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Polly Ann and Ada McColl
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
This is a photo of Polly Ann and Ada McColl standing at the grave of William H. McColl.
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John Palmer Usher
Date: Between 1870 and 1879
This cabinet card represents John Palmer Usher,1816-1889, a lawyer from Indiana, who servers as U. S. Secretary of the Interior during President Abraham Lincoln’s administration. Usher serves only two years,…
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Mary Elizabeth Bliss Haskell
Date: Between 1850 and 1870
A sepia colored portrait of Mary Elizabeth Bliss Haskell, wife of John Gideon Haskell. The couple married in 1859 at her parents home in Massachusetts and eventually moved to Lawrence,…
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William Barstow Strong
Date: 1879
A portrait of William Barstow Strong, president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, 1881-1889.
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot, Arkansas City, Kansas
Date: April 22, 1889
This photograph shows a crowd waiting outside the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot at Arkansas City, Kansas. The photograph was taken the day before the 1889 Oklahoma…
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Harvey girls, Hutchinson, Kansas
Date: 1915
This photograph shows a group of Harvey Girls seated near the tracks in Hutchinson, Kansas. The young women, wearing modest black dresses with long white aprons, served meals to travelers…
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The pretty Harvey Girl beside my chair
Date: January 1907
A photograph copied from the Santa Fe Employee Magazine showing a Harvey Girl standing by a customer who is looking at a menu.
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John Gideon Haskell
Date: Between 1890 and 1907
This cabinet card shows John Gideon Haskell, (1832-1907), Civil War veteran and architect for the state of Kansas. He migrated to Lawrence, Kansas, in the summer of 1857, to begin…
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Main Street, Claflin, Kansas
Date: Between 1908 and 1909
Two black and white photographs showing the start of an automobile race at the corner of Main Street in Claflin, Kansas, to the nearby town of Ellinwood, Kansas.
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Lyons Salt Company, Lyons, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1915
A photograph showing Lyons Salt Company’s main building in Lyons, Kansas.
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Mexican fiesta, Garden City, Kansas
Date: 1975
A photograph showing a Boy Scout raising the Mexican flag with a group of spectators looking on, at a Mexican fiesta in Garden City, Kansas.
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Missouri Pacific Railroad depot, Concordia, Kansas
Date: October 3, 1894
This black and white photograph shows the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company depot and tracks at Concordia, Kansas.
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Kansas Mutual Hail, Sterling, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1920
A photograph showing an elephant with an advertising sign for Kansas Mutual Hail insurance, Sterling, Kansas. The photograph was taken in front of the office of Kansas Mutual Hail.
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Missouri Pacific Railroad depot, Concordia, Kansas
Date: Between 1905 and 1910
This black and white photograph shows the Missouri Pacific Railroad depot at Concordia, Kansas. It burned to the ground on April 10, 1913.
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Brown Grand Opera House, Concordia, Kansas
Date: Between 1930 and 1970
These six photographs show the Brown Grand Opera House in Concordia, Kansas. The Brown Grand Opera House was built in 1907 and became a national bicentennial landmark in 1976.
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Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad depot, Colby, Kansas
Date: 1898
This black and white photograph shows a track crew working near the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad depot at Colby, Kansas.
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Pratt Hardware Distributors, Colby, Kansas
Date: Between 1930 and 1939
This photograph shows a tractor and farm equipment show on a business street in Colby, Kansas. The show was organized by Pratt Hardware Distributors and included such brands as Case,…
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Flooding, Solomon, Kansas
Date: June 21, 1951
A photograph showing Main Street after it was flooded by the Solomon River. Floodwaters covered seven city blocks and affected 135 residences and 26 businesses in Solomon, Kansas.
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Women’s basketball team, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1905
A photograph of the 1905 women’s basketball team at Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas.
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Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1930 and 1939
This black and white photograph shows three men and a woman in an automobile parked near fraternity and sorority row at Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas.
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Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1901
A photograph showing Washburn Academy, first year, Topeka, Kansas. From (left to right), top row, Gordon Baker and James Hayes; second row, Thomas Amory Lee, Louise Walcott, Reuben Markham, Ethel…
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Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1905-1906
A photograph of a botany class at Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas. The photo was taken at the northeast corner of the library. In the top row, (left to right), Arthur…
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Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1905 and 1910
A photograph showing thirteen students dressed in costumes for an unidentified play at Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas.
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Students, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1915
A photograph showing a group of students reading Life’s Dark Problems by moonlight on Washburn University’s lawn, Topeka, Kansas.
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Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1950 and 1955
This is a photograph showing a group of women playing in the snow at Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas.