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Painless Romine advertisement
Date: 1912
Advertisement for Painless Romine, a Topeka dentist. The ad was copied from a lantern slide.
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Bird’s eye view of Dodge City, Kansas
Date: 1882
A copy of a lithograph which provides an annotated “bird’s eye view” of the streets and buildings of Dodge City, Kansas. The county seat of Ford County, Dodge City is…
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Chief, the last cavalry horse
Date: Between 1960 and 1962
Chief was the last living cavalry horse still carried on government rolls. He was foaled in 1932 and purchased by the Army in 1940 at Ft.Robinson, Nebraska. In December of…
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Hollenberg Pony Express Station, Washington County, Kansas
Date: 1943
This is a photograph of the Hollenberg Pony Express Station, after its restoration, in Hanover in Washington County, Kansas. The station was named for Gerat Henry Hollenberg, who built it…
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Cyrus Kurtz Holliday
Date: between 1870 and 1890
Portrait of Cyrus Kurtz Holliday, a distinguished Kansas pioneer, founder of Topeka, successful businessman, and a public spirited citizen.
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Menninger family, Topeka, Kansas
Date: January 15, 1935
This informal portrait of members of the Menninger family was taken at Oakwood, home of Dr. C.F. and Flo in Topeka, Kansas. Those present are identified (from left to right)…
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Parsons, Kansas
Date: 1885
Birds-eye view of Parsons, Kansas, showing business and residential areas. Information provided by a patron states the photograph was taken on top of a water tower that used to exist…
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Rural Electrification Administration, Brown County
Date: 1938
These workers from the Rural Electrification Administration are installing lines and poles in Brown County, Kansas. This was the first rural electrical line in Kansas.
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Rural Electrification Administration, Brown County
Date: 1938
These workers from the Rural Electrification Administration are putting in a pole, Brown County, Kansas. This was the first rural electrical line in Kansas.
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Knute Rockne airplane crash wreckage
Date: March 31, 1931
A photograph of the airplane crash that killed Knute Rockne, famous Notre Dame football coach. The crash happened southeast of Bazaar, Chase County, Kansas.
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Jeremiah Simpson, United States Representative from Kansas
Date: Between 1897 and 1899
Portrait of Jeremiah “Sockless Jerry” Simpson, Populist, United States Representative from Kansas, 1897-1899.
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Candle box
Date: Between 1925 and 1935
Candle box found in a wood pile at Lecompton, Kansas. It contained election returns for 1857 and 1858 settling the Free-State or Pro-Slavery issue.
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Jack and Jill
Date: April, 1920
An illustration showing how people may contract typhoid from well water, copied from the April, 1920, issue of the “Kansas State Board of Health Bulletin.”
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Buffalo
Date: Between 1960 and 1966
A photograph of an adult buffalo.
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Winfield Scott Hancock
Date: 1867
Portrait of General Winfield Hancock.
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First Territorial Capitol, Pawnee, Kansas
Date: Between 1925 and 1935
This is an exterior view of the First Territorial Capitol, Pawnee, Kansas. The photograph was taken after the restoration of the building by the Union Pacific Railroad. The First Territorial…
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March of the caravan
Date: 1844
View of an illustration titled “March of the Caravan” copied from “Commerce of the Prairies” Vol. 1, page 102, by Josiah Gregg.
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company’s steam locomotive #3000
Date: Between 1911 and 1915
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company’s steam locomotive 3000 with a Jacobs-Shupert non-explosive fire box. The locomotive was built in the Topeka, Kansas, shops in…
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Spanish American War
Date: Between 1898 and 1899
Generals McArthur and Funston on horseback at Caloocan, Philippines, during the Spanish American War.
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Frederick Funston
Date: 1901
Portrait of the officers who commanded the expedition that captured Filipino leader Emilio Aguinaldo on March 23, 1901 during the Spanish-American War. They are identified as: (left to right) Lieut.…
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James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok
Date: 1869
This formal portrait taken in Hays, Kansas shows James Butler ” Wild Bill” Hickok, 1837-1876. The legendary lawman and gun-slinger began his career in 1858 as a peace officer of…
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Kansas State flag
Date: Between 1978 and 1980
This is a color postcard with the official Kansas state flag. The postcard was distributed by the Kansas Secretary of State.
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Jotham Meeker
Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Portrait of Jotham Meeker, a Baptist missionary, who came to Kansas in the autumn of 1833. He brought the first printing press to Kansas. Employing 23 letters for translating Indian…
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Reb Russell
Date: Between 1934 and 1937
Reb Russell seated on his horse Rebel. Born Lafayette H. Russell in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1905, Reb got his nickname while playing football at the University of Nebraska and Northwestern…
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Approaching Dust Storm in Middle West
Date: 1935
This is a view of an approaching dust storm somewhere on the southern Plains. The photograph was taken by Frank D. (“Pop”) Conard, a well known photographer in Garden City,…