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This stereograph was taken by Alexander Gardner in 1867. It depicts an Indian farm located on the Delaware Indian Reservation in Kansas (approximately 311 miles west of St. Louis, Missouri). The Alexander Gardner Collection contains 170 photographs taken along the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division. It covers a geographic area stretching from Wyandotte (in present-day Kansas City) to west of Hays, Kansas. The image was taken from Alexander Gardner's series, "Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division."
Creator: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
Date: 1867
This image demonstrates how relocated Indians adopted white farming practices. Could work alongside photos and documents relating to agriculture and Indian accommodation.
KS:7th:1.4:Indian Removal (2005)
Item Number: 19
Call Number: Gardner Coll. No. 23
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 19
Agriculture - Structures
Built Environment - Function - Agriculture/Subsistence
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Union Pacific - Eastern Division
Collections - Photograph - Gardner, Alexander (photographer) - Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - Prehistory to 1854 (Benchmark 1) - Indian Removal Act (Indicator 4) - Assimilation
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - Prehistory to 1854 (Benchmark 1) - Indian Removal Act (Indicator 4) - Delaware
Date - 1861-1869 - 1867
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Policies and programs - Land - Indian Removal Act
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph - Stereographs
People - American Indians - Indian lands
People - American Indians - Indian removal
People - American Indians - Tribes - Delaware
Places - Indian reservations - Delaware
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Union Pacific Railway - Eastern Division
Type of Material - Photographs - Format - Stereographs
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