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.  
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CallNo: P451-F2b5  
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Descriptive Title: Kansas Pioneer Farmer and Family   Type: Print
Date of Origin: 1800s   Provenance:
Size: 5 1/16 x 7 1/2   Condition: excellent
Text: [back] Photo by Day Doby, Kansas
Misc Info: Photo is of a family. The man is standing holding the lead ropes of two horses. The woman is standing with 3 little girls and a baby in a highchair. They are in front of a sod house.
Subject: family
farmer
horses
house
farm stead
prairie living
Day photo 		  Related to:  N174
N175
P450
P456
E18
M/F2
Other: "The 1000 Most Asked Questions about the American West"    
CallNo: P456-  
Descriptive Title: Abandoned Farm   Type: Print
Date of Origin:    Provenance:
Size: 5   Condition: excellent
Text: Q. It must have be disappointing for old-timers who have returned to their homesteads to see them settling back to the earth? A. Positively. One old man said:"My old claim was a great disappointment of weeds, stunted trees, my abandoned shack and broken-down windmill tower. It is most painful for one my age (77) to return to those scenes of 60 years ago and find no one there to greet me. All are gone now, gone, gone." Photo from author's collection.
Misc Info: "The 1000 Most Asked Questions about the American West"
Subject: farm stead
wagon wheel
windmill
weeds
prairie 		  Related to:  P450-
P451
N174
N175
E18
M/F2
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