Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1859 and 1860
View of the Methodist Church in Atchison, Kansas Territory. This was the first church built in Atchison, and was erected in the spring of 1859 on the corner of Fifth…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1858 and 1862
A view, taken sometime around 1860, looking southwest in Atchison, Kansas Territory.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Around 1860
This is a view of the main street in Atchison, Kansas Territory. Visible are townspeople, horse-drawn wagons and carriages, a brick building under construction on a corner lot, and other…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1858 and 1862
A view, taken sometime around 1860, of the main street, stores, and early forms of transportation in Atchison, Kansas Territory.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1855 and 1860
A photographic view, taken sometime around 1856, of Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, Kansas Territory.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1865 and 1866
A view, taken sometime between 1865 and 1866, looking South along Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, Kansas. This carte-de-visite shows buildings constructed during the territorial period of Kansas history.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1863 and 1864
This view, taken during 1863 or 1864, is of Massachusetts Street, looking North, in Lawrence, Kansas. This carte-de-visite shows buildings that had been constructed during the Kansas territorial period.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1860 and 1865
This stereograph shows Massachusetts Street looking north from Henry Street (now 8th Street) in Lawrence, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1855 and 1865
This view, taken in approximately 1858, is of Lawrence, Kansas Territory, looking southeast from Mt. Oread.
Medium: StillImage
Date: March, 1856
This view of Massachusetts Street from Fort Lane was taken in Lawrence, Kansas Territory, in March, 1856.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1857
A drawing depicting a ferry crossing the Kansas River with a view of Lawrence, Kansas Territory, in the year 1857 as copied from “Beyond the Mississippi” (1867) by Albert D.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1856
An 1856 illustration of the Free State Hotel ruins from the sacking of Lawrence on May 21, 1856. It is copied from “Kansas: Its Interior and Exterior Life” written by…
Medium: StillImage
Date: July 24, 1858
A page from “Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper,” July 24, 1858, describing the June 3, 1858, shooting of Gaius Jenkins by James H. Lane of Lawrence, Kansas Territory. The page also…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Unknown
A painting of the Free State Hotel, Lawrence, Kansas Territory, by Robert O. Gibbons. In May 1856, the proslavery sheriff of Douglas County, Samuel Jones, led a posse into Lawrence,…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1867
An 1867 illustration of pro-slavery Missourians voting at Kickapoo, Kansas Territory, sometime in 1855. The image was copied from “Beyond the Mississippi” by Albert D. Richardson (German edition).
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1858
An illustration of the City of Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, copied from the December 25, 1858, issue of “Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper.”
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1860
An illustration of the town of Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, when it was six years old (approximately 1860).
Medium: StillImage
Date: c. 1855
A photograph of the first house in Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, which was built in 1855 on Olive Street between 4th and 5th Streets. The building may have been home to…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1864
A carte de visite photograph showing the men of the Independent Battery, U.S. Colored Light Artillery, positioned in front of the guard house at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. The battery was…
Medium: StillImage
Date:
A photograph of the building where Governor Andrew H. Reeder established the first Executive office at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, from October 4, 1854 to November 24, 1854.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1867
An 1867 view of the Union Pacific Railway Company’s Eastern Division office in Wyandotte, Kansas (now part of Kansas City, Kansas). This image is part of a series titled “Across…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1856
A copy of an 1856 lithograph by W. Breyman of the Battle of Hickory Point in Jefferson County, Kansas Territory.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1859
An 1859 view of Pike’s Peak emigrants in St. Joseph, Missouri, as photographed by the Bierstadt Bros., Photographers, of New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Medium: StillImage
Date: c. 1858
A painting by Henry Worrall of a pile bridge in Topeka, Kansas Territory, painted sometime between 1857 to 1860.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1856
An 1856 illustration of Topeka in the Kansas Territory. Constitution Hall is visible on the left side of the illustration.
