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This photograph shows R.C. Hill telling a crowd at Hugoton about the upcoming Boot Hill Fiesta in Dodge City.

This photograph shows a winter scene in South Dodge at the intersection of Sycamore and South Second Avenue. Several signs are also visible, including the sign for the Church of Christ and for Dillons.

This photograph shows Pearl Myers at his home at 302 Smith Street in South Dodge City. The photograph was taken after the city commission honored Myers by naming Pearl Street after him. Myers kept an interest in the welfare of South Dodge and became…

This photograph shows the construction of a fire station in South Dodge. The Dodge City Daily Globe states that this station was constructed on the east side of South Second Avenue, just south of the Second Avenue Bridge over the Arkansas River.

This photograph was taken as part of a profile article about Mrs. Clarice Main, originally from Beeler, Kansas. Main was a telegrapher for the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad in Dodge City.

Workers load cattle onto an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway car at Sublette, Kansas, for transport. The Dodge City Daily Globe claims that the workers loaded 23 cars of cattle and three cars of sheep from wheat pasture to market. This…

This photograph shows a demonstration in 1955 of the Dodge City Fire Department at the old Dodge City High School Building.

This photograph shows the demolition of a gas station in South Dodge at South 2nd Avenue and Beech Street. The article in the Dodge City Daily Globe states that the gas station had been closed for about 10 years at the time of its demolition in 1955.

Duane Hennigh is pictured after being honored as an All-Around Champion of the 1959 Dodge City Roundup Rodeo. Hennigh was originally from Ashland, Kansas and won rodeo championships around the country in the 1950s and 1960s, including Best All-Around…

From the Dodge City Daily Globe of August 10, 1959:

"A part of the local Army Reserve unit is shown just before boarding a train for two weeks' training at Fort Carson, Colo. The unit left early yesterday afternoon. The men are members of the…