Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1930 and 1934
This paperweight, in the shape of a horned goat, was distributed as part of one or more of Dr. John R. Brinkley’s unsuccessful campaigns for the office of Kansas governor.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1915 and 1925
View of the members of the Wichita Water baseball team standing on the sidewalk, with some of their baseball equipment in a pile before them, in Wichita, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1939 and 1949
View of the Brinkley Hospital at 20th and Schiller Avenue in Little Rock, Arkansas. The hospital was managed by Dr. John R. Brinkley, who was famous for advocating the use…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1939 and 1949
This native stone building was the former Shrine Country Club in Little Rock, Arkansas before its transformation into a hospital owned by Dr. John R. Brinkley. The hospital grounds were…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1932
Dr. John R. Brinkley used a Chevrolet truck, identified as “Ammunition Train No.1 Heavy Artillery” during his unsuccessful 1932 campaign for Kansas Governor. The truck was equipped with microphones, “talking…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1920 and 1930
John R. Brinkley participating in a ground breaking ceremony at Del Rio, Texas for a future radio station. Mrs. Minnie (John R.) Brinkley and son, Johnny Boy, are standing beside…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1869
This photograph depicts a buffalo hunt along the Big Timber River, located in Ellis County south of Hays, Kansas. Some more well-known members of the hunting party include General George…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1865 and 1878
This portrait of Satanta, a Kiowa chief who was present at the signing of the Medicine Lodge Treaty in 1867. Satanta agreed to move his people onto a reservation, but…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1886
The map illustrates the subdivisions of Johnson County along with a business directory listing the names and occupations of its citizens by township.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1913 and 194
This ink on paper drawing by Martin Garretson depicts the artist’s conception of the changes in western Kansas as the open prairie was claimed for family farms. By 1883, the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1857
The map shows military posts, Indian reservations and, the following Kansas communities: Topeka, Lecompton, Lawrence and Council Grove.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1910 and 1929
A photograph showing a farmer engaged in preparing his fields with a horse-drawn lister to help conserve water in the furrows and to prevent the topsoil from blowing away. Although…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
This photograph shows a group of Harvey House girls standing in front of the Fred Harvey restaurant in Syracuse, Kansas. The women, wearing modest black dresses with long white aprons,…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1930 and 1945
This black and white photographs shows an Interior view of customers and waitresses at the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company’s Fred Harvey House in Kansas City, Missouri. Over…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Around 1935
This undated photograph captures a large dust storm about to hit this family’s homestead. These storms were frequent occurrences in western Kansas during the 1930s Dust Bowl.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1934
This photograph, taken in Barber County at the height of the Dust Bowl, demonstrates the effects of severe drought. Cornfields such as these also contributed to blowing dust because the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1935
This image illustrates drifts of dust in Ford County deposited during the raging storms that swept the area during the Dust Bowl. The drifts have grown large enough to smother…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1935
This image, part of the New Deal Indian Program scrapbook compiled by the Works Progress Administration, depicts a gully created by severe erosion. Erosion such as this depleted the soil…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1939
A view of two men standing by a shelterbelt near the town of Sylvia in Reno County, Kansas. Shelterbelts, which consist of various heights of trees and shrubs, were planted…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1885 and 1895
Photo of a Topeka Rapid Transit Company streetcar at the Oakland Grove terminal, Topeka, Kansas. Several unidentified people in view.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
Photo of several people on a street car, Topeka, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
Photo of Alvin J. Hughes, Conducter, and several unidentified men standing by a derailed street car, Topeka, Kansas
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1881 and 1889
Photo of Topeka City Railway Company horse car barns located on the north side of 10th Street between Kansas and Jackson, Topeka, Kansas. Horse-drawn trolleys are in view.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1880 and 1890
Photo of the Steamboat Queen City on the Ohio River.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1880 and 1890
Photograph of the steamboat U. S. Oleander docked at St. Louis, Missouri.
