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This is a newspaper photograph of Lena Hicks Penny. She came to Ellis, Kansas, with the first African American colony of emigrants from Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky, in 1877.
Date: August 21, 1960
Item Number: 209614
Call Number: K 978.1 -G75 v.2 pg.2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 209614
Collections - Library
Community Life - Town development
Date - 1960s - 1960
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Newspaper - Illustrations
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Newspaper - clipping
People - African Americans - Exodusters
People - Women
Places - Counties - Ellis
Places - Counties - Graham
Type of Material - Newspapers - Clippings
Type of Material - Newspapers - Illustrations
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