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In the first photograph, a woman stands outside the doorway of a sod house with a pitched roof in Greeley County, Kansas. A child plays in the yard. Supports have been placed within the door frame and under the eaves of the roof. In the second photograph, a woman in a large hat stands outside a sod house with two children. The house has an arched roof and framed windows.
Date: 1909
Item Number: 317182
Call Number: FK2.G8 .75 *1-2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 317182
Built Environment - Function - Domestic - Single Dwelling
Built Environment - Materials - Earth - Sod
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1900s - 1909
Home and Family - Children
Home and Family - Families
Home and Family - Residences - Exteriors - Other structures - Outhouses
Home and Family - Residences - Sod houses
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Counties - Greeley
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917
Type of Material - Photographs
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