LEAVENWORTH — The Leavenworth County Historical Society has launched a $1 million capital campaign to retrieve glass-plate photo negatives taken by prominent frontier photographers more than a century ago during Leavenworth’s pioneer days.
The 40,000 photo negatives — some of which show steamboats, cavalry soldiers and General Custer sitting on a porch — were obtained in 1968, by David Phillips of Chicago, who got them in 1968 from local photographer, Mary Everhard.