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Manuscripts
Handwritten, 2-page, document about public land disposed of during 1902 from 15 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, Wyoming, Nebrasks, and Utah. Is probably from "Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902. Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office," Washington, Government printing office, 1902. Written on "United States Senate" letterhead.
mssHM 84318
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Consists of five cabinet cards. Photographs are of American military forces, indigenous peoples and livestock. They were taken at Fort Reno, Wyoming, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Fort Elliott, Texas, and Fort Robinson, Nebraska. Members of Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Comanche Nation are depicted, along with J. M. M. Blunt. A photograph of cattle carries the Hash Knife brand. Some identified photographers include Snell & Co., Wellington, Kansas and H. P. Robinson, Fort Sill.
photPF 1214-1219
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The photographs, postcards, and ephemera document the travels of the participants in the 1931 Omnibus College tour, the first traveling summer school excursion for the college. The tour took the students through Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Montana, and Wyoming. The album contains over 300 photographs, all identified, 77 postcards, and various ephemera. With the album is a 14-page typewritten journal of the trip, along with over 12 loose photographs and postcards (one written by Mercedes Bryant to her mother, Etta). The album also includes 40 photographs taken by Mercedes Bryant in 1932 of locations in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
mssHM 83850
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This collection contains photographs by historian Ralph P. Bieber documenting the central overland route to California as it appeared in the 1950s. Bieber visited the sites in conjunction with a project to record every aspect of the trails and circumstances associated with the migration of people to California during the Gold Rush years and subsequently. The images document the route through Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and California. Bieber organized and annotated the photographs himself, and his original order, based primarily on print size, has been maintained. Additionally, Bieber created photographic categories such as "Donner Party Sites," "Gold Discovery Sites," and "Sites associated with John C. Frémont." Note that Bieber did not arrange the photographs geographically.
photCL 469
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A travel album of 465 photographs, which the compiler called "1947 Trip West, 6,860 miles," on the first page. The photographs of this automobile road trip include natural scenery, motels, and roadside attractions across the United States, including Ohio, Wisconsin, and Kansas, with a focus on the national parks and monuments in the West. The photographs are a mixture of commercially produced images copyrighted to "Sanborn" and snapshots by the traveler, with several pages devoted to the Grand Canyon and Petrified Forest in Arizona, Bryce Canyon and Zion in Utah, Yellowstone in Wyoming, and the Badlands in South Dakota. Most photographs are captioned, and some captions include detailed descriptions of events or places. Of note are examples of "indian villages" designed for tourists, such as buildings identified as "Indian pueblo, Wisconsin Dells" with a sign advertising times for an "indian dance, free admission," and a tipi-shaped gas station in Lawrence, Kansas.
photCL 674
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This collection contains photographs by historian Ralph P. Bieber documenting the central overland route to California as it appeared in the 1950s. Bieber visited the sites in conjunction with a project to record every aspect of the trails and circumstances associated with the migration of people to California during the Gold Rush years and subsequently. The images document the route through Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and California. Bieber organized and annotated the photographs himself, and his original order, based primarily on print size, has been maintained. Additionally, Bieber created photographic categories such as "Donner Party Sites," "Gold Discovery Sites," and "Sites associated with John C. Frémont." Note that Bieber did not arrange the photographs geographically.
photCL 469