Kansas 150 photos

A photograph of temperance leader Carry Amelia Nation, shown with her bible kneeling in prayer by a chair in a jail cell at an unknown location. Date: Between 1904 and 1905

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This photograph shows an Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe section crew posed with steam locomotive 1429 near Ottawa, Kansas. Date: Between 1900 and 1909

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Carry A. Nation

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Coleman Factory, Wichita, Ks.

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Saloon smasher Carry A. Nation.

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Dr. Charles M. Sheldon

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Carry A. Nation was a hatchet-wielding crusader in the early 1900s and part of the Women's Christian Temperance Union campaign to prohibit alcohol. 1846-1911. Medicine Lodge, Kiowa.

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Gas tractor and plow March 8, 1910

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North Kansas Ave Flood 1903 - Topeka - Kansas

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Carry A. Nation with the town marshal in Enterprise, 1901

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Carry Nation

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Automobile, Osborne County, Kansas A black and white photo of a gentleman seated in a parked automobile on a snowy street in Osborne County, Kansas. Date: Between 1900 and 1919

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Letting Carry A. Nation out of jail in Harper 1902.

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Albin K. Longren's airplane plant in Topeka, Kansas. The photograph shows the small-scale nature of early aircraft production. Date: Between 1910 and 1920

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Longren in his first plane.

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Colt Fair, Spet. 1, 1911. Held every year in Mulvane, Ks.

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A postcard showing Albin K. Longren taking his first flight in plane >> number 1. The plane built by Longren was powered with a Type A-2 >> Hall-Scott, eight cylinder, water cooled, 60 H.P. motor. He built and >> flew the airplane without any prior experience. >> >> Date: September 2, 1911

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Carry A. Nation

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A fictitious or exaggerated postcard showing a Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad car loaded with gigantic cucumbers. Date: Between 1905 and 1915

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Carry A. Nation

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A photograph of temperance leader Carry Amelia Nation, shown with her Bible kneeling in prayer by a chair in a jail cell at an unknown location. Date: Between 1904 and 1905

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Stone's Folly, castle like home built by E.R. Stone. Bethel Bible College is where the Pentecostal Movement began in Topeka, Kansas around 1900. The castle like building called stone's Folly was located at the corner of S. W. 18th and Stone Streets. Was built by E.R. Stone.

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