from the University of Kansas, worked for a Wichita radio station, and taught in both high school and college before…
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Sumner Grade School, Topeka
Date: Between 1950 and 1969
Sumner Grade School was a segregated school for whites only that played a prominent role in the desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education. Oliver Brown, an African American and…
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company’s ticket office, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Date: Between 1940 and 1959
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company’s ticket office located near the La Fenda Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Sophia Brockmeyer Hollenberg Kalhoefer
Date: Unknown
This is a portrait of Sophia Brockmeyer Hollenberg Kalhoefer.