Medium: StillImage
Date: 1958
Members of the Windom Rural High School 8-man football team. They were McPherson County League Champions in 1957 and 1958. In 1956, Windom Rural High School was the first school…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1957
Members of the Windom Rural High School 8-man football team. They were McPherson County League Champions in 1957 and 1958. In 1956, Windom Rural High School was the first school…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1957
Members of the Windom Rural High School 8-man football team. They were McPherson County League Champions in 1957 and 1958. In 1956, Windom Rural High School was the first school…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1925
A formal portrait of Dowthard Scott, who served in the 1925 Kansas legislature as the State Representative from District 22 in Cherokee County. A Democrat, Scott was a farmer in…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1950s
The Kansas Free Fair held in Topeka, Kansas, later changed to the Mid-America Fair in 1959 and in 1977 to the Sunflower State Fair.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1940s
This photograph is looking east down 10th & Topeka. The Kansas Capitol dome is on the left side of the image.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1960 and 1970
View of the corner of East 4th street & Quincy before urban renewal.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1914
View of the entrance to the Billar Mexicano billiards parlor near 113 East 4th Street, on the south side of the street between Kansas Avenue and Quincy, in Topeka, Kansas.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1914
A view of the entrance to the H. Genthe Bakery at 113 East 4th Street, on the south side of the street between Kansas Avenue and Quincy, in Topeka, Kansas.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: November, 1915
View of the Sheridan Coal Company mine #7 site and structures after an explosion which occurred there November 13, 1915. This view was taken about 500 yards west of the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1919
A view of the two story Geo. Burghart building located on 8th Street in Topeka, Kansas. Burghart was a manufacturer of 5 and 10 cent cigars. The building was originally…
Medium: StillImage
Date: November 13, 1915
Group of miners standing at the mouth of the Sheridan Coal Company mine #7 located one and a half miles southeast of Arma in Crawford County, Kansas. An explosion occurred…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1948
This black and white photograph shows a sketch of the Kansas Free Fair held in Topeka, Kansas by first lady of Kansas Helen Coolidge Woodring.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Around 1938
This black and white photographs shows a man hanging a movie poster outside of the Best Theater at 402 Kansas Avenue in Topeka, Kansas. Also visible are a street light…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1919
These National Guard soldiers are standing by a tent near the coal mines. On November 1, 1919, over 10,000 coal miners went on strike in southeast Kansas for a six-hour…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1852 and 1865
This is a portrait of Oliver Hickok, born May, 1830. He was a brother of James Butler Hickok.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1960 and 1970
A view of the East side of the 400 block of Kansas Avenue in Topeka, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1869
This map illustrates the county lines, county seats, and state lines of Kansas. The railroads in operation are the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston and Pacific Railroad. A central branch of…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1877
This pamphlet, sold by Benjamin “Pap” Singleton, the “Father of the Exodus,” includes the lyrics for two songs advertising black Southerners’ emigration to Kansas. The first song, “The Land that…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1889 and 1892
This cabinet card shows Thomas Benton “Bent” Murdock, (1841-1909). A Civil War veteran with the 9th Kansas Cavalry, and founder of the “Walnut Valley Times” and “El Dorado Republican.” He…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1913 and 1919
Photo of William Howard Thompson, 1871-1928, Garden City, Kansas, who served as a U.S. Senator from 1913-1919.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1963 and 1978
Photo of Joseph Skubitz, 1906-2000, Pittsburg, Kansas, Republican who served in the U. S. House of Representatives, 1963-1978.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1979 and 1983
Photo of James Edmund Jeffries, 1925-1995, Atchison, Kansas, Republican who served as U. S. Congressman from the 2nd District, 1979-1983.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1963 and 1964
This is a photo of Keith George Sebelius of Norton, Kansas. Sebelius served as Republican State Senator, 1962-1968, and in the U. S. House of Representatives, 3rd District, 1969-1981.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1889 and 1890
This cabinet card shows William Wallace Cranston, (1838-1907). Cranston a Civil War captain served with Company A of the sixty-sixth regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He fought in the…
