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An informal pose of two young boys without shoes beside their sod house near Claflin in Barton County, Kansas. A sod house was a common dwelling for pioneers on the Kansas prairie due to the lack of wood and other natural resources available.
Date: 1870s or 1880s
Item Number: 211963
Call Number: FK2.B2.75 *4
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 211963
Built Environment - Function - Domestic - Single Dwelling
Built Environment - Materials - Earth - Sod
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1870s
Date - 1880s
Home and Family - Children - Boys
Home and Family - Residences - Sod houses
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Children
Places - Cities and towns - Claflin
Places - Counties - Barton
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Photographs
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