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Ringo, Crawford County, Kansas
Date: Between 1915 and 1939
Four photographs of Ringo mining camp. Ringo is currently a small grouping of houses one mile south and three miles west of Franklin in Crawford County. It had its own post office from 1915 until 1957. Photographs include images of a street scene with theater, school, meeting hall, and the washhouse of Mine No. 48.
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Slovene National Benefit Society, lodge no. 228, Ringo, Kansas
Creator: Slovene National Benefit Society
Date: January 20, 1915
A Slovene National Benefit Society (Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota) lodge charter issued to Biser (translates to Pearl or Gem), Ringo, Kansas. The Society founded in 1904, offered affordable life insurance to Slovenian immigrants. In the late 1880s and early 1900s, many Slovenians came to American to work in the southeast Kansas coal mines. The Slovene National Benefit Society provided immigrants with social, athletic and cultural activities, college scholarships, and community service projects. At one time, there were 15 lodges in southeast Kansas and one in Kansas City, Kansas.
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