"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.