Medium: StillImage
Date: June 1989
This colored slide shows the “Age of Innovation” exhibit, a part of the main gallery at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kassa. The Longren biplane is visibly hanging…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1984 and 1989
This colored slide shows the interactive video called “Dororthy’s Diner” part of the main gallery at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka Kansas. The 1950s style diner was a…
Medium: StillImage
Date: October 1985
This colored side shows the “trails exhibit,” part of the main gallery at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas. In 1984, the museum moved their collections from the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: May 1990
This colored slide shows the drover’s car exhibit, part of the main gallery at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas. In 1984, the museum moved their collections from…
Medium: StillImage
Date: June 1989
This colored slide shows the “women’s reform” exhibit part of the main gallery at the Kansas Museum’s of History in Topeka, Kansas. In 1984, the museum moved their collections from…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between April 04, 1985 and May 23, 1985
These two colored slides show construction of the grass house at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas. In 1984, the museum moved their collections from the Memorial Building…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1984 and 1985
This colored slide shows the construction of a tipi at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas. In 1984, the museum moved their collections from the Memorial Building in…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1965 and 1975
Six photographs of the Young Raiders, Southern Flavor, and scenes from Steve Clark’s early music career. Steve Clark was a member of the Young Raiders, Rising Suns, and Southern Flavor…
Medium: StillImage
Date: September 1981
This colored slide shows the beginning of construction in September of 1981 on the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas. The museum building was completed in 1984 on 80-acres…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1982 and 1984
This colored slide shows two men placing stone slabs into place to the outside walls of the new Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas. Construction began in the fall…
Medium: StillImage
Date: June 1987
This colored slide shows an aerial view of the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka Kansas. In 1984, the museum moved their collections from the Memorial Building in downtown Topeka…
Medium: StillImage
Date: February 1987
This colored slide shows the “orientation theater” at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas. This space was designed to educate and inform patrons about the museum’s purpose.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1984 and 1987
This colored slide shows the information desk at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas. The museum was located in the GAR Memorial Building for nearly seven decades, until…
Medium: StillImage
Date: August 29, 1981
This colored slide shows Kansas Governor John Carlin speaking at the Kansas Museum of History’s, ground breaking ceremony in Topeka, Kansas. Pictured are John Carlin, speaker; and seated Ross Doyen,…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1981 and 1984
This colored slide shows construction at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas. Construction began in the fall of 1981 on the 80-acre site in west Topeka near the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1930 and 1960
This collection includes photographs of Odell E. Taylor and members of his family, including Mamie Steele. Photographs include school children in 1931 from Franklin school, Troy High School football players…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1979
These two colored slides show the architect’s scale model of the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas. In 1984, the museum moved their collections from the Memorial Building in…
Medium: StillImage
Date: October 1983
These two colored slides shows the annex area inside the Memorial Building at the Kansas Historical Society in Topeka, Kansas. The first slide shows museum employee Maureen Hart Hennessey, assistant…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1984
These slides show opening day and unpacking at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas. The first and second slides show crowds gathered outside the facility on opening day.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1981
These three colored slides shows museum staff from the Kansas State Historical Society storing and cataloging artifacts in the annex area at the Memorial Building in Topeka, Kansas. The Kansas…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1994
These four colored slides show the people and the boots included in the exhibit “How Kansas Gave Texas the Boot”, at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas. The…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1994
These four colored slides show artifacts from the exhibit “How Kansas Gave Texas the Boot”, at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas. The exhibit traced the history of…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1994 and 1995
These three colored slides show images from the “Wheat People” exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas. The exhibit explored how wheat became a central part of…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1994 and 1995
These three colored slides show images from the “Wheat People” exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas. The exhibit explored how wheat became a central part of…
Medium: StillImage
Date: January 1, 1860
An autobiography publication by Dr. John Doy. Doy devoted most of the 130-plus pages of his 1860 autobiography to his efforts to help enslaved and free African Americans, his capture…
