Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: September 26-29, 1882
This fair poster advertises the eleventh annual meeting of the Emporia, Kansas, exposition. The exhibition included livestock, horse and bicycling racing, baby judging show, and musical entertainment events.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: September 29, 1896-October 2, 1896
This poster announces the eighth annual fair to be held at Paola, Kansas. Highlights of the fair include livestock and poultry, horse racing, an industrial exposition, and musical entertainment.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: October 2-6, 1894
Fair poster advertising the 1894 Kansas State Fair in Wichita, Kansas.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: September 4- 7, 1894
This fair poster advertises bicycle racing and other entertainments at the Brown County exposition in Hiawatha, Kansas.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: September 4 - 8, 1893
This poster advertises the thirteenth annual exhibition of the Coffey County Fair Association to be held at Burlington, Kansas. The exhibition included livestock and vegetable exhibits, horse racing, and musical…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: August 30 - September 3, 1886
This poster advertises the fourth annual fair of the Cowley County Agricultural Society at Winfield, Kansas. Attractions included horse and sulky racing and a good band of music. Fair officers…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: September 5 - 9, 1887
Fair poster advertising livestock, horse racing as well as musical entertainment events. The poster states “no gambling allowed.” Fair officers are S. P. Strong, Rock, Kansas, president; W. J. Wilson,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: September 22 - 28, 1879
This fair poster advertises the Neosho Valley District Fair to be held in Neosho Falls, Kansas. The poster makes note of the soldiers reunion, presidential party, horse racing and other…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: September 26 - 29, 1882
This poster announces a fair to be held at Columbus, Kansas, sponsored by the Cherokee County Agricultural and Stock Association. Highlights include races, exhibitions, and a good band of music.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: October 11-14, 1887
This poster announces a fair to be held at Columbus, Kansas, sponsored by the Cherokee County Agricultural and Stock Association. Highlights include livestock and horse racing events, and mechanical and…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: August 29 - September 1, 1893
This poster announces a fair to be held at Garnett, Kansas, in Anderson County. Highlights include livestock, horse racing, a band of music, and various exhibitions and entertainment events. The…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: October 4-7, 1887
A poster advertising livestock, horse racing, and entertainment events for the fourteenth annual exhibition of the Crawford County Fair Agricultural Society in Girard, Kansas. The same artwork is used for…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1880s
This poster announces the nineteenth annual fair at Ottawa, Kansas, sponsored by the Franklin County Agricultural Society. Highlights include livestock, ballooning, horse racing, and a brass band. The poster includes…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: September 24 - 27, 1889
This poster announces a fair to be held at Cawker City. The poster includes a color illustration promoting ballooning and parachuting.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: August 30 - September 3, 1886
A fair poster advertising livestock and bicycle, foot, and horse racing as well as musical entertainment events as part of the fourth annual fair of the Cowley County Fair and…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: September 3-7, 1888
This fair poster advertises livestock, horse racing, and entertainment events at the Cowley County agricultural fair in Winfield, Kansas. Fair officers are J. R. Sumpter, president; W. J. Wilson, secretary;…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: September 5-9, 1887
A fair poster advertising livestock and horse racing events to be held at Winfield, Kansas. The event was sponsored by the Cowley County Agricultural Society. Fair officers are S. P.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: October 1-5, 1895
A poster promoting the Kansas State Fair to be held at Wichita, Kansas. The poster includes a color illustration of fruits and vegetables.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1887
Quiltmaker Harriet Deuel lived in Wallula, Wyandotte County, Kansas. Inspired, perhaps, by the crazy quilt style, Deuel’s quilt map of Kansas features county borders outlined with embroidery resembling barbed wire…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1874
Toute Pour La Cuisine Red Cloud, a pencil sketch on heavy white paper of a man cooking over an open fire. There are pots and kettles on hooks over the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1861
Flag captured at Iaton, Missouri, on June 3, 1861, by members of companies A and I of the 1st Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry. This flag is considered to be the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1700s
In 1886 a man found this sword blade thirty miles northwest of Cimarron, Kansas. Initially the sword was taken as proof of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado’s 1540-1541 expedition to what…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1845 and 1851
While in Kansas John Brown was employed as a surveyor, an occupation which allowed him to move around freely to locate and observe proslavery camps. This compass was part of…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1860 and 1911
Carry Nation carried this purse for many public appearances and was photographed with it on several occasions. In her autobiography, entitled The Life of Carry A. Nation, the author refers…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1863
Blue silk regimental flag of the 2nd Kansas Colored Infantry. The flag bears the names of six battle honors. The 2nd Kansas Colored Infantry was organized in mid-1863 and saw…
