Joseph Judd Pennell Photograph Collection (1888-1923) 1888-1923

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Joseph Judd Pennell Photograph Collection (1888-1923) 1888-1923

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The J.J. Pennell Photograph Collection consists of 30,000 glass plate negatives taken in and around the Junction City, Kansas area between 1891-1923. Although Pennell was a highly successful portrait studio photographer, he also spent time in the community and at the nearby army post of Fort Riley recording social, church and school activities, construction and town growth, events such as floods, parades, polo games, and the routines of artillery and cavalry operations at the fort. The collection is particularly important because of its record of change in American society.

81 boxes (6,704 contact prints), 30,000 glass plate negatives, 302 original photographs

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University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library University Archives

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Pennell, Joseph Judd, 1866-1922

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The son of a confederate soldier, Joseph Judd Pennell was born March 9, 1866 in Kings Creek, North Carolina. When he was about 18, his father's business failed and the family could no longer afford the cost of private education in the North Carolina schools. A cousin returning from a trip to Kansas told of the good public schools in Kansas, so the decision was made to leave North Carolina and settle in Kansas. In his first years in Kansas, Joseph Pennell worked as a carpenter making coffins for ...