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Here are two photographs showing Cities Service's gas line on the Mahan-Tarr ranch in Barber County, Kansas. One photograph shows the ditching machine digging a trench for the gas line. The land was owned by Mrs. T. C. Mahan of Coldwater and her sister Mrs. Sewell Tarr of Huntsville, Arkansas who inherited the land from their father Frank Markham.
Date: March, 1955
Item Number: 315189
Call Number: FK2.B1 .3 Pe *8-9
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 315189
Business and Industry - Chemical, petroleum, and gas - Oil
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1950s - 1955
Environment - Natural resources - Oil
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Counties - Barber
Type of Material - Photographs
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