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Construction,Topeka, Kansas

Date: 1990

These four images taken near the Menninger Camps in western Topeka, Kansas show the Wanamaker and 6th Street intersection. Image one is looking southwest, two is looking west, three is…

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Varieties dance hall, Dodge City, Kansas

Date: Between 1877 and 1879

An interior view of the Varieties Dance Hall, owned by H. B. Bell. The business was located south of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad tracks. George Masterson, younger…

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Metcalf Ranch, Decatur County, Kansas

Date: 1880s or 1890s

This black and white postcard shows a couple outside a sod house on the Metcalf Ranch in Decatur County, Kansas. According to the back of the postcard, the ranch was…

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Group of cowboys

Date: Unknown

A group of cowboys in front of what is probably a cook tent, location unknown. Several of the men have eating utensils in their hands.

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Chuck wagon and cook in Seward County, Kansas

Date: Between 1905 and 1910

This is a postcard showing a cattle drive cook standing by a chuck wagon with pots, pans, and blankets on the ground. The photograph was probably taken in the vicinity…

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Cowboys

Date: Between 1875 and 1885

Here are two images of the same studio portrait showing two cowboys identified as (left to right) Sam Carr and Bob Olive possibly taken in Dodge City, Kansas. One of…

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African American cowboys

Date: Around 1865

This studio portrait from a tintype shows an African American cowboy (left). The ethnicity of the second man (right) is less clear. The location is unknown.

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Sumner School, Topeka, Kansas

Date: Between 1960 and 1969

View of a woman using the fire and police emergency telephone in front of the Sumner School, an elementary school in Topeka, Kansas.

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Old Sumner School in Topeka, Kansas

Date: Between 1880 and 1888

Exterior view of Old Sumner School in Topeka, Kansas. The two story brick building, located near Fourth Street, was completed around 1901 with a capacity of eight classrooms. One of…

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Albert Gallitin Boone

Date: Between 1880 and 1884

A full portrait of Col. Albert Gallitin Boone, who was the U.S. Indian Agent for the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Kiowa, Comanche, and Plains Apache Indian tribes in 1859, 1860, and 1861.…

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Dead soldiers, Hays, Kansas

Date: September 6, 1873

This photograph documents two dead soldiers, Privates George H. Sumner and Peter Welsh. They are in front of a saloon in Hays, Kansas.

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Jesse Chisholm

Date: Between 1865 and 1868

A photograph of Jesse Chisholm, an Indian trader, guide and interpreter. He is best known for being the namesake to the Chisholm Trail, which Texas ranchers used to drive their…