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Water works plant, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1891 and 1919
This black and white photograph shows the water works plant in Topeka, Kansas.
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Water works plant, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1882 and 1890
This sepia colored stereograph shows the water works plant in Topeka, Kansas. The city of Topeka was founded, in 1857, along the banks of the Kansas River in present day…
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Water works plant, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1891 and 1919
This black and white photograph, from a cracked glass plate negative, shows two box cars in front of the water works plant in Topeka, Kansas. A gentleman and two women…
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Street scene, Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1930
This is a photograph of Hoxie, Kansas, and its businesses. Patron information suggests the center building is the grade school and the building on the right is the Presbyterian Church.
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Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1925
This is a photograph of a Hoxie residence and Hoxie businesses.
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Dust storm in Hoxie, Kansas
Date: 1912
This postcard shows a dust storm entering Hoxie, Kansas.
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Fire scene in Hoxie, Kansas
Date: 1911
This photograph is a fire scene in the business district of Hoxie, Kansas, possibly in 1911.
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Tornado destruction in Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
This photograph shows the destruction of a farm structure after a tornado, maybe in 1908. Some people are surveying the damage. The photograph says ‘After Cyclone, Photo by Fay’
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Snow, Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1950 and 1960
This photograph shows the aftermath of a snow storm in Hoxie, Kansas.
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Grain elevator in Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1935
This photograph is of the Hoxie, Kansas, grain elevator where truckloads of wheat are waiting to be unloaded and sold. Rail cars are visible in the background.
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Group photographs, Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1905 and 1925
These are photographs of two different groups of people in Hoxie, Kansas.
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Group members of a fraternal order, Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1915
This photograph is of unidentified fraternal groups posing in Hoxie, Kansas. They are in front of the Chas. H. Beers general store “The Busiest Store in the County” building. There…
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View of Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1915
This photograph shows a birds’ eye view of Hoxie, Kansas.
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Children, Sheridan County, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1955
These are three photographs of children in Sheridan County, Kansas. The first one is a toddler in a white overdress with a large white lace collar sitting on rocking chair…
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Children in Sheridan County, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1935
These are four photographs of unidentified children. Three are taken with the children posed on a front porch rail and, in the fourth, the child is holding a toy gun.
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Rosefield school in Sheridan County, Kansas
Date: Between 1885 and 1900
This photograph shows students inside the classroom at Rosefield School between 1885 and 1900. The women are wearing puffed sleeved dresses. Some of the younger children are shown in suits…
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Immanuel Lutheran School students, Sheridan County, Kansas
Date: Between 1918 and 1930
This photograph shows a group of Immanuel (Immanual) Lutheran School students outside their school house, possibly in 1926.
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Immanuel Lutheran school, Sheridan County, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1930
This photograph shows the Immanuel Lutheran School in the 1920s. The building was a one and a half story (half basement) brick structure with steps to an open air foyer…
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Schools in Sheridan County, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1920
These two photographs show different groups of students outside wood-framed school houses in Sheridan County.
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Sod school house and students in Sheridan County, Kansas
Date: Between 1885 and 1910
These two photographs are of students outside an unidentified sod school house in Sheridan County.
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Sod school in Sheridan County, Kansas
Date: Between 1890 and 1910
This photograph is of the last and only sod school in Sheridan County and possibly in Kansas. Note the sod walls, thatched roof, and wood framed windows.
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City water filtration plant, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1920s and 1930s
This black and white photograph shows the city water filtration plant in Topeka, Kansas. The city of Topeka was founded in 1857 along the banks of the Kansas River in…
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Water works plant, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1891 and 1919
This colored postcard shows the water works plant in Topeka, Kansas. Several individuals can be seen standing on the balcony and in front of the building.
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Kansas Avenue Bridge, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1879
This stereograph shows the Kansas Avenue Bridge in Topeka, Kansas. The sign above the bridge reads “No person allowed to ride or drive over the bridge faster than a walk…
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Kansas Avenue Bridge, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1870s and 1880s
This black and white photograph shows the Kansas Avenue Bridge in Topeka, Kansas. The iron structure was later replaced in 1898 by the Melan Bridge.