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Hauling dirt for the railroad bed

Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936

This is a view, presumed to have been taken in Haskell County, Kansas, of rail workers using horse- and mule-drawn wagons to haul dirt for a railroad bed.

Giant steam tractor pulling four one-way disks to turn wheat stubble

Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936

View of a giant steam tractor pulling four one-way discs to turn up wheat stubble in a field. Also visible are a horse-drawn wagon and three men.

Cowboys bathing in a pond, Seward County, Kansas

Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936

This is a view of cowboys bathing in a pond in Seward County, Kansas. Also visible are other cowboys, horses, and a chuckwagon.

Harvesting wheat, Seward County

Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936

View of men harvesting wheat with a steam tractor, thresher, and horse-drawn water wagon in a field in Seward County, Kansas.

Chuckwagon and cowboys, Seward County, Kansas

Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936

View of a chuckwagon and cowboys eating at an unidentified location in Seward County, Kansas. Also visible are blankets and other bedding, farm implements, and a grove of trees.

Steam tractor pulling a large plow, Comanche County, Kansas

Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936

Farmers standing by a large plow pulled by a steam tractor in Comanche County, Kansas. Also visible is a horse-drawn wagon.

Middle Creek Band

View of the members of the Middle Creek Band of Middle Creek, Kansas, in a mule-drawn wagon.

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.

Wichita Fire Department, Wichita, Kansas

This sepia colored postcard shows a group of men from the Wichita Fire Department standing beside a team of horses that are harnessed to a decorative wagon for a possible parade in Wichita, Kansas.

J.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.