On the Kansas Pacific Railway 1873

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On the Kansas Pacific Railway 1873

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On the Kansas Pacific Railway , consists of a series of photographs by Robert Benecke (1835-1903), taken along the Kansas Pacific line for the railroad company. Included are views of Kansas, Colorado, and Missouri of railroads, depots, machine shops, roundhouses, locomotive with snow plow, bridges, towns, landscapes, buffalo hunters, cattle, horse race track, the University of Kansas, and a Kansas Pacific Railway "buffalo head" advertising photograph. Also, includes a posed studio self-portrait of photographer Robert Benecke holding a rifle.

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DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University

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Kansas Pacific Railway Company

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Benecke, Robert

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Robert Benecke (1835-1903) was born in Stiege, Germany. He attended the gymnasium in Blankenburg and volunteered for the army, 1854-55. While he was enlisted, he saw a display of daguerreotypes and ambrotypes that piqued his interest. Later, he briefly became a government forester, but immigrated to the United States with his family in 1856, and settled in Brunswick, Missouri. There he worked at a variety of jobs: farmer, cooper, piano tuner, and also taught languages a...