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This black and white postcard shows a couple outside a sod house on the Metcalf Ranch in Decatur County, Kansas. According to the back of the postcard, the ranch was near Danbury, Nebraska.
Date: 1880s or 1890s
Item Number: 25152
Call Number: Fk2.D1 .75 .M *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 25152
Built Environment - Function - Domestic - Single Dwelling
Built Environment - Materials - Earth - Sod
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1880s
Date - 1890s
Home and Family - Residences - Sod houses
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Women
Places - Counties - Decatur
Type of Material - Photographs
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