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This stereograph showsa sod building used by workmen on Alum Creek, Kansas. There are people seated on the roof of the building and two people in the foreground. It is from Alexander Gardner's series, Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division.
Creator: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
Date: 1867
Item Number: 129
Call Number: Gardner Coll. No. 128
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 129
Built Environment - Function - Domestic - Single Dwelling
Built Environment - Materials - Earth - Sod
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Union Pacific - Eastern Division
Collections - Photograph - Gardner, Alexander (photographer)
Date - 1861-1869 - 1867
Home and Family - Residences
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph - Stereographs
Places - Counties - Ellsworth
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Union Pacific Railway - Eastern Division
Type of Material - Photographs - Format - Stereographs
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