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This stereograph shows a street in Great Bend in Barton County, Kansas. Included in the image are a windmill, houses and outbuildings, and a hardware store in the foreground. The ground is still wet from an April rainstorm.
Creator: Riddle, J. R.
Date: April, 1879
This image would work well as an illustration of how settlers adapted to the lack of water. Windmills were used to pump water up from underground aquifers.
KS:7th:3.7:Challenges of Settlement (2005)
Item Number: 211073
Call Number: FK2.B2 G.1879 *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 211073
Agriculture - Agricultural methods and practices - Irrigation - Windmills
Agriculture - Structures - Corrals
Agriculture - Structures - Windmills
Built Environment - Function - Commerce/Trade - Business
Business and Industry - Retail - Hardware stores
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Scenes and views - Business districts
Community Life - Scenes and views - Residential
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1860s to 1870s (Benchmark 3) - Challenges of settlement (Indicator 7) - Lack of natural resources
Date - 1870s - 1879
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph - Stereographs
Places - Cities and towns - Great Bend
Places - Counties - Barton
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Photographs
Type of Material - Photographs - Format - Stereographs
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