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This is a photograph of an engineer camp on the Great Plains in Kansas. The camp was located 417 miles west of the Missouri River. Alexander Gardner photographed the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, as it was being built across Kansas. Along the route, he documented towns, forts, rivers, wildlife, plants, and landscape.
Creator: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
Date: 1867
Item Number: 224734
Call Number: Gardner Coll. No. 011
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 224734
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Engineers
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Union Pacific - Eastern Division
Collections - Photograph - Gardner, Alexander (photographer)
Date - 1861-1869 - 1867
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Regions - Western Kansas
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Photographs
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