Medium: StillImage
Date: 1890s
This photograph, taken by an unknown photographer, depicts the officers’ quarters at Fort Scott. The building to the left was Col. Charles W. Blair’s residence, which was razed between 1905…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1863-1865
This photograph of two men on horses at Fort Scott was probably taken between 1863 and 1865. The man in the foreground is Corporal George Henry McCoon, company saddler in…
Medium: StillImage
Date: c. 1881
Photograph of Eugene Fitch Ware, Fort Scott, was editor of the Fort Scott Monitor, a lawyer, and a poet. He published his poetry under the name “Ironquill”.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1834
Portrait of Col. Henry M. Dodge, b.1782 – d.1867. Copied from Iowa Historical Record, Iowa City, v. 5 (October, 1889), facing page 337. “The picture of Col. Dodge, published in…
Medium: StillImage
Date:
Portrait of Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1910s
View of an amored car No. 7 part of the Military Training Department Sweeney Automobile School, Kansas City, U.S.S. Photograph taken at the time the Kansas National Guard Unit (later…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1870
This formal portrait taken in Abilene, Kansas shows James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok, 1837-1876. The legendary lawman and gun-slinger began his career in 1858 as a peace officer of the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: May 25, 1955
A photograph titled “Udall was 98% Leveled” showing tornado destruction.
Medium: StillImage
Date: May 25, 1955
A photograph of the northwest section of Udall, Kansas, showing tornado destruction.
Medium: StillImage
Date: May 25, 1955
A photograph showing tornado destruction in Udall, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: May 25, 1955
A photograph showing tornado damage in Udall, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1985 and 1989
The State Seal of Kansas. The Seal of Kansas and the state motto, Ad astra per aspera (to the stars through difficulties), were adopted through a joint resolution during the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1856
Portrait of John Brown copied from a daguerreotype.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1914
“His Death Or Yours” cartoon addressing the diseases transmitted by flies and encouraging people to install and use screen doors. This item was copied from the Kansas State Board of…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1920
A poem and drawing titled “The House Flies” copied from the Kansas State Board of Health Bulletin. Exact year and volume unknown.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1950 and 1959
Photograph of Langston Hughes copied from the Shawnee County Historical Society, Bulletin #47.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1860
Portrait of Charles Sumner, U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. He delivered the speech that later became known by the title “The Crime Against Kansas”.
Medium: StillImage
Date: May 21, 1856
Illustration from A True History Of The Kansas Wars by O. N. Merrill titled Sacking of Lawrence, May 21, 1856.
Medium: StillImage
Date: May 21, 1856
Illustration from A True History Of The Kansas Wars by O. N. Merrill titled Sacking of Lawrence, May 21, 1856.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1856-1860
A formal, cased ambrotype portrait of Samuel J. Jones who led a large pro-slavery force in the May 21, 1856 sacking of the city of Lawrence, which was an anti-slavery…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1856
This is an illustration titled Ruins of the Free State Hotel, Lawrence, K. T., 1856. It was copied from Kansas: Its Interior and Exterior Life written by Mrs. Charles Robinson.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1932
Portrait of Amelia Earhart, 1897-1939, American aviation pioneer, at the age of 35. Earhart, a native of Atchison, Kansas, was the first woman to fly solo over the Atlantic Ocean…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1861 and 1865
A studio portrait of two members of the First Kansas Volunteer Infantry, who are identified as Newell W. Spicer and Dick, a friend.
Medium: StillImage
Date: March 19, 1858
An illustration of the Marais des Cygnes Massacre in Linn County, Kansas Territory, copied from “Beyond the Mississippi” by Albert D. Richardson, 1867. In May 1858, Missourians crossed the border…
Medium: StillImage
Date: March 14, 1863
An iIllustration from pages 168-169 of the March 14, 1863 issue of “Harper’s Weekly,” titled “A Negro Regiment In Action.”
