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A photograph of the Arcadia mining camp. Arcadia was originally founded as Hathaway in 1857 a half mile north of the current town. The post office was later moved to the site of a railroad siding in approximately 1876. Arcadia is located on the Kansas and Missouri state line, in Crawford County, and is roughly twenty miles northeast of Pittsburg, Kansas. Photographs include images of a school, churches, street scenes, school basketball team, and mining operations.
Date: 1914-1969
Item Number: 448103
Call Number: Miners Hall 00006
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 448103
Business and Industry - Lodging - Hotels
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 - Religion - Christianity - Baptist
Community Life - Religion - Christianity - Christian
Community Life - Religion - Christianity - Pentecostal
Community Life - Scenes and views - Business districts
Date - 1910s
Date - 1920s
Date - 1930s
Date - 1940s
Date - 1950s
Date - 1960s
Education - Rural
Education - Secondary - Activities - Sports
Environment - Natural resources - Coal
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Arcadia
Places - Counties - Crawford
Places - Regions - Southeast Kansas
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Type of Material - Photographs
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