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View of railroad construction workers laying track across the prairie in Haskell County, Kansas. This railroad, which in 1912 ended at Felt, Oklahoma, was being extended to connect with the Santa Fe railroad lines at Colmer, New Mexico, and was expected to become part of the main transcontinental Santa Fe railroad route.
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: 1912
Item Number: 7848
Call Number: Haskell County Historical Society: F. M. Steele co
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 7848
Agriculture - Livestock - Horses
Agriculture - Livestock - Mules
Business and Industry - Labor
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Business and Industry - Railroad - Construction and maintenance
Business and Industry - Railroad - Employees
Business and Industry - Railroad - Tracks
Collections - Photograph - Steele, F. M. (photographer)
Date - 1910s - 1912
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Men
Places - Counties - Haskell
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Transportation - Automobiles
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Transportation - Railroads - Construction and maintenance
Transportation - Railroads - Employees - Track
Transportation - Railroads - Tracks
Type of Material - Photographs
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