Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1897 and 1898
This is a photograph showing Hilda Pratt (b. 1889) and her sister Elsie Pratt (b. 1894) posed along the western wall of their house near Studley, Sheridan County, Kansas. Cottonwood…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1880 and 1884
This black and white illustration shows Charles Boswell, (1802-1884), benefactor for Washburn University. Boswell was born in 1802 in Norwich, Connecticut, where he made his fortune as a wholesale grocer…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1919
This black and white photograph shows Mary Bailey Sweet benefactress of Washburn University in Topeka Kansas. The daughter of Timothy Bailey Sweet and Annie Brown Sweet she graduated from the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1861 and 1865
This photograph was copied from an ambrotype showing members of the 8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry on Lookout Mountain, Georgia.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1862 and 1865
A photograph of Henry Isely, a resident of Brown County, Kansas, where he owned farm land. In addition to farming, Isely became involved in politics and in 1872, he was…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1861 and 1865
A tintype portrait showing Jeremiah S. Coffman, a resident of Jefferson County, in his military uniform. Coffman was a member of Company E and later Company M, Eleventh Kansas Volunteer…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1880 and 1890
This black and white photograph shows an illustration of Harvey Dwight Rice, (1821-1903), one of the founders of Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. Rice came to the Kansas territory, in…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1920 and 1925
This hand colored photograph showing the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot at Harper, Kansas. A bicycle and dog are visible in the foreground.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1901 and 1920
This black and white photograph shows the Warner and Swazey telescope, inside the Crane Hall Observatory, on the Washburn University Campus in Topeka, Kansas. The university purchased the refracting telescope,…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1856 and 1859
Photo of Alexander Majors, who was involved in the freighting business and formed a partnership with William H. Russell. They established headquarters in Leavenworth, Kansas, where they transported supplies to…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1919
This colored postcard shows buildings on the Washburn Campus in Topeka, Kansas. At the top is Boswell Library, to the right is Holbrook Hall, and at the bottom is MacVicar…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1861 and 1865
A sepia colored carte-de-visite of First Lieutenant William Dominick Matthews. Matthews was a member of the Independent Battery, U.S. Colored Light Artillery, who served at Fort Leavenworth and helped protect…
Medium: StillImage
Date: July 1881
Published in Camp’s Emigrant’s Guide, this map depicts the railroad lines between Kansas and Southwest Missouri. The railroad lines that are illustrated include: the Kansas City, Ft. Scott and Gulf,…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1847
This is a map portion showing a survey done by Lt. William H. Emory. The map depicts the rivers and creeks surrounding Fort Leavenworth as well as the Neosho River,…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1867
A map complied by the Engineer Bureau of the War Department, shows Kansas, Texas and the Indian territory with parts of the Colorado and New Mexico territories.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1859
This map was originally drafted by Robert L. Ream and depicts the towns, rivers, and Indian reservations in the counties of northeast and southeast Kansas. This map is provided through…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1858
This map depicts the towns, rivers, roads and railroad routes in the counties of northeast and southeast Kansas. Some of the points of interest included the Ft. Riley and Kansas…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1930 and 1940
Photograph showing two coal miners using picks to extract coal in Osage County, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1850
This map by surveyor J. H. Young depicts the United States of America and its territories. In the lower portion of the map information is provided about the proposed routes…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1900s
Drawn by William Elsey Connelley, this map depicts Douglas County during the era of Bleeding Kansas before statehood between 1854 and 1860. Some points of interest include: the Wakarusa War…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1854
A plat of the city of Lawrence, Kansas Territory, surveyed by A. D. Searl. The map has been scaled to 450 feet to an inch and depicts blocks of city…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1895
This photograph shows an exterior view of the Congregational Church in Ottawa, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1895 and 1950
A postcard and three photographs show four views of the First Baptist Church in Ottawa. The early view shows the unpaved streets around it. The church is located on the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1895
This photograph is a group portrait of the Baptist Assembly in about 1895. C.K. Morrison is seated left with Mary Hawley (Hughes) seated on the ground. Seated third from left…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1895 and 1910
A postcard showing four Ottawa churches beginning with the First Presbyterian Church in the upper left, First Baptist Church in upper right, First Methodist Episcopal in the lower left and…
