Medium: StillImage
Date: 1855
An illustration depicting the building where the Topeka Constitutional Convention met in 1855. Delegates assembled at Topeka on October 23, 1855, to draft a constitution. The document was approved on…
Medium: StillImage
Date: January 14, 1909
View of the ruins of the Copeland Hotel of Topeka,Kansas, after its destruction by fire. The south side of the building is propped up with poles.
Medium: StillImage
Date: January 14, 1909
View of firemen’s ladders, hoses, and wagons at the Copeland Hotel fire in downtown Topeka, Kansas. Also visible are spectators along the snow-covered city street, two white horses, and a…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1883
Dodge City Peace Commission, 1883, members are identified as – back row (left to right) William H. Harris, Luke Short, William Bat Masterson, W.F. Petillon; front row (left to right)…
Medium: StillImage
Date: between 1880 and 1885
A photograph of William Barclay “Bat” Masterson taken Dodge City, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: January 13, 1879
Sketch of John Pierce St. John’s inauguration at the Kansas Statehouse on January 13, 1879. This was the first public inauguration of a Kansas governor. The sketch was drawn by…
Medium: StillImage
Date: between 1879-1883
Portrait of John Pierce St. John (1833-1916) of Olathe, Kansas. He was a Republican and the eighth Kansas Governor from 1879 to 1883.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1935
An informal portrait of Kansas naturalists and explorers, Martin Johnson, 1884-1937, and Osa Johnson, 1894-1953, posed on their airplane with two companions, and a half dozen native people on an…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1935
An informal portrait of Kansas explorers, authors, and naturalists, Martin Johnson, 1884-1937, and Osa Johnson, 1894-1953, posed by their airplane with native people in Borneo.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1918
Portrait of Arthur Capper, 1865-1951, shown here at the age of fifty-three. Capper, a native of Garnett, Kansas, served Kansas as Governor from 1915 to 1919, and as U. S.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1912
These men are clearing the railroad tracks after a blizzard in Oakley, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1863
This is a photograph of Robert L. Harford, J. G. Schnebly, Washington Marlatt, Joseph Denison, and Isaac T. Goodnow, the first five professors at Bluemont Central College, which later became…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1930 and 1945
Aerial view of Norton State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Norton, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1928
A photograph of the Hillcrest Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Topeka, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1920
This Coleman “demonstration car” was the forerunner to a fleet of more than 100 station wagons used by Coleman sales and service representatives.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1920 and 1930
This is an informal portrait of William Coffin Colemen, 1870-1957, shown experimenting with an early lamp. In 1901, Coleman moved to Wichita, Kansas, where he started the Coleman Lamp and…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1960 and 1969
A portrait of William P. Lear, Sr. (1902-1978), chairman of the board of Lear Jet Industries, Inc. An American inventor and businessman, Lear developed radio direction finders, autopilots, and the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1859 and 1860
Portrait of Cyrus Kurtz Holliday, 1826-1900, a founder of Topeka, Kansas, served as Adjutant General, State Senator and Representative, owner of the “Topeka Tribune”, member of the Board of Regents,…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1950 and 1959
This is a view of the main hanger, operations tower (center), and other facilities taken from the runway area at the Naval Air Station in Olathe, Kansas. A Navy airplane…
Medium: StillImage
Date: between 1880 and 1890
This set of photographs show the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company’s steam locomotive No. 5, also known as “Thomas Sherlock”, and pay car, at the depot in Topeka,…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1888
This photograph shows employees standing in front of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company’s general office building, Topeka, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: between 1895 and 1905
This sepia colored photograph shows Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. The campus is located on a 160 acres of land, donated by Kansas abolitionist John Ritchie, in the central portion…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1888
These Washburn University students are presenting the play “Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1895
Members of the Washburn University football team dressed in their uniforms, Topeka, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: July 11, 1855
Front page of the Kansas Daily Tribune, Lawrence Kansas Territory , July 11, 1855, Vol. 1, #2.
