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These fifty-two glass plate negatives were found in a house at 1510 NW Tyler, Topeka, Kansas, and were subsequently donated to the Kansas Historical Society. The early snap shots show young people in North Topeka "horsing around" with a camera and capturing photos of themselves, family members, houses, flooding, boats and guns, bicycles, farm animals, horses and wagons, and a trolley. The photographs and the photographer are unidentified. These photos are a good example of early vernacular photography made possible by George Eastman's invention of the Kodak camera in the late 1880s.
Date: Between 1890 and 1910
Item Number: 212984
Call Number: 2008-244.01
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 212984
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Recreation and Sports - Leisure activities
Date - 1890s
Date - 1910s
Home and Family - Daily life - Leisure
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph - Dry plate glass negatives
People - Men
People - Women
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Transportation - Bicycles
Transportation - Streetcars & Trolleys
Transportation - Water - Boats
Type of Material - Photographs
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