Medium: StillImage
Date: 1909
A drawing depicting the Canal Dover, Ohio birthplace of William Clarke Quantrill, 1837-1865, as published in the book “Quantrill and the Border Wars” by William Elsey Conelly (1st Ed., 1909).
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1920 and 1935
An advertisement for books published by Emanuel and Marcet Haldeman-Julius, Girard, Kansas. The Little Blue Books were 3 ½ by 5-inch reprints of classical, educational, biographical, and other literature with…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1925
An informal postcard portrait of social activist and Girard, Kansas publisher Emanuel Haldeman-Julius with lawyer Clarence Darrow. The young woman shown standing between them may be his wife, Marcet Haldeman-Julius.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1876
This photograph depicts a steamboat containing freed people in Nashville, Tennessee, with Benjamin “Pap” Singleton and S. A. McClure superimposed in the foreground. Singleton, known as the “Father of the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: September 28, 1984
A portrait of Nancy Landon Kassebaum, United States Senator from Kansas, 1978-1997, and the daughter of Kansas Governor Alfred Mossiman Landon.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1910?
This is a photograph showing students studying agricultural implements at Kansas State Agricultural College (Kansas State University), Manhattan, Kansas. Visible in the photograph are two barns.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Unknown
Vivian Vance, 1909-1979, was a well-known actress born Vivian Roberta Jones in Cherryvale in Montgomery County, Kansas. As a young child, Vance moved to Independence, Kansas where she found her…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1914 and 1918
An informal portrait of pilot Philip Billard, 1891-1918, and a biplane. A native of Topeka, Kansas, Billard (born Louis Philip Billard) was well known in the Topeka area for his…
Medium: StillImage
Date: June 7, 1935
This is an informal photograph of Amelia Earhart, 1897-1937. She is seated between two women on a parade float in Atchison, Kansas. The two women may be Barbara and Lorraine…
Medium: StillImage
Date: July 23, 1936
Topeka-Parades-1936; Landon Notification Day parade, 1936, July 23. Horses and covered wagons
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1919
This black and white photograph shows a group of men standing on the platform of the Missouri Pacific Railroad depot at Independence, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1911
An informal portrait of Karl Augustus Menninger, 1893-1990, taken while he was a freshmen at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Unknown
This formal portrait shows Robert Joseph Dole,1923-2021, World War II veterans and United States Senator from Russell, Kansas. Dole served as a United States Senator from Kansas from 1969 to…
Medium: StillImage
Date: August 17, 1861
An illustration depicting James Henry Lane, 1814-1866, as copied from the August 17, 1861 issue of “Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper.”
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
This is a view of a fossilized fish at a school in Oakley, Kansas. The photograph is a reverse image and includes the hands and a leg of a man…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
A photograph of Levi Sternberg, Charles Mortram Sternberg, and Ethel Sternberg, standing behind a large fossilized mosasaur skull. The Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays, Kansas, contains fossils collected…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1920 and 1940
A formal portrait of Kansas paleontologist Charles Hazelius Sternberg, 1850-1943.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1905 and 1932
A view of a concrete sculpture, entitled “Dog After Fox,” from “The Garden of Eden” in Lucas, Kansas. The garden was created by Samuel Perry Dinsmoor, 1843-1932, who was a…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1905 and 1932
A view of a concrete sculpture of the American flag from “The Garden of Eden” in Lucas, Kansas. The garden was created by Samuel Perry Dinsmoor, 1843-1932, who was a…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1905 and 1932
A view of Samuel Perry Dinsmoor, 1843-1932, standing next to what appears to be a coffin-shaped concrete slab and a lid inscribed with the Freemasons’ square and compass symbol and…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1881
Bonney, William H.-“Billy the Kid”
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1869
A black and white photograph of “Wichita in 1869” painted by Wichita artist Coy Avon (C. A.) Seward in 1920. On September 28, 1920, The Wichita Beacon noted that the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1879
Robinson,Charles; 1st Governor of Kansas, 1861-63; Engraving of portrait 1879
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1880 and 1889
This formal portrait shows George Washington Glick, 1827-1911, a lawyer and Civil War veteran from Atchison, Kansas. He is elected a member of the Kansas House of Representatives serving from…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1865 and 1870
This black and white photograph shows General James Gillpatrick Blunt in a military uniform. Gen. Blunt commanded Union forces during the Civil War in engagements such as the Battle of…
