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Garden City Foulk’s Cornet Band
Date: 1900s or 1910s
A photograph of Foulk’s Cornet Band of Garden City, Kansas. The group photo shows band members in uniform holding brass and wind instruments and drums.
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Ft. Riley Sixth Calvary Band
Date: 1990s or 1910s
A black and white photo taken from the book “Picturesque Fort Riley”, depicts members of the Sixth Cavalry band of Fort Riley, Kansas.
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Ft. Riley Fourth Cavalry Band
Date: Between between 1880 and 1890
A black and white photo of the Ft. Riley Fourth Cavalry Band standing informal with their instruments
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William Allen White
Date: April 30, 1914
William Allen White,1868-1944, seated at his desk. White, a newspaper editor, had something to say on virtually every topic that had anything to do with Kansas or the nation. Born…
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Angell one-way disc plow
Date: Between 1975 and 1990
Charlie Angell, Sr. of Plains, Kansas, was a wheat farmer with a special knack for machines. In the 1920s, Angell sought to develop a plow that was particularly suited to…
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Walter Herschel Beech and Olive Ann Beech
Date: Between 1940 and 1945
Walter Herschel Beech, 1891-1950, and Olive Ann Beech, 1903-1993, viewing World War II aircraft production lines at the Beechcraft Plant I in Wichita, Kansas.
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Glenn Cunningham
Date: Between 1930 and 1935
Glenn V. Cunningham, 1909-1988, one of the premiere milers in the 1930s, is shown running as a member of the University of Kansas track team. Born in Atlanta, Kansas, seven…
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Elisha J. Scott
Date: Between 1950 and 1959
Elisha J. Scott, 1890-1963, was raised in Topeka’s Tennesseetown. As a youth, he possessed a strong drive and a quick wit, which attracted the eye of prominent Topeka minister Charles…
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Winchester High School
Date: November 24, 1910
Winchester High School first and second teams playing basketball on an outside court, Winchester, Kansas.
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Charlie John Angell
Date: Between 1915 and 1927
Charlie Angell, of Plains, Kansas, was a wheat farmer with a special knack for machines. In the 1920s, Angell sought to develop a plow that was particularly suited to the…
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Map showing lines of the Great Overland Stage Route…
Date: 1901
This map shows the routes of the Great Overland Stage Route, the Santa Fe Trail, Butterfield Overland Dispatch, Mormon Route of 1847, and the Leavenworth & Pike’s Peak Express.
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Map of Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado
Date: 1867
This map shows Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and the southern portion of Dakotah.
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Bob and Grat Dalton
Date: October 5, 1892
Law enforcement officers hold up the bodies of Bob and Grat Dalton, who had been killed during an attempted robbery of the C. M. Condon and Company Bank in Coffeyville,…
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Santa Fe Chief dining car
Date: Between 1945 and 1949
People eating in the dining car on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Chief passenger train.
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San Francisco Chief lunch counter
Date: Between 1945 and 1949
This photograph shows passengers eating at the San Francisco Chief lunch counter diner which offered Santa Fe’s famous Fred Harvey meals.
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Tornado damage in Shawnee County
Date: June 5, 1917
This black and white photograph shows people examining tornado damage to the Hotchkiss home and farm located five miles west of Topeka in Shawnee County, Kansas. The destruction was a…
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Dugout, Norton County, Kansas
Date: Between 1880 and 1890
This photograph shows a family posed in front of their dugout in Norton County, Kansas. The dugout appears to have some sod walls. Researcher provided information labels individuals pictured as…
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Student working on arithmetic
Date: Between 1890 and 1920
This photograph shows a young boy standing at a chalk board working on arithmetic.
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Kansas railroad map
Date: 1885
Kansas Railroad Map showing railroad lines, counties, and towns.
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Belle Jones Dresher
Date: August, 1907
An informal portrait of Belle Jones Dresher, kneeling before the open oven of her new stove. Also visible are two pie pans, a match holder on the door frame behind…
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Butchering hogs
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
Men butchering hogs at an unidentified location.
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Women canning vegetables
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
Women canning vegetables, part of the Works Progress Administration’s domestic science and foods project.
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Victory garden, Wichita, Kansas
Date: 1942
This is a photograph showing a man using a hand plow and children working in a Victory garden, Wichita, Kansas.
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Loading apples on a truck
Date: Between 1950 and 1959
This photograph shows men loading baskets of apples on a truck.
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company’s Fred Harvey House, Hutchinson, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
This photograph shows a group of Harvey Girls gathered in the dining room of the Harvey House at the Bisonte Hotel in Hutchinson, Kansas. The facility designed by architect J.G.…