Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1919 and 1923
This is a portrait of Mineola “Minnie” Tamar Johnson Grinstead, 1869-1925, who was the first woman elected to the Kansas House of Representatives. Grinstead served from 1919 to 1923 as…
Medium: StillImage
Date: September 14, 1868
This proclamation, signed by Governor Samuel J. Crawford in 1868, activated the 19th Kansas Volunteer Regiment. This regiment was created specifically to fight in any impending conflicts between native tribes…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1860s
Portrait of Samuel Johnson Crawford, 1835-1913, who served in the Union army during the Civil War and was the third Governor of Kansas from 1865 to 1868.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1940-1945
This is a view of a prisoner of war camp in Cloud County, Kansas, during World War II.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1870
Portrait of Thomas J. Smith as a young man. Hired as the chief of police in Abilene, Kansas in 1870, Chief Smith, who was by then an experienced and well-respected…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1919
Kansas Nation’l Guard Coal Strike, 1919; Mining; Progressives
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1892
Simpson-Long debate, 1892; printed in Harper, 1892
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1880 and 1905
Jeremiah Simpson was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, on March 31, 1842. Simpson and his family relocated to New York State when he was six, and during the Civil…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Late 1880s
This photograph shows Santa Fe Engine #28, a steam-powered locomotive. It is stopped at a large water tank in Crosby, Kansas, which later becomes Selkirk, Kansas. Atchison, Topeka, and Santa…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1874 and 1876
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot and rail yard in Wichita, Kansas. Also visible are people on the depot platform, freight cars, a coal…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1981
A portrait of Duane Wallace of the 4-H Foundation.
Medium: StillImage
Date: March 14, 1863
An illustration, titled “Teaching the Negro Recruits the Use of the Minie Rifle.” from the front page of the March 14, 1863 issue of “Harper’s Weekly.”
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1880's
This sepia colored photograph captures the buildngs at Fort Wallace in the 1880’s.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Around 1890
A formal portrait of William Barclay “Bat” Masterson, 1853-1921, who was raised in Wichita, Kansas. Masterson was a deputy sheriff in Dodge City, Kansas with Wyatt Earp in 1877, and…
Medium: StillImage
Date: October 25, 1864
This color illustration from volume three of Samuel Reader’s autobiography depicts the Battle of Mine Creek, an engagement between Union and Confederate forces that took place in Kansas on October…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Unknown
An illustration titled “The First Victim of the Kansas War” copied from “War in Kansas” by George Douglas Brewerton.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Unknown
A view of a B-47 Stratojet subsonic jet bomber built by the Boeing Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1809 and 1812
This is a portrait of William Clark, 1770-1838, Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St. Louis, Missouri. The Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806, headed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, was…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Unknown
Portrait of Samuel Johnson Crawford, 1835-1913, who served as the third Governor of Kansas from 1865 to 1868.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1940
This copy of a painting by Albert T. Reid depicts Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and his group of explorers on their search for the fabled city of Quivera. Coronado and…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1914
An informal portrait of Clyde Cessna, shown standing near the propeller of his 1914 airplane, and a small group of men and boys in Burdett, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Unknown
Sketch of Harpers Ferry; Old John Brown’s fort
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1902
This is a studio portrait of the members of the Bethany College football team, known as the “Terrible Swedes,” of Lindsborg, Kansas. This photograph was copied from an issue of…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1910 and 1915
This is an informal portrait of women students picking daisies at a location where Priner Hall stands on Bethany College campus, Lindsborg, Kansas. Bethany Daisy, the college annual, received its…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1905
Bethany College; Messiah Chorus-c1905; Samuel Thornstinberg, Director.
