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This is a photograph of Bill Burgress (left), contractor, watching an electric pole for DS&O Electric Cooperative being set near Solomon, Kansas. DS&O Electric Cooperative was established during the Great Depression as part of the federal recovery effort to bring the advantages and economic stimulus of electric power to rural Kansas. In 1991, Smoky Valley Electric Cooperative in Lindsborg, Kansas, merged with DS&O, adding to the Cooperative's coverage area and member base. It was named DS&O because members were from Dickinson, Saline, and Ottawa counties.
Date: 1936
Item Number: 226957
Call Number: 2012-249
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 226957
Business and Industry - Services - Utilities - Electrical
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Community services - Utilities - Electrical
Date - 1930s - 1936
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Solomon
Places - Counties - Dickinson
Places - Counties - Ottawa
Places - Counties - Saline
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Type of Material - Photographs
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