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This is a photograph showing Scott City high school students cutting, gathering, and running stalks of cane through a horse-powered press, a step in the manufacture of cane syrup. During World War I, students helped fill a labor void on many Kansas farms.
Date: 1918
Item Number: 215310
Call Number: FK2.S2 .31 H. *4
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 215310
Agriculture - Crops - Sugar cane
Agriculture - Livestock - Horses
Collections - Photograph
Curriculum - The Kansas Journey - Chapter 9: Kansas Progresses into a New Century
Date - 1910s - 1918
Education - Secondary - Students
Home and Family - Activities
Home and Family - Daily life - Farm chores
Military - Wars - World War I - Homefront
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Children
Places - Cities and towns - Scott City
Places - Counties - Scott
Thematic Time Period - World War I, 1914 - 1919
Type of Material - Photographs
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