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Commercial Street, Emporia, Kansas

Date: 1910

View of Commercial Street with a banner “Emporia Is The Place” hanging between two poles. Visible are businesses buildings, a trolley, carriages, and people walking on the street and sidewalks.

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Meadowlark

Date: 1925

Drawing of a Western Meadowlark by Margaret Whittemore.

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Clyde Tombaugh

Date: 1930

Front page article on the discovery of planet Pluto from the New York Times, March 14, 1930.

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Clyde Tombaugh

Date: 1928

Photograph of astronomer Clyde William Tombaugh, 1906-1997, at age 22 with his homemade 9 inch Newtonian Telescope on his family farm near Burdett, Kansas. Tombaugh discovered the planet Pluto in…

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Stearman Plant, Wichita, Kansas

Date: 1945

Aerial view of the Stearman Plant, Wichita, Kansas. View shows Plant I and a large number of Kaydets lined up awaiting delivery on the ramp area located east of Oliver…

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William Inge

Date: 1953

A portrait of playwright William Motter Inge, 1913-1973. Born in Independence, Kansas, Inge graduated from the University of Kansas, worked for a Wichita radio station, and taught in both high…

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Thomas “Boston” Corbett

Date: 1865

A portrait of Thomas P. “Boston” Corbett, who was the Union Army soldier who killed Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Corbett, who homesteaded near Concordia, Kansas in the late…

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Atchison, Kansas Territory

Date: Between 1859 and 1860

View of 3rd and Commercial Streets looking west, Atchison, Kansas Territory. Business buildings and horse drawn wagons are visible on the street.

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William Allen White

Date: Between 1890 and 1895

Portrait of William Allen white, editor and owner of the Emporia Gazette newspaper, Emporia, Kansas.

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Minneola Capitol

Date: 1858

Drawing of the proposed state capitol, which was to be built in Minneola, Kansas.

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Fred Harvey

Date: Between 1880 and 1901

Portrait of Fred Harvey founder of the Harvey House restaurants.

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Suffragists, Topeka, Kansas

Date: 1912

These suffragists are in Governor Walter Roscoe Stubbs’ automobile, going after the vote in Topeka, Kansas. The women are identified as: (l to r) Laura Clay, President of Kentucky Equal…