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Santa Fe courier nurse
This black and white photograph shows Santa Fe courier nurse Mary Ruth Helms. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company assigned registered nurses, known as couriers, to their passenger trains from the 1930s to the 1960s to attend to the medical needs of passengers. During their cross country travels the nurses, also, assisted with certain administrative duties or errands that required attention.
previewSolomon Smith residence, Saline County, Kanas
This photograph shows the Solomon Smith residence in Saline County, Kansas. There are people on horseback as well as people standing and sitting in front of the house.
previewSanta Fe courier nurse
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
This black and white photograph shows a Santa Fe courier nurse. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company assigned registered nurses, known as couriers, to their passenger trains from the 1930s to the 1960s to attend to the medical needs of passengers. During their cross country travels the nurses, also, assisted with certain administrative duties and errands that required attention.
previewAt the Ditch, Ingalls, Kansas
This is a photo of a group of five women and three men, all unidentified, sitting on a walking bridge across a body of water referred to as "The Ditch," Ingalls, Kansas.
previewWalter Pearce Hull photograph collection
Walter Pearce Hull, 1870-1956
This series of photographs was taken by Walter Pearce Hull. He was born November 22, 1870, in Eyota, Minnesota, grew up in Athens, Alabama, and moved to Kansas as a young man. His parents were Joseph Gould Hull, born May 4, 1840 in Orangeville, Ohio and Eliza Jane Westfall, born October 29, 1847 in Bushnell, Illinois. By 1894 he was manager of the Northrup Store in Colony. He served as a 1st Lt. In the 20th Kansas Infantry, U.S. Volunteers, 1898-99, during the Philippine-American War, serving on Frederick Funston's staff. He returned to Iola after he was discharged and was manager of the Northrup store there. Hull was a skilled amateur photographer. Many of the photos were taken while he was courting Lenna Myrtle Jolliffe, 1908-1909. They married December 22, 1909 in Bentonville, Arkansas. They lived at 420 S. Washington Street, Iola and had three children: Harriet, born September 29, 1910, Berrien Jolliffe, born October 15, 1913, and Lenna Doris, born December 3, 1915.
previewAtchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's aerotrain
Erb, Don
This black and white photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's aerotrain. This experimental passenger train ran from Los Angeles, California to San Diego, California before being discontinued due to its bulkiness and awkwardness.
previewHercules drivers, De Soto, Kansas
A view of three women drivers employed by Hercules Powder Company from the Sunflower Ordinance Works plant in De Soto, Kansas. The plant, established in 1941, was the world's largest smokeless powder and propellant manufacturing plant. It was owned by the U.S. government but operated by the Hercules Powder Company. The company changed it's name to the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant on August 1, 1963.
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.
previewIsobel M. Simpon, Santa Fe Courier Nurse
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
This black and white photograph shows Santa Fe courier nurse Isobel M. Simpon. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company assigned registered nurses, know as couriers, to their passenger trains from the 1930s to the 1960s to attend to the medical needs of passengers. During their cross country travels the nurses, also, assisted with certain administrative duties and errands that required attention.
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