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Bookmobile
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
A man and woman standing next to a bookmobile, part of the Works Progress Administration’s library services program.
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Bookmobile
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
Military and civilians at a United States Naval base looking at books from a bookmobile, part of the Works Progress Administration’s library services program.
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Bookmobile, Kansas City, Kansas
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
Civilians and members of the military at a bookmobile, Fairfax, Kansas City, Kansas. The bookmobile was part of the Works Progress Administration’s library services program.
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Bookmobile, Fairfax, Kansas City, Kansas
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
Sailors and civilians looking at books from a bookmobile, part of the Works Progress Administration, library services program, Fairfax, Kansas City, Kansas.
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Library, Wichita, Kansas
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
Men and women in a library for workers and adult education teachers, Wichita, Kansas. The library was part of the Works Progress Administration’s library services program.
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Boeing Airplane Company, Wichita, Kansas
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
A view of men and women in a library for workers at the Boeing Airplane Company in Wichita, Kansas. The library was created as part of the Works Progress Administration’s…
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Library, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
Library employees working in Topeka, Kansas. Some of the workers were trained by the Works Progress Administration’s library services program.
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Library, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
Library employees working in a library,Topeka, Kansas. Some of the workers were trained by the Works Progress Administration’s library service program.
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District No. 1 School in Nicodemus, Kansas
Date: 1977
This is an exterior view of the District No. 1 school building in Nicodemus, Graham County, Kansas. This schoolhouse, which forms part of the National Parks Service site, was built…
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Geronimo
Date: Between 1903 and 1904
Geronimo, third from the left, seated with George T. Barr, Mettie Rebecca Barr, and other unidentified people. Geronimo was a significant leader of the Chiricahua Apache who fought against the…
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Highway K-10
Date: Between 1930 and 1940
A photograph showing an automobile traveling on K-10, a 38 mile state highway that passes through the cities of Lawrence, Eudora, DeSoto, Olathe and Lenexa. This road provides a toll-free…
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company’s diesel locomotive
Date: Between 1941 and 1969
This black and white photograph shows a front view of an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company’s diesel locomotive pulling passenger cars.
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Spanish American War soldiers, Camp Alger, Virginia
Date: Between 1898 and 1899
Two members of the Twenty-Second Regiment, Kansas Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish American War seated in front of a tent reading their mail at Camp Alger, Virginia.
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De Soto hotel, De Soto, Kansas
Date: Between 1930 and 1940
View of a small wood-framed hotel in De Soto, Kansas. Also visible are a man holding a fire hose, a parked truck and automobiles, and a brick commercial building to…
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Major E. A. Ogden
Date: Between January 01, 1840 and December 31, 1855
Major E. A. Ogden, founder of Fort Riley. Fort Riley was part of a series of forts established by the United States government to protect travelers, commerce, and settlers as…
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Major E. A. Ogden
Date: Between January 01, 1840 and December 31, 1855
Major E. A. Ogden, founder of Fort Riley. Fort Riley was part of a series of forts established by the United States government to protect travelers, commerce, and settlers as…
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway tracks
Date: Between 1941 and 1969
This is a view of a stretch of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway tracks as seen from the engineer’s cab of a F-unit diesel-electric locomotive.
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Lucy Hobbs Taylor
Date: Between January 01, 1860 and December 31, 1870
Dr. Lucy Hobbs Taylor graduated from the Ohio College of Dentistry in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second dental school in the world, as the world’s first fully-trained woman dentist. In 1867…
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Charles Bates
Date: Between January 01, 1860 and December 31, 1864
Charles Bates, a Civil War soldier.
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William Allen White
Date: 1922
Portrait of William Allen White, editor of the Emporia Gazette, holding a hat.
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Glenn Cunningham and Archie San Romani, Lawrence, Kansas
Date: 1938
A portrait of famed Kansas milers Glenn Cunningham, 1909-1988, and Archie San Romani, 1912-1994, crossing the finish line at the Kansas Relays at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.…
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The daily grind
Date: July 21, 1925
A political cartoon titled “The Daily Grind” featured in the Emporia Gazette on July 21, 1925. This political cartoon is centered around the trial of John Scopes, a high school…
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All the world watches Dayton
Date: July 16, 1925
A political cartoon titled “All the World Watches Dayton” that was featured in the Topeka Daily Capital on July 16, 1925. This political cartoon is centered around the trial of…
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Monkey business
Date: July 14, 1925
An article titled Monkey Business from the Emporia Gazette, July 14, 1925, page 4. This political cartoon is centered around the trial of John Scopes, a high school teacher from…
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The thinker
Date: July 10, 1925
A political cartoon published by the Emporia Gazette, Emporia, Kansas, July 10, 1925, p.1. The cartoon concerns the 1925 [John] Scopes “monkey” trial concerning the teaching of evolution in public…