Medium: StillImage
Date: 1915
This photograph is a side view of St. Fidelis Church in Victoria, Kansas. The church was built to serve the predominantly Catholic Volga German community that began settling the area…
Medium: StillImage
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A portrait of Samuel Clarke Pomeroy, 1816-1891, who served as a U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1861 to 1873.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1981 and 1985
A portrait of astronaut Joe Henry Engle, of Chapman, Kansas, who commanded the second Space Shuttle “Columbia” mission in 1981 and a Space Shuttle “Discovery” mission in 1985. Born August…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1860 and 1865
The black and white photograph shows Thomas Ewing, Jr., 1829-1896, in a military uniform. A native of Ohio he migrated to the Kansas Territory in 1856 to practice law in…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1855 and 1857
A portrait of Daniel Woodson, 1824-1894, who briefly served as acting governor of Kansas Territory at five separate times from 1855 to 1857.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1856 and 1860
A portrait of abolitionist Amos Adams Lawrence, 1814-1886, who was a Massachusetts philanthropist and a friend of the Free State cause in Kansas Territory.
Medium: StillImage
Date: September 5, 1863
A depiction of the Lawrence Massacre as printed in the September 5, 1863 issue of “Harper’s Weekly” magazine. Early in the morning of August 21, 1863, Confederate guerilla forces led…
Medium: StillImage
Date: January 18, 1944
This is a portrait of General Dwight David Eisenhower, 1890-1969, who served as the Commander-in-Chief, Supreme headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces during World War II. He grew up in Abilene, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1940 and 1949
This is a portrait of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890-1969, who served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II. He grew up in Abilene,…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1962
Photograph of Ralph George Houk, born 1919 in Lawrence, Kansas, who succeeded Casey Stengel as manager of the New York Yankees from 1961 to 1963. Under Houk’s management, the Yankees…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1870 and 1879
A portrait of free-state activist Charles Lawrence Robinson, 1818-1894, who served as the first Governor of Kansas from 1861 to 1863.
Medium: StillImage
Date: [1890]
This portrait represents free-state activist and the first governor of Kansas, Charles Robinson (1818-1894). Robinson held office from 1861 to 1863.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1865 and 1875
A formal portrait of abolitionist Reverend Pardee Butler, 1816-1888, taken by photographer M. A. Kleckner of Atchison, Kansas. Butler, who was one of the initial founders of the anti-slavery Republican…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1872
This photograph of a street scene in Dodge City, in Ford County, depicts three of the town’s buildings. The building on the left was the first dance hall in Dodge…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1879
This is one side of a stereograph showing Front Street looking east in Dodge City, Kansas. There is a sign on the street that reads “Prickly Ash Bitters, Fire Arms…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1878
Bismark Grove-Civic Meeting-1878; Prohibition camp meeting at Bismark Grove, 1878
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1878
This depicts a temperance meeting at Bismarck Grove in 1878. This is said to be the first national meeting.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Unknown
Rogers, Charles “Buddy”; Kansas actor
Medium: StillImage
Date: Unknown
United States Navy-Launching of the battleship Kansas with Gov. Hoch. Postcard
Medium: StillImage
Date: Unknown
United States Navy-Launching of the battleship kanss with Gov. Hoch
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1948
Drawing of the boat “Western Engineer” on the back of a fire breathing dragon by Cornelius M. Ismert, 1948. There are cannon on the deck and American flag and another…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Unknown
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Medium: StillImage
Date: 1945-1950
This photograph shows U.S. Senator Arthur Capper in front of a microphone with a script on the table near the end of his term as Senator which he held from…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Unknown
This is a view of the Monument Rocks formations in Gove County, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Unknown
This is a view of the wagon wheel ruts of the historic Smoky Hill Trail running near the site of the Monument Rocks formations in Gove County, Kansas.
