Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1895 and 1899
This series of photographs shows Sarah Basham and Sarah Basham with Louie Taylor. These girls possibly lived in Arcadia, Kansas. At the time these photographs were taken, Sarah was 15…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1936 and 1940
This is a photograph of Thomas B. and Ida Viola Basham’s grave monument in the Old Arcadia Cemetery in Arcadia, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1905 and 1910
This is a photograph of Lona Adams and her son Charley Adams.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1893-1995
These photographs document the Columbian Theater in Wamego, Kansas, and its renovation. Wamego banker J. C. Rogers built the theater and used it to celebrate and document the Chicago World’s…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1910 and 1915
This series of photographs is showing coal mining in Crawford County, Kansas. Visible in the photographs is a coal mining shovel, railroad coal cars, and a train.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1963
This series of photographs is showing construction on the Cedar Bluff dam in Trego County, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
This is a photograph showing women roomers at 1125 Mechanic Street in Emporia, Kansas. Women in the photograph are back row (l to r): Florence Murdock, Sarah E. James, Beatrice…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1955 and 1960
This series of photographs and advertisments represents a party and the business Five Television Service. Advertisements in the series includes edits to the text. The company was located at 913…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1890 and 1895
This photograph shows Richard Brown (1893-1971) as a baby. At the time this photograph was taken, he was living in Emporia, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: November 15, 1993
This photograph shows Marilyn Maye, a jazz vocalist who was born in Wichita in 1928, onstage at a Topeka Jazz Workshop concert. She began singing on the WIBW radio station…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1914-1980
Various images and items from throughout Kansas that could not be pinpointed to or not tied to one specific mining camp. Many are contracts or laws adopted in Kansas City…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1939
Three photographs of Mackie Camp, was also known as 42 Camp, once located 5 miles north of Columbus and 1.5 miles west of Highway K-7, in Cherokee County, Kansas. At…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1910 and 1939
Two photographs of Howe, Kansas, a small mining community platted about 16 miles northeast of Pittsburg in Crawford County.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1910 and 1950
Two photographs of Coalvale (Coalville),a small mining community located in the northeast corner of Crawford County, Kansas. It was located on the Frisco railroad. Photographs include images of the local…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1905 -1950
These are three photographs of buildings in Foxtown, a small settlement located 2 ¾ miles east of Franklin, in Crawford County, Kansas. The photos show the exterior of the Methodist…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1915 and 1939
Four photographs of Ringo mining camp. Ringo is currently a small grouping of houses one mile south and three miles west of Franklin in Crawford County. It had its own…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1914 and 1949
Here are photographs of Gross, Crawford County, Kansas. Gross was platted in 1914 and is located 4 miles north and 3 miles east of Arma. Photographs include images of the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1890 and 1940
Several photographs of Dunkirk, a small unincorporated community located in Crawford County 2 miles west of Franklin. Dunkirk was a camp for the Weir Coal Company and had a post…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1908 and 1919
Photographs of Breezy Hill, a small unincorporated settlement about 2 miles east of Arma, in Crawford County. Images include the local school, a street scene, and Joe Kaluza’s residence.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1905 and 1930
Photographs of Curranville, once located approximately 12 miles east of Girard in Crawford County, Kansas. Curranville was incorporated in 1906 and had its own post office from 1905 to 1915.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1870 - 1920
Here are two photographs of Capaldo, a small, unincorporated town two miles west of Frontenac in Crawford County. It was settled in 1912 by Italian immigrants and was annexed into…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1940
Photographs of Croweburg, a small unincorporated community in Crawford County located halfway between Arma and Mulberry. Croweburg was made up of four separate mining camps: #14 Croweburg Camp, #15 Croweburg…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1940
Here are several photographs and postcards of Columbus, Kansas. Columbus is the county seat of Cherokee County and the commercial center for the area. Being a railroad junction, shipping was…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1940
Here are several photographs of Fleming mining camp, a small community located about six miles southwest of Pittsburg, in Crawford County, Kansas. Information suggests that the population of Fleming was…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1908-1921
Here are multiple photographs and postcards regarding Scammon, Kansas. Scammon is a small community in Cherokee County that was laid out in 1884 by David Mackie and was named for…
