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Skyline view of Alma, Kansas
Date: 1869
Perhaps the oldest view of buildings in Alma, Kansas, this photograph is dated on the reverse as “Sunday 1869”. In this view from the northeast, buildings seen from the left…
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Simon Mercantile store interior, Alma, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
This interior view of the Simon Mercantile shows a wide variety of merchandise from shoes to hats, fabric, rugs, and grocery items. Identified at left is Fennie Emmrick and at…
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Vocational Agriculture class at Alma High School, Alma, Kansas
Date: Between 1915 and 1920
Photograph showing students of Mr. Hearst’s Vocational Agriculture class at Alma High School. The students appear to be inspecting grain with a microscope. A wood or coal stove is seen…
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Interior view of classroom in Alma, Kansas
Date: Between 1885 and 1895
This interior view of a classroom is believed to be from the old Alma School located on the watertower hill in Alma, Kansas. Notice that the room had a wood…
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7th and 8th grade class, Alma, Kansas
Date: 1923
Black and white photograph of the 7th and 8th grade students, with their teacher Mr. M. O. Wright, in Alma, Kansas. Some of the students have been identified as Esther…
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Girls’ athletics group, Alma, Kansas
Date: 1914
A group of seven Alma Grade School girls’ athletics team members posing with pennants for the volleyball, medicine ball, and basketball teams.
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Domestic science class in Alma, Kansas
Date: 1915
Photograph of the domestic science class of 1915 posing outside of the old high school in Alma, Kansas. Some of the women in the photograph have been identified as Laura…
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School children in Alma, Kansas
Date: 1918
Photograph of a group of 5th and 6th grade students from Alma, Kansas, celebrating bird migration.
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School children dressed for play in Alma, Kansas.
Date: 1910-1915
A large group of school children are dressed for a play or performance in Alma, Kansas. Some of the children are identified as Daisy Kraus, Louise Egert, Elgie Hastings, Jeanette…
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Gardenhire children in Alma, Kansas
Date: 1920-1930
Photograph of seven African-American children, believed to include some of the Gardenhire children, seen walking west in the 300 block of East 4th Street in Alma, Kansas.
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School children in Alma, Kansas
Date: 1920-1930
Photograph of children posing in front of the school building in Alma, Kansas.
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Children dressed for performance in Alma, Kansas
Date: 1910-1930
Three photographs showing groups of school children posing in costume for a play or performance in Alma, Kansas.
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Football team in Alma, Kansas
Date: 1914
Photograph showing the Alma High School football team of 1914 seen outside the school building in Alma, Kansas. The men in the photograph are identified as: (front row, from left)…
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Alma Sale Pavilion in Alma, Kansas
Date: 1920
Black and white photograph of the sale pavilion in Alma, Kansas. It was located near the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway depot on the east edge of town. In…
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Rotary Club minstrel show in Alma, Kansas
Date: 1945-1955
A group of Alma Rotary Club men perform in blackface in a minstrel show in Alma, Kansas. The men are identified as Doc McKnight, Hal Weaver, Albert Stuewe, Leroy Noller,…
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Post office in Alma, Kansas
Date: Between 1906 and 1910
Two photographs of the Meyer building in Alma, Kansas. It was constructed for Otto Meyer in 1906. The left side of the building was occupied by Meyer’s brother, Dr. A.…
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Men with hymm books in Alma, Kansas
Date: Between 1895 and 1900
Photograph of nineteen men holding hymn books in Alma, Kansas. Carl Lang, Emil Beutel, Otto Rudolph Sawallisch, Richard Thoes, August Peters, August Ohst, Alf Umbher, and Gus Meier are identified.
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Men with donkey cart in Alma, Kansas
Date: Between 1895 and 1900
Photograph of a group of men in Alma, Kansas, identified as Tom Davis, Howard Moore, Ben Tenbrink, Skimp Simon, Frank Falk and Hickory Jones, posing with Falk’s donkey cart.
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Alma instructors on high school steps in Alma, Kansas
Date: 1905
Photograph of school instructors standing on the front steps of Alma High School in Alma, Kansas. William Pringle, Nellie Henderson, Robert Strowig, and Mable (Strowig) Crawford are identified.
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Alma High School football team
Date: 1907
A real photograph postcard showing the Alma High School football team in Alma, Kansas. The postcard is addressed to Mr. Ernest Wetzel in Topeka, Kansas.
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Alma High School Senior Class of 1928
Date: 1928
Photograph of members of the graduating class of 1928 at Alma High School in Alma, Kansas. They are identified as (first row, left to right) Eleanor Kraus, Esther Mathies, Charles…
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Alma High School Junior Class of 1923
Date: 1923
Photograph of the 1923 junior class at Alma High School in Alma, Kansas. They are identified as (front row, left to right) Alice Lee, Anne Zeckser, Sadie Femmel, Kate Richmond,…
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County officials on courthouse steps in Alma, Kansas
Date: Between 1890 and 1900
Photograph of county officials standing on the courthouse steps in Alma, Kansas. Herman J. Palenske, second from left in the front row, served as Wabaunsee County Sheriff from 1890-1894. Willis…
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Football team in Alma, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1920
A black and white photograph of twelve young men belonging to the C.M.A. football team in Alma, Kansas.
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Alma Bottling Works in Alma, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1920
Two photographs of the Alma Bottling Works soda pop factory in Alma, Kansas. The factory was bought by James and Dorthea Dieball Barger from Henry Falk and wife Ethel Cahill…