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This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company housing in Williams, Arizona. It was constructed in 1883.

This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company freight depot, built in 1880, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company pump house, built in 1912, in Shoemaker, New Mexico.

These two photographs show the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's steam locomotive #3000. This "Mallet" type locomotive, built in the ATSF shops in Topeka, Kansas, was equipped with a Jacobs-Shupert non-explosive fire box. It was also the largest locomotive in the world at 121 feet and six inches long.

This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company section house, built in 1895, in Leasburg, New Mexico.

This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company section house, built in 1881, in Maxwell, New Mexico.

This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company section house, built in 1881, in Shoemaker, New Mexico.

This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company section house, built in 1883, in Spalding New Mexico.

This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company tool house, built in 1882, in South Guam, New Mexico.

This photograph shows a group soldiers gathered around a portable radio while aboard an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's military train.

This photograph shows the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad roundhouse in Needles, California. To the right of the roundhouse is the sand house and the west end of the coal chute. The machine shop was in the right or east end of the roundhouse.

This is a photograph showing Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad's #5632 locomotive and passenger train near Cameron, Missouri. It was a trip in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Kansas City Union Railway station and ran between Kansas City and Cameron, Missouri. For the celebration, the locomotive was painted gold.

This is a postcard showing Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad's steam locomotives pulling a freight train near Topeka, Kansas. One of the locomotives is #5104.

This photograph shows a young boy examining a corn stock in an unidentified field.

This photograph shows the Topeka Country Club at 2700 SW Buchanan Street in Topeka, Kansas. The facility was designed by Kansas City architect Louis Curtiss.

This is a photograph of Edward Cartwright and Susanna Perks Cartwright. They settled in Brookville, Kansas in the 1890s.

This is a photograph showing Edward Cartwright and Susanna Perks Cartwright standing in front of their house in Brookville, Kansas.

This is a photograph showing Mary Elizabeth Blunderfield Jolitz looking at a pail offered by her sister Emily Alice Blunderfield at their store in Talmage, Kansas. William Henry Blunderfield started the store for his daughters where they sold miscellaneous merchandise including china, pits, pans, dolls, toys, and baby carriages. One of the store's corners was a post office and Mary served as post mistress until she married in 1907 and after she left, Emily served in that capacity for fifteen years.

This is a postcard showing people by a pond at Gage Park in Topeka, Kansas.

This photograph shows a farmer husking corn in an unidentified field in Kansas. Also visible is a horse-drawn wagon with a bang board attached.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company dwelling, Williams, Arizona

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company freight depot, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company pump house, Shoemaker, New Mexico

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Companys' steam locomotive #3000

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company section house, Leasburg, New Mexico

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company section house, Maxwell, New Mexico

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company section house, Shoemaker, New Mexico

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company section house, Spalding, New Mexico

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company tool house, South Guam, New Mexico

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company troop train

Atlantic & Pacific Railroad roundhouse, Needles, California

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy locomotive #5632 and passenger train

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad's locomotives and freight train near Topeka, Kansas

Corn field

Country Club, Topeka, Kansas

Edward Cartwright and Susanna Perks Cartwright

Edward Cartwright and Susanna Perks Cartwright in Brookville, Kansas

Emily Alice Blunderfield and Mary Elizabeth Blunderfield Jolitz's store in Talmage, Kansas

Gage Park in Topeka, Kansas

Harvesting corn