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Harry E. Chrisman, former Liberal author and historian, donated a large collection of his writings, photographs, and other items to Liberal Memorial Library for the purpose of research. This database searches the contents of the Chrisman Collection.

CallNo: M2-B1b1
Descriptive Title: Rock Island Railroad Lines			Type: Map
Date of Origin:			Provenance:
Size: 6 x 8 3/4"			Condition: good
Text: Rock Island map with states and towns. [note] 14 (circled) 24 (circled) ss (circled) The map above shows the Rock Island Railroad lines extending into the southwest --- Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico -- on which the author served for 50 years. The inset map shows the heartland section of the United States covered by this great railroad system. Map used by permission of the Rock Island Lines. Copyright by Rand, McNally, & Co., Chicago, Ill.
Misc Info: note on back is in seperate sleeve.
Subject:	Rock Island Railroad Kansas Oklahoma Texas New Mexico Missouri Arkansas Louisiana Southwest Chicago, Illinois Rand McNally & Co.		Related to:
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CallNo: N126-B1b
Descriptive Title: Train crossing the plains			Type: Negative
Date of Origin:			Provenance:
Size: 4 x 5			Condition: very good
Text: [at bottom of negative] 82 Kodak
Misc Info: Positive image on negative paper. A train is moving through a town in the background. There is a field and dirt road on the picture. Train's engine is billowing smoke.
Subject:	train railroad tracks train engine smoke town church steeple plains dirt road crops		Related to:	P525 C19 C20
Other:	Color image.

CallNo: N132-D1b
Descriptive Title: Herd of longhorn cattle			Type: Negative
Date of Origin:			Provenance:
Size: 2 7/16 x 2 7/16			Condition: very good
Text: [on side of negative] Kodak Safety Film
Misc Info: A herd of longhorn cattle are on the open plains. There are hills in the background, and one tree on the left. Two cows are in the foreground, one slightly farther back to the right, and the rest of the herd in the background. Visible is part of a vehicle's window, like someone took the photo from the window of a car. Also visible is the road or highway.
Subject:	longhorn cattle hills tree plains window of automobile road highway Kodak		Related to:
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CallNo: N144-D1b
Descriptive Title: Longhorn cattle viewed through a vehicle's windshield			Type: Negative
Date of Origin:			Provenance:
Size: 2 7/16 x 2 3/8			Condition: very good
Text: [on side of negative] Kodak Safety Film A box drawn in red pencil is around the cattle, cutting out the vehicle's hood.
Misc Info: A small herd of longhorn cattle walk or run across the pasture or plains. A large tree in the foreground, to the right side. More trees and hills in the background. The photo was taken from the windshield of a vehicle, because the hood of the vehicle is visible in the photo. The road the vehicle is traveling on is also visible. A box drawn in red pencil is around the cattle, cutting out the vehicle's hood.
Subject:	longhorn cattle trees hills vehicle dirt road pasture plains Kodak		Related to:
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CallNo: N154-D1b
Descriptive Title: Longhorn cattle grazing			Type: Negative
Date of Origin:			Provenance:
Size: 2 7/16 x 4 15/16			Condition: very good
Text: [on side of negative] Kodak Safety Film There is a box drawn in red pencil around the majority of the cattle herd.
Misc Info: A herd of cattle, some longhorn, are grazing on a pasture or on the plains. There are hills in the background. There appears to be a road in the foreground of the photo. There is a box drawn in red pencil around the majority of the cattle herd.
Subject:	longhorn cattle cows pasture plains hills herd road Kodak		Related to:	E30 N153 N155 N156 N157
Other:	Negative N154 and N155 are attached on the same film strip. This negative was in an envelope with other negatives.

CallNo: N163-A3b1
Descriptive Title: Rock Island Depot or other railway building			Type: Negative
Date of Origin:			Provenance:
Size: 2 7/16 x 4 7/8			Condition: very good
Text: Rock Island
Misc Info: Words written on the ground say Rock Island in front of a building, looks like it is probably a depot. Don't think it is the Liberal, Kansas, Rock Island Depot. There are other buildings in the background, and the automobiles look like they are from the 1950s era. There is a large, bare tree in front of depot building.
Subject:	Rock Island Depot buildings trees automobiles railroad telephone poles		Related to:	E15
Other:	Negatives N163 and N164 are together on the same film strip.

CallNo: N167-H1f
Descriptive Title: Fence line hung with dead coyotes			Type: Negative
Date of Origin:			Provenance:
Size: 2 7/16 x 4 11/16			Condition: very good
Text:
Misc Info: A fence line with dead coyotes hung on the posts. There is a ditch, paved road and telephone poles also in the negative.
Subject:	fence line dead coyotes ditch paved road telephone poles		Related to:	E15 P248 P249 N168
Other:	Same as N168, but at a different angle.

CallNo: N168
Descriptive Title: Fence line with dead coyotes hung on it			Type: Negative
Date of Origin:			Provenance:
Size: 2 7/16 x 4 11/16			Condition: very good
Text:
Misc Info: A fence line with dead coyotes hung from the posts. There is a ditch next to the fence, and a road and telephone poles also in the negative.
Subject:	fence line dead coyotes ditch paved road telephone poles		Related to:	E15
Other:	Same as N167, but at a different angle

CallNo: P11-B1b1			larger image
Descriptive Title: Rock Island Train and workers			Type: Print
Date of Origin:			Provenance:
Size: 5 1/8 x 7 1/16			Condition: good
Text: [front] Jim Miller Ed Campbell (in cab) Mexican laborers O.B. Wimmer on tender [back] Jim Miller lived at Liberal, Kansas when he won this Carnegie medal for trying to rescue man and boy buried in cesspool. HEC 6 [6 is circled] Harry E. Chrisman 10245 W. 14th Ave. Denver Colo. 80125 [back note] Harry: I wrote Geo. Miller asking if he wanted this old picture of his father, and he didn't mention it in his reply, so guess he didn't. It would be worthy preserving in museum, because he's (Jim Miller) the one who got the Carnegie Medal for trying to rescue those w men buried in cave-in. I had the complete acct. in Times not too long ago. -- Maurine
Misc Info: Four men in front of engine No. 1442. Attached car 1442 (both of Rock Island Railroad) sits in front of elevator. Car has load of rock or some other material (tender?)
Subject:	Rock Island Railroad train Jim Miller Ed Campbed O.B. Wimmer Mexican laborers elevator train track tender Carnegie Medal railroad cars railroad engine No. 1442 Liberal Kansas George Miller Southwest Daily Times		Related to:
Other:	Note says the photo is from Maurine, possible Maurine Tate? Photo is in a mat/frame. Frame is 7 7/8 x 9 15/16"

CallNo: P14-B1b2			larger image
Descriptive Title: Passenger train			Type: Print
Date of Origin:			Provenance:Southwest Daily Times
Size: 8 x 10			Condition: good
Text: [back note] "The Last Highball." Here the news photographer catches the last passenger train as she gets ready to leave Liberal, Kansas. The "no seats available" policy finally ended passenger service to this busy southwest Kansas town. Photo by Joe Cannon, Southwest Daily Times. 25 40 75% [back] 25 [25 is circled] Harry E. Chrisman 10245 W. 14th Ave. Denver, Colo. 80215
Misc Info: Railroad worker stands beside passenger train with one arm raised and hand pointing toward depot in background. Worker is in shadow.
Subject:	Passenger train railroad workers depot building cars old wagon Liberal Kansas The Last Highball train track light poles Joe Cannon Southwest Daily Times		Related to:
Other:	Photo has stains on back. Photo has tape on top back.

CallNo: P15-A3b1			larger image
Descriptive Title: Rock Island Railroad Depot			Type: Print
Date of Origin: 1890s			Provenance:Private Collection -- Maurine and Crompton Tate
Size: 4 11/16 x 6 5/8			Condition: good
Text: [front] Don't mark photo! [back] Reduce photo to 4 x 2 3/4" [back note 1] Copy G-3 The Rock Island railway depot was one of the fine buildings in Liberal. A fine masonry building was at the east end, where the group stands. Photo courtesy Maurine and Crompton Tate. [back note 2] Harry: Crompton said to give his copy of the picture to the museum, too. Mrs. Watson Rogers at Rock Island (granddaughter of the McDermotts) said she might be able to identify some of the people from old pictures she has. -- Maurine Return photo to Harry E. Chrisman 10245 W. 14th Ave. Denver, Colo. 80215 [on building] Liberal Lunch, cigars and tobacco Hotel Lunch Lunchroom
Misc Info: Three men and seven women stand in front of Rock Island Depot in Liberal, KS.
Subject:	Rock Island Railroad Depot Liberal Kansas men women McDermott's Hotel Dining Room Greer House Maurine and Cromptom Tate train tracks wooden deck flags Depot fire cart Mrs. Watson Rogers		Related to:
Other:	Photo is on carboard mat/frame. Frame is 6 15/16 x 8 15/16"

CallNo: P161-B1b1			larger image
Descriptive Title: Rock Island's last steam locomotives			Type: Print
Date of Origin: 1969			Provenance:
Size: 8 1/16 x 10 1/16			Condition: good
Text: [front] [emblem] Rock Island; The Rock Island's last steam locomotives were the twenty 5100-series, 4-8-4, Northerns, purchased from Alco in two seperate orders. Oil burners 5100-5109 were delivered in 1944, and two years later the railroad received coal burners 5110-5119. The engines were 109 feet long, weighed in at nearly 423 tons fully loaded, had 74-inch, roller-bearing-equipped drivers and operated on 270 pounds of steam pressure. [back] cancell this order 4/28/69 Mb
Misc Info: Print with two trains and caption at the bottom; top train is 5100; bottom is 5119; Rock Island logo at left of caption; back writing in purple and pencil.
Subject:	Rock Island locomotives Rock Island Railroad steam locomotive 5100-series telephone poles, buildings Northerns Alco roller-bearing-equipped drivers oil burners 5100-5109 S-1920 S-1984 coal burners 5110-5119 railroad engines railroad tracks		Related to:
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CallNo: P174-F2d1			larger image
Descriptive Title: Town band			Type: Print
Date of Origin:			Provenance:
Size: 5 x 7			Condition: very good
Text: [front] V [back] Return photo to Harry E. Chrisman 10245 W. 14th Ave. Denver, Colo. 80215 [note] V Q. How large did a town have to be in the early days to afford a Town Band? A: The size of the town meant little, it was how many musicians lived there that counted. Liberal, Kansas, founded in 1888, when the CK & N Railroad reached there, had a town band the following year. Their (later) football team received its name from a remark by a visiting newspaper editor who heard the band play and said "They play like a band of wild Indians!" Thus the Liberal Redskins are the high school football team today.
Misc Info: Picture is of a band with 9 men and 2 boys. Each are holding a musical instrument.
Subject:	Town band band Liberal, Kansas CK & N Railroad football team Liberal Redskins high school		Related to:
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CallNo: P182-A3f			larger image
Descriptive Title: Commercial Hotel			Type: Print
Date of Origin:			Provenance:
Size: 5 x 7 1/16			Condition: very good
Text: [front] Broomcorn Corner Liberal Ks.; Pennell & Dunlap Real Estate; Commerical Hotel [back] The Commercial Hotel (on corner of Kansas Ave at Railroad St. ("Trail Street") Pennell & Dunlap - Real Estate looking toward "Quality Hill" West; circa 1900; Harry E. Chrisman Return; Harry E. Chrisman Lane D Apt. 74 Bluebonnet Courts Liberal, Kansas
Misc Info: Picture is of a street scene with wagons full of broomcorn. There is a hotel on right side and real estate building in the middle.
Subject:	Commercial Hotel Broomcorn Corner Liberal, Kansas Pennell and Dunlap Real Estate Quality Hill Kansas Avenue Trail Street Railroad Street		Related to:
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CallNo: P245-A2a11			larger image
Descriptive Title: mud road or flood waters			Type: Print
Date of Origin:			Provenance:
Size: 3 5/16 x 4 7/8			Condition: good
Text: [front] 5 col [back] 5 col 2.2 [stamp] HARRY E. CHRISMAN LANE D, APT. 74 BLUEBONNET COURTS LIBERAL, KANSAS
Misc Info: Photo is of a street scene. Bottom of photo has curves in the corners. Maybe looking out of a pipe. Sky looks cloudy.
Subject:	Flood water road buildings fence poles trees water street street scene		Related to:
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CallNo: P248-H1f			larger image
Descriptive Title: Fence line hung with dead coyotes			Type: Print
Date of Origin: April 1961			Provenance:
Size: 3 9/16 x 3 9/16			Condition: good
Text: [front] APR 61 [back] KODAK VELOX PAPER [stamped several times]
Misc Info: Photo is of a road on the left with a barbed wire fence on the right. The fence has coyotes hanging on each post. They are hanging with their tails over one side and body over the other. There are too many to count.
Subject:	fence line dead coyotes ditch paved road telephone poles coyotes road		Related to:	P249- N167 N168
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CallNo: P249-H1f			larger image
Descriptive Title: Fence line hung with dead coyotes			Type: Print
Date of Origin: April 1961			Provenance:
Size: 3 9/16 x 3 9/16			Condition: good
Text: [front] APR 61 [back] [stamped several times] KODAK VELOX PAPER
Misc Info: Photo is of a road on the left with a barbed wire fence on the right. The fence has coyotes hanging on each post. They are hanging with their tails over one side and body over the other. There are too many to count.
Subject:	fence line dead coyotes paved road ditch telephone poles coyotes road		Related to:	P248-H1f N167 N168
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CallNo: P263-F2a4			larger image
Descriptive Title: Railroad and crowd of people			Type: Print
Date of Origin:			Provenance:
Size: 6 3/4 x 9 7/16			Condition: good
Text: [back] 5 col "Four" [stamp] HARRY E. CHRISMAN LANE D. APT. 74 BLUEBONNET COURTS LIBERAL, KANSAS
Misc Info: Photo is of a huge group of people standing between a train and a railroad track. There are buildings behind the train. There is one automobile in the left side of photo and horse and buggys on the right side of photo. There is a man standing on the rail of the track. There are people on the train. There are electric or telephone poles by the buildings.
Subject:	railroad train train crowd people car Automobile Buildings Horses Wagons Poles		Related to:
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CallNo: P275-B2a			larger image
Descriptive Title: Street Grader			Type: Print
Date of Origin:			Provenance:
Size: 5 1/8 x 7 9/16			Condition: excellent
Text: [back] Street grader 4 col. [stamp] HARRY E. CHRISMAN LANE D, APT. 74 BLUEBONNET COURTS LIBERAL, KANSAS
Misc Info: Photo is of an 8 horse and mule team hooked to a street grader. There are two men on the street grader, one is sitting and one is standing. There is a huge building in the background. There are buildings on both side of the huge building. These are in the background.
Subject:	street grader horses men building construction dirt road		Related to:
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CallNo: P327-H1e			larger image
Descriptive Title: Texas Cattle Trail North of Dodge			Type: Print
Date of Origin:			Provenance:
Size: 3 9/16 x 5 1/16			Condition: excellent
Text: [back] Old Texas Cattle Trail North of Dodge where it crosses Sawlog Creek. [s Saw underlined] The Nebraska or "Olive Brothers" Trail. Ruts can be seen at left where they cross the Highway [Highway crossed out] Road. Many thousands of longhorns moved across here 1868-1884.
Misc Info: Photo is of an open area with a road starting in right bottom corner and extending through middle of photo. There is a fence line along the road and one telephone or electric pole showing. The road goes up a hill. There are buildings with a line of trees behind them on the left side of the road. Big white clouds in the sky.
Subject:	Old Texas Cattle Trail Dodge City Fence Road Olive Brothers Sawlog Creek Longhorns 1868-1884 Scrapbook Envelope		Related to:	P326
Other:	Plastic sleeve has notation 56-61 p2 Envelope

CallNo: P434-B1b			larger image
Descriptive Title: Railroad Building			Type: Print
Date of Origin:			Provenance:
Size: 5 x 7			Condition: excellent
Text: [front] VII [VII is crossed out] XII on pg 302 Return Photo To HARRY E. CHRISMAN 10245 W. 14th Ave. Denver, Colo. 80215 [Return Photo To HARRY E. CHRISMAN 10245 W. 14th Ave. Denver, Colo. 80215 is circled] [stamp] THIS PAPER MANUFACTURED BY KODAK [job form] Job Name Ohio Univ Job No. 43044 Page 302 65% 12- 7
Misc Info: Photo is of railroad workers. There is a bridge with a train and track on it. There are men sitting on front of train engine and a man standing in front of train. There are 2 men on a hand rail car on the track to the left of train. There is a man standing on a wall that is not completely built yet. There are buildings in the background. There is a huge mountain in the background with something on the top.
Subject:	Railroad railroad workers tracks plateau rocks		Related to:
Other:	"The 1000 Most Asked Questions about the American West" Photo is on bottom back.

CallNo: P454-B1b1			larger image
Descriptive Title: Pride of the Prairie			Type: Print
Date of Origin: unknown			Provenance:
Size: 5			Condition: very good
Text: [front] PRIDE of the PRAIRIES Engine 35...vintage of 1882...rolled up an incredible mileage in its day and is still in perfect running condition. The little Mail Car is a replica of one in which on July 28, 1862, enroute from West Quincy to St. Joseph, Missouri, over what is now a part of the Burlington main line from Chicago to Kansas City and St. Joseph, United States Mail was first sorted while in transit. The purpose was to speed the departure of the overland stage coach from St. Joseph to California. This was the forerunner of the present-day Railway Mail Service. [back] XII [XII is crossed out] ; THIS PAPER MANUFACTURED BY KODAK ; Return Photo To HARRY E. CHRISMAN 10245 W. 14th Ave. Denver, Colo. 80215 [Return Photo To HARRY E. CHRISMAN 10245 W. 14th Ave. Denver, Colo. 80215 is circled] [note] Q. Has there ever been a book about Otto Kuhler, artist and designer of railroad engines? Where may I get one? A. Yes. Kuhler, before his death in 1977, completed his work, My Iron Journey. [My Iron Journey. is underlined] Illustrated with some of his finest oils in full color, it was published by Johnson Publ., Co., Box 990, Boulder, Co. 80306, where it may still be obtained at $18.50. In 1980, his wife Simonne published her story of their romantic and adventurous lives in her book, The Day That Changed My World. [The Day That Changed My World is underlined] Their lives in WW I in Europe, then in the U.S.A., as ranchers and creative people make fine reading. --Photo courtesy Burlington Route. ; XII [XII is crossed out] [front of picture] Pride of the Prairies Engine 35...vintage of 1882..rolled up an incredible mileage in its day and is still in perfect running condition. The little Mail car is a replica of one in which on July 28, 1862, enroute from West Quincy to St. Joseph, Missouri, over what is now a part of the Burlington main line from CHicago to Kansas CIty and St. Joseph, United States Mail was first sorted while in transit. The purpose was to speed the departure of the overland stage coach from St. Joseph to California. This was the forerunner of the present-day Railway Mail Service.
Misc Info: Photo is of a train engine, tender and a car. There is a sign on top of train with words on it. The train is on a track.
Subject:	railroad engine Mail car Railroad track Otto Kuhler My Iron Journey Simonne Kuhler The Day That Changed My World Burlington Route		Related to:
Other:	"The 1000 Most Asked Questions about the American West"

CallNo: P48-F2a4			larger image
Descriptive Title: Group in front of Depot			Type: Print
Date of Origin: 1889-1890			Provenance:private collection - Maurine Tate
Size: 4 x 6 1/4			Condition: good
Text: [front] Taken in front of the Old Depot between 1889 or 1890 [Yellow note] copy M-1 (circled) Liberal, Kansas group on porch of first Rock Island R.R. Depot, Liberal, KS, 1889. Left to right: (insert symbol) Standing: J.U. Shade, Agriculture Agent for railroad; Myra McDermott; Will Lipscomb, R.I. Agent; Sitting, Olive Lipscomb; small girl, Mamie Roark; Mrs. Billy Newhouse (nee Florence Fouts); Mrs. Webb, hotel guest in speckled dress; Dave Jones, clerk; Mamie Hood; Belle Holloway (aunt of Mrs. T.J. Smith); Mrs. Bernard (Aunt Betty) Lemert, nee Smith; Tom McDermott, sitting; Lee Latty, R.I. Mail Clerk. Photo Courtesy Maurine Tate. (sentence underlined) [back] L. to R. J.U. Shade, Myra McDermott, Will Lipscomb (Rock Island Agent) standing, Olive Lipscomb (sitting), Mamie Roark (little girl), Mrs. Billy Newhouse (nee Florence Fouts), Mrs. Webb (guest at hotel) sitting in speckled dress, Dave Jones (clerk), Mamie Hood, Belle Holloway (aunt of Mrs. T.J. Smith), "Aunt Betty" Lemert (nee Smith) sitting, Tom McDermott (sitting), Lee Latty, Rock Island Railway mail clerk. (following text enclosed in box) Picture taken cira 1889-90 on porch of Old Rock Island Depot Hotel, Liberal, Kansas (formerly OMER Hotel) Harry E. Chrisman Lane D, Apt. 74 Bluebonnet Courts Liberal, Kansas (wavy line seperating text) Return Photo to: Harry E. Chrisman, 10245 W. 14th St., Denver, 80215
Misc Info: 5 men, 7 women and 2 children on porch of Rock Island Depot.
Subject:	Rock Island Railroad Depot Liberal, Kansas J.U. Shade Myra McDermott Tom McDermott Will Lipscomb Olive Lipscomb Mrs. T.J. Smith Mamie Roark Belle Holloway Mrs. Bernard Lemert Lee Latty Dave Jones Maurine Tate Mamie Hood Mrs. Billy Newhouse nee Florence Fouts Mrs. Webb		Related to:
Other:	Photo has a tape tear mark on left back.

CallNo: P525-B1b			larger image
Descriptive Title: Train crossing the plains			Type: Print
Date of Origin:			Provenance:
Size: 5			Condition: good
Text: [back] Reduce to 2 1/2 x 3" ; THIS PAPER MANUFACTURED BY KODAK ; Please Return to HARRY E. CHRISMAN 10245 W. 14th Ave. Denver, Colo. 80215 [yellow sticky note] 60% .25 [.25 is underlined twice] Back Flap
Misc Info: A train is moving through a town in the background. There is a field and dirt road in the foreground. Train's engine is billowing smoke.
Subject:	train railroad tracks train engine smoke. town church steeple plains dirt road crops		Related to:	N126 C19 C20
Other:	Photo has tape covering address stamp. Photo has ink stains from address stamp.

CallNo: P67-A3b1			larger image
Descriptive Title: Joseph B. Smalley Memorial Marker			Type: Print
Date of Origin: April '61			Provenance:Harry E. Chrisman collection
Size: 3 9/16 x 3 9/16			Condition: very good
Text: [front on marker] 1852-1922 Rock Island Lines seventieth anniversary October tenth. The memorial tree planted nearby is dedicated by the Rock Island in affectionate memory of Joseph B. Smalley who by his industry courage and loyalty through every vicissitude signally aided in the development of the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railway into a great transportation system devoted to the public service. [back] Harry E. Chrisman 10245 W. 14th Ave. Denver, Colo. 80215 [note] 11 (circled) 24 (circled) [right angle] The Memorial Marker to Joseph B. Smalley at Rock Island Depot in Liberal. A large tree stands near Smalley's marker. Smalley was a Rock Island man who distinguished himself in service. - Photo courtesy Harry E. Chrisman Collection (sentence underlined). 133%
Misc Info: Photo is of a stone marker on the ground. It is dedicated to Joseph Smalley.
Subject:	Joseph B. Smalley Rock Island Railroad tree memorial marker Rock Island Depot Liberal, Kansas Harry E. Chrisman Collection		Related to:
Other:	Photo has tape mark on top back.

CallNo: PC2-C2c			larger image
Descriptive Title: Freight train wreck			Type: Postcard
Date of Origin: 8/13/38			Provenance:private collection - Turtle Studio, Liberal KS
Size: 3 1/2 x 5 1/2			Condition: good
Text: [front] Wrecked freight train on R.I. RR at Arkalon Bridge - 8-18-38. Engine 5036. Cost $115,000. Wt. 733200 lbs. Power 67000 Drawbar. Booster 70000 lbs. Turtle Studio. 28 [back] Post Card Turtle Studio Kodak Finishing and Gift Shoppe Liberal, Kans. 14 S. Kans. Ave. Correspondence. Address. Place Stamp Here. Harry E. Chrisman 10245 W. 14th Ave. Denver, Colo. 80215 [back note] Oil tankers and box cars were piled up like children's toys when Engine 5036 (cost $115,000; wt. 73,320 lbs) plunged through the bridge on flood-swollen Cimarron River. Turtle Studio, Liberal, Kansas photo. (sentence underlined) 32 (circled) 24 75%
Misc Info: Oil tanker, box car and engine wreck on bridge. Debris and cars in river.
Subject:	freight train oil tanker box car - NYC 181306 Arkalon bridge Cimarron River Rock Island railroad Engine 5036 Turtle Studio box cars oil tanker GATX6538 Kodak finishing trees debris oil tanker 5340 Liberal, Kansas		Related to:
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CallNo: PC3-C2c			larger image
Descriptive Title: Freight train wreck			Type: Postcard
Date of Origin: July or August 18, 1938			Provenance:private collection - Turtle Studio, Liberal KS
Size: 3 1/2 x 6 1/2			Condition: good
Text: [front] Wrecked freight train on R.I. RR at Arkalon Bridge 8-18-38. Engine 5036. Cost $115,000. Wt. 733200 lbs. Power 67000 Drawbar Booster 70000 lbs. Turtle Studio. 21. [back] Post Card Turtle Studio Kodak Finishing and Gift Shoppe Liberal, Kans. 14 S. Kansas Ave. Correspondence. Address. Place Stamp Here. 34 (circled) 75% Harry E. Chisman 10245 W. 14th Ave. Denver, Colo. 80215. [back note] 34 (circled) 24 Engineer Walter Walker rode old Engine 5036 into the Cimarron when floods caused the bridge to give way, July 18, 1938.
Misc Info: Cranes pull engine from train wreckage. People look on from bridge, ground below.
Subject:	train wreckage Arkalon bridge Walter Walker train engine railroad ties two cranes Rock Island Railroad workers Engine 5036 Cimarron River people Turtle Studio Liberal, Kansas Kodak Finishing		Related to:
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CallNo: PC48
Descriptive Title: road runner and rattle snake in finish battle			Type:
Date of Origin: April 6, 1956			Provenance:
Size:			Condition: good
Text:
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Subject:	Road runner rattlesnake Scottsbluff, Nebraksa		Related to:
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