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Branding cattle, Scott City, Kansas
This photograph shows cattle being branded on the J.W. Lough's ranch near Scott City, Kansas. In the foreground a woman dressed in white is branding a cow while ranch hands look on. Several cattle are visible in the background.
previewFirst steam plow in Garden City, Finney County, Kansas
Wolf, Henry L. 1850-1924
A photograph showing a group of people posing with the first steam tractor, plow and harrow in Garden City, Finney County, Kansas.
previewFirst steam plow in Garden City, Finney County, Kansas
Wolf, Henry L. 1850-1924
The photograph shows a group of people around the first steam plow in Garden City, Finney County, Kansas. Also in the background of the photograph there are some tents, buggies, wagons, and a horse.
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.
previewGroup of people in a horse drawn wagon near Grainfield, Kansas
This is possibly a photograph of a church group. Ed and Fred Albin are on the front seat left and behind them is their father Thomas Bishop Albin and Flora Albin Boyer (#4).
previewJ.R. Watkins Medical wagon, Eureka, Kansas
This black and white photograph shows a couple standing beside a J.R. Watkins Medical wagon with sampling cases near Eureka, Kansas. The medical company, founded in 1868 by Joseph Ray Watkins from Plainview, Minnesota, sold medical liniments and salves from the back of a horse drawn wagon. The company may have sold supplies for animals as well as humans because a bucket in the front of the photograph is labeled "stock tonic" and the wagon has "stock and poultry tonic" on it.
previewLadies' Ideal Band of Bethany photograph
Kansas City View Co.
This photograph represents the Ladies' Ideal Band of Bethany, riding in a horse-drawn wagon in MIssouri. The banner adorning the wagon reads, "Tourist Coffee M. & J. Blend." The women band members hold brass instruments and drums.
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.
previewParade float advertising the Exchange Hotel, Ashland, Kansas
Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
View of a horse-drawn parade float advertising the Exchange Hotel on a street in Ashland, Kansas. People in the photograph are identified as: Dola Dorsey; Effie Morrison Dorsey; Emma Michael; Amy Dorsey Dugan; Hazel Klinger; Alvin Mull; Orilla Klinger; and Jack Dorsey, the driver.
previewPeople on a flatbed railroad car
Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
This is a view, presumed to have been taken in Haskell County, Kansas, of a large group of people (men and women) on a flat railroad car being pulled by a locomotive. Also visible are a horse-drawn wagon and its driver.
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