Medium: StillImage
Date: 1898
This sepia colored photograph shows members of the State Insane Asylum Band in Topeka, Kansas. The members have been identified by their last name and the instrument they played. The…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1905 and 1909
This is a portrait of Clara Livona McCreery Howe. She married Fletcher Bowman Howe on December 31, 1868, and five years later, they moved to a homestead near Esbon, Jewell…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1910 and 1919
This is a portrait of sisters Clara Livona McCreery Howe and Melvia McCreery Dye. Clara married Fletcher Bowman Howe on December 31, 1868, and five years later, they moved to…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1920
This is a panoramic photo showing a Kansas National Guard camp at Fort Riley, Kansas. Visible in the photograph are horses and vehicles. The landscape in the background includes the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1905 and 1909
This is a portrait of sisters Clara Livona McCreery Howe (right) and Melvia McCreery Dye. Clara married Fletcher Bowman Howe on December 31, 1868, and five years later, they moved…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1914 and 1919
This sepia colored photograph shows a group of World War I soldiers from the unit of Company B. Kansas Signal Corps in Iola, Kansas. The military unit was previously know…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1950 and 1959
A portrait of Gilbert Stanley Underwood, an American architect best known for his National Park lodges. Born in 1890, Underwood received his B.A. from Yale in 1920 and a M.A.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1870 and 1879
A photograph showing people posed on a Kansas Pacific Railroad caboose #1013 at Junction City, Kansas. The people, who are possibly employees, are identified as J. A. Smith, J. N.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1885 and 1889
This photograph, copied from “The Capital City”, shows the Union Pacific Railroad Company depot at the corner of Kansas Avenue in Topeka, Kansas. Visible in the photograph are people waiting…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1927
This photograph shows steam locomotive # 945 at the dedication of the Union Pacific Railroad Company depot in Topeka, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1880 and 1889
A portrait of Michael Westernhouse Sutton, an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad attorney in Dodge City, Kansas. Sutton, a prohibitionist, worked against his friend William Barkley “Bat” Masterson during…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1875 and 1885
A portrait of Harry Eric Gryden, a lawyer in Dodge City, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1870 and 1874
A portrait of William L. (Billy) Brooks, a stage coach driver, marshal of Newton, Kansas, policeman in Ellsworth, Kansas, and criminal. Brooks was marshal of Newton and policeman in Ellsworth…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1920 and 1928
This is a portrait of the Fletcher Bowman Howe family: (back row) George Christina Howe, Melvia Howe Schwestha, Mark Watson Howe; (front row) Clara Livona McCreery Howe and Edna Howe.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1909
This is a postcard view of the Howe family: (front row) Helen, Clara, Jenny, Bernice, Alice and Dick; (back row) Clifford, George, Edna and Mark. In 1873, Clara Livona McCreery…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1880 and 1882
This is a tintype portrait of Mark Watson Howe (seated) and George Christina Howe, sons of Clara Livona McCreery and Fletcher Bowman Howe, Esbon, Jewell County, Kansas. The brothers were…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1914 and 1919
This black and white photograph shows World War I troops standing in military formation on the streets of Iola, Kansas. The men are dressed in the traditional military clothing that…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
This black and white photograph shows four gentleman with their cameras at Clafin, Kansas. The first gentleman to the left, is holding a Sanderson hand/stand bellows camera. In the lower…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1872 and 1873
A tintype of Mark Watson Howe. He was born December 3, 1870, in West Union, Iowa, the son of Fletcher Bowman and Clara Livona McCreery Howe. In 1873, he move…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1861
A portrait of Clara Livona McCreery Howe taken at age 11. She was born on September 19, 1850 in Brookfield, Wisconsin. In 1856, she and her family moved from Wisconsin…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
This is a photograph of Mark Watson Howe posed in front of a barn with a team of horses. Howe was born near West Union, Iowa, and came to Kansas…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1885
This is a portrait of Jennie Adelle Cornish Howe taken at age 16. In 1879, her family moved from Lancaster County, Nebraska, to a farm near Montrose, Jewell County, Kansas.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1890 and 1893
This is a portrait of Fletcher Bowman Howe, a farmer from Esbon, Jewell County, Kansas. In 1873, he and his wife Clara Livona McCreery Howe and their two sons Mark…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1910 and 1919
This is a postcard view of George Christina Howe posed with his stallion Dan. Howe lived on a farm near Otego, Jewell County, Kansas. In 1872, he came to Kansas…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1905 and 1909
This is a portrait of Bernice Howe and her first cousin Helen Howe. Bernice was the daughter of Mark Watson and Alice Morrow Howe and Helen’s parents were George Christina…
