Medium: StillImage
Date: 1859
Built in the spring of 1859, the Kansas Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church was the first church built in Atchison, Kansas. President Abraham Lincoln spoke here on December 2, 1859.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1968
This photograph illustrates Kansas born photographer, musician, writer and film director Gordon Parks (1912-2006) directing the 1968 film “The Learning Tree”. Born in Fort Scott, Kansas, Parks spent much of…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1910
A view of a couple and child standing before a German Lutheran Church near Lawrence, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1874
This is a photograph of Peter Stecklein, Jacob Ritter, Nicholas Schamme, Peter Leiker, and Anton Wasinger. They came to the United States in 1874, to investigate lands in Ellis and…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1809 and 1812
This is a portrait of William Clark, 1770-1838, Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St. Louis, Missouri. The Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806, headed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, was…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1909
A photograph showing Carrie Nation standing on a street with her hatchet.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Unknown
Eisenhower at 19 years old
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1867
This is a view of Ft. Hays in 1867; The buildings at Ft. Hays include the company post, barracks on the left, and officer’s quarters on the right.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Unknown
U.S. Navy-U.S.S. Wichita (cruiser); WWII
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1857
Portrait of Sara Tappan Doolittle Robinson, author, Free-State activist, and wife of Charles Robinson. This photograph was copied from an ambrotype taken in 1857. See Kansas Memory item 3996 for…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1859 and 1880
This sepia colored photograph shows the Planters Hotel in Leavenworth, Kansas. The four-story brick structure, completed in December of 1856, at the corner of Main and Shawnee consisted of 100…
Medium: StillImage
Date: May, 1941
No Description Provided
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1941 and 1942
John Steuart Curry standing on a ladder by the “Tragic Prelude” mural.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1856
Leavenworth, KS-1856
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1870 and 1880
This is a portrait of Sophia Louisa German, who was taken captive with her sisters, Catherine, Julia, and Adelaide, by Cheyenne Indians after their family was killed. Sophia was born…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Unknown
A portrait of Edward Herbert Rees, 1886-1969, who served as a U.S. Representative from Kansas, 1937-1961.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1971 and 1972
A portrait of astronaut Ron Evans, 1933-1990, who commanded the pilot ship during the flight of Apollo 17 to the moon in December 1972. Born in St. Francis, Kansas, Evans…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Bewteen 1865 to 1869
This studio portrait shows Frederick Funston, 1865-1917 as a toddler. He grew up in Iola, Kansas and became a prominent military leader in the United State Army. He enrolled and…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Unknown
When Kathryn O’Loughlin McCarthy, 1894-1952, of Hays, Kansas entered the Democratic primary for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1932, she had three strikes against her: she was a single…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Unknown
A portrait of Mary Ann Bickerdyke, 1817-1901, who was a nurse and then hospital administrator for Union soldiers during the Civil War. She retired to Bunker Hill, Kansas in 1886…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1870 and 1880
This is a portrait of Catherine (Kate) Elizabeth German, who was taken captive with her younger sisters, Sophia, Julia, and Adelaide, by Cheyenne Indians after their family was killed. Kate…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1886
This black and white photograph shows a member of the 7th U. S. Cavalry holding the reins of the famous war horse “Comanche” and the 7th U. S. Cavalry flag…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Unknown
This is a portrait of explorer William Clark, 1770-1838, who traveled with Meriwether Lewis on the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) to explore the source of the Missouri River to…
Medium: StillImage
Date: November 7, 1912
Walter Johnson, 1887-1946, was a pitcher for the Washington Senators baseball team. Nicknamed “The Big Train” for the speed and power of his pitches, Johnson was born and raised on…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Unknown
No Description Provided
