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This is a view of Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad construction workers standing on tracks being built in Haskell County, Kansas. Also visible are two horse- or mule-drawn wagons and piles of the railroad ties used to support the rails.
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: 1912
Item Number: 7849
Call Number: Haskell County Historical Society: F. M. Steele co
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 7849
Agriculture - Livestock - Horses
Business and Industry - Labor
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Business and Industry - Railroad - Construction and maintenance
Business and Industry - Railroad - Employees - Track
Business and Industry - Railroad - Tracks
Collections - Photograph - Steele, F. M. (photographer)
Date - 1910s - 1912
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Men
Places - Counties - Haskell
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Transportation - Railroads - Construction and maintenance
Transportation - Railroads - Employees - Track
Transportation - Railroads - Tracks
Type of Material - Photographs
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