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Fourth of July celebration, Coldwater, Kansas
Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
View of a 1903 Fourth of July celebration on a street in Coldwater, Kansas. Business buildings are visible along the street, including the Shultise & Allderdice General Supply Store.
previewLand buyers visit Satanta, Haskell County, Kansas
Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
View of James Septer Patrick's business building (Jas. S. Patrick Agent for Satanta Lots And Santa Fe Lands) in Satanta, Kansas. Also visible in the photograph are the Deal building and a water tower, both under construction, and people seated in four automobiles. The first two cars contain land buyers from Wichita, Kansas (only John Jacob Miller, seated next to the driver in the first car, is identified ), the third car contains Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Johnson from Sublette, Kansas, and James Septer Patrick is alone in the fourth car. Note the steering wheels are on the right side of the cars.
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.
previewGolden Charles Dresher photograph collection
Dresher, G. C.
This collection consists of 326 photographs taken by G. C. (Golden Charles) Dresher of Canton, McPherson County, Kansas. The photos mostly concern the Dresher family, their friends and the surrounding area. Photographs of McPherson College students and the flooding of Cow Creek are also included. Dorothy May (Dresher) Richards, the daughter of G. C. Dresher, donated the original glass plate negatives to the Kansas Historical Society in 1999.
previewView of the west side of the courthouse square in Fredonia, Wilson County, Kansas
This photograph is a view of the block of buildings on the west side of the courthouse square in Fredonia, Wilson County, Kansas. The G. W. Mariner store is closest. A drugstore, hardware store and marble works business are also visible. Men and women are standing outside the businesses and sitting in horse-drawn wagons.
previewGeneral store and post office, Guilford, Wilson County, Kansas
One of these photographs shows the first general store at Guilford in Wilson County, Kansas, with a group of men, women and children standing on the porch and a horse and buggy parked in front. The other two photographs show men, women, and children, and horses and buggies, in front of the second general merchandise store building, which included the post office. Colonel Lugianbeal ran the store.
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