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Aerial view of Long Street, Dighton, Lane County, Kansas
Date: 1923
An aerial view of Long Street and the surrounding area, Dighton, Lane County, Kansas.
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Annie Glenn, Jack Carlin, Hazel Carlin, and John Glenn in Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1982
This is a photograph showing (left to right) Annie Glenn, wife of John Glenn; Jack Carlin, father of Governor John Carlin; Hazel Carlin, mother of Governor John Carlin; and United…
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Dighton, Lane County, Kansas street scene after a snow storm
Date: December 21, 1911
This is a photograph of snow is piled up on Long Street in Dighton, Lane County, Kansas after the snow storm of December 21, 1911.
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Historic Fort Row, Wilson County, Kansas
Date: 1861-1862
This lithograph by Joe Allen of Neodesha, Kansas depicts historic Fort Row. The Fort was located on the bank of the Verdigris River near Coyville in Wilson County, Kansas. Fort…
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Tornado damage near Coyville, Wilson County, Kansas
Date: 1909
This photograph, taken around 1909, shows tornado damage to a two-story stone house near Coyville, Wilson County, Kansas.
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Senator C. R. Ming at the Skiles Oil Well no. 2, Wilson County, Kansas
Date: 1942
This photograph shows Senator C. R. Ming standing beside the Skiles Oil Well no. 2, the oldest producing well in the Mid-continent Oil Field.
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Oil derrick, Wilson County, Kansas
Date: Between 1890 and 1920
This photograph shows three men with a horse and buggy standing in front of a large metal shed and a row of small wooden sheds by an oil derrick. This…
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot, Independence, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1914
This photograph shows a street view of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot in Independence, Kansas. The track view would show a one-story “prairie style” station with…
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot, Independence, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1914
This photograph shows a group of people standing in front of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot in Independence, Kansas. The one-story “prairie style” station features a…
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Union Pacific Railroad Company depot, Lawrence, Kansas
Date: Between 1950 and 1970
This is a photograph of the Union Pacific Depot in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas. It is a view of the front of the building with the railroad tracks in the…
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Union Pacific Railroad Company depot, Lawrence, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1960
This is a view of the Union Pacific Depot in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas. There are passengers gathered adjacent to the railroad tracks, in front of the building.
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Union Pacific Railroad Company depot, Lawrence, Kansas
Date: Between 1890 and 1920
These are two similar views of the Union Pacific depot in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas. One is a postcard with a gentleman in the foreground walking on the sidewalk. The…
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot, Peabody, Kansas
Date: Between 1950s and 1960s
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot in Peabody, Kansas. The prairie-style station features a hipped roof, and a semi-hexagonal operator’s bay and waiting bay.…
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot, Peabody, Kansas
Date: Between 1907 and 1919
This postcard shows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot in Peabody, Kansas. The prairie-style station features a hipped roof, and a semi-hexagonal operator’s bay and waiting bay.
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Pumpkins
Date: Between 1880s and 1890s
These two stereographs show a giant pumpkin in a photographic studio. The first set of images shows a giant pumpkin weighing 140-1/2 pounds. In the second set, a young child…
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Throop Hotel, Topeka, Kansas
Date: April 25, 1950
These three photographs show a fire destroying the Throop Hotel in Topeka, Kansas. The four-hour fire destroyed the historic 125-room hotel at Fourth and Kansas Avenue on April 25, 1950.…
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Capper Picnic, Topeka, Kansas
Date: July 14, 1948
These two photographs show scenes from U.S. Senator Arthur Capper’s birthday party at Ripley Park in Topeka, Kansas. The event held in Topeka, Kansas from 1908 to 1951 celebrated the…
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Longnecker and Keys oil wells, Wilson County, Kansas
Date: 1901
This photograph shows the Longnecker and Keys field of oil wells south of Neodesha, Wilson County, Kansas. An unidentified family is standing by the front oil derrick.
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Oil field fire, Wilson County, Kansas
Date: Between 1930 and 1960
This photograph shows workers standing near a large fire in an oil field at an unidentified location in Wilson County, Kansas.
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Wooden calander well, Wilson County, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1940
This photograph shows workers watching oil shooting from the top of a wooden calander well on an unidentified farm in Wilson County, Kansas.
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Water shooting from a well in Wilson County, Kansas
Date: Between 1930 and 1950
This photograph shows water shooting from a well, possibly owned or installed by “Butcher,” at an unidentified location in Wilson County, Kansas.
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Oil wells, Wilson County, Kansas
Date: Unknown
These are two photographs of unidentified oil wells in Wilson County, Kansas. One shows a sludge pit and the other shows a tall oil derrick.
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Otto’s Mill and dam, Fall River near Fredonia, Wilson County,Kansas
Date: Between 1880 and 1902
These photographs show two views of Otto’s Mill and dam on the Fall River near Fredonia, Wilson County, Kansas. In the oldest photo, which is a postcard, the mill has…
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Nelson Antrim Crawford
Date: Between 1940 and 1945
This is a photograph of Nelson Antrim Crawford, a teacher, author, lecturer, editor, and journalist. He was born in Miller, South Dakota, on May 4, 1888. Crawford is described as…
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Capper Picnic, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1920s and 1930s
This photograph shows from left to right: U.S. Senator from Kansas Arthur Capper, Leonard West of St. Marys, Kansas, and Mayor J.E. Thomas of Topeka, Kansas at an unidentified park.…