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L. W. Halbe Collection

Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981

The L. W. (Leslie Winfield) Halbe photo collection consists of 1500 glass plate negatives produced by Halbe during his teenage years. Halbe lived in Dorrance, Russell County, Kansas, and began taking photographs of the region with an inexpensive Sears and Roebuck camera when he was fifteen years old.

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Veselik-Gannon photograph collection

Gannon, Richard

The Veselik-Gannon photograph collection documents farming and ranching activities in Sherman County, Kansas, in the early twentieth century. The photographs include images of sod houses and other residences, barns and outbuildings, many children and farm and ranching families, tractors and other farm machinery, horses and cattle, people doing farm chores, cowboys, and early automobiles and motorcycles. The John L. and Mary Veselik residence near Ruleton appears in many of the photographs. The photographer is unknown. Richard Gannon donated copies of the photographs to the Kansas Historical Society in 1983 after discovering them in a building on his property.

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Scott City high school students working in a sugar cane field

This is a photograph showing Scott City high school students cutting, gathering, and running stalks of cane through a horse-powered press, a step in the manufacture of cane syrup. During World War I, students helped fill a labor void on many Kansas farms.

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Major George Mallonee and his drum corps at the State Soldiers Home at Fort Dodge, Kansas

This is a photograph of Major George Mallonee and his family drum corps at the State Soldiers Home at Fort Dodge, Kansas. He had 18 children and they were all musicians.

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Major George Mallonee and his drum corps at the State Soldiers Home at Fort Dodge, Kansas

This is a photograph showing Major George Mallonee and his family drum corps at the State Soldiers Home at Fort Dodge, Kansas. George had eighteen children and all of them were musicians. He served in Co. H, 52nd Ohio Infantry Volunteers during the Civil War.

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1968 Excavations at Fort Hays, 14EL301

These photographs were taken by Kansas Historical Society archeological staff during excavation at historic Fort Hays in Ellis County in 1968. The excavations took place in the area of the officer's quarters (Officer's Row). Shown are two views of the House 4 cellar excavation, the archeological excavations of the foundations for Houses 2 through 6 in progress, and a toy dish discovered in the House 5 excavations. Fort Hays was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and is a State Historic Site.

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