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Edgar Watson Howe
Date: Between 1915 and 1925
Portrait of Edgar Watson Howe, 1853-1937, author and founder of the Atchison Globe newspaper, Atchison, Kansas.
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John Brown, Jr
Date: March 13, 1888
Portrait of John Brown, Jr., abolitionist and son of John Brown.
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John Brown, Jr.
Date: Between 1870 and 1880
Portrait of John Brown, Jr., abolitionist and son of John Brown.
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John Brown, Jr.
Date: Between 1880 and 1885
A copy of a portrait probably made in 1857 of John Brown, Jr., an abolitionist and son of John Brown.
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Charles Robinson
Date: 1856
This reproductive illustration shows Kansas Governor Charles Robinson giving a speech to the Lecompton Territorial Legislature. The original illustration was taken from “Beyond the Mississippi” by Albert D. Richardson.
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Lutie A. Lytle
Date: 1897
Portrait of Lutie Lytle, one of the nation’s earliest African American female lawyers. Her family came to Topeka and lived at 1435 Monroe Street and Lutie and her brothers attended…
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Buffalo hunter’s home, Sheridan, Kansas
Date: 1870
This is a photograph of a buffalo hunter’s home on the Kansas Pacific Railway, Sheridan, Kansas. It is part of Benecke’s series “On The Kansas Pacific Railway.”
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Shooting in Sheridan, Kansas
Date: November 1875
This is a Harper’s Magazine illustration captioned “Old Neb in Rat Row.” It shows a man shooting into a group of people, Sheridan, Kansas.
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James Ryun
Date: 1966
Jim Ryun running at a 1966 indoor meet.
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Mining, Pittsburg, Kansas
Date: Between 1945 and 1955
View of a giant shovel working in a strip mine, Pittsburg, Kansas.
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Boys! Girls! kill the flies
Date: September, 1914
This advertisement encourages boys and girls to kill flies for a prize. The contest was sponsored by the Board of Health of Hutchinson. The ad was in a publication from…
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J. W. Lough farm, Scott County, Kansas
Date: July 12, 1920
This photograph shows 60 acres of irrigated alfalfa on the J. W. Lough farm, Scott County, Kansas. The first cutting is in the stacks and the second is growing.
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Foster Dwight Coburn
Date: 1898
Portrait of Foster Dwight Coburn, Secretary of the Kansas Board of Agriculture.
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Joan Finney
Date: 1994
Portrait of Joan Finney, Kansas Governor, 1991-1995.
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Road construction, Beloit, Kansas
Date: 1914
This is a photograph showing men building roads on a Good Roads Day in Beloit, Kansas.
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Road construction, Beloit, Kansas
Date: 1914
This photograph shows men building roads on a Good Roads Day, Beloit, Kansas.
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Wyatt Earp
Date: February, 1907
Portrait of Wyatt Earp copied from William Barclay Masterson’s “Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier” published in “Human Life”.
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Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kansas
Date: Between 1930 and 1945
View of Tauy Jones Hall, the oldest building at Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kansas. It was originally constructed in 1869, burned in 1875, rebuilt in 1877, damage by fire in 1921…
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Theodore Roosevelt at Baldwin, Kansas
Date: August 31, 1910
This is a photograph of Theodore Roosevelt, William Allen White, Henry J. Allen, Joseph Bristow, and Osmon Grant Markham standing on the back of a passenger car at the Baldwin,…
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Eli Thayer
Date: Between 1880 and 1885
Portrait of Eli Thayer, 1819-1899, who in 1853-54 was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature and while there, originated and organized the New England Emigrant Aid Company. He worked to…
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Eli Thayer
Date: Between 1870 and 1875
Portrait of Eli Thayer, 1819-1899, who in 1853-54 was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature, and while there, originated and organized the New England Emigrant Aid Company. He worked to…
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Nicodemus Town Company certificate
Date: Between 1880 and 1882
This certificate for the Nicodemus Town Company was used to acknowledge membership which, along with a five dollar fee, was required of every emigrant seeking to settle in Nicodemus. The…
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Overland Stage Line
Date: 1865-1869
An Overland Stage Line stagecoach pulled by four horses.
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Lecompton, Kansas Territory
Date: 1855
Drawing of Lecompton, Kansas Territory, looking toward the town from the Kansas River.
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Benjamin “Pap” Singleton
Date: 1880
Benjamin “Pap” Singleton was born a slave in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1809. Singleton escaped to Canada to gain his freedom, returning to Tennessee after the end of the Civil War.…