14 stereographs (photoprints) : albumen, b&w; 90x178mm. or smaller.
Summary
Views of Kansas: cornfields, hogs in a farm yard, girl and Hereford bull and cow on a stock farm; two views of tornado damage in Kansas; grasshoppers in a Kansas garden; three views of families and their sod houses; one view of men in front of a dugout; men herding sheep; Atchison: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (?) bridge over the Missouri River, draw span open, Commercial street, S.E. Noyes & Co. store; a bridge at Beloit; shiny new railroad car wheels at roundhouse, Ellis; C.H. Price's home, Emporia; street view showing hotel, dry goods store, bakery at Garnett; Sherman cattle ranch, Geneseo; general view of Great Bend showing wind mill, implement store, homes, other buildings; Leavenworth; general view of business district with river beyond; looking S.W. from courthouse at residences, the courthouse, Missouri Valley Life Insurance building, a home surrounded by a picket fence; cattle feeding from a trough, Manhattan; Salina: street views, view of mason laying bricks on National Hotel; Cheyenne Indians pictured with the sheriff of Dodge City (? handwritten caption says Dodge County, but Kansas has no Dodge Co., Indians were tried in Ford Co., of which Dodge City is the Co. seat): they were captured after leaving the Indian territory and making raids while crossing Kansas heading for Nebraska.
Includes views by A. I. Cook, R. A. Hickox and other photographers and publishers.
Some views are blind stamped "G.O. Sanders, Architect & contractor, Atchison, Kansas." who may have been a former owner of the views.
Access (note)
Restricted access;
Cite as (note)
Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views.
Exhibitions (note)
View of Old Crow and others on courthouse steps was exhibited in "400 Years of Native American portraits: Prints & Photographs from the Collections of the New York Public Library," October, 1992 - January, 1993.
Title
Stereoscopic views of Kansas [graphic].
Imprint
1868?-1906?
Restricted access
Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at division indicated.
Cite as:
Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views.
Exhibitions
View of Old Crow and others on courthouse steps was exhibited in "400 Years of Native American portraits: Prints & Photographs from the Collections of the New York Public Library," October, 1992 - January, 1993.