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Lida Ann Beaty Pearce Jackson
This is a photograph showing Lida Ann Beaty Pearce Jackson with her collection of dolls. In 1882, her family came to Kansas from Tipton County, Indiana and settled in Linn County and then Stafford...
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Randolph High School girls basketball team, Randolph, Kansas
A photograph of the Randolph High School girls basketball team and coach, Randolph, Kansas.
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Richard W. Barta
This is a photograph of Shawnee County Sheriff Richard W. Barta, who was the Shawnee County Sheriff for 12 years and in the law enforcement community for more than four decades. Barta resigned in 2012...
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Surveying party in Arkansas City, Kansas
This is a photograph showing the first surveying party sent to Indian Territory, later Oklahoma. The surveyors are the four civilians at the right. In the fall of 1868, the United States government...
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Interior of the House of Representatives in the Kansas capitol, Topeka, Kansas
This is a photograph showing the interior of the House of Representatives located in the west wing of the Kansas capitol.
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Concert by consolidated Camp Funston bands at Kansas Agricultural College in...
This is a panoramic photo of a concert by consolidated Camp Funston bands on the Kansas Agricultural College campus in Manhattan, Kansas on Easter Sunday, 1918. This concert was arranged by War Camp...
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's steam locomotive #3750
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's steam locomotive #3750, 4-8-2, in Pasadena, California. The engine was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of...
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Repairs to the Kansas capitol dome, Topeka, Kansas
A color slide showing repairs to the Kansas capitol dome after it was damaged in the June 8, 1966 tornado in Topeka, Kansas.
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Dog with a giant rabbit
An exaggerated postcard showing a dog with a giant rabbit. During the 1930s, Kansas suffered a major drought and as a result, Jack rabbits ate what little vegetation was growing. To reduce the rabbit...
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Drum corps at the State Soldiers Home in Dodge City, Kansas
A photograph of the Old Soldiers Drum Corps at the State Soldiers Home in Dodge City, Kansas. The men are standing in front of the Headquarters Building.
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Fairmont College in Wichita, Kansas
This is a postcard showing Fairmount College in Wichita, Kansas. It was a private Congregational school and was founded in 1886 by the Rev. Joseph Homer Parker. Collegiate classes began in 1895. In...
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Larry Wilson
Two photographs of Larry Wilson, Shawnee County Treasurer, who was appointed to the office on March 18, 2003, when Shawnee County Democratic precinct committee members voted unanimously to elect...
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Laying the tracks of the Pacific Railroad
This is an illustration showing workers laying track on the Pacific Railroad. It was copied from Our New West by Samuel Bowles.
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Marijana's Family
Marijana's Family, original painting by Marijana Grisnik. The artist describes the painting "on the right side of the painting is the house that my grandmother purchased in 1903. My mama and I were...
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Mary Gertrude Girder Goddard
A color photograph of Mary Gertrude Girder Goddard. Mary taught a special Presbyterian Sunday School program over the state and also served as Kansas State President of PEO, a philanthropic...
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Rabbit drive in Western Kansas
This is a photograph showing a rabbit drive in Western Kansas during the Depression. During this period of drought, Jack rabbits ate what little vegetation was growing. To reduce the rabbit...
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Rabbits in a pen in Western Kansas
This is a postcard showing rabbits in a pen in Western Kansas. During this period of drought, Jack rabbits ate what little vegetation was growing. To reduce the rabbit population, they were rounded up...
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Rabbits killed in Western Kansas
This is a postcard showing rabbits after they were killed in Western Kansas. During this period of drought, Jack rabbits ate what little vegetation was growing. To reduce the rabbit population, they...
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Sledding On Swiner's Dump
Sledding On Swiner's Dump, painting by Marijana Grisnik. The artist describes the painting, "we didn't have a real playground. So this was where the children played. It was not a dump where people...
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Soldiers leaving a transport ship at the Los Angeles Port Embarkation,...
Soldiers returning from the South Pacific are shown leaving a transport ship at the Los Angeles Port Embarkation, Wilmington, California.
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