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This stereograph shows Mushroom Rocks, a rock formation, on Alum Creek, Kansas. The photo was taken seven miles east of Fort Harker and 496 miles west of St. Louis, Missouri. Fort Harker was located in present day Kanopolis, Kansas. There is a man seated on a rock. It is from Alexander Gardner's series, Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division.
Creator: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
Date: 1867
Item Number: 134
Call Number: Gardner Coll. No. 134
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 134
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Union Pacific - Eastern Division
Collections - Photograph - Gardner, Alexander (photographer)
Date - 1861-1869 - 1867
Environment - Geology - Rocks - Rock formations
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph - Stereographs
Places - Counties - Ellsworth
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Union Pacific Railway - Eastern Division
Type of Material - Photographs - Format - Stereographs
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