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Flooding, Ransom, Kansas

Date: Bulk June 01, 1914-June 02, 1914

This photograph shows flooding in Ransom, Kansas. In the foreground a group of children are gathered in front of J.A. Graham’s Feed and Grain while a man stands in the…

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George Washington Craig family

Date: Between 1920 and 1929

This photograph shows the George Washington Craig family. The family have been identified from left to right as follows: George Washington Craig and Ella (Terry) Craig, (back row), Ida, Golda,…

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Art Hazen

Date: 1915

This photograph shows Art Hazen seated behind a horse-drawn binder in Ransom, Kansas.

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Threshing, Ransom, Kansas

Date: Between 1900 and 1919

This photograph shows a group of people threshing grain with horse-drawn equipment in Ransom, Kansas. The group of men were part of the David Curtis’ threshing crew.

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Harvesting equipment, Ransom, Kansas

Date: 1928

This photograph shows a group of people standing beside a combine and truck in Ransom, Kansas. The harvesting equipment belong to Tracy Schreiber and Art Mead.

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Strand Theater, Ransom, Kansas

Date: 1952

This photograph shows the Strand Theater in Ransom, Kansas. The facility was owned by R.C. Buxton, and managed by Reginald Buxton and Edwin Shellenberger.

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Dust storm, Ransom, Kansas

Date: 1935

This photograph shows the tennis courts back of George Shellenberger’s house during a dust storm in Ransom, Kansas. Also visible is Bessie Rogers house.

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City building fire, Ransom, Kansas

Date: April 1950

This set of photographs show fire damage to the city building in Ransom, Kansas. The first image shows two men viewing the building. The second photograph shows the brick wall…

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Grain elevators, Ransom, Kansas

Date: Between 1900 and 1920

This photograph shows the grain elevators in Ransom, Kansas. In the foreground snow is covering the tracks and boxcars are visible over the piles of snow.

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John Schreiber family

Date: Between 1920 and 1929

This photograph shows the John Schreiber family. The individuals have been identified as follows: Leo, Agnes, Emma, Johnie, John Schreiber,(father), Olga Schreiber, (mother), Otto, Albert, and Tracy.

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Cutting ice, Ransom, Kansas

Date: Between 1890 and 1909

This photograph shows a group of men cutting ice on Sand Creek in Ransom, Kansas. One of the men is O.C. Schreiber.

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Hauling ice, Ransom, Kansas

Date: 1924

This photograph shows a group of people hauling ice in Ransom, Kansas. The individuals have been identified from left to right as follows: O.C. Schreiber, Mittie Schreiber, Winnie Schreiber and…

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Train wreck, Ransom, Kansas

Date: Between 1900 and 1919

This photograph shows a group of people gathered in front of steam locomotive #750 derailed near Ransom, Kansas.

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Overholt Cafe, Ransom, KS

Date: 1928

This photograph shows a group of people gathered inside the Overholt Cafe in Ransom, Kansas. The individuals have been identified from left to right as follows: Jessie Yost, Mittie Schreiber,…

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Water worksplant, Osawtomie, Kansas

Date: 1917

This photograph from a postcard shows the waterworks plant in Osawatomie, Kansas. The structure was designed in 1901, by the engineering firm of Burns and McDonnell from Kansas City, Missouri…

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McKay Street in Frontenac, Kansas

Date: February 25, 2019

Several photographs of McKay Street in Frontenac, Kansas. Several businesses are visible: Pickled Pete’s Bar and Grill, Pallucca & Sons Super Market, and the Bootleggers Bar & Grill. Also visible…

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Chicken Mary’s restaurant, Frontenac, Kansas

Date: February 25, 2019

Several photographs of Chicken Mary’s restaurant near Frontenac, Kansas. Joe and Mary Zerngast started Chicken Mary’s in the early 1940s. Joe, a German immigrant, found work as a shot firer…

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Iowa, and Sac and Fox Mission photograph

Date: 1841

This photograph is a representation of what the Iowa, and Sac and Fox Presbyterian Mission in Highland, Doniphan County, Kansas, may have looked like when first built.