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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.

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.

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.

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.

Fire Station No. 1, Topeka, Kansas

This photograph shows a group of fireman in horse drawn wagons in front of fire station No. 1 in north Topeka, Kansas. In the background signage for B.A. Barret Drugs and Carter's Little Liver Pills are visible.

Fire Station no. 1, Topeka, Kansas

This photograph shows a horse-drawn fire wagon and a group of fireman gathered in front of fire station no.1 in Topeka, Kansas.

Fire Department, Topeka, Kansas

This photograph shows members from the city of Topeka's Fire Department gathered around a horse-drawn fire engine in Topeka, Kansas. On the backside of the photograph the men have been identified from left to right.