Kansas

Andrew R. Butler

1896–1979

Kansas, 1929

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: etching

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 201 x 250 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 290 x 387 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 7 15/16 x 9 13/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 11 7/16 x 15 1/8 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 x 19 in

Credit line: Gift of Hal M. Davison, Class of 1949

Accession number: 1999.0091

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Exhibition Label: "A Kansas Arts Sampler," Oct-2004, Kate Meyer Railroad building in the nineteenth century was essential to transportation and trade, but in Kansas, railroads and land speculation played a vital role in settlement in many cases long before most settlers reached the western portion of the state. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Union Pacific, East Division (Kansas Pacific), Union Pacific, South Branch (Katy), and the Rock Island Railroad all helped ensure the Kansas’s population boom in the 1880s and its success in the cattle industry. While boom would turn to bust by the 1890s and again in the 1930s, connections between railroads and the state linger, as evidenced by this image of train and track simply titled Kansas.