Kansas 150 photos

View of railroad construction workers standing on tracks under construction in Haskell County, Kansas. Also visible are two horse- or mule-drawn wagons, and piles of the railroad ties used to support the rails. Created in 1912

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Liberal Boy Scouts at Skyline Drive. Boy Scouts on top Sky Line Drive at Canon City, Colo. 7-19-22

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F.M. Steele / Courtesy of Center for Great Plains Studies/Kansas State Historical Society

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B.R. Grimes' mess wagon near Ashland, Kansas

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F.M. Steele / Courtesy of Center for Great Plains Studies/Kansas State Historical Society

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View of cowboys standing and on horseback on the B.R. Grimes ranch in what was Woodward County, Oklahoma Territory, in 1897. A round-up herd of about 200 head of cattle is visible in the background. In 1907, Harper County was created out of portions of Woods and Woodward counties.

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Cars on Street in Pueblo,Colorado

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F.M. Steele / Courtesy of Center for Great Plains Studies/Kansas State Historical Society

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B.R. Grimes' beef herd near Ashland, Kansas

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St. Jacob's Well

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F.M. Steele / Courtesy of Center for Great Plains Studies/Kansas State Historical Society

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View of a cabbage patch vegetable garden on an unidentified farm in Haskell County, Kansas, in 1912. The early settlers experimented by trial and error with many different kinds of crops. Also visible, in the background, are a corral, farm buildings, windmill, farmhouse, and someone seated in a horse-drawn carriage. Created 1912.

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Young woman crossing a log circa 1890

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View of Three Block ranch cowboys preparing to go on the second guard duty to watch cattle at night. Visible in the photograph, taken with a flash, are cowboys getting ready for guard duty, and others going to bed next to a chuckwagon. Created between 1891 and 1903

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Year: 1930. Owner: Virginia Powell, 300 N. Keystone, Stafford, KS 67578 Francis Marion Steel. Created 1930

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Con Jackson (left) and Lee Larrabee (right) branding and ear-marking an animal near Arkalon, Kansas. Two horses with ropes tied to the saddles are visible in the photograph. Jackson won the riding contest at the Cattleman's Convention in Wichita, Kansas in the spring of 1901. A horse soon learns to keep the rope stretched tight so the animal has no purchase on the rope to jerk the horse.

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Liberal Boosters: Band, cars, people, stores. 14 September, 1912.

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View of three men standing next to a pump house and irrigation ditch on an unidentified farm in Seward County, Kansas. Created between 1891 and 1912

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Ranch House

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View of cowboys bathing in a pond in Seward County, Kansas. Also visible are other cowboys, horses, and a chuckwagon. Created between 1891 and 1912

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Amity Canal Project, 4 men and a bicycle. From Seward County Historical Museum, Ralph Bangs Jr. Estate.

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Twins Lorene and Loring Miner in kafir corn field. Created 1912

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Land buyers. From Seward County Historical Museum. Liberal, KS

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View of Lon Ford (left) and Pearl Gillian (right, from Englewood, Kansas) on horses and leading pack animals. They were getting ready for a round-up in the eastern part of Beaver County, Oklahoma Territory. Created 1897

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Water gushing from artesian wells, 4 men standing. From Seward County Historical Museum, Ralph Bangs Jr. Estate.

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View of wheat stacks in a field in Haskell County, Kansas, awaiting the arrival of the threshing machine and crew. Also visible are a man standing to one side of the left wheat stack, and a horse-drawn carriage in the background. Created in 1912

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Mr. and Mrs. Gant, Kiowa County, Kansas

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A typical scene in western Kansas, where canyons were dammed to hold water for livestock. This view was taken on the Avery ranch near Englewood, Kansas. Two horse-drawn carriages are visible in the background. Created between 1891 and 1903

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View of F.J. Birdsall's grandson fishing in Custer, Oklahoma Territory. A dog and horse are present with the boy in the foreground, and unidentified buildings are visible on top of the hill in the background. Created Between 1891-1903

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View of two people seated in an automobile in front of large wheat stacks on the L. E. Wait Ranch, presumed to be in Seward County, Kansas, in 1912.

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View of a large Reeves steam tractor plowing prairie land to turn up sod. Created between 1891-1912

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Portrait of F.M. [Francis Marion] Steele, an early southwest Kansas photographer. He was born in Stanton, Illinois, on September 14, 1866, and died January 2, 1936, in Dodge City, Kansas. During 1890-1905, he traveled in southwest Kansas, Oklahoma Territory, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado photographing cattle drives, railroads, ranching, and farming operations. Steele documented a time of westward development and expansion. In Kansas, he photographed cattle on the range, round ups, ranches, harvests, settlers, towns, and events in Finney, Clark, Seward, Comanche, and Haskell Counties. Created 1900

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View of cattlemen and cowboys posed on horseback, in an automobile, and on a fence near a pasture. Visible in the background is a herd of cattle. Created between 1891-1912

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View of a woman and man seated in an automobile before an unidentified farmhouse in Haskell County, Kansas. Also visible are a windmill, hedge, and several farm buildings. Note the automobile's right-side steering wheel.

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View of a man feeding chickens on an unidentified farm presumed to be in Haskell County, Kansas. Also visible in the photograph are a farmhouse and several farm buildings. Created between 1891-1912

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View of James Septer Patrick's house and farm buildings in Santa Fe, Haskell County, Kansas. Also visible are a windmill, barn, and an automobile filled with people. Created between 1897 -1912

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Plowing with Model T.

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XIT Mess Wagon, Channing, Texas. Created 1897

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A round-up herd of about 1,200 cattle on Tom Kerns' ranch south of Coldwater, Kansas, in 1897. Cowboys on horses are visible in the background. Created 1897

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View of a horse-drawn parade float advertising N.G. Stevensons, W.T. Carson General Merchandise, Ainsworths Pop and Groceries, Smith's Millinery Store, McKown Bros. Sell Everything, Neely Headquarters For Good Repair, Rice Bros. Drugs Jewelry, and J. C. Smith for Clothing Boots Shoes in Ashland, Kansas. Created between 1891 Ð 1912

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View of the Liberal Rotary Club Boy Scouts Troup 182, of Liberal, Kansas, at their camp in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Also visible are a building, three open buses, pup tents, and an open field. Writing on the front, "The first evening in camp at Colorado Springs 7-19-22"

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View of a sod house in the eastern portion of Beaver County, Oklahoma Territory. In the foreground is a woman pouring water into a livestock trough, and a boy on a horse.

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View of railroad construction workers laying track across the prairie in Haskell County, Kansas. This railroad, which in 1912 ended at Felt, Oklahoma, was being extended to connect with the Santa Fe railroad lines at Colmer, New Mexico, and was expected to become part of the main transcontinental Santa Fe railroad route. Created in 1912

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