Medium: StillImage
Date: February 27, 1957
A series of aerial photographs showing areas adjacent to the Kansas River, prior to the construction of I-70 Interstate, and east of downtown Topeka. Recognizable sites include: Highway 75; Lower…
Medium: StillImage
Date: November 17, 1856
This map depicts the lands belonging to the Delaware Indians that were put up for sale in 1856. Attached to the map are three supporting documents. The first is an…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1857
This detailed map of the Kickapoo lands in Kansas shows the location of military roads, railroads, settlements, Indian missions, rivers, wooded areas, and cultivated fields. Kickapoo lands straddled Brown, Jackson,…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1860 and 1880
Portrait of Dennis G. Benton, Sr., with his wife and children, residents of Pratt county.
Medium: StillImage
Date: June 21, 1884
A photograph of the headlines from The Dodge City Democrat announcing a grand Spanish bullfight. See link below to article about “The Bull Fight at Dodge” by Kirke Mechem from…
Medium: StillImage
Date: July 4-5, 1884
This is a photograph showing Mexican or Spanish bullfighters who came to stage a bullfight in Dodge City, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: March 12, 1904
The Santa Fe Trade painted by Frederic Remington, copied from Colliers, March 12, 1904. The painting shows traders with covered wagons on the Santa Fe Trail.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1930
Myra McHenry was a reformer who fought for anti-smoking laws as well as temperance and women’s suffrage.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1909
Baseball game song slide from Take Me Out To The Ball Game, part of the John W. Ripley lantern song slide collection. The music was written by Albert Von Tilzer…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1920
An interior photograph of the Gilstrap Bakery and Restaurant in Cedarvale, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1909
Take Me Out To The Ball Game song slide containing the chorus, from the John W. Ripley lantern song slide collection. The music was written by Albert Von Tilzer and…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1909
Take Me Out To The Ball Game song slide containing the sheet music cover from the John Ripley lantern song slide collection. The music was written by Albert Von Tilzer…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1883 and 1910
Group portrait of the Woman’s Relief Corps in Cedar Vale, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1890 and 1900
Interior view of a post office in Howard, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1940 and 1960
This is a view of an unknown motel with a C-46 airplane in Sedan, Kansas. Carl Walters of Sedan trained his students in this C-46 during the G.I. Training Days.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1880 and 1900
At the time the bank was built, it went by the name of Sedan National Bank, later changed to Sedan Saving Bank. A printing office was located on the second…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1880 and 1900
This is a view of the O.C. Bricker Building, Sedan, Kansas. It housed the East Side Shoe Shop. The opposite side of the building was occupied by a dry goods…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1880 and 1900
This is a view of businesses in Sedan, Kansas shows the Heimbaugh Hardware and Clothing. This is now the Sedan Seed House. The Wait Brothers building is now occupied by…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1880 and 1900
This is a view of the Livery Feed & Sale Stable in Sedan, Kansas. The early day residents referred to the Old Stage (that was Sedan’s Taxi) as the “Bus”.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1880 and 1900
This is a view of the J.K. Tulloss Building and J.K. Tulloss Implement Depot, Sedan, Kansas. The small, wood frame building at the left was occupied by a Ladies Millinery…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1880 and 1900
The building on the left is a furniture store and undertaking parlor in Sedan, Kansas. At one time this building served as post-office. It is now Warring Furniture Store. The…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1880 and 1900
This is a view of the city water and power works in Sedan, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
A photograph showing an irrigation ditch on the J. C. Mitchell farm, Finney County, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1903
This photograph shows water on North Kansas Avenue during the 1903 flood, Topeka, Kansas. Four boats are visible on the flooded avenue.
Medium: StillImage
Date: October 1893
This photograph shows a water spout shooting 100 feet in the air at Norman #1, a discovery oil well in the Mid-continent oil field near Neodesha, Kansas. A newspaper article…
