Medium: StillImage
Date: between 1910 and 1920
View of the Junius G. Groves residence in Edwardsville, Kansas. Groves, also known as the “potato king,” was a potato farmer. He was so successful that the Union Pacific Railroad…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1949
This formal portrait shows Frank Carlson, 1893-1987, a World War I veteran and farmer from Concordia, Kansas. He is elected in 1928 as a Republican to the Kansas House of…
Medium: StillImage
Date: between 1961 and 1965
This colored 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: between 1884 and 1910
Copy of an original oil painting of David Josiah Brewer, Kansas Supreme Court Justice,1871-1884, United States Circuit Court Justice, 1884 -1889, and United States Supreme Court Justice, 1889 -1910.
Medium: StillImage
Date: between 1871 and 1884
Portrait of David Josiah Brewer, Kansas Supreme Court Justice,1871 – 1884, United States Circuit Court Justice, 1884 – 1889, and United States Supreme Court Justice, 1889 – 1910.
Medium: StillImage
Date: November, 1919
Governor Henry J. Allen posed with Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science students. The students were on their way to work in the coal mines in southeast Kansas.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: June 14, 1920
This is a portrait of Henry Justin Allen, who served as the twenty-first Governor of Kansas (1919-1923), and as a U.S. Senator from Kansas (1929-31). He was the editor and…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Unknown
This is a portrait of Joseph Little Bristow,1861-1944. He served as United States Senator from Kansas, 1909-1915.
Medium: StillImage
Date: between 1895 and 1897
This photograph represents Kansas Governor, Edmund Needham Morrill, sitting at a desk while he was in office. Information provided with the photograph shows the image was captured between 1895 and…
Medium: StillImage
Date: between 1872 and 1879
This photograph represents Edmund Needham Morrill, 1834-1909, businessman and civil war veteran from Brown County, Kansas. A free state activist and actively involved in the development of Kansas politics, Morrill…
Medium: StillImage
Date: July, 1902
Portrait of Frank H. Doster (b. 1847, d. 1933), who served as the Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court from 1897 to 1903. He was part of the Populist…
Medium: StillImage
Date: between 1890 and 1905
Portrait of John William Breidenthal. He was a Populist, chairman of the People’s Party Central Committee.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Unknown
This black and white photograph shows Gasper Christopher Clemens. A Topeka attorney who represented clients from all walks of life. Clemens also gained the reputation as a lecturer who discussed…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
This is a portrait of William F. Rightmire, an attorney, who came to Kansas in 1887, and practiced law in Larned, Cottonwood Falls, and Topeka. In 1888, he was nominated…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
A portrait of Annie (Le Porte) Diggs, who was born in 1848 in Canada to an American mother and French father. Two years later the family moved to New Jersey,…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1891 and 1897
William Alfred Peffer was the first Populist senator elected to U.S. Congress. He was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1831. As a young man he traveled across…
Medium: StillImage
Date: February 10,1893
This is a view of Republican House members posed in the Kansas statehouse before the Populist War, Topeka, Kansas. The dispute began when both the Republican and Populist parties claimed…
Medium: StillImage
Date: February 1893
Legislative panel showing members of the Douglass House (Republican) during Populist War, Topeka, Kan.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
A photograph showing three men looking over the Arkansas River Valley in Finney County, Kansas. One of the men is seated in an automobile.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
A photograph showing a government power house. The system cost over $300,000 and was used to supply under flow water to the farmers’ ditch in Finney County, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
A photograph of an irrigation canal in the foreground and in the background a field with hay equipment in Finney County, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
A photograph showing an unidentified farm in a valley in Finney County, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1907 Aug. 1
A photograph showing McKinney’s 500 acre beet field in Finney County, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
A photograph showing people posed by an irrigation canal in Finney County, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
A photograph showing horse drawn wagons lined up at the beet sugar dump. Visible in the photograph is an automobile and an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad car.
