Kansas Gallery

Buffalo killed from a train on the Great Plains

Passengers and crew shooting buffalo from a train on the transcontinental railroad, 1870s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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EXPL2A-00312

Map of slave and free areas of the United States in 1854, at the time of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill.
Printed color lithograph 19th century

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Father Marquette and Louis Joliet, the first white men on the upper Mississippi River, 1673.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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