Medium: PhysicalObject
He’s sure to get v-mail. Safest overseas mail
Date: Between 1939 and 1945
World War II era poster of a soldier reading his v-mail.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Back the attack! Buy more bonds
Date: Between 1939 and 1945
This World War II era poster of a drawing of a farm family is promoting the purchase of war bonds. Many posters were designed and distributed to promote the sale…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Back ’em up, buy extra bonds
Date: 1944
This World War II era poster for war bonds shows a drawing of General Dwight D. Eisenhower in uniform. Many posters were designed and distributed to promote the sale of…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Buy war bonds. Third war loan
Date: Between 1939 and 1945
This World War II era poster shows a young boy with tears on his cheeks, wearing a Congressional Medal of Honor and holding an overseas cap with Captain bars. He…
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Five dollar bill signed by Georgia Neese Clark Gray
Date: 1950
A five dollar bill signed by Georgia Neese Clark Gray, 1900-1995, of Richland, Kansas. Gray was National Committeewoman for the Democratic Party, 1936-1964, and was appointed by President Harry S.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
The Garden
Date: 1933
The Garden quilt by Josephine Hunter Craig of Emporia, Kansas. Craig was an expert quilt maker in a community of outstanding quilters in the second quarter of the 20th century.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Iris Garland
Date: between 1930 and 1939
Iris Garland quilt by artist Hannah Haynes Headlee of Topeka, Kansas. Headlee taught watercolor and china painting for much of her life, but in her final years took up quilt…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Democrat Rose
Date: between 1930 and 1935
Quilt made by Josephine Hunter Craig, 1874-1954. Josephine won many awards for her quilts at local fairs and national expositions. This Democrat Rose quilt is a reproduction of an early…
Medium: PhysicalObject
The fifth annual fair, Goodland, Kansas
Date: September 22 - 25, 1891
This poster announces the fifth annual fair to be held on the grounds of the Sherman County Agricultural Society in Goodland, Kansas. Color illustrations of livestock, produce, farm machinery, and…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Kansas Grand Circuit Association
Date: 1888
This advertising poster for the Kansas Grand Circuit Association fair identified the association’s officers, and the 1888 fair’s locations and dates throughout the state of Kansas in Wichita, Winfield, Newton,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
New England Emigrant Aid Company trade sign
Date: between 1855 and 1858
Trade sign made of sheet metal, painted black with gold lettering. The sign was most likely used at the Boston headquarters of the New England Emigrant Aid Company.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Friendship quilt
Date: between 1845 and 1865
Chintz friendship quilt in Broderie Perse style. Blocks are appliquéd with chintz cut-outs of floral sprays, wreaths, garlands, and a few animals. Hand-stitched, appliqued, and quilted. Each block is inked…
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Drouthy Kansas
Date: 1878
This painting by Henry Worrall, completed in 1878, challenges the assumption that Kansas was part of the “Great American Desert.” Although there had, indeed, been a severe drought during 1860,…
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Shooting Bison From a Union Pacific Train
Date: 1931
An oil painting by Walter Lockhart in 1931, showing people shooting bison from a Union Pacific Railroad-Eastern Division train.
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Indians Destroying Railroad Tracks near Russell, Kansas
Date: 1930
Adolph Roenigk, of Lincoln, Kansas, commissioned Jakob Gogolin to complete this painting in 1930. Roenigk wanted to reproduce the image for a book he was writing entitled, “Pioneer History of…
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Quantrill’s Raid on Lawrence
Date: between 1868 and 1880
This pencil drawing on wood pulp paper shows Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Kansas, drawn by Sherman Enderton. Early in the morning of August 21, 1863, Confederate guerilla forces led by…
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George L. Douglass’ sledge hammer
Date: between 1891 and 1893
Used by Republican House Speaker George L. Douglass to smash doors to Populist-controlled House chamber during Kansas Legislative War, February 15, 1893. The dispute began when both the Republican and…
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Quantrill’s raid
Date: between 1866 and 1919
This black and white water color on paper was created by Lauretta Louise Fox Fisk, wife of Washburn College sociology professor Dr. D.M. Fisk, shows Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Kansas,…