Medium: PhysicalObject
Spirit of St. Louis quilt
Date: 1930s
Quilt in the “Spirit of St. Louis” pattern, made of red, white, and blue cotton fabric. Tricolor blocks, with quilted eagles in the white squares. The block design originally appeared…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Album sampler quilt
Date: 2006
Album sampler quilt comprised of 30 blocks, each in a different pieced or appliqued pattern. Quilt incorporates a wide variety of reproduction 19th century textiles designed for Moda Fabrics by…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Ocean Wave quilt
Date: 1880s
Quilt in the “Ocean Wave” pattern, made of red, blue, green, and brown calico prints. The quilt is hand pieced and quilted, with straight applied binding along the edges. Eliza…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Sunflower quilt
Date: 1930s
Sunflower quilt featuring 22 very large flowers appliqued onto a pale yellow field. Cotton with close hand quilting, including a grid design interrupted by a large central sunflower. Pieced by…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Kansas Pioneers
Date: 1920
Small oil on canvas painting of pioneers and a wagon train descending from hill. Painting is a small study for a larger painting. In foreground, at lower right, two male…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Frederick Stanton bust
Date: Unknown date
A bust of Frederick Perry Stanton (1814-1894) who served as acting territorial governor of Kansas Territory from April 15 to May 27, 1857 and November 16 to December 21, 1857.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Baby’s shawl
Date: 1896-1897
Baby’s off-white wool shawl with a hand-embroidered floral decoration in two corners. Emily (Stephens) Grinter embroidered the shawl around 1896 or 1897. She was born in New York in 1833…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Iron lung
Date: 1957
Cylindrical metal electrical respirator, or iron lung, manufactured by the J. H. Emerson Company of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The machine forces a patient’s lungs to inhale and exhale through changes in…
Medium: PhysicalObject
6th Kansas Cavalry flag
Date: 1861
This national flag was carried by the 6th Kansas Cavalry during the Civil War. Established at Fort Scott, Kansas, in July 1861, the unit started out as a “Home Guard,”…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Glendale School, Cheyenne County, Kansas
Date: Between 1886 and 1896
This sepia colored photograph shows a group of men, women, and children standing in front of the Glendale School, District No. 7., in Cheyenne County, Kansas. This sod structure built…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Kansas state flag
Date: 1984
A small Kansas state flag carried on the first mission of Space Shuttle Discovery by Steven Hawley. Hawley was born in 1951 in Ottawa, Kansas, but grew up in Salina.…
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Political cartoon by Myron A. Waterman
Date: 1898
Political cartoon by Myron A. Waterman (1855-1937) depicting E. H. Funston announcing his bid for governor. The cartoon appeared on the front page of Topeka’s The Advocate and News on…
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Myron A. Waterman drawing
Date: between 1890 and 1920
Drawing of a fresco representing Justice by Myron A. Waterman (1855-1937) who first gained recognition in the latter part of the 19th century when he established and edited the Fort…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Myron A. Waterman drawing
Date: between 1894 and 1901
Drawing of a military officer by Myron A. Waterman (1855-1937) who first gained recognition in the latter part of the 19th century when he established and edited the Fort Scott…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Myron A. Waterman drawing
Date: between 1895 and 1897
Drawing by Myron A. Waterman (1855-1937) of a woman holding a mirror, presumably his second wife Alice Gertrude Sheldon (1862-1925). “AGS” monogram in pencil in lower left corner of her…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Original drawing for Kansas Capitol Building, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1860s
Original drawing for the east wing of the Kansas capitol building in Topeka, Kansas, created by Edward Townsend Mix, an architect from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The plans were adopted by the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Original plans for Kansas Capitol Building, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1860s
Original plans for the Kansas capitol building in Topeka, Kansas, created by Edward Townsend Mix, an architect from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The plans were adopted by the state legislature of 1866…
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Original drawing for Kansas Capitol Building, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1860s
This original drawing for the Kansas capitol building in Topeka, Kansas, was created by Edward Townsend Mix, an architect from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The plans were adopted by the state legislature…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Auto races, Minneapolis, Kansas
Date: August 1917
This photograph shows an automobile race at the Ottawa County fair in Minneapolis, Kansas. There are also a number of Model T Fords parked along the track and in the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Art Work on Eastern Kansas
Date: 1900
This pictorial book gives a brief overview of eastern Kansas. This is part two of twelve. The State Library in Topeka and the Old Mill in Lawrence are some of…
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot, Pratt, Kansas
Date: Between 1912 and 1913
This photograph shows construction on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot in Pratt, Kansas. The one-story “county seat” style depot completed, in 1913, features a gabled roof…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company box cars
Date: Between 1963 and 1969
This black and white photograph shows several box cars from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company waiting to be filled with grain at a unidentified elevator.
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company’s steam locomotive #3460
Date: 1937
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company’s steam locomotive #3460, 4-6-4. The engine was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the ATSF…
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company’s steam locomotive #3209
Date: July 02, 1939
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company’s steam locomotive #3209, 2-8-2, in Topeka, Kansas. The engine was built in 1918 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Osborne’s Big Frontier Roundup
Date: Unknown
This poster announces Osborne’s Big Frontier Roundup at Osborne, Kansas, on July 14th, 15th and 16th, with no year given. The event was produced by the Cody Lake Roundup Company.…