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This is a photograph of "Columbus," Frank Rockefeller's famous Hereford bull, which cost $5,050.00 and weighed 2,200 pounds. Rockefeller, 1845-1917, raised purebreed stock on his 12,000 acre ranch near Belvidere in Kiowa County, Kansas.
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: Between 1891 and 1903
Item Number: 7812
Call Number: Berryman Collection Coll. 2 No.25
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 7812
Agriculture - Livestock - Cattle - Beef
Agriculture - Ranching
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Ranchers
Collections - Photograph - Steele, F. M. (photographer)
Date - 1890s
Date - 1900s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Belvidere
Places - Counties - Kiowa
Thematic Time Period - Cattle Drives, 1867 - 1885
Type of Material - Photographs
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