Medium: StillImage
Date: Around 1902
This studio photo by Alma photographer Gus Meier shows “Tante” Charlotte Palenske and her great-niece, Laura Palenske seated together. Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Around 1903
This photo shows “Tante” Charlotte Palenske, seated, and her great-niece, Laura Palenske. In the background one can see the outhouses, labeled men and ladies, which existed behind every home and…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Around 1900
This is a portrait of Louis Palenske’s aunt, Charlotte Palenske, who lived with the Louis Palenske family for many years. On the reverse of the photo is written, “Tantie aunt…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Around 1900
This is a portrait of Louis Palenske’s aunt, Charlotte Palenske, who lived with the Louis Palenske family for many years. On the reverse of the photo is written, “Our Tante…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Around 1940
This photograph, taken at the Palenske home at 604 Kansas Avenue in Alma, Kansas, shows from left, Emma Palenske, Fred Palenske, Louis Palenske, Martin Zwanziger, and Minnie Palenske Zwanziger. Funded…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Around 1940
This photograph of Emma and Louis Palenske, standing in front of their final home located at 604 Kansas Avenue, Alma, Kansas, was taken at a family gathering at their house.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1908-1910
This interior view of the Commercial National Bank was taken around 1908 when the bank moved to this building, located at 226 Missouri Street in Alma, Kansas. Funded by the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1902-1905
This stereoview card shows the construction of the upper dam on Mill Creek at Alma which impounded water to power the flour mill. Funded by the National Historical Publications and…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1907-1914
This is a summer view of the lower dam at the Mid-Kansas Milling Company’s mill at Alma, Kansas. Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1907-1914
The flour mill at Alma, Kansas, originally powered by the diverted water from Mill Creek, had been rebuilt with a steam-powered engine when this photo was taken in the early…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1907-1914
This Gus Meier photograph shows the lower dam, located at the flour mill at Alma, Kansas. Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1907-1914
This photo postcard shows the lower dam, located at the flour mill at Alma, Kansas as it appeared in the early 1910s. Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1887
This two-page letter, dated September 14, 1887, was written by Louis Palenske of Alma, Kansas to Gus Meier of Halifax, Kansas, inviting Meier to come to Alma and learn the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: around 1970
This view of Palenske Hall, located at 226 Missouri Street in Alma, Kansas, was the location of Louis Palenske’s Commercial National Bank. In 1969 Palenske’s son, Fred Palenske purchased this…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1907-1909
This postcard shows the Commercial National Bank, owned by Louis Palenske, as it looked shortly after its opening in1908. The building is located at 226 Missouri Street in Alma, Kansas.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1968
This view of the Wabaunsee County Historical Society Museum was taken shortly after its opening in 1968. Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1930-1935
This is a studio portrait of August Palenske of Alma, Kansas, the first white child born at Alma, Kansas Territory in 1856. He was the son of Frederick and Caroline…
Medium: StillImage
Date: around 1885
This birds-eye view of Alma was taken from atop a tall hill, looking to the north. It was taken in about 1885, before the Rock Island Railway laid its tracks…
Medium: StillImage
Date: October 1968
This view of the Alma Hotel, located at 400 Missouri St., Alma, Kansas, was taken in October of 1968. Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1900-1910
Photograph of early 1900s Lecompton Elementary School with younger students and their teacher. In front of stone elementary school. One little boy is wiping his nose on a handkerchief. A…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1910
Photograph of Lecompton Grade School, Grades 1-3, 1910, Lecompton, Kansas. The younger students stand with their teacher, Miss Bell Howard, outside of the stone elementary school building. Students are wearing…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1920-1925
Photograph of Lecompton School older students with teacher Clarence Smith standing outside of the stone high school building (formerly Lane University). Students are not identified. The photograph is not dated,…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1939
Photograph of the 1939 Lecompton High School Senior Class. Two rows of the high school students are standing in front of the entrance to the high school. The identities of…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1941
Photograph of the 1941 Senior Class of Lecompton Rural High School. The students are posed in front of the entrance of the high school in three rows. The names of…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1925-1930
Photograph of the Lecompton Rural High School football team posed in front of the Lane University building which served as the high school from 1902-1928. The football team are arranged…
