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Title: Trosper's cabin
Author: Brack, C. E.
Date: Unknown
Physical Details: Photograph : sepia ; 11 x 14 in.
Description: This Saline County log cabin was home to Thompson and Rachel Trosper and their eight children. The family came to Saline County in the spring of 1863 and took land ten miles east of Salina in Solomon...[more]
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Title: North Santa Fe Avenue
Author: Unknown
Date: early 1870s
Physical Details: Photograph : b&w ; 6 x 9 in.
Description: Salina, Kansas street scene. Intersection of Santa Fe and Iron Avenues. Looking north on Santa Fe; Ed Flanders and James T. Marlin's general merchandize store on the northeast corner. Next to it is th...[more]
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Title: Santa Fe Avenue, 1876
Author: Armstrong, Davis W.
Date: early 1876
Physical Details: Photograph : sepia ; 5 x 8 in.
Description: Taken at the corner of Santa Fe and Iron Avenues, in Salina, Kansas, looking north. On the southwest corner is one of the few native stone buildings in Salina: Wooley and Hamlin general merchandise st...[more]
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Title: Campbell photo album
Author: Alexander Campbell Jr.
Date: 1900-1914
Physical Details: Photographs (various sizes) : b&w.
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Title: Iron Avenue, 1870s
Author: Unknown
Date: late 1870s
Physical Details: Photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 10 in.
Description: Taken at the corner of Iron and Santa Fe Avenues, looking west. The native stone building was originally buildt for the Hamlin and Wooley general merchanise store. This view shows it to be the Ober W...[more]
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Title: Sod house and windmill
Author: Unknown
Date: Unknown
Physical Details: Photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9.5 in.
Description: On the Great Plains, where wood and stone were scarce, homes were often built with strips of sod, laid horizontally like bricks. The sod blocks were most uniform if they were cut from level ground tha...[more]
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Title: Salina's First School Building
Author: Reynolds, F. L.
Date: 1937
Physical Details: Drawing : b&w ; 5 x 6 in.
Description: This view of Salina's first school building (1868 - 1874) is a drawing made by F.L. Reynolds, a clerk of the Salina Board of Education, and is based on a sketch made by George Wooley from recollection...[more]
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Title: Aerial view of Salina, 1875
Author: Armstrong, Davis W. ; Boyes, John W.
Date: 1875
Physical Details: Photograph : col. b&w ; 6.5 x 10 in.
Description: The Union Pacific Railroad arrived in Salina in 1867, skirting the town along its north edge. The large yellow building (#3) was originally the hotel and dinning hall operated by Mary Ann Bickerdyke b...[more]
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Title: Luke Parsons
Author: Magerkurth, Fred
Date: Unknown
Physical Details: Photograph : sepia ; 4.5 x 6.5 in.
Description: Luke Parsons was 22 years old when he arrived in Lawrence, Kansas, and took a job as a clerk at the Free State Hotel. Shortly after, on the morning of May 21, 1856, several hundred proslavery men desc...[more]
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Title: Robert Muir, Jr.
Author: Unknown
Date: Unknown
Physical Details: Photograph : b&w ; 2.5 x 3.5 in.
Description: Robert Muir, Jr. came to America from Scotland at 16 in 1853, settling in Randolph Co, IL. In 1861, he joined his brothers, James and William, in Saline Co, KS and became a farmer and stock raiser. On...[more]