In 1867, photographer Alexander Gardner came through Lawrence and captured several stereoscopic photographs of the young frontier community.

Title: Waukarusa Valley (Blue Mound in distance) from fort, Lawrence, Kansas, 323 miles west of St. Louis, Mo. Alexander Gardner, photographer, 1821-1882. Part of series: Across the continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division. Library of Congress Photographs and Prints Division

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View looking across Turnpike Bridge at Lawrence, Kansas, 323 miles west of St. Louis, Mo. Alexander Gardner, photographer, 1821-1882. Part of series: Across the continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division. Library of Congress Photographs and Prints Division.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.Stereo card of the Crandall house, around 1867, at depot Lawrence, Kansas, 323 miles west of St. Louis, Mo. Photographer Alexander Gardner, 1821-1882..

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.Eldridge House Lawrence, Kansas, 323 miles west of St. Louis, Mo..Photographer Alexander Gardner, 1821-1882. Part of series: Across the continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division. .

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.Lawrence, Kansas from fort, State University, on the left, 323 miles west of St. Louis, Mo.Photographer Alexander Gardner, 1821-1882. Part of series: Across the continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division. .

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.Title: House & well where Jim Lane shot Capt. Jenkins, Lawrence, Kansas, 323 miles west of St. Louis, Mo..AleGardner, Alexander, 1821-1882, photographer.Visible in background is an old Dutch windmill, which stood on West Ninth Street in Lawrence. Construction on the windmill started July 1, 1863 by Andrew Palm and John H. Wilder. Fourteen men were brought from Sweden by Palm to build the windmill. It was destroyed in Quantrill's Raid and rebuilt in 1864. It was octagon shaped, four stories in height, and the basement had walls of stone six feet thick. The mill had four millstones, two for wheat and two for corn. The capacity of the mill was twenty bushels daily each of flour and meal. With the wind blowing at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour the mill would have eighty horse power. The mill ceased running in July 1885 and a fire destroyed it in 1905.

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Title: Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, Kansas 323 miles west of St. Louis, Mo. Photo by Alexander Gardner, 1821-1882, photographer.Date Created/Published: [Washington, DC : Alexander Gardner, ca. 1867

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Title: Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, Kansas. Alexander Gardner, photographer, 1821-1882. Summary: Photograph shows wide dirt street; loaded wagon in foreground.; carriages; people looking toward camera..Part of series: Across the continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division.

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This photograph shows Old North College on Mount Oread in 1867, with the Kansas River visible in the distance. The stereoscopic image is credited to photographer Alexander Gardner, 1821-1882 and part of the series: Across the continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division. Old North College was the first building on the KU campus and was photographed a year after the school officially opened.Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

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Title: View in Waukrusa Valley, looking east from Mount Oread, Lawrence, Kansas, 323 miles west of St. Louis, Mo..Creator: Alexander Gardner, 1821-1882, photographer. Part of series: Across the continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division..

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. A rare specimen found on hill above Fort Riley, Kansas, 420 miles west of St. Louis, Mo. Photo shows a portable darkroom in the wagon, with photographer Alexander Gardner seated in middle of image, holding his camera lens. Man at left is holding a plant .Part of series: Across the continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division.Creator(s): Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882, photographer.