[Fort Scott, Kansas, ca. 1840-1869]: Old government buildings, erected 1843 – Historic Photograph Print
![[Fort Scott, Kansas, ca. 1840-1869]: Old government buildings, erected 1843, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5a/5a9bbf4fee2c-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of [Fort Scott, Kansas, ca. 1840-1869]: Old government buildings, erected 1843. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Fort Scott, Kansas, ca. 1840-1869]: Old government buildings, erected 1843
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The caption card identifies this view as the old government buildings at Fort Scott, Kansas, which it says were erected in 1843. The fort was founded in the early 1840s on the Army's western frontier, and mounted dragoons were among the troops stationed there. This print is a retouched photomechanical copy, and the card gives no date for the original photograph, so the image is best read as a record of the buildings themselves. The fort's later role in the territorial conflicts of the 1850s makes the site a useful point of reference for that period.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print. |
| Subjects | Retouched photocopy. No. 5. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Walls; Forts; Kansas--Fort Scott. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,211 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-141305 |
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