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Elizabeth Ann Watrous Abbott
Date: Between 1860 and 1880
Elizabeth Ann Watrous Abbott, the wife of James Burnett Abbott, was an early settler of Kansas who aided in the Free State cause.
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Chase County Courthouse
Date: Between 1879 and 1885
A view of the Chase County Courthouse, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. The architect for the courthouse was John Haskell and the contractor was James Bannon. It was constructed between 1871 and…
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Chase County Courthouse
Date: Between 1874 and 1879
A view of the Chase County Courthouse building in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. Designed by architect John G. Haskell and completed in 1873 by contractor James Bannon, the courthouse is an…
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Samuel Austin Kingman
Date: Between 1890 and 1900
Portrait of Samuel Austin Kingman, Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, 1861-1865 and Chief Justice, 1867-1876.
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William Agnew Johnston
Date: Between 1888 and 1899
This is a portrait of William Agnew Johnston, who served as the 11th Kansas Attorney General from January 10, 1881 to December 1, 1884, resigning to become an associate justice…
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Samuel Lyle Adair family
Date: 1849
Cased sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of Samuel Adair, Charles Storrs Adair, Florella Brown Adair, and Emma Florilla Adair. The family settled near Osawatomie, Kansas Territory, where Adair was a minister…
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Radio station XERA
Date: Between 1931 and 1932
A postcard view of Dr. John R. Brinkley’s radio station XERA in Villa Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico, across the Rio Grande from Del Rio, Texas.
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Dr. John R. Brinkley
Date: Between 1920 and 1940
Dr. John R. Brinkley, a physician from Milford, Kansas, famous for his goat gland transplants.
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Dr. John R. Brinkley
Date: Between 1920 and 1940
Dr. John R. Brinkley, a physician from Milford, Kansas, famous for his goat gland transplants.
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Dr. John R. Brinkley
Date: Between 1920 and 1940
Dr. John R. Brinkley, a physician from Milford, Kansas, famous for his goat gland transplants.
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Dr. John R. Brinkley
Date: Between 1920 and 1940
Dr. John R. Brinkley, a physician from Milford, Kansas, famous for his goat gland transplants.
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Dr. John R. Brinkley
Date: Between 1920 and 1940
Dr. John Brinkley standing outside of ruins of log building, in Del Rio, Texas.
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Mennonite family
Date: Between 1885 and 1899
A Mennonite family standing in front of their frame house, Marion County, Kansas.
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Harvesting wheat, Ellis County
Date: Between 1900 and 1915
Alex Schumacher and his brothers, Volga-German immigrants, use a steam powered threshing machine to harvest wheat near Munjor, Kansas.
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company’s streamlined locomotives, Chicago, Illinois
Date: February 14, 1938
This black and white photograph shows a view of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company’s streamlined locomotives lined up at the 18th Street rail yard in Chicago, Illinois.…
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Johnston Lykins
Date: Between 1840 and 1860
Johnston Lykins was a well-known missionary, physician, and translator who worked with the Pottawatomi and Shawnee Indians who had moved to Indian Territory (present-day Kansas) after the passage of the…
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Pottawatomie Baptist Mission
Date: Between 1880 and 1900
View of the Pottawatomie Baptist Mission in Shawnee county, Kansas, looking southwest from Murray Hill. The Robert Ives Lee house is in the foreground, he purchased the property from the…
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Border ruffians invading Kansas
Date: 1880
Illustration of presumed pro-slavery supporters entering Kansas during the 1850s. The illustration appeared in the 1880 edition of William Cullen Bryant’s “A Popular History of the United States.”
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Pottawatomie Baptist Mission
Date: Between 1880 and 1890
View of an outbuilding at the Pottawatomie Baptist Mission.
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Pottawatomie Baptist Mission
Date: Between 1880 and 1890
View of an outbuilding at the Pottawatomie Baptist Mission.
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Pottawatomie Baptist Mission
Date: Between 1930 and 1960
View of the Pottawatomie Baptist Mission, Topeka, Kansas.
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Abraham Burnett
Date: Between 1850 and 1870
A portrait of Chief Abraham Burnett, 1812-1870, of the Pottawatomie Nation. Also known by his birth name, Nan-Wesh-Mah, and as Abram B. Burnett, in 1838 he and other Pottawatomies were…
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Burnett’s Mound, Shawnee County, Kansas
Date: Between 1850 and 1870
A drawing of Burnett’s Mound, located in Shawnee County, Kansas. It was originally called Webster’s Mound and possibly known as Knox’s Mound.
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Buffalo
Date: Between 1900 and 1920
View of a buffalo herd grazing in an unknown location.
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The far west: shooting buffalo on the line of the Kansas Pacific Railroad
Date: June 3, 1871
An illustration titled “The far west: shooting buffalo on the line of the Kansas Pacific Railroad”.