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Kelley, R. B.

 Person

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Chapman, Barnard & Johnson at Ranch, approximately 1940s

 Item — Drawer 2: Series 2008-049-6
Identifier: 2008.049.6.Buildings.1014
Scope and Contents

A photograph of James A. Chapman, R. B. Kelley the “railway agent”, Horace G. Barnard, Ben Johnson Sr., at the Chapman-Barnard Ranch, during a cattle shipment to the Blackland railroad stop on the Midland Valley Railway. These photographs were taken for a Life Magazine article that was never written. It is believed that more cattle were shipped from Blackland during World War II than anywhere else in the country.

Dates: Other: approximately 1940s