Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
This black and white photograph shows the first Kafir Corn Carnival at El Dorado, Kansas. The first carnival was held, in 1911, to honor the hardy sorghum grain. The three-day…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1920 and 1940
Rolla Anderson Clymer, editor of the El Dorado Times for 59 years, wrote numerous articles and poems about the Flint Hills region. His best known poem “Majesty of the Hills”…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1870
This map was drawn by Ado Hunnius at the request of Major General J. M. Schofield. It was compiled under the direction of 1st Lieutenant Henry Jackson of the 7th…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1956
This aerial photograph, taken in 1956 by the Kansas Industrial Development Commission, depicts some Santa Fe Trail wagon ruts in Ford County, west of Dodge City, Kansas. The Santa Fe…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1920
Charles Monroe Sheldon, pastor of Central Congregational Church in Topeka, Kansas, organized the first Black kindergarten west of the Mississippi River. It was known as the Tennesseetown Kindergarten. He is…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1956
This photograph, taken in 1956 by the Kansas Industrial Development Commission, depicts some Santa Fe Trail wagon ruts located northwest of Dodge City, Kansas. The Santa Fe Trail, opened in…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1875 and 1879
This color map of Western Kansas shows new county lines redrawn in the 1870s.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1928
This map shows the route of the Oregon Trail through Pottawatomie County, Kansas, and the trail’s proximity to the towns of St. Mary’s, Belvue, Louisville, and Westmoreland. It also includes…
Medium: StillImage
Date: June 9, 1966
A view of the damage done to the downtown area at 10th and 12th Streets (looking toward the Kansas State Capitol building at 12th & Kansas Avenue) by a tornado…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1912 and 1928
This black and white photograph shows the caretaker cottage and Adair-Brown cabin, (L to R), at the John Brown Memorial Park in Osawatomie, Kansas. The cabin built around 1854 by…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1928 and 1938
This black and white photograph shows the entry way to the John Brown Memorial Park in Osawatomie, Kansas. In the background the Adair-Brown cabin is somewhat visible. The structure built…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1928 and 1938
This black and white photograph shows the caretaker cottage and the Adair- Brown cabin, (L to R), at the John Brown Memorial Park in Osawatomie, Kansas. The cabin built around…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1928 and 1965
This black and white photograph shows the Adair-Brown cabin at the John Brown Memorial Park in Osawatomie, Kansas. The structure built around 1854 by Samuel Glenn was sold, in 1855,…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1928 and 1959
This black and white photograph shows the Adair-Brown cabin at the John Brown Memorial Park in Osawatomie, Kansas. The structure built around 1854 by Samuel Glenn was later sold ,in…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1913
The map shows all rail lines of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company along the route of the old Santa Fe trail.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1985
This colored slide shows a view of a quail standing at the base of a small tree or bush in the Flint Hills region. The Flint Hills is a natural…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between January 1, 1985 and January 12, 1985
The colored slide shows a view of the Flint Hills Region. This natural prairie grassland runs north and south through east-central Kansas. It is one of the largest areas of…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1985
This colored slide show the Flint Hills. This natural prairie grassland runs north and south through east-central Kansas. It is one of the largest areas of native grasslands left in…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1985
This colored slide shows the Flint Hills. This natural prairie grassland runs north and south through east-central Kansas. It is one of the largest areas of native grasslands left in…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1985
This colored slide shows an aerial view of the Flint Hills Region. This natural prairie grassland runs north and south through east-central Kansas. It is one of the largest areas…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1960 and 1970
A view of the Chase County Courthouse building in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. Designed by John G. Haskell and completed in 1873, the courthouse is an example of the Second Empire/Franco-American…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1960 and 1970
A view of the Miami County Courthouse building in Paola, Kansas. Designed by George P. Washburn and completed in 1899, the courthouse is an example of the Romanesque Revival architectural…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1940 and 1950
A portrait of Charles “Buddy” Rogers, 1904-1999, actor and jazz musician. Rogers was born in Olathe, Kansas and began his acting career in the mid-1920s. In his most remembered film,…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1920 and 1930
A portrait of Charles “Buddy” Rogers, 1904-1999, actor and jazz musician. Rogers was born in Olathe, Kansas and began his acting career in the mid-1920s. In his most remembered film,…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1860 and 1880
Elizabeth Ann Watrous Abbott, the wife of James Burnett Abbott, was an early settler of Kansas who aided in the Free State cause.
