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A. B. Hunt's garage, Liberal, Kansas

A. B. Hunt's garage, Liberal, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1945
This photograph shows A. B. Hunt's Ford dealership and auto repair garage and employees in Liberal, Kansas. It is a brick structure with some decorative work and plate glass windows. A group of people are standing in fromt of the building.


A crowd of people at a house, Seward County, Kansas

A crowd of people at a house, Seward County, Kansas
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: Between 1891 and 1912
This is a view of men and women posed in front of a house in Seward County, Kansas. Walt Naylor was identified as among those in the photograph.


A. E. Blake and others on the plains in Seward County, Kansas

A. E. Blake and others on the plains in Seward County, Kansas
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: Between 1900 and 1912
In this photograph, A. E. Blake is seated in an automobile, a man is standing next to that automobile, a man is seated in the driver's seat of a horse-drawn wagon, and two young girls and a dog are standing next to the wagon. All are present in an unidentified field in Seward County, Kansas.


Aerial Sprayer plane, Liberal, Kansas

Aerial Sprayer plane, Liberal, Kansas
Date: September 22, 1949
This black and white photograph shows a field being sprayed for noxious weeds by an aerial spray play using 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic near Liberal, Kansas. 2,4-D, as it was commonly called, was a pesticide/herbicide used to control broadleaf weeds.


A group of men at a cookout

A group of men at a cookout
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: Between 1891 and 1912
This is a view of a large group of men, some in suit coats, eating around a campfire in Seward County, Kansas. Also visible are a wagon, chuckwagon, and carriage.


Airplanes flying over Liberal, Kansas

Airplanes flying over Liberal, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1940
This is an aerial view of biplanes flying over Liberal, Kansas.


Alexander and Allie McCoid, Liberal, Kansas

Alexander and Allie McCoid, Liberal, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1920
This photograph shows Alexander and Allie McCoid standing in front of their residence in Liberal, Kansas.


Alysia Kysar to Governor Joan Finney

Alysia Kysar to Governor Joan Finney
Creator: Kysar, Alysia
Date: March 19, 1991
Alysia Kysar of Liberal, Kansas, writes Governor Joan Finney of Topeka concerning a water rights conflict at Cheyenne Bottoms wetlands in Barton County, Kansas. Kysar is eleven years old. She argues that the importance of wildlife habitats and communal ownership of natural resources, like water, supercede the rights of individual water users along Wet Walnut Creek. Kysar further questions the suitability of irrigated agriculture to an arid environment. In Wet Walnut Irrigators v. Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area (1992), the Kansas Supreme Court ruled in favor of Cheyenne Bottoms, citing its earlier claim to water rights.


Arkalon schoolhouse in Arkalon, Kansas

Arkalon schoolhouse in Arkalon, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1930
This is a photograph of the Arkalon schoolhouse in Arkalon, Seward County, Kansas. It is a two story frame structure.


Band in Liberal, Kansas

Band in Liberal, Kansas
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
This is a photograph of a band in Liberal, Kansas. The band might be the Seward County Band.


Bell View School, Seward County, Kansas

Bell View School, Seward County, Kansas
Date: Between 1890 and 1920
This is a photograph showing the Bell View School, District 71, in Seward County, Kansas. Students, parents, and teachers are pictured in front of the building.


Bert Kennedy and family, Seward or Barber County, Kansas

Bert Kennedy and family, Seward or Barber County, Kansas
Date: Between 1905 and 1915
This photograph shows Bert Kennedy and family. There are three children in the photograph. It was taken in either Barber or Seward County, Kansas. They are standing in front of a wooden building.


Bird's eye view drawing of Fargo Springs, Kansas

Bird's eye view drawing of Fargo Springs, Kansas
Creator: G. H. Bronner
Date: Between 1891 and 1895
This is a bird's eye view drawing of Fargo Springs, Seward County, Kansas.


Branding cattle

Branding cattle
Date: Between 1880 and 1890
This is a view of men branding cattle in Seward County, Kansas, or in Oklahoma.


Cattle and a barn in Seward County, Kansas

Cattle and a barn in Seward County, Kansas
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: Between 1890 and 1900
This is a photograph showing cattle, a windmill, and a barn in Seward County, Kansas.


Cattle branding

Cattle branding
Creator: Reid, Hal
Date: Between 1908 and 1912
The postcard is a real photo postcard, titled Branding on the Plains, published by Hal Reid, a jeweler, in Liberal, Kansas. His postcards were mostly all about ranching and farming in the Liberal area and views of Liberal.


Cattle branding near Arkalon, Kansas

Cattle branding near Arkalon, Kansas
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: Between 1891 and 1903
Con Jackson (left) and Lee Larrabee (right) are 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 ability to use the rope to jerk the horse.


Cattle in a corral in Seward County, Kansas

Cattle in a corral in Seward County, Kansas
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
This is a photograph showing cattle in a corral in Seward County, Kansas.


Cattle ranch in Seward County, Kansas

Cattle ranch in Seward County, Kansas
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: Between 1890 and 1900
This is a photograph showing cattle on an unidentified farm or feedlot in Seward County, Kansas. Visible in the photograph are farmers with horse-drawn wagons filled with cattle feed.


Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad wreck near Liberal, Kansas

Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad wreck near Liberal, Kansas
Date: 1904
This black and white photograph shows the wreckage to a Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad train and its rolling stock near Liberal, Kansas.


Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad bridge near Arkalon, Kansas

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad bridge near Arkalon, Kansas
Date: September 05, 1938
This is a postcard showing the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad bridge over the Cimarron River during the flood of 1938. The bridge is near Arkalon, Kansas.


Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad depot, Liberal, Kansas

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad depot, Liberal, Kansas
Creator: Kelley, Frank O.
Date: 1972
This black and white photograph shows the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad depot at Liberal, Kansas.


Chuck wagon and cook in Seward County, Kansas

Chuck wagon and cook in Seward County, Kansas
Creator: Reid, Hal
Date: Between 1905 and 1910
This is a postcard showing a cattle drive cook standing by a chuck wagon with pots, pans, and blankets on the ground. The photograph was probably taken in the vicinity of Liberal, Kansas.


Chuckwagon and cowboys, Seward County, Kansas

Chuckwagon and cowboys, Seward County, Kansas
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: Between 1891 and 1912
View of a chuckwagon and cowboys eating at an unidentified location in Seward County, Kansas. Also visible are blankets and other bedding, farm implements, and a grove of trees.


Cimarron River flood and train wreck in Seward County, Kansas

Cimarron River flood and train wreck in Seward County, Kansas
Creator: Pate Studio
Date: 1938
These four photographs show a flood on the Cimarron River and people looking at a train wreck near Arkalon, Kansas.


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