Medium: StillImage
Date: 1905-1910
Exterior photograph of the Star Mercantile in Alta Vista, Kansas, as a group of people watch a scene from a Buster Brown show. The Brown Shoe Company hired an actor…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1900-1910
Photograph of four women at the bandstand in Alta Vista, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1910-1920
These seven photographs show a train derailment and wreck at Alta Vista, Kansas. In a number of the photographs, toppled cattle cars are visible as well as dead cattle. In…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1912
Photograph of an ominous sky as August Meseke (far right), a noted businessman in Alta Vista, Kansas, and others examine the damage from the 1912 tornado that struck the town.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1900-1910
Two views of the skyline of Alta Vista, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1918-1920
Black and white photograph of two young women standing in front of the new school building in Alta Vista, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1890-1900
Photograph of a large group of unidentified children and two adults in front of the old school house in Alta Vista, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1920 and 1930
Two views of exposed rock near the quarry in Alta Vista, Kansas. In one of the photographs, two people are seen atop a rock ledge.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1915
This is a photograph of Gene Hawes, left, and Otto Kratzer, right, posing with their pockets empty during their trip to California in 1915.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1915 and 1920
Four views of a residential street, the business district, and the railyards from the viaduct in Alta Vista, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1919
This small photograph shows a man cooking in large caldrons in the business district of Alta Vista, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1910 and 1930
Photograph showing a street view of the August Meseke home in Alta Vista, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1890-1900
Photograph showing a street view of the J. W. Andrews Feed Store in Alta Vista, Kansas. Three unidentified men and a full cart pulled by two mules are in front…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
Photograph of members of the Peter Feiden family, identified as (standing, left to right) Anna, Emma, Rudolph, Louise, William, Mathilda, Martin, Elizabeth; (sitting, left to right) Margaret, Peter, Frieda, Marie,…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1890 and 1900
Photograph of members of the William Maas family, identified as (top row, left to right) Dora Schaal, Fred Maas, Adolph Maas, Richard Maas, Marie Schmitz; (bottow row, left to right)…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1912 and 1917
Photograph of members of the Herman Tenbrink family, identified as (back row, left to right) John, Celia, Ed, Ben, Herman, Annie, Tony; (front row, left to right) August, Herman, Mary,…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1904
Photograph of four men building a bridge across Antelope Creek in Wabaunsee County, Kansas. The men are identified as A. E. Forinash, Clyde Forinash, Frank Weber, and Charlie Funk. They…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1920 and 1930
Photograph of Jeremiah B. “Jerry” Fields from Alma, Kansas, seen here manning a Wabaunsee County exhibit at a large fair, perhaps the State Fair in Hutchinson or the Kansas Free…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
Interior photograph of the mercantile owned by W. E. Thowe in Alma, Kansas. Two men and one woman, all unidentified, pose for the photograph.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
Photograph of a group of unidentified men posing with their dogs and seven dead coyotes.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1910 and 1920
Black and white photograph of three women posing with what appears to be a Model-T service vehicle for McEwen’s Auto Livery in Alma, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1905 and 1910
This is an interior view of Thoes-Sheber Furniture Store in Alma, Kansas. The store was owned by Dick Thoes and Matt Sheber.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
This is an interior view of the Bank of Alma located in the Limerick Building at 326 Missouri Street in Alma, Kansas. The three men in the photograph are identified…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1910 and 1920
This birds-eye view of Volland, Kansas, looks from the southwest. Down the tracks, one can see the Volland depot. Two connected cattle cars are parked at the stockyards and a…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1910 and 1920
This is a winter view of Volland, Kansas, taken from the Rock Island water tower. In the center background, we see the new Kratzer Brothers’ Mercantile; when this photo was…
