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Memorial Building, move, Topeka, Kansas

Date: 1914

This photographs shows two unidentified men moving a buffalo from the Kansas capitol to the newly completed Memorial Building. The buffalo was a part of the Kansas State Historical Society’s…

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Memorial Building, move, Topeka, Kansas

Date: 1914

This photograph shows the Tom Sneed wagon moving the Kansas State Historical Society’s collections from the Kansas capitol to the completed Memorial Building during July and August of 1914. For…

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Robert Borchert, prisoner, 539

Date: March 05, 1903

This glass plate negative shows inmate Robert Borchert #539. He was received at the Kansas State Penitentiary on March 05, 1903 from Reno County, Kansas for rape.

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Joseph S. Kearns, prisoner 2220

Date: December 22, 1906

This glass plate negative shows inmate Joseph S. Kearns #2220. Also known as George L. Lewis. He was received at the Kansas State Penitentiary for robbery on December 22, 1906,…

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Memorial Building, construction, Topeka, Kansas

Date: Between 1910 and 1914

This set of photographs show construction of the Memorial Building, also know as the G.A.R. Memorial Hall, at Tenth and Jackson Streets in Topeka, Kansas. The four story building designed…

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A.A. Hyde

Date: Between 1890 and 1935

This is a portrait of A.A. (Albert Alexander) Hyde, a Wichita, Kansas industrialist who founded the Mentholatum Company in 1899.

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Battleship Kansas’ silver service set

Date: Between 1970 and 1979

This set of photographs shows the exhibit of the Battleship Kansas. The silverware was on exhibit at the Kansas State Historical Society’s Memorial Building in Topeka, Kansas. The Kansas Historical…