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Christian Smith
Date: 1996
Christian Smith of Garfield, Kansas, was a member of the Pawnee Heights High School track team of Rozel, Kansas. He was a four-event winner at the 2002 Kansas State Track…
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Graves Drug Store, Garnett, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1950
Interior view of Graves Drug Store. Shown is the soda fountain, employees, and a customer.
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Dr. Henry Brown’s Drugs, Books, and Stationery
Date: 1927
This photograph shows a display created to celebrate National Pharmacy Week. The window includes the “tools” of the pharmacy trade such as beakers and chemical bottles. One hand printed sign…
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Palace Drug Store soda fountain, Iola, Kansas
Date: Between 1890 and 1920
Interior view of the Palace Drug Store in Iola, Kansas. Visible is the soda fountain and several Coca-Cola advertising signs in the background.
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William Lewis Davis, World War I soldier
Date: Between 1910 and 1918
This sepia colored postcard shows William Lewis Davis from Winchester, Kansas. Davis enlisted in the Kansas National Guard on June 11, 1917 at Oskaloosa, Kansas. He was one of the…
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Boswell Junior High School football team, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1962 and 1963
This black and white photo depicts the football team from Boswell Junior High School in Topeka Kansas. The team members are identified by the following rows: First Row: Eddie Townsend,…
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Flood in Kansas City, Kansas
Date: May 31, 1903
A sepia colored photo taken from the east side of the Missouri Pacific bridge over the Kansas River. In the background piles of debris are visible in the river as…
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Bullfight
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
This is a photograph showing a bullfight possibly held in Dodge City, Kansas. Visible in the photograph are three bullfighters. If you look closely, the bullfighter shown jumping over a…
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Iowa chiefs
Date: 1869
A group photograph of Iowa chiefs taken in Washington D. C. People in the photograph are: front row (l to r) Ma-hee (Knife); Io-hee (Briar); Chauncy Hobart Norris, Indian agent…
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Aerial views of Topeka and Shawnee County, Kansas
Date: November 30, 1956
A series of aerial photographs showing construction of I-70 Interstate west of Gage Boulevard. Also, the areas east of Gage Boulevard to MacVicar Avenue, where I-70 was eventually built. Recognizable…
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Aerial views of Topeka and Shawnee County, Kansas
Date: February 27, 1957
A series of aerial photographs showing areas adjacent to the Kansas River, prior to the construction of I-70 Interstate, and east of downtown Topeka. Recognizable sites include: the Kansas River;…
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Forcing slavery down the throat of a freesoiler
Date: 1856
An 1856 cartoon depicting President James Buchanan and Senator Lewis Cass standing on a Democratic platform marked “Kansas”, “Cuba” and “Central America”. They are pulling the hair of a giant…
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John Whitnah Leedy house, Leroy, Kansas
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
This photograph represents the John Whitnah Leedy house in Leroy, Kansas. John W. Leedy was a Populist State Senator from 1893 to 1897, and Kansas Governor from 1897 to 1899.…
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John Whitnah Leedy
Date: Between 1897 and 1899
This photograph is an interior view of the Kansas Governor’s office with Governor John Whitnah Leedy seated at a desk. He was a Populist from Leroy, Kansas, served as state…
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Swimming pool, Fowler, Kansas
Date: Between 1937 and 1939
This is a photograph of the swimming pool at Fowler, Kansas. The pool was built by the Works Progress Administration.
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe sunset over the rails
Date: August 1970
A slide of a sunset over railroad tracks.
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company tracks, Sibley, Missouri
Date: September 1972
This slide shows the sun rising over the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company tracks at Sibley, Missouri.
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Benjamin S. Paulen, Kansas Governor
Date: March 17, 1927
This photograph shows Kansas Governor Benjamin S. Paulen seated at his desk, in the governor’s office, to commemorate his signing of the Kindergarten bill. Individuals in the photograph are identified…
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Benjamin S. Paulen and Charles Curtis, Pawnee, Kansas
Date: August 1, 1928
This sepia colored photograph shows Kansas Governor Benjamin S. Paulen shaking hands with members from the Potawatomi tribe at the dedication ceremony for the restoration of the state’s first territorial…
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William Bolden Townsend
Date: 1891
This illustration shows William Bolden Townsend, (1854-?), taken from I. Garland Penn’s book “The Afro-American Press”. Townsend born into slavery ,in 1854, near Huntsville, Alabama overcame his humble beginnings to…
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Luke F. Parsons
Date: Between 1880s and 1890s
This black and white photograph shows Luke F. Parsons. Parsons, “a soldier under John Brown”, fought at the Battle of Black Jack near Baldwin City, Kansas on June 2, 1856…
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Luke F. Parsons
Date: February 22, 1909
This sepia colored portrait shows Luke F. Parsons. Parsons, “a soldier under John Brown”, fought at the battle of Black Jack near Baldwin City, Kansas, on June 2, 1856 and…
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Bernice Howe
Date: Between 1905 and 1909
This is a portrait of Bernice Howe, the daughter of Mark Watson and Alice Morrow Howe. Bernice grew up on a farm six miles southeast of Esbon, Kansas.
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Children of Mark Watson Howe
Date: Between 1910 and 1919
This is a portrait of Mark Watson Howe’s children, Bernice, Clifford, and Richard. The family lived near Esbon, Kansas.
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Mark Watson Howe
Date: 1891
This is a portrait of Mark Watson Howe. He was born December 3, 1870, in West Union, Iowa, the son of Fletcher Bowman and Clara Livona McCreery Howe. In 1873,…