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Kansas State University basketball game

Date: March 01, 1958

This is a photograph showing Bob Boozer, Kansas State University’s All-American forward preparing to shoot a basket. Teammate Wally Frank (No. 34) and University of Missouri players John Stephens (No.…

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Wichita grass house

Date: Between 1880 and 1890

An informal portrait of two Wichita women standing before a large, traditional, grass house.

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Menninger family

Date: 1900

Children of Dr. C. F. and Flo Menninger, (left to right) Karl (age 7), William (age 1), and Edwin (age 4). Karl and William obtained their medical degrees, completed psychiatric…

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Topeka Police Department

Date: 1928

This is a panoramic photo of the employees of the Topeka Police Department standing outside the police headquarters. Several officers are on motorcycles.

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Rood farm, Marion County, Kansas

Date: 1908

A view of the Rood family farm’s house and barn near East Branch Township in Marion County, Kansas. The Rood family (George H. Rood in partnership with his wife, Helen,…

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Rood Barn, Marion County, Kansas

Date: Between 1900 and 1910

A view of the combination barn and grain elevator built in 1897 on the Rood farm near East Branch Township in Marion County, Kansas. The Rood family (George H. Rood…

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Lewis and Gomer David Jones

Date: Between 1900 and 1909

Portrait of Lewis, three years old, and Gomer David Jones, one year old, Topeka, Kansas. The suit worn by Lewis was brought from Wales by his grandfather.

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Helen Mars (Thomas) Rood and family

Date: 1930

A studio portrait of four generations of the Rood family, taken on the occasion of Helen Mars (Thomas) Rood’s 90th birthday. In partnership with her late husband, George H. Rood,…

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Dorothy Alice Akers

Date: About 1907

A studio portrait of Dorothy Alice Akers, daughter of Amasa Akers of Topeka, Kansas, at the age of two.

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Amasa Akers

Date: 1912

An informal portrait of Amasa Akers, father of Dorothy Alice Akers Jones, in Topeka, Kansas.

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Ida Alfreda Bechtel

Date: 1884

A studio portrait of Ida Alfreda Bechtel at age ten. In 1893, Bechtel married East Branch Township, Kansas, businessman Ashley Rood. The couple had two children: Ruth and Harold.

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Horace Rood

Date: Between 1890 and 1910

A portrait of Horace Rood, who was the older brother of businessman George H. Rood of East Branch Township and Peabody, Kansas.

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Ruth Ilene Ecord

Date: 1944

An informal, hand-tinted, portrait of Ruth Ilene Ecord, age fifteen, in Fort Madison, Iowa, wearing a dress that had belonged to Rosetta Maria Hungerford Akers.

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Ashley Rood

Date: 1874

This is a studio portrait of (Edgar) Ashley Rood, son of George H. and Helen Mars (Thomas) Rood, at the age of three. The couple’s only son and sole surviving…

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Dorothy Alice Akers Jones

Date: Between 1920 and 1935

A portrait of Dorothy Alice Akers Jones, wearing a dress that had belonged to her grandmother, Rosetta Maria Hungerford Akers. The photograph was taken on the south side of the…

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Rosetta Maria Hungerford Akers

Date: Between 1890 and 1905

A formal portrait of Rosetta Maria Hungerford Akers, shown seated on a chair at her son Benjamin Akers, Jr.’s home on Fillmore Street in Topeka, Kansas.