Medium: StillImage
Date: 1869
A lithograph published by Merchants Lithograph Co., of Chicago, Illinois, depicts Wyandotte County, Kansas in 1869. The lithograph provides a “bird’s eye view” of the streets and buildings within Wyandotte…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1913 and 1915
This is a photo of an unidentified business street in Herkimer, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1907 and 1909
This is a postcard photograph of Commercial Street looking north in Havensville, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1919
A view of the Shawnee Methodist Mission building that once housed the dining hall and living quarters for mission families and teachers.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1854
An illustration of Governor Andrew Reeder’s residence at the Shawnee Methodist Mission in Johnson County, Kansas. When Kansas became a territory in 1854 this building became the first home to…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1842 and 1854
A portrait illustration of Sarah Davis Johnson, wife of Rev.Thomas Johnson who was the supervisor of the Shawnee Methodist Mission, Johnson County, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1854 and 1860
A stereograph of an early view of Kansas City, Missouri, from the county court house.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1860 and 1869
A view of steamboats along the levee in St. Louis, Missouri.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1854
An illustration of an early view of St. Joseph, Missouri, taken from the book United States Illustrated: In views of City and Country by Charles A. Dana.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1940s or 1950s
An interior view of an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Regal Series drawing room showing a family looking out of the windows.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1865 and 1870
A portrait of Luther Hart Platt, Jeremiah Evarts Platt, Dutton Platt, and Enoch Platt, sons of Jireh and Sarah Platt, abolitionists in Mendon, Illinois. Jeremiah Platt, an abolitionist, came to…
Medium: StillImage
Date: January 27, 1955-January 28, 1955
This photograph shows the first grade class at State Street Elementary School, taught by Miss Hunt. It was taken shortly after Topeka elementary schools were racially integrated in the wake…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
Oversize drawing of Frank Clifton German, son of Frank Logan and Dora Hesser German, taken as a child.
Medium: StillImage
Date: May 1, 1935
This photograph captures one of the hardships faced by families during the Dust Bowl–starving cattle. It was taken in Kansas City, Kansas, by the Kansas Emergency Relief Committee, a state…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1885 and 1895
Two photographs of Dora Hesser German of Alta Vista, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1885 and 1895
A photograph of Frank Logan German of Horton, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1863
An 1863 version of Colton’s Kansas and Nebraska map, 1855. It shows the eastern portions of Kansas and Nebraska including rivers, creeks, trails, roads, railroads, forts, towns, and counties.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1861 and 1864
A composite of portraits showing Dr. J. F. Griswold, Harlow W. Baker, Josiah Trask, and Simeon Montgomery Thorp. These men were victims of Quantrill’s raid in Lawrence, Kansas. It was…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1904
A portrait of Harlow W. Baker, a resident and merchant in Lawrence, Kansas. He and Peter D. Ridenour were partners in a grocery business.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1861 and 1864
This is a portrait of Captain Charles F. Coleman, a member of Company D, 9th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1862
A portrait of Simeon Montgomery Thorp, who resided in Lawrence, Kansas, and was State Superintendent of Public Instruction. He served as Kansas State Senator in 1863. In that same year,…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1922
This photograph shows children working in a Kansas beet field. According to the notation on the back of the photograph, this image appeared in William H. Cape’s thesis, Child Labor…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1960
A portrait of Theodore Roosevelt Schellenberg, 1903-1970, taken at the Barker History Center at the University of Texas in Austin. Born in Harvey County, Kansas, Schellenberg received both his A.B.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1887
This black and white photograph shows a view looking north of a buggy and a wagon on main street in Eureka, Kansas. The town is located in the Flint Hills…
Medium: StillImage
Date: May 14, 1916
This is a photograph of Miss Marguerite Koontz’s students rehearsing for the Sisters of Bethany College Alumnae May Fete. The performance took place in Central Park, Saturday, May 20, 1916.…
