Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1947 and 1953
Garner Edward Shriver was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives, 1947-1951, and to the Kansas Senate from 1953-1960. He served as a U.S Representative from 1961-1977, and as legal…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1949 and 1962
This is a portrait of the twenty-ninth Governor of Kansas, Andrew Frank Schoeppel. He was in office from 1943 to 1947, after which he served in the United States Senate…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1971 and 1975
William Robert Roy a physician elected to the United States House of Representatives from the second district of Kansas (1971-1975). In 1974 he ran for the U.S. Senate but lost…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1929 and 1949
Clyde Martin Reed was elected the twenty-fourth Governor of Kansas from 1929 to 1931, and later served in the U.S. Senate from 1939 to 1949. He was the editor and…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1945 and 1959
Aerial view of the farmland between Wanamaker and Urish Roads along Huntoon Street in Topeka, Kansas. The Mel Perkuhn farm and Huntoon Airport Inc. are in view.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1959
Photograph of Mel Perkuhn’s farm and pond. Also visible are the hills on what is present day, SW Huntoon Avenue in Topeka, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1940s or 1950s
Clifford Ragsdale Hope, Sr. served in the Kansas House of Representatives, 1925-1927, as a speaker pro tempore in 1923 and as speaker in 1925. He was elected to the United…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1945 and 1959
Photo of the barn on the Mel Perkuhn farm on Huntoon Street between Wanamaker and Urish Roads, Topeka, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1965 and 1971
Chester Louis Mize from Atchison, Kansas, owned and operated a cattle ranch in New Mexico and a farm in Atchison, Kansas. He served in the United States House of Representatives…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1957 and 1962
Clifford Ragsdale Hope, Jr, a lawyer from Garden City, Kansas, served in the Kansas Senate from 1957-1962.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1953 and 1961
Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower was a soldier and politician who served as the thirty-fourth President of the United States, (1953-1961). As a solider he served as Supreme Commander of the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1915 and 1924
Lantern slide advertising the Brockman Sanitary Dairy, Cherryvale, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1919 and 1949
A portrait of Arthur Capper who held office as the twentieth Kansas Governor from 1915 to 1919. After serving as Governor, he served in the U.S. Senate from 1919 to…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1951 and 1955
This photograph shows Edward Ferdinand Arn,1906-1998, a lawyer and World War II veteran, Arn begins his career in politics when he is elected on the Republican ticket as Attorney General…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1915 and 1924
Lantern slide advertising the Brockman Sanitary Dairy, Cherryvale, Ks.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1927
Photograph of the Kansas Civilian Rifle Team at the National Matches in Camp Perry, Ohio.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1961 and 1965
This formal portrait shows John Anderson, Jr., a lawyer and politician from Olathe, Kansas. He begins his political career in 1946 when he is elected as a Republican for county…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1929
Photograph of the Kansas Civilian Rifle Team at the National Matches in Camp Perry, Ohio.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1930
A panoramic photo of a group of men in Company A, B, C & D, Reserve Officer Training Corps, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1910 and 1920
This black and white photograph shows members of a men’s baseball team from Iola, Kansas. Visible in the background are spectators seated on wooden bleachers.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1935 and 1936
Men building the tower for John R. Brinkley’s XERA radio station in Villa Acuna, Mexico. After losing his medical license and radio station in Milford, Kansas, Brinkley shifted his headquarters…
Medium: StillImage
Date: July 5, 1879
This drawing from Harper’s Weekly depicts the African-American refugees, called Exodusters, who were housed in Floral Hall on the Topeka Fairgrounds, near what is today the Expocentre. Many of these…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
Works Progress Administration recreation center in Leavenworth, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1870 and 1879
A photograph showing African American students gathered outside of a segregated school in Leavenworth, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1870s
The map shows the connections of the Missouri, Kansas, & Texas Railroad from Kansas, Texas, and the East Coast.
