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This photograph shows Hays, Kansas, when it was four weeks old. Visible in the photograph are early buildings and tents with a freight train in the background. It is from Alexander Gardner's series, Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad.
Creator: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
Date: 1867
Item Number: 214007
Call Number: FK2. E3 H .1867 *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 214007
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Kansas Pacific
Business and Industry - Railroad - Freight trains
Collections - Photograph - Gardner, Alexander (photographer)
Community Life - Scenes and views - Business districts
Community Life - Scenes and views - Residential
Date - 1861-1869 - 1867
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Hays
Places - Counties - Ellis
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Kansas Pacific
Transportation - Railroads - Freight trains
Type of Material - Photographs
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