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Several views of the Last Chance store in Council Grove, Kansas. Built in 1857, this stop was the last place for travelers to buy or trade goods on the Santa Fe Trail heading to Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Last Chance Store was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
Date: Between 1920 and 1970
Item Number: 228865
Call Number: FK2.M8 C.79 *74-79
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 228865
Built Environment - Function - Commerce/Trade - Business
Built Environment - Materials - Stone
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Business and Industry - Retail - General stores
Business and Industry - Retail - Trader's store
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1920s
Date - 1930s
Date - 1940s
Date - 1950s
Date - 1960s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Postcard
Places - Cities and towns - Council Grove
Places - Counties - Morris
Places - Historic sites - Last Chance Store
Thematic Time Period - Eisenhower Years, 1946 - 1961
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Thematic Time Period - The Sixties and Vietnam, 1961 - 1975
Thematic Time Period - The Twenties, 1920 - 1929
Thematic Time Period - Trails, 1821 - 1880
Transportation - Trails - Santa Fe
Type of Material - Photographs
Type of Material - Postcards
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