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Hand painted lanternslide with handmade wood frame. This slide is part of a collection made by Samuel Reader between 1866 and 1913. Reader was a Kansas farmer who was active in the early Topeka community. He built two homes, served in the Civil War, and wrote in a diary nearly every day for 64 years. The slide depicts a steam engine traveling through the countryside. The Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division (later the Kansas Pacific) was making its way through Topeka in 1865. Reader documented his negative feelings toward the new railroad in his diary. He began painting slides in 1866 and continued throughout much of his life, holding magic lantern shows for the local community in his house and at church.
Creator: Reader, Samuel J.
Date: between 1866 and 1913
Item Number: 224872
Call Number: 1949.22.25
KSHS Identifier: 1949.22.25
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Union Pacific - Eastern Division
Business and Industry - Railroad - Locomotives - Steam
Collections - Museum
Date - 1861-1869
Date - 1870s
Date - 1880s
Date - 1890s
Date - 1900s
Date - 1910s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Original Art - Transparency, Lantern-slide
People - Notable Kansans - Reader, Samuel James, 1836-1914
Places - Cities and towns - Indianola
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Union Pacific Railway - Eastern Division
Transportation - Railroads - Locomotives - Steam
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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