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Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, Kansas (Cattle in foreground), Lawrence, Kansas. 323 miles west of St. Louis, Mo.
Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
This stereograph shows Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, Kansas. Visible in the photograph are business buildings, different forms of transportation, and people and cattle in the street. It is from Alexander Gardner's series, Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division.
previewMassachusetts Street, Lawrence, Kansas. 323 miles west of St. Louis, Mo.
Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
This stereograph shows Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, Kansas. Visible in the photograph are business buildings, different forms of transportation, and people and a wagon on the street. It is from Alexander Gardner's series, Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division.
previewBrewery album
A photograph album containing 37 photographs of saloons, Turner Halls, breweries, Shawnee County Courthouse, and shipping and delivery of beer in northeast Kansas.
previewUrbin I. Rudell photograph collection
Rudell, Urbin I., 1878-1966
Photographer Urbin I. Rudell, 1878-1966, was born in the Lenape community of Leavenworth County, Kansas. His family later moved to Loring, Wyandotte County, where he attended school. Rudell became interested in taking photographs at age 15 and taught himself the art of photography with a German-made camera he acquired. Rudell married Alice Mae Barry in 1903 and the couple moved to Bonner Springs in 1907. About this time, the city leaders were promoting Bonner Springs as a health resort. Rudell was hired to take photographs of Bonner Springs businesses, homes, and other points of interest, which were published in the booklet "Kansas Karlsbad." During the Depression, Rudell was hired to carry mail and parcel post between the post office and the Union Pacific depot, and he held that job for the next twenty years. He continued to operate his photography business and worked out of his home taking photographs when requested and whenever a major event occurred in town.
previewJohn Christoph photograph album
This album contains photographs of Ellinwood and Barton County, Kansas, taken by John Christoph. On June 18, 1891, he opened a photography gallery in the north room of a furniture store and continued in the business until February 14, 1919. Christoph also served as the Ellinwood police judge for twenty years.
previewL. 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.
previewSugar Company plant in Garden City, Kansas
The photographs show views of the sugar beet factory in Garden City, Finney County, Kansas, about 1910. The photographs also show people, wagons, buggies, horses, and a railroad track in front of the sugar beet factory.
previewSugar beet factory, Garden City, Kansas
The photograph shows a sugar beet plant in Garden City, Finney County, Kansas, in about 1910. In front of the building there are people, horses, buggies, and wagons. The photograph also shows a train and railroad tracks in front of the sugar beet plant.
previewEclipse Elevator, South Haven, Kansas
This black and white photograph shows Charles Robinson seated in a horse-drawn wagon filled with grain at the Eclipse Elevator in South Haven, Kansas.
previewRabbits to be shipped out, Liberal, Kansas
This photograph shows rabbits getting ready to be loaded into a Santa Fe refrigerator car in Liberal, Kansas. They have been transported to the rail yard on a horse drawn skid. The rabbits were to go east and be sold for 10 cents a piece.
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