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Basketball team, De Soto, Kansas
Date: 1924
This is an informal portrait of the coach and members of the De Soto High School girls’ basketball team in De Soto, Kansas. A girl is holding a basketball with…
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Lineman working on power lines
Date: 1911
View of a lineman working on power or telephone lines at an intersection in Pratt, Kansas. Various offices and storefronts are apparent in the background.
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Fred Andrew Stone with a circus group
Date: Between 1885 and 1895
Fred Andrew Stone, 1873-1959, actor and author, with a group of circus performers, copied from Rolling Stone by Fred Stone. He performed in vaudeville, stage musicals, and movies. He was…
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Fred Andrew and Eddie Stone
Date: Between 1885 and 1895
Fred Andrew Stone, 1873-1959, actor and author, with his brother Eddie (d.1903), copied from Rolling Stone. The photograph is captiioned “Under the Big Top ‘My little brother was top mounter.’”…
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Albin Longren’s first airplane
Date: November 25, 1911
View of Albin Longren’s first airplane in Winfield, Kansas.
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Topeka State Hospital
Date: 1920s
Aerial view of the Topeka State Hospital in Topeka, Kansas.
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Brewery album
Date: Between 1906 and 1911
A photograph album containing 37 photographs of saloons, Turner Halls, breweries, Shawnee County Courthouse, and shipping and delivery of beer in northeast Kansas.
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Fred Andrew Stone
Date: February 26, 1917
Portrait of Fred Andrew Stone, 1873-1959, actor and author, Fred Stone performed in vaudeville, stage musicals, and movies. He was known especially for his acrobatic dancing and engaging onstage personality.…
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Stone house, Ellis County, Kansas
Date: Between 1880 and 1900
This is a view of the stone house of Mr. and Mrs. Caspar Sack in Ellis County, Kansas.
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Sod house, Ellis, Kansas
Date: Between 1880 and 1900
This sod house belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Caspar Sack in Ellis, Kansas.
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Dave [Mysterious Dave] Mather
Date: Between 1870 and 1879
A portrait of Dave Mather also known as Mysterious Dave. He was a resident of Dodge City, Kansas, in the early 1870’s. Mather was a gambler, saloon owner, gunslinger,and assistant…
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James C. Malin
Date: Between 1940 and 1960
Portrait of James C. Malin, professor of history at the University of Kansas.
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Cyrus Kurtz Holliday
Date: Between 1855 and 1858
Portrait of Cyrus Kurtz Holliday, 1826-1900, as a young man.
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Charles Curtis, Vice President of the United States
Date: Between 1920 and 1933
Portrait of Charles Curtis, 1860-1936, United States Congressman, 1893-1907, U. S. Senator, 1907-1913 and 1915-1929, and Vice President of the United States, 1929-1933.
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Clyde Tombaugh
Date: 1938
Clyde Tombaugh, 1906-1997, examining planet photograph plates under the Blink Microscope Comparator at the Lowell Observatory.
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Forbes Air Force Base, Topeka, Kansas
Date: July 23, 1963
An aerial photograph showing the runway, aircraft, and buildings at the north end of Forbes Air Force Base, Topeka, Kansas.
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Aerial view of Forbes Air Force Base, Topeka, Kansas
Date: July 23, 1963
An aerial photograph showing the runway, aircraft, and buildings at Forbes Air Force Base, Topeka, Kansas.
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Aerial view of Forbes Air Force Base, Topeka, Kan.
Date: July 23, 1963
An aerial photograph showing the south end of Forbes Air Force Base, Topeka, Kan.
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Forbes Air Force Base, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1960 and 1969
Military aircraft at Forbes Air Force Base, Topeka, Kansas.
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On to Lawrence, Kansas
Date: Around 1883
An illustration titled “On to Lawrence” showing Confederate guerilla leader William Clarke Quantrill, 1837-1865, and his men moving toward Lawrence, Kansas. Early in the morning of August 21, 1863, guerilla…
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Hunters, Ford County, Kansas
Date: Between 1905 and 1925
Chalk Beeson, Byron McMillian, Jack Thomas, unidentified man, Ross King, Merritt L. Beeson, Harry Cash, Frank Cox, and Chester Jacoby with guns and the rabbits they shot while on a…
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A family posed in front of their house
Date: Between 1875 and 1899
In this photograph, an unidentified African-American family is standing in front of their house. The location is not identified.
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Ho for Kansas!
Date: March 18, 1878
Benjamin “Pap” Singleton, a leader of the Exodus movement and president of the Tennessee Real Estate and Homestead Association, distributed this pamphlet in Nashville, Tennessee, to encourage emigration to Kansas.…
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Susanna Madora Salter, Mayor of Argonia
Date: 1887
This is a portrait of Susanna Madora Salter, Mayor of Argonia, and first woman mayor in the United States. Born March 2, 1860, in Belmont County, Ohio, Susanna Madora Kinsey…
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Haskell Institute students, Lawrence, Kansas
Date: 1887
A formal portrait of a group of young male students of Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas. Established in 1884 as the Indian Industrial Training School, Haskell Institute evolved into what…