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Brown's Garage, Dorrance, Kansas

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

View of three men in the Brown Garage in Dorrance, Russell County, Kansas. One man is leaning against a work bench, another is seated on an Indian motorcycle, and a third is seated in an open convertible automobile.

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Union Pacific Railroad Company depot, Bavaria, Kansas

This photograph shows two men on a motorcycle in front of the Union Pacific Railroad Company depot at Bavaria, Kansas.

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Shinzo Morita of Osaka, Japan

Kansas Industrial Development Commission

This image from the magazine, "To the Stars", shows Shinzo Morita of Osaka, Japan with a Shaw bicycle that was manufactured in Galesburg, Kansas. The Shaw company was founded in 1903 by Stanley W. Shaw, who manufactured and marketed bicycles, motors, sports cars, tractorized automobiles, and garden tractors. In 1903, the company converted an ordinary bicycle into a motorcycle and started the production of a one cylinder bicycle engine. Within a few years, the Shaw company was selling their motorcycle all over the world.

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Postal mail carriers, Webber, Kansas

This black and white photograph shows two mail carriers from Webber, Kansas, standing beside their delivery motorcycles. The gentleman have been identified from left to right: George Graham, RFD carrier for Route 2, and Mort Harding RFD carrier for Route 1.

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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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Rural mail carriers, Oakley, Kansas

This black and white photograph shows three rural mail carriers on their motorcycles in front of the post office at Oakley, Kansas. Two of the motorcycles have Thor IV written across the tanks.

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Vern Miller on a motorcycle

A photograph showing Vern Miller, Sedgwick County Deputy Sheriff, seated on a motorcycle.

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Vern Miller

A photograph showing Vern Miller, Sedgwick County Sheriff, seated on a motorcycle. He served as Sheriff from1964 to 1970.

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Excelsior motorcycle dealership in Lyons, Kansas

This photograph is an exterior view of an Excelsior motorcycle dealership in Lyons, Kansas. The façade of the dealership building is in the background, while the foreground includes two Excelsior motorcycles and several shipping crates containing additional machines. The motorcycle on the left is equipped with a Miller Triplex Side Seat to accommodate more than one rider. A photographer's imprint in the lower right-hand corner indicates that the image was made by Jones Studio.

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Rural Free Delivery carriers, Delphos, Kansas

Ballou, Don D.

This black and white photograph shows a group of Rural Free Delivery, (R.F.D.) carriers delivering the Christmas mail in Delphos, Kansas. The men have been identified from left to right as the following: L.C. Talcott, Aristotle Black, ___ Hardy, and Albert E. Fitch on a Thor motorcycle.

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