Medium: StillImage
Date: 1877
This advertisement for Nicodemus, Graham County, Kansas, describes the location of the colony near the Solomon River and the town company’s plans to build more houses, businesses, and other public…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1943
This is a view of men and women employees working on B-29 Superfortress airplanes at the Boeing Airplane Company plant in Wichita, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1945
View of a Boeing B-29 Bomber in flight.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1945
View of a Boeing B-29 Bomber in flight.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1945
View of a Boeing B-29 Bomber on the runway.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1945
View of a B-29 Superfortress bomber in flight.
Medium: StillImage
Date: April 14, 1935
This is a photograph of a dust cloud rolling over the prairie near Hugoton, Kansas. Southwest Kansas was among the hardest hit areas during the Dust Bowl. Dust storms, such…
Medium: StillImage
Date: April 14, 1935
This approaching dust storm is five miles away. The photograph was taken near Hugoton, Kansas, on April 14, 1935, by the Stovall Studio, Dodge City, Kansas. It is labeled #1.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1871
This studio portrait shows James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok in buckskins, 1837-1876. The legendary lawman and gun-slinger began his career in 1858 as peace officer of the Monticello Township in…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1861
An engraving of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the Civil War, saving the Union and ending…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1861
Portrait of James Henry Lane, Republican, from Lawrence, Kansas, served as the first United States Senator from Kansas, 1861-1866.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1965
An inmate photograph of Richard Hickock copied from his Kansas State Prison inmate file. Hickock and his accomplice, Perry Smith, were convicted of first degree murder for the brutal 1959…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1856
A drawing of the Free State Hotel, Lawrence, Kansas Territory.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1864 and 1865
Portrait of Major General Grenville Dodge in uniform.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1935
Dust drifted road, Ford County, Kansas. Fences and utility poles are visible in the photograph.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1935
This photograph shows farm machinery covered with drifts of dust, Ford County, Kansas. The equipment shown was made by McCormick-Deering. The image was taken by Stovall Studio, Dodge City, Kansas,…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1890 and 1910
Portrait of Samuel Johnson Crawford, third Governor of Kansas from 1865to 1868. He is the youngest man to have served as Governor, being only 29 years old when elected. He…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1920 and 1925
A view of four new Laird Swallow airplanes parked in a field at 29th and Hillside Streets in Wichita, Kansas. Designed by aviation pioneer Emil Matthew “Matty” Laird, 1886-1982, the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1887
View of Main Street, Garden City, Kansas. This photograph was taken before the Windsor Hotel was built. On the left, is the Finnup building and the Harvey building. Further up…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1898
United States Naval vessels off the Phillipine coast during the Spanish-American War.
Medium: StillImage
Date: April 5, 1915
This sepia colored photograph shows Jess Willard, 1881-1968, defeating Jack Johnson, 1878-1946, in Havana, Cuba for the title of heavyweight champion of the world.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1880
A formal portrait of Susanna Madora Salter, 1860-1961, and her husband, Lewis Salter in 1880, during the first year of their marriage. Born March 2, 1860, in Belmont County, Ohio,…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between January 01, 1865 and December 31, 1867
Fort Dodge was established in 1865 by Captain Henry Pierce, a member of the 11th Kansas Cavalry. The fort was located on the left bank of the Arkansas River on…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between January 01, 1865 and December 31, 1867
This photograph shows a view of Fort Dodge, Kansas. The military fort was established in 1865 by Captain Henry Pierce, a member of the 11th Kansas Cavalry, to protect the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1921 and 1924
Nellie Cline, a native of Larned, Pawnee County, served in the Kansas House of Representatives from 1921 to 1924. She is also credited with being the first female lawyer to…
