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School lunch, Parsons, Kansas
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
Lunch at Douglas School, Parsons, Kansas, part of the Works Progress Administration.
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Mary Elizabeth Lease
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
Portrait of Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1853-1933, wearing a graduation gown and holding a cap.
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Mary Elizabeth Lease
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
This is a portrait of Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1853-1933, a lawyer, orator, and supporter of the Populist Party.
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St. Francis Hospital
Date: Between 1940 and 1960
View of the St. Francis Hospital and Chapel in Topeka, Kansas.
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St. Francis Hospital
Date: Between 1920 and 1950
This photograph shows St. Francis Hospital and Chapel in Topeka, Kansas.
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Pappan’s Ferry in Topeka, Kansas Territory
Date: 1857
This is a drawing depicting Pappan’s Ferry on the Kansas River in Topeka, Kansas Territory.
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Nursery school, Frontenac, Kansas
Date: Between 1939 and 1943
African American children playing in a nursery school, Frontenac, Kansas. This school was part of the Works Progress Administration.
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Nursery school, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1939 and 1943
Children playing with blocks in a nursery school, Topeka, Kansas. This school was part of the Works Progress Administration.
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Children eating, Garland, Kansas
Date: Between 1939 and 1943
Children eating a school lunch in Garland, Kansas. This lunch program was part of the Works Progress Administration.
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Edmund Gibson Ross
Date: Between 1856 and 1865
Portait of Edmund Gibson Ross, U.S. Senator from Kansas. Ross helped raise and then served in the Eleventh Kansas during the Civil War. After James H. Lane’s death by suicide…
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Kansas Avenue and 4th Street
Date: Between 1860 and 1870
This photograph shows a view of the corner of Fourth Street and Kansas Avenue in Topeka, Kansas, sometime during the early 1860s. The buildings were located north of the Gordon…
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Kansas Avenue
Date: Around 1880
Kansas Avenue looking south from 4th Street in Topeka, Kansas. The Shawnee County Courthouse and Dutton House are located on the west side of Kansas Ave.
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Kansas Avenue
Date: Between 1930 and 1940
View of Kansas Avenue south from 4th Street in Topeka, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Constitution Hall, Lecompton, Kansas
Date: 1903
View of Constitution Hall in Lecompton, Kansas.
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Andrew Horatio Reeder
Date: 1856
Portrait of Andrew Horation Reeder, governor of Kansas Territory.
Medium: StillImage
Grasson DeWitt
Date: Around 1897
Portrait of Grasson DeWitt, Republican, 19th District House of Representatives, Allen County, Kansas.
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Rev. Lewis Bodwell
Date: Between 1840 and 1870
View of Rev. Lewis Bodwell, first pastor of the First Congregational Church in Topeka, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Music instruction, Lawrence, Kansas
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
African-American children receiving music instruction at a Lawrence, Kansas, recreation center, part of the Works Progress Administration.
Medium: StillImage
Dancing at a recreation center, Leavenworth, Kansas
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
This boy and girl are dancing at an African American recreation center in Leavenworth, Kansas. It was part of the Works Progress Administration activities.
Medium: StillImage
Teenagers dancing at a recreation center, Leavenworth, Kansas
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
Youth group dancing at a Leavenworth, Kansas, Works Progress Administration recreation center.
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William Ross
Date: Between 1870 and 1890
Portait painting of William Ross, Indian agent.
Medium: StillImage
The arrest of Governor Robinson
Date: Between 1850 and 1860
Illustration of the arrest of Kansas Governor Charles Robinson by Marshal Donaldon.
Medium: StillImage
Sara Tappan Lawrence Robinson
Date: Between 1850 and 1870
Portrait of Sara Tappan Lawrence Robinson.
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William H. Weymouth
Date: 1880s
Portrait of William H. Weymouth, a Topeka, Kansas, pioneer.
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Children playing, Wichita, Kansas
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
these African American children are playing shuffleboard at a recreation center in Wichita, Kansas. This activity was part of the Works Progress Administration.