Medium: StillImage
Date: 1925
This photograph shows survivors of Quantrill’s raid. Early in the morning of August 21, 1863, Confederate guerrilla forces led by William Clarke Quantrill, attacked Lawrence, Kansas, killing nearly 200 people…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1866
Union Pacific Railroad-Activity; Promotional excursion to the 100th meridian; 1866; laying the rails of the U.P.; Robert Taft Estates-1970; Nebraska
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1862
An engraving of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States. He successfully led the country through the Civil War, saving the Union and ending slavery, only to be assassinated…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1879
A view of a person aboard a flat boat, moored along the shore, that’s carrying the first load of wheat to be sent down the Arkansas River from Arkansas City…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1878
A view of a large crowd of people aboard the steamboat “Aunt Sally” as it lies docked somewhere along the Arkansas River in Kansas. The boat is riding low in…
Medium: StillImage
Date:
This is a portrait of Meriwether Lewis, 1774-1809 as painted by C. W. Peale. Lewis traveled with William Clark on the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) to explore the source…
Medium: StillImage
Date:
This portrait of William Clark, 1770-1838, was painted by Charles Wilson Peale, 1741-1827, while Clark was Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St. Louis, Missouri. The Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806,…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1940s
This postcard depicts Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and his group of explorers on their search for the fabled city of Quivera. Coronado and his men were among the first of…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1918
This is a photograph of a group of German American farmers standing before a very large tractor and threshing machine in Marion County, Kansas. An American flag is suspended between…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Oct. 01, 1858
A photograph of Abraham Lincoln taken at the time of the Douglas- Lincoln debates.
Medium: StillImage
Date:
Portrait of Stephen Watts Kearney
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1855
Copy of a drawing by J. E. Rice of part of Lawrence, 1855
Medium: StillImage
Date:
This is a copy of a portrait of Col. Zebulon Pike that is in Kansas Museum of History.
Medium: StillImage
Date: August 1888
This is a photograph of Camp Tim McCarthy, with Kansas National Guard troops camped outside Hugoton, Stevens County, Kansas. The 2nd Regiment of the Kansas National Guard tried to prevent…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1965
This photograph shows the gallows at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas. The gallows are now part of the collections of the Kansas History Museum, Topeka.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1945
An informal portrait of General Dwight David Eisenhower at an outdoor celebration in Abilene, Kansas. Also visible are a man in a clerical collar, a bank of microphones, including those…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1945
View of General Dwight David Eisenhower waving to a crowd from a convertible automobile in a 1945 ‘welcome home’ parade in his honor in Abilene, Kansas. Also visible are a…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1860 and 1866
Portrait of James Henry Lane, Republican, from Lawrence. He was a radical Free-State party leader, and served as Kansas United States Senator from April 4, 1861 to July 11, 1866.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1885
This photograph captures the bustling main street in Nicodemus, Graham County, a settlement founded by African Americans in 1877. It includes a number of townspeople and the Williams Mercantile store.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: June 7, 1935
This photograph shows aviator Amelia Earhart on a parade float at a homecoming parade in Atchison, Kansas. A native of Atchison, Kansas, Earhart spoke at Memorial Hall to a crowd…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1897
This photo shows an interior view of the kindergarten for African American children sponsored by the Central Congregational Church, Topeka, Kansas. Dr. Charles Monroe Sheldon started the kindergarten in 1893…
Medium: StillImage
Date: June, 1914
This photo shows Rev. Charles M. Sheldon and Rev. Young on a temperance crusade in Topeka, Kansas, June, 1914.
Medium: StillImage
Date: c.1891
Portrait of George M. Hoover, Democrat Representative from Dodge City, 114th District, 1891-92.
Medium: StillImage
Date: August 18, 1943
This portrait of Dwight Eisenhower shows him in uniform. It was taken in North Africa, August 18, 1943. He grew up in Abilene, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: November 16, 1944
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, leaves his closed staff car behind because of the mud and boards a jeep to start a tour of the front, November 16,…
