Medium: StillImage
Date: September 1980
This set of photographs shows museum staff from the Kansas State Historical Society cataloging artifacts at the Memorial Building in Topeka, Kansas. The Kansas Historical Society was located in the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: March 1980
This set of photographs shows a group interns at the Kansas State Historical Society’s Memorial Building in Topeka, Kansas. The Kansas Historical Society was located in the GAR Memorial Building…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
This photograph shows Amanda Ida Harmon Watkins, (1871-1961), “Wheat Queen of the World” from Sublette Kansas. Ida was born in Harmon, Missouri and later moved with her family to an…
Medium: StillImage
Date: July 31, 1930
This press photograph shows Amanda Ida Harmon Watkins, known as the “Wheat Queen of the World,” seated in an automobile in her wheat field. She built an empire by buying…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1965 and 1975
Photograph of a pass for a Rising Suns event in Coffeyville, Kansas. The Rising Suns toured extensively and were once named the top act in the Midwest by Teen Screen…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1965 and 1970
A set of nine the Red Dog’s “Cookin Music” posters. The set includes three copies of each different version of the poster, colors vary between versions. One copy of each…
Medium: StillImage
Date: July 1979
This set of photographs shows Mary Ellen Hennessey Nottage, curator of decorative arts and domestics, viewing artifacts in the collections at the Kansas State Historical Society in Topeka, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: November 1981
This set of photographs shows a group of interns standing inside a period room at the Kansas State Historical Society’s Memorial Building in Topeka, Kansas. The Kansas Historical Society was…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1973
This set of photographs shows the U.S.S. Wichita exhibit at Military Hall inside the Kansas State Historical Society’s Memorial Building in Topeka, Kansas. The exhibit honored the “last heavy cruiser…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1960 and 1969
This set of postcards show the period rooms at the Kansas State Historical Society’s Memorial Building in Topeka, Kansas. Several period rooms were on exhibit from homes to businesses. The…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1950 and 1959
This set of photographs show construction of the period rooms at the Kansas State Historical Society’s Memorial Building in Topeka, Kansas. Several period rooms were on exhibit from homes to…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1975
Photograph of Steve Clark and Walter Downing with Young Raider and Rising Suns bus in Vancouver, B.C. Canada 1975. The Rising Suns toured extensively and were once named the top…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1950 and 1989
This photograph shows the General Store, a period room at the Kansas State Historical Society’s Memorial Building, in Topeka, Kansas. Several periods rooms were on exhibit at the historical society.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1965 and 1975
25 miscellaneous photographs of the Fabulous Flippers from original member Jerry Tammen’s collection. The Fabulous Flippers were the lead act of the Mid-Continent Productions booking agency owned by John Brown…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1967
Photographs of Red Dogs band members and photographs of the Red Dogs bus after it caught fire in 1967. The Red Dogs were hired in 1965 to be the house…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1969
Six photographs of the Magnificent Sanctuary Band, formerly known as the Fabulous Flippers, performing at Allen Field House (Kansas University) in 1969. The Fabulous Flippers were the lead act of…
Medium: StillImage
Date: December 30, 1930
This set of photographs show dioramas at the Kansas State Historical Society in Topeka, Kansas. The first photograph shows a three-dimensional model of John Brown and people escaping slavery. While…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1965 and 1970
Six print photographs of Magnificent Sanctuary Band members, formerly known as the Fabulous Flippers. The photographs were taken at an unknown outdoor location. The Fabulous Flippers were the lead act…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1965 and 1970
30 slide photographs of the Spider and the Crabs band performing at the Red Dog Inn in Lawrence, Kansas. Spider and the Crabs grew out of the University of Kansas’s…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1965 and 1975
30 images on slides of The Fabulous Flippers and other band members at the Red Dog Inn in Lawrence, Kansas. The Fabulous Flippers were the lead act of the Mid-Continent…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1983
This set of photographs show artifacts being moved into the new Kansas Museum of History building and out of the previous museum location in the Memorial Building. During 1983 and…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1983
This set of photographs shows artifacts being moved from the Kansas State Historical Society’s Memorial Building in downtown Topeka, Kansas and into the new Kansas Museum of History storage bay.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1983
This set of photographs shows artifacts being moved from the Kansas State Historical Society’s Memorial Building in downtown Topeka, Kansas. In 1983 and 1984, the museum moved their collections after…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Bewteen 1870s and 1880s
These two images show James Richard Mead, (1836-1910), businessman, Kansas politician and civic leader of Wichita, Kansas. He migrated to the Kansas Territory in 1859 where he established trading posts…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1983
This set of photographs shows artifacts being moved from the Kansas State Historical Society’s Memorial Building in downtown Topeka, Kansas. In 1983 and 1984, the museum moved their collections after…
