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Charles H. Hoyt

Date: Between 1861 and 1869

A portrait of Charles H. Hoyt, a resident of Lawrence, Kansas, who was a Lieutenant in Company D, Nineteenth Volunteer Kansas Cavalry.

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Elizabeth Fisher

Date: Between 1861 and 1865

This is a portrait of Elizabeth Fisher, wife of Hugh Dunn Fisher, a Methodist minister that settled in Lawrence, Kansas. She helped her husband survive Quantrill’s raid.

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Hugh Dunn Fisher

Date: Between 1861 and 1865

A portrait of Hugh Dunn Fisher, a Methodist minister that settled in Lawrence, Kansas, during the Civil War. He served as chaplain of the Fifth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. Fisher survived…

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Richard Cordley

Date: Between 1865 and 1866

A portrait of Richard Cordley, pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church, Lawrence, Kansas, for thirty-eight years. Cordley preached his first sermon on December 2, 1857, and he remained as pastor…

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Richard Cordley

Date: Between 1884 and 1889

A portrait of Richard Cordley, pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church, Lawrence, Kansas, for thirty-eight years. Cordley preached his first sermon on December 2, 1857, and he remained as pastor…

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William [Bloody Bill] Anderson

Date: Between 1860 and 1865

Drawing of William [Bloody Bill] Anderson, a Missouri Confederate guerrilla who followed William Quantrill. The source is unknown.

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Marshall Cleveland

Date: 1861

This carte de visite shows Marshall Cleveland seated and holding two revolvers with a bowie knife. In 1861, Cleveland became Captain of Company H, Seventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, Jennison’s Regiment.…

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Santa Fe yards in Belen, New Mexico

Date: November 13, 1953

A view of the enlarged yards with the extended modernized icing dock at the right. The ice would be pulled up by a electronically controlled machine where it would be…

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Santa Fe Railway ice machine

Date: Between 1940 and 1959

A view of the Santa Fe Railway’s electronically controlled icing machine which moved along the 12 foot rails and along the icing dock at Bakersfield, California. The ice was pulled…

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Joseph and Marie Leinacker Stadler family

Date: Between 1940 and 1949

Joseph and Marie Leinacker Stadler and their twelve children, Topeka, Kansas. The Stadlers were married on September 3, 1917, and they settled in North Topeka on Highway 24. Joseph Stadler…

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Joseph and Marie Leinacker Stadler

Date: September 3, 1917

Joseph and Marie Leinacker Stadler on their wedding day. The other people in the photograph are Anna Leinacker and C. Etzel. The Stadlers were married in 1917, and they settled…

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Approaching dust storm

Date: Between 1935 and 1936

A photograph of an approaching dust storm in the Middle West; most likely in southwest Kansas. The southwest corner of the state was one of the hardest hit areas during…

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Grace Bedell Billings

Date: 1875

This is a portrait of Grace Bedell Billings, who sent Abraham Lincoln a letter on October 15, 1860, from Westfield, New York, urging him to grow a beard to improve…

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Leavenworth, Kansas Territory

Date: 1858

A lithograph of Leavenworth, Kansas Territory looking west. The city of Leavenworth, was founded in 1854 along the Missouri River in northeastern Kansas in present day Leavenworth County. The city…