Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1890 and 1908
In 1890, Populist Party won control of the Kansas state legislature. The People’s Party (more commonly known as the Populist Party) was established as a reform movement with roots across…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1920
James M. Cox was serving as Governor of Ohio when the Democratic party nominated him a candidate for the presidential election of 1920. Franklin D. Roosevelt was his running mate.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1892 and 1898
Jeremiah (Jerry) Simpson (1842-1905) served in the Civil War and moved to Barber Co. near Medicine Lodge Kansas in 1878. He unsuccessfully ran for the Kansas House of Representatives on…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1892 and 1893
Jeremiah (Jerry) Simpson (1842-1905) served in the Civil War and moved to Barber County near Medicine Lodge, Kansas in 1878. He unsuccessfully ran for the Kansas House of Representatives on…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1892
LoLorenzo Dow Lewelling (1846-1900) moved from Salem, Iowa to Wichita, Kansas in 1887. In 1892 he was elected and served as the populist governor of Kansas. In 1894 he was…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1892
Lorenzo Dow Lewelling (1846-1900) moved from Salem, Iowa to Wichita, Kansas in 1887. In 1892 he was elected and served as the populist governor of Kansas. In 1894 he was…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1892
Lorenzo Dow Lewelling (1846-1900) moved from Salem, Iowa to Wichita, Kansas in 1887. In 1892 he was elected and served as the populist governor of Kansas. In 1894 he was…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1892
Lorenzo Dow Lewelling (1846-1900) moved from Salem, Iowa to Wichita, Kansas in 1887. In 1892 he was elected and served as the populist governor of Kansas. In 1894 he was…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1861 and 1863
A cotton and wool Confederate States of America flag, it’s history has been lost. The phrase, “Emblem of the Lost Cause,” was added after the war. The flag is based…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1863
This is the cotton and wool brigade flag of the Twentieth Army Corps, First Division, Third Brigade. The 8th Kansas Infantry was a regiment in this brigade, as was the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1862 and 1866
This flag belonged to Eighth Kansas Volunteer Regiment, which was recruited in 1862 and mustered out in 1866. The Eighth Kansas went farther east than any other Kansas unit, fighting…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1990 and 1999
The platinum record featured here was awarded to Kansas band member Kerry Livgren when the album “Monolith” (1979) reached the 1,000,000 sale mark.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: September 19 - 23, 1881
This poster announces the twelfth annual fair of the Blue and Kansas Valley Agricultural Society to be held at Manhattan, Kansas. Highlights include livestock, horse racing, agricultural crops and other…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: September 18 - 21, 1888
This poster advertises the sixth annual fair of the Nemaha Fair Association to be held at Seneca, Kansas. Highlights include horse racing.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1876
This large brass gong and mallet are from the Topeka Harvey House. This gong was donated by Ralph E. LaBounty, a Fred Harvey executive who once worked as a busboy…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: September 24 - 27, 1878
This poster advertises the ninth annual exposition and fair at Manhattan, Kansas. Highlights include livestock, agricultural crops, horse racing, baby judging contest, musical and other entertainment events.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: September 24-26, 1884
This poster advertises the second annual fair of the Rice County Fair Association to be held at Lyons, Kansas. Highlights include livestock, agricultural crops, horse and chariot (sulky) racing, musical…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: September 7- 12, 1885
This poster advertises the sixth annual exposition of the Western National Fair Association in Bismark Grove at Lawrence, Kansas. Highlights include livestock, fireworks display, horse and chariot (sulky) racing and…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: September 18 - 23, 1882
This poster advertises a fair to be held at Bismark Grove in Lawrence, Kansas. Highlights include a baseball game, military veteran encampment, rowing regatta, and other entertainment events.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1890 and 1906
William Allen White used this cylinder press manufactured by C.B. Cottrell & Co. of New York to print the first copies of the Emporia Gazette. This press is in the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: September 17 - 20, 1894
This poster advertises the fourth annual Sumner County fair to be held at Wellington, Kansas. Highlights include livestock, agricultural crops, horse racing, and musical entertainment events. Fair officers are H.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: September 08, 1885-September 11, 1885
This fair poster advertises livestock, horse racing, agricultural crops and musical entertainment events. It states that the fair will have the “grandest reunion of Old Soldiers and Sailors ever held…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: Possibly 1889 or 1890s
This poster advertises the Kansas State Fair to be held in Topeka, Kansas, on September 16-21. Highlights include sulky racing and other entertainment events. The year is unknown but the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: September 19 - 24, 1887
This poster advertises the fifth annual Kansas State Fair at Topeka, Kansas. Highlights include exhibitions of livestock and crops, horse racing, leading bands, and fruit and flower displays.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: September 7 - 12, 1885
This poster announces the Bismarck Fair to be held in Lawrence, Kansas.
