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Illustration of Slave Auction
Date: July 13, 1861
An illustration by Theodore R. Davis titled “A Slave Auction At The South.” Davis sketched this scene of a slave auction in the south for an 1861 issue of Harper’s…
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Kansas State Historical Society’s, exhibits, Topeka, Kanas
Date: Between 1983 and 1984
This colored slide shows exhibits being dismantled at the Kansas State Historical Society’s Memorial Building in Topeka, Kansas. The Kansas Historical Society was located in the GAR Memorial Building for…
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Kansas State Historical Society’s, museum move,Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1983 and 1984
This colored slide shows staff at the Kansas State Historical Society packing artifacts to be moved from the Memorial Building in downtown Topeka, Kansas. In 1983 and 1984, the museum…
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Kansas Museum of History’s,” Columbian Exposition” exhibit, Topeka, Kansas
Date: July 1993
This colored slide shows the entrance way to the “Columbian Exposition” exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas. The exhibit was commemorating the World’s Columbian Exposition also…
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Kansas Museum of History’s, “Columbian Exposition” exhibit, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1993
These two colored photographs show the “Columbian Exposition” exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas. The exhibit was commemorating the World’s Columbian Exposition also know as the…
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Diary of Samuel Lyle Adair
Date: Between 1849 and 1864
The diary of Samuel Lyle Adair, 1849-1864, is one volume and nearly 200 pages. Samuel started the diary in Maumee City, Ohio, and concluded it in Leavenworth, Kansas. During several…
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Indian Territory map
Date: 1891
A map of Indian Territory, now part of Oklahoma. The map was compiled from the official records of the General Land Office and other sources. The map is from the…
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Angell One- Way Disc Plow
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
These two photographs show the Angell One- Way Disc Plow. The photos were possibly taken in Plains, Kansas. In 1920, Charles Angell, a farmer from Plains, invented a plow that…
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Angell’s Steam threshing machine, Plains, Kansas
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
This photograph shows a harvest crew standing beside Chase Angell’s Steam Thresher. Chase Angells is seated on the threshing machine. The photo was possibly taken in Plains, Kansas.
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Harvest crew
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
This photograph shows a harvest crew using horse drawn equipment to harvest crops. The photo was possibly taken in Plains, Kansas.
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Deadwood Stage
Date: July 04, 1897
This photograph shows the original Deadwood Stage built by the Abbot Downing Company at the company ‘s facility in Concord, New Hampshire. Additional information abut the stage coach is provided…
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Bill Pickett, Burdick, Kansas
Date: 1915
These two photographs show Bill Pickett bulldogging during field day in Burdick, Kansas. During the town’s early existence people were drawn to the community for attractions like rodeos, baseball games…
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Cy Perkins, Burdick, Kansas
Date: September 26, 1916
This photograph shows Cy Perkins preparing to ride a bucking horse during field day in Burdick, Kansas. During the town’s early existence people were drawn to the community for attractions…
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E.T. Anderson, Burdick, Kansas
Date: September 28, 1916
This photograph shows E.T. Anderson tying a steer during field day in Burdick, Kansas. During the town’s early existence people were drawn to the community for attractions like rodeos, baseball…
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Buel Oberholser, Burdick, Kansas
Date: 1915
This photograph shows Buel Oberholser with his hands in the air after tying a steer during field day in Burdick, Kansas. During the town’s early existence people were drawn to…
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Roberts’ family
Date: Between 1940 and 1948
This photograph shows Marjorie with her father and brothers. This legendary rodeo family from Strong City, Kansas were the founders of the Flint Hills Rodeo. The oldest consecutive rodeo in…
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Marjorie “Margie” Roberts
Date: Between 1940 and 1949
This set of photographs show Marjorie “Margie” Roberts with her horse Buck practicing trick riding at a unidentified location. From the 1930s through the 1950s she became one of the…
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Marjorie “Margie” Roberts
Date: Between 1940 and 1949
This photograph shows Marjorie “Margie” Roberts, (1916-1982), born in Council Grove, Kansas she later moved with her family to Strong City, Kansas. On her parent’s ranch she assisted her father…
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Flint Hills Rodeo, Strong City, Kansas
Date: Between 1950 and 1959
This photograph shows an aerial view of the Flint Hills Rodeo in Strong City, Kansas. The rodeo was established in 1937 by the Emmett and Clara Roberts’ family and is…
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Roberts’ family
Date: Between 1940 and 1949
This photograph shows four generations of the Roberts’ family. This legendary rodeo family from Strong City, Kansas were the founders of the Flint Hills Rodeo. The oldest consecutive rodeo in…
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Emmett and Clara Roberts’ family
Date: Between 1939 and 1949
This photograph shows the Emmett and Clara Roberts’ family. This legendary rodeo family from Strong City, Kansas were the founders of the Flint Hills Rodeo. The oldest consecutive rodeo in…
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Marjorie “Margie” Roberts
Date: Between 1940 and 1949
This photograph shows Marjorie “Margie” Roberts with her horse Buck practicing the “Trail Drag” a form of trick riding where the rider hangs off the side of the saddle while…
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Nels Ferguson and daughters
Date: Between 1893 and 1894
This photograph shows Nels Ferguson with his daughters Alice and Ellen standing in front of their stone house he built. In the background to the left is the first home…
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Ferguson family and farmstead, Jewell County, Kansas
Date: 1909
This photograph shows the Nels Ferguson family gathered on a hilltop which overlooks their homestead called “Rock Hill Farms” in Jewell County, Kansas. Ferguson named the homestead in reference to…
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Plat of Pawnee
Date: Between 1850 and 1859
A plat map of Pawnee with lines of bluffs and bank of lower bottom. The map is on a cloth backing. Further information is provided above the map.