Medium: StillImage
Date: 1940-1946
These four photographs show Topekan Clifford (Bud) Fawl in baseball-related poses at various ages. The earliest is from 1940, when Fawl was ten years old. The others were taken when…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1979-2013
Selected materials from two scrapbooks compiled by Todd Strait, a jazz drummer from Topeka, Kansas. Strait grew up in northeast Shawnee County, Kansas, and attended Seaman High School where he…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1911
Here are five exaggerated postcards showing fish, sweet potatoes, chickens, strawberries, corn, and cabbage. The postcards are titled “I caught these by myself,” “We raise tons of sweet potatoes,” “A…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1935 and 1940
This is a photograph showing an unidentified group of Mexican American school children possibly in Topeka, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1930 and 1939
These fifteen photographs show Adaline Beedle Sorace, author of Addie of the Flint Hills, at various periods in her life. The first photograph is Addie at age sixteen. While the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1943-1945
These are two World War II photograph albums and a diary which belonged to Donald Appletrad. During World War II, he served in the Office of Strategic Services Headquarters Company…
Medium: StillImage
Date: June 22, 1984-June 24, 1984
These twelve photographs show a large pit being created to roast a pig as part of the grand opening activates for the new Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: June 22, 1984-June 24, 1984
Five photographs showing a banquet being held at the Ramada Inn as part of the opening activities for the new museum in Topeka, Kansas. Gordon Jump can be seen in…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1940 and 1948
This is a photograph showing Joe Zinn (right) standing in front of a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad locomotive, the Pioneer Zephyr, probably at the St. Joseph Union Depot in…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1920 and 1925
This is a birds-eye view of Kansas Avenue from 10th Street looking north in Topeka, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
This is a photograph of the street car barns located near 11th and Jackson in Topeka, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1925 and 1930
This is a panoramic photograph showing employees of the Empire Gas and Fuel Company on Main Street in Oil Hill, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1920
This is a panoramic photograph showing a group of young men, possibly Boy Scouts, camping in Topeka, Kansas. The group includes members of the clergy. A number of tents are…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1983
This photograph shows museum items being moved to the new museum at 6425 SW 6th Ave., Topeka, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1983
These two photographs show the packing and moving of museum items to the new museum located at 6425 SW 6th Ave., Topeka, Kansas. The two women in the second photograph…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1983
This photograph shows the Thomas Town Car being moved to the new museum in Topeka, Kansas. In 1983 and 1984, the museum moved their collections after nearly seven decades from…
Medium: StillImage
Date: June 23, 1984
This photograph shows the Kansas State Historical Society board members attending the Kansas Museum of History dedication banquet in Topeka, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: June 22, 1984-June 24, 1984
These four photographs show the opening activities of the new Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas. Actor Gordon Jump is featured in two of the photos. The museum is…
Medium: StillImage
Date: June 22, 1984-June 22, 1984
These eight photographs grand opening activities at the new Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas. The museum is located at 6425 SW 6th Ave.
Medium: StillImage
Date: June 22, 1984-June 24, 1984
These four photographs show grand opening activities at the new Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas. The museum is located at 6425 SW 6th Ave.
Medium: StillImage
Date: June 22, 1984-June 24, 1984
These eleven photographs show the new Kansas Museum of History’s dedication in Topeka, Kansas. The museum is located at 6425 SW 6th Ave.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1935 and 1940
This is a photograph containing three images of the Pottawatomie Indian mission home and church, Ineen Esther Group and W. H. M. Society group.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1930 and 1935
This is a photograph showing Marian and Ethel Zinn standing in front the Union Pacific Railroad station at Buck Creek, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1887
This blueline printed map includes streams, railroads, streets, subdivisions, lots, parks, and prominent buildings in Marion, Kansas. The scale is 1:3000 or 250 feet to one inch.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1879
This blueline printed map includes streams, railroads, streets, subdivisions, lots, parks, and prominent buildings in Marion, Kansas. The scale of the large map is 1:3000 or 250 to one inch.…
