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Middle Creek Band

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

Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas

This colored postcard shows a view of Minnesota Avenue looking east from 6th Street in Kansas City, Kansas. A business building with a large sign reading, "G. Q. Lake, Prescription Druggist," is visible on the left side of the street. Several other business buildings are visible along the street including one the says "Auditorium, Billiards Bowling". A horse-drawn carriage is visible on the left side of the picture, while several automobiles and a street railway car are visible.

Main Street in Erie, Kansas

These photographs show two views of Main Street in Erie, Kansas. The first photograph shows the east side of the street, looking south. In the foreground is the first courthouse, built in 1867 by Truman T. Gilbert. In the middle are the drug store run by Dr. M. E. Lake and the brick post office built between 1902 and 1906 by Richard M. Thomas, a railroad conductor. Crowds of people are visible on the sidewalk, and a circus tent has been set up. The second photograph also shows the drugstore and post office on the east side of Main Street, but looking north. There are no buildings south of the brick post office, which advertises Owl Cigars, because they were destroyed by fire in 1906.

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.

Dr. Martha Cunningham, Garnett, Kansas

This black and white photograph shows Dr. Martha Cunningham, seated in the buggy, with her sister Belle. The buggy is in front of her office at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Oak Street in Garnett, Kansas. A graduate from the Chicago School of Medicine, Martha and her reliable horse Prince made house calls for over twenty-five years in the Garnett community. Her name and office hours are on the door in the background.

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.

Salina Plumbing Company delivery wagon, Salina, Kansas

These three photographs show the delivery wagons of the Salina Plumbing Company in Salina, Kansas. The first image shows Anna Geis, the bookkeeper, standing next to the wagon. The second view shows Ed Sharp leaning on the wagon. The last photograph shows just the horse and wagon.

Post office, Manhattan, Kansas

Orr, S. C.

This photograph shows a mail carrier standing next to a horse-drawn Rural Free Delivery wagon in Manhattan, Kansas. In the background three men are visible standing in front of the United States post office. Signage for The Nationalist Job Printing and Post Office are also visible.

Whiteker Bros. Wholesale Fruit and Produce Company, Topeka, Kansas

Farrow, W. F.

This series of photographs are representations of the Whiteker Bros. Wholesale Fruit and Produce Company. George Parker Whiteker and his brother T.C. Whiteker incorporated their business in 1901 at the northeast corner of First and Kansas Avenue.