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Four photographs of Ringo mining camp. Ringo is currently a small grouping of houses one mile south and three miles west of Franklin in Crawford County. It had its own post office from 1915 until 1957. Photographs include images of a street scene with theater, school, meeting hall, and the washhouse of Mine No. 48.
Date: Between 1915 and 1939
Item Number: 448132
Call Number: Miners Hall 00037
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 448132
Built Environment - Function - Education - School
Built Environment - Function - Industry/Processing/Extraction - Extractive Facility
Built Environment - Function - Recreation and Culture - Theater
Built Environment - Function - Social - Meeting Hall
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 - Scenes and views - Business districts
Date - 1910s
Date - 1920s
Date - 1930s
Environment - Natural resources - Coal
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Ringo
Places - Counties - Crawford
Places - Regions - Southeast Kansas
Type of Material - Photographs
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