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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.
previewVeselik-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.
previewSchool in a chuck wagon, Finney County, Kansas
This photograph shows Maude Elliott's first school building; it was used as a chuck wagon where two or three women cooked for a crew of men. The tent was their "living room" which could be as easily moved from place to place as the chuck wagon. A pair of mules was all that was needed to move Maude Elliott's school building around.
previewSnow scenes, Wilson County, Kansas
This is a group of 4 snow scenes taken at the W. K. Morse farm in Wilson County, Kansas. The Warren Fitzgerald family lived with them one winter, and there is one scene of a man moving their household goods with a horse and wagon on March 1st. The other scenes show the following: a man and woman with three children and a dog standing in front of the farm house; a man holding a baby with a boy, a girl, and a dog, standing in the driveway; a girl with a man pushing a dog in a wooden wheelbarrow in front of the barn.
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