Medium: StillImage
Date: June 1998
These photographs are part of the Kansas State Historical Society’s online exhibit, “Wheat People: Celebrating Kansas Harvest.” This exhibit focuses on the people who have built Kansas’ agricultural reputation. In…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1910
This plat shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company yards in Fort Madison, Iowa. For this digital copy, a blue print copy of the original drawing was converted…
Medium: StillImage
Date: January 18, 1961
This architectural drawing shows the air conditioning plan for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company depot in Fort Madison, Iowa.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1890s
Fred Crafts operated drugstores in Alma after moving there in 1875. In 1879, he was appointed postmaster. He partnered with J.F. Limerick to construct this limestone building in 1890. His…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1950 and 1955
This photograph from the early 1950s shows both sides of the street of the 300 block of Missouri Street, Alma, Kansas. A new brick front had been added to the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1915
When Hasenbank Furniture Store moved to its new location in the Limerick Building at 322 Missouri Street in Alma, Kansas, Stuewe Brothers Bank, Alf Umbehr’s racquet store, and Fred Crafts’…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1910
This view of the Alma business district shows the Commercial National Bank and the F. C. Noller Mercantile Company located in the 200 block of Missouri Street. Originally the bank…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1890 and 1910
This is known as the Limerick building, Alma, Kansas. It was constructed in 1890 and housed the Bank of Alma that J. F. Limerick owned with his brother, G.W. Limerick…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1895 and 1910
This is the interior of the Palace Billiard Hall, 300 Missouri Street, Alma, Kansas. It offered pool, billiards, cards, and drinks to Alma men. Conrad Mueller owned this building as…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1910
Conrad Mueller, an early Alma businessman, owned Mueller Hardware at 304 Missouri Street in Alma, Kansas, as well as the building next door in which he operated a saloon and…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1895 and 1910
This view shows the 300 block of Missouri Street, Alma, Kansas. Most of the business are stone. The photo shows two newspaper offices, Alma Enterprise at 319 Missouri and Alma…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1887 and 1910
Photograph of the Brandt Hotel (later Alma Hotel) located at 402 Missouri Street, Alma, Kansas. The photo shows the sign “Brandt Hotel” on front, shade trees along sides, and dirt…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1897 and 1910
The Kinnie and Kearns building in Alma, Kansas was built in 1897. Occupants were Kinnie and Kearns mercantile and grocery store in the north half of the building at 311…
Medium: StillImage
Date: September 05, 1888
This architectural drawing scaled at 1/4″ to the foot shows the first floor plan of the passenger deport for the C. S. F. & Co. Railway (a subsidiary of the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: January 02, 1888
This architectural drawing shows the first floor plan of the C. S. F. & C. Railway (a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company) passenger depot in…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1944
Three photographs of Troop F, First Training Regiment, C.R.T.C. at Fort Riley, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
This is a photograph of the Union Pacific Hotel in Ellis, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1950 and 1959
This photograph shows the Union Pacific Railroad Company depot and tracks in Ellis, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1905 and 1910
This is a portrait of John B. Dunbar who was born at Bellevue, Nebraska, on April 3, 1841, where his parents were Presbyterian missionaries to the Pawnee Indians. He attended…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1912 and 1915
This black and white photograph shows John W. Baughman’s land office in Liberal, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1901
This black and white photograph shows a team of pack mules hitched to freight wagons on the streets of Liberal, Kansas. In the background, a group of men can be…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1940 and 1945
This black and white photograph shows employees standing behind the counter at the Mid-Way Café in Hill City, Kansas. In the background two customers can be seen sitting on stools…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1950 and 1959
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company’s roundhouse in Belen, New Mexico.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1950 and 1959
This photograph shows a group of General Motors Electro-Motive Diesels at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company shops in Barstow, California. The engines have been identified from left…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1931-1941
These six photographs show Grinter family reunions at Henry C. and Martha Kirby’s residence, which is now Grinter Place in Muncie, Kansas. Reverend Henry C. and Martha V. Grinter Kirby…
