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Photographs and postcards of the mining camp, businesses, community interests, residents, and buildings in Arma, Kansas. The city of Arma was incorporated in 1909 and is located in Crawford County about nine miles north of Pittsburg. Previously the area was known as Rust, a small coal camp laid out in 1886. The town was inhabited by miners from many of the surrounding mines. Arma continues today and is home to a few businesses, a grade school and a high school.
Date: 1905-1943
Item Number: 448102
Call Number: Miners Hall 00005
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 448102
Built Environment - Function - Education - School
Built Environment - Function - Recreation and Culture
Built Environment - Function - Religion - Religious Facility - Church
Business and Industry - Construction - Building materials - Lumber
Business and Industry - Mining and quarrying
Collections - Contributing Institutions - Miners Hall Museum
Collections - Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board (KSHRAB) - Kansas Digital Access to Historical Records (KDAHR)
Community Life - Community services - Utilities - Water
Community Life - Religion - Christianity - Baptist
Community Life - Religion - Christianity - Catholic
Community Life - Religion - Christianity - Methodist Episcopal
Community Life - Religion - Christianity - Mormon
Community Life - Scenes and views - Business districts
Community Life - Scenes and views - Residential
Date - 1900s
Date - 1910s
Date - 1920s
Date - 1930s
Date - 1940s
Education - Secondary - Students
Education - Secondary - Teachers
Environment - Natural resources - Coal
Home and Family - Courtship and marriage
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Postcard
Places - Cities and towns - Arma
Places - Cities and towns - Breezy Hill
Places - Counties - Crawford
Places - Regions - Southeast Kansas
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Thematic Time Period - The Twenties, 1920 - 1929
Type of Material - Photographs
Type of Material - Postcards
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