Medium: StillImage
Date: 1893
This is a group portrait of four Populist officers of the House of Representatives of Kansas. From left to right: Robert H. Semple; LeRoy Franklin Dick; John M. Dunsmore; and…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1893
This is a photograph of the Populist quarters located in the basement of the south wing of the Kansas statehouse. The Populist War began when both the Republican and Populist…
Medium: StillImage
Date: February 10, 1893
This is a view of members of the Populist party, posed in the Kansas Statehouse’s House of Representatives chamber in Topeka, Kansas, before the Populist War. They were named the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1893
View of the members of the Kansas legislature posed in the Kansas Statehouse’s House of Representatives chamber in Topeka, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: February 1893
View of a crowd at the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka, Kansas, during the Populist War. This dispute began when both the Republican and Populist parties claimed victory in the Kansas…
Medium: StillImage
Date: February 20, 1893
This is a photograph showing assistant sergeant at arms in the Kansas State House of Representatives in Topeka, Kansas, after peace was made between the Populists and Republicans at the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1934 and 1936
A photograph of a Kansas dust storm, possibly in western Kansas in 1935.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1934 and 1936
This photograph shows agricultural equipment covered with dust after a storm, possibly in Scott County, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1935
A postcard view of a huge wall of dust approaching a farm during the Dust Bowl period. The photograph was possibly taken in Ford County, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1965 and 1967
A portrait of William Henry Avery. Avery was born August 11, 1911 near Wakefield, Kansas. He graduated from Wakefield High School and the University of Kansas. A Republican, Avery served…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1893 and 1895
This formal portrait represents John Whitnah Leedy, 1849-1935, Civil War veteran from LeRoy, Kansas. Actively involved in the development of Kansas politics, he embraces Republican values until he changes, in…
Medium: StillImage
Date: July 12, 1951
This aerial photograph looks north across the Kansas River during the 1951 flood in Topeka, Kansas. Visible in the photograph are the Topeka and Kansas Avenue bridges and numerous businesses.
Medium: StillImage
Date: July 28, 1951
This black and white photograph shows the aftermath of the 1951 flood in the Little Russia community in Topeka, Kansas. The extremely heavy rains during June and July caused some…
Medium: StillImage
Date: July 13, 1951
This is an aerial view of the 1951 flood in Topeka, Kansas. This image was taken on July 13, 1951, showing flood waters at a height of 36.27 feet.
Medium: StillImage
Date: February 1893
A photograph of C. C. Clevenger, Sergeant at Arms, his assistants, and members of the Douglass House in the Kansas State House of Representatives during the Populist War. The dispute…
Medium: StillImage
Date: February 17, 1893
This is a photograph of R. B. Welch’s assistant sergeant at arms after the surrender of the Populist faction during the Populist War, February 17, 1893. This dispute began when…
Medium: StillImage
Date: January 10, 1893
This is a photograph of C. C. Clevenger, Kansas State’s House of Representatives sergeant at arms for the Douglass House, and his assistants identified as G. Stein, George Higgins, A.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: February 17, 1893
This is a view of the Kansas Statehouse being reopened to the public on February 17, 1893, at the end of the Populist War. This dispute began when both the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: February 16, 1893
This is a view of the State militia called out by Governor Lorenzo Lewelling to evict Speaker George L. Douglass and his supporters (known as the “Douglass House”) from the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: March 2, 1893
This is an illustration of Speaker George L. Douglass breaking in the door of the Kansas House of Representatives during the Populist War. The illustration was copied from Frank Leslie’s…
Medium: StillImage
Date: January 26, 1893
This was the illustration on the cover of Frank Leslie’s “Illustrated Weekly” showing the political struggle in the Kansas legislature during the Populist War. This dispute began when both the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: March 2, 1893
These illustrations depict the Populist War in Kansas as printed on the cover of Frank Leslie’s “Illustrated Weekly.” The dispute began when both the Republican and Populist parties claimed victory…
Medium: StillImage
Date: February, 1893
This is a view of Captain McDowell’s provisional guards, termed “Governor Lewelling’s Populist guards,” in formation on the steps of the Kansas statehouse during the Populist War. This dispute began…
Medium: StillImage
Date: February 17, 1893
A view of Topeka and Wichita militia, Batteries A & B, in formation at the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka, Kansas, during the Populist War. The dispute began when both the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: February 17, 1893
This is a view of officers of Batteries A and B, with a Gatling gun, at the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka, Kansas, during the Populist War. Also visible are a…
