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Company F, 89th Division at Camp Funston, Kansas
Date: Between 1917 and 1919
This is a photograph showing members of Company F, 89th Division at Camp Funston, Kansas. Adrian H. Lindsey is fifth from the right in the back row.
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Man posing with horse, Wallace, Wallace County, Kansas
Date: 1878
An unidentified rider poses with his horse in Wallace, Kansas. Peter Robidoux’s store can be seen in the background.
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Panoramic view of Wallace, Wallace County, Kansas
Date: Between 1870 and 1879
A panoramic view of Wallace, Kansas taken sometime in the 1870s. Peter Roubidoux’s house (1) and store are labeled (2).
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Asa Peabody Blunt
Date: Between 1880 and 1889
This is a cabinet card showing Colonel Asa Peabody Blunt who was an officer in the Union Army during the Civil War. He remained on active duty after the war,…
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Home of Eugene Fitch Ware in Fort Scott, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1909
This is a photograph showing Eugene Fitch Ware’s home in Fort Scott, Kansas. His daughters Jeannette and Amelia were born in this home.
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Rungless Ladder photographs
Date: 1966
Nine photos of a long rungless ladder invented by Sylvester Baringer in Emporia, Kansas, in 1966. The final three photos show a short rungless ladder also invented by Sylvester Baringer…
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Orphan train riders Howard, Clara and James Reed
Date: Unknown
This photograph shows three siblings who came to Kansas on an orphan train: Howard Dowell, Clara Morgan and James Elliott. In New York, the children had the surname Reed.
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Pioneer house in Fort Scott, Kansas
Date: Between 1884 and 1889
This is a stereograph showing a log house in Fort Scott, Kansas.
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C. W. Blair’s residence in Fort Scott, Kansas
Date: Between 1884 and 1889
This is a stereograph showing C. W. Blair’s residence in Fort Scott, Kansas.
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Views of Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas
Date: Between 1889 and 1890
This composite photograph shows a baseball team, brass band, bakery, girls’ dormitory, small girl’s ward, entrance, small boy’s ward, chapel, school, sewing room, industrial building, laundry and boiler house, dining…
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Samuel J. Reader
Date: 1898
This is a cabinet card showing Samuel J. Reader (1836-1914), who was born in Pennsylvania. He began a diary at the age of 13 and continued it until his death…
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Aerial View of Johnson County, Kansas
Date: July 12, 1954
This aerial photograph, taken by the Kansas Department of Transportation, shows the area between 95th Street and 103rd Street in Johnson County, Kansas.
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Seymour Packing Company, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
Date: Between 1960 and 1970
These are four photographs showing the egg breaking and dehydrating operation at Seymour Packing Company, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. One photograph has Arville Anderson written on the back. The other…
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William Daniel Street
Date: 1897
This is a cabinet card showing William Daniel Street (1851-1911) who was born near Zaneville, Ohio in 1851. He moved to Kansas in 1861 and as a teenager and early…
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William Daniel Street
Date: 1907
This is a cabinet card showing William Daniel Street (1851-1911) who was born near Zanesville, Ohio in 1951. He moved to Kansas in 1861 and as a teenager and early…
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Wagon in Comanche County, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1930
A woman and a young girl standing in front of a cook shack in Comanche County, Kansas. Cook shacks were used by women who accompanied the wheat threshing crews during…
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Christiana Polke McCoy
Date: Between 1830 and 1839
This is a photograph of Christiana Polke McCoy (1778-1851), the wife of Isaac McCoy. They were married October 6, 1803 when Isaac McCoy was 20 years old and Christiana Polke…
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Kerosene tank wagon, Arkansas City, Kansas
Date: 1962
This kerosene wagon was once used by the Grimes family of Arkansas City for home delivery of kerosene to customers. When the photograph was taken, the tank was 62 years…
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Wind wagon sketch from Leslie’s Illustrated
Date: July 7, 1860
An illustration from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, with caption “wind ship wagon, now used for travelling over the prairies-from a sketch from our correspondent.” This innovation of the Kansas territorial…
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Hand sketch of Peppard wind wagon
Date: Between 1860 and 1880
George Rolla Peppard sketched this drawing of a Peppard Wind Wagon. This innovation of the Kansas territorial period capitalized on an abundant natural resource, wind. In 1860 wind wagons, sometimes…
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Wind wagon with living quarters inside
Date: Between 1870 and 1900
In this photograph, a man stands in front of a wind wagon with living quarters. This innovation of the Kansas territorial period capitalized on an abundant natural resource, wind. In…
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High school building, Sharon Springs, Wallace County, Kansas
Date: 1955
An exterior view of the new high school building in Sharon Springs, Wallace County, Kansas. The old school building, built in 1925, is visible behind the new building.
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70th anniversary celebration of Wallace County, Kansas
Date: 1938
Actors portray pioneers, Native Americans, and Abraham Lincoln for the 70th anniversary celebration of the creation of Wallace County, held in Sharon Springs on Aug. 31, 1938. R.R. Dollarhide portrayed…
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70th anniversary celebration of Wallace County, Kansas
Date: 1938
The children of pioneer settler Sam Chisum ride in a wagon pulled by mules. Chisum came to Wallace County, Kansas by trail from Texas in 1872. The event, held on…
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70th anniversary celebration of Wallace County, Kansas
Date: 1938
Alfred Nelson displays his whiskers, grown for the 70th anniversary celebration of the creation of Wallace County, Kansas. The celebration was held in August 1938 in Sharon Springs.