One Hundred and Fifty Years of Change on the Great Plains

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2024-03
Author
Peterson, A. Townsend
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University of Kansas Libraries
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Book
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Copyright 2024 A. Townsend Peterson. This work is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 international license (CC BY-NC 4.0).
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Abstract
Robert Benecke (1835-1903) was a St. Louis photographer who was hired by the Kansas Pacific Railroad to take promotional photographs along the entire length of the Railroad. Benecke traveled from Kansas City to Denver in the early 1870s, creating a rich legacy of views of the Great Plains at a very early date. In this book, Benecke's landscape photographs are paired with new photographs of the same views. Comparing the old and new photographs, the reader can appreciate how the region has changed in terms of its landscape, vegetation, and human and natural systems over the 150 year time span.
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This book presents pairs of photographs from across the Great Plains, taken in 1873-1874 and in 2021-2023. It has been presented as an open-access ebook, and is also available in hard-copy format on a print-on-demand basis.

Note: This ebook is best viewed in two-page spreads, so you can compare the old and new photographs side-by-side.
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https://hdl.handle.net/1808/34963
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17161/1808.34963
ISBN
978-1-936153-31-2
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Copyright 2024 A. Townsend Peterson. This work is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 international license (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as: Copyright 2024 A. Townsend Peterson. This work is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 international license (CC BY-NC 4.0).