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Margaret Stanbach portrait
Date: 1861
This portrait is of Margaret Stanbach (1814-1961), the wife of Levi Hittle and mother of John Peter Hittle.
Medium: Text
Uncle Frank Davis house photograph
Date: 1901
This photograph represents Uncle Frank Davis’s house located one and a half miles south of Banner Township in Kansas. The right side of the house was built by Frank Davis…
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Browning, Hittle and Rings family portrait
Date: 1900-1920
This photograph represents four generations of Browning, Hittle and Rings families. Listed top to bottom row, left to right: Arthur and Anna Hittle Rings, John Hittle, Esther Davis and Edward…
Medium: Text
Browning family portrait
Date: 1900-1920
This photograph mounted on cardboard represents four members of the Browning family. Listed from left to right: Edward Nelson, Laura Jane, Mary (Molly), Abigail and Esther Ann.
Medium: Text
George Nelson and Esther Anna Browning portrait
Date: 1885
This photograph taken in 1885 is of husband and wife, Esther Anna Davis and George Nelson Browning. Esther’s collar is colored white with pencil on the photograph.
Medium: Text
W.P. Martin home photograph
Date: Between 1900 and 1920
This photograph mounted on cardboard is of a family house with five people and two animals out front. Listed left to right: Wilfred Martin, Esther Ann Davis Browning, Edward Nelson…
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Rings family portrait
Date: 1906
This family portrait is a representation of four generations of the Browning, Hittle and Rings family. Listed back to front row, left to right: John, Anna, Edwin, George, Clara, Harry,…
Medium: Text
John Peter and Mary Browning Hittle family portrait
Date: 1900-1920
This photograph is of the Browning family mounted on cardboad. Listed top to bottom row, right to left: Frank B. Hittle, Anna L. Hittle-Rings, Arthur Bird Hittle, Mary Browning Hittle,…
Medium: Text
William Dice and Mary Ellen Rings family portrait
Date: 1900-1920
This photograph is of the family of William Dice Rings. Individuals listed in the photograph are: Edwin, Clara, John, Effie, William, Mary Ellen, George, Arthur and Harry.
Medium: Text
Thomas Conner portrait
Date: Undated
This portrait taken in Holton, Kansas is of Arthur William Rings’s grandfather, Thomas Conner (1819-1901).
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Arthur William and Anna Laura Hittle Rings photographs
Date: Between 1900 and 1931
This series includes 12 black and white photographs of Anna Laura Hittle Rings (1870-1931) and her husband, Arthur Rings (1877-1929), with their family. Many of the photographs are individual portraits…
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Rings Family photographs
Date: Between 1860 and 1965
This series of photographs includes 10 black and white photographs of individual and group portraits, and two photographs of people in front of a house. Members of the Ring family…
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Hittle Family photographs
Date: Between 1900 and 1961
This series of photographs represents the Hittle family. The majority of the photographs are of the family as adults but included is a baby and a child’s portrait. Photographs were…
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Mary Abigail Browning Hittle photographs
Date: Undated
This series of photographs includes two portraits of Mary Abigail Browning Hittle (b. 1856), mother of Anna Hittle Rings.
Medium: Text
Arthur Bird Hittle photographs
Date: 1882-1953
This series of photographs includes an individual photograph of Arthur Bird Hittle as a baby and young adult, a portrait of him with his wife Rosalie Hittle, and an image…
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Beulah Alida Hittle photographs
Date: Between 1880 and 1965
This series of photographs represents Beulah Alida Hittle, sister of Anna Hittle Rings, throughout different stages of her adult life. One photograph is in color with the remaining in black…
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Anna Hittle correspondence
Date: August 27, 1948
This correspondence is from W.H. Imes to Anna Hittle Rings asking her to be his housekeeper.
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Anna Hittle souvenirs
Date: 1900-1903
This series of high school souvenirs are from Jackson County, Kansas. Included with the souvenirs is a program and a merit certificate.
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Anna Hittle essay
Date: May 16, 1901
This essay “True Greatness” was written by sixteen year-old Anna Hittle before she graduated from high school.
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George Washington to Nathan Chapman
Date: 1774
This is a note from George Washington authorizing payment of 1 pound, 15 shillings, and 10 pence to Mr. Nathan Chapman for his portion of the expenses of exploring, surveying,…
Medium: Text
John Marshall to Edward Everett
Date: 1825
This is a handwritten letter from John Marshall, while he was serving as the fourth Chief Justice of the United States, to the Honorable Edward Everett of Boston, acknowledging Marshall’s…
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Thomas Jefferson letter
Date: 1790
This is a letter from Thomas Jefferson, while he was serving as the first Secretary of State of the United States, to an unknown person identified as “His Excellency,” transmitting…
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John Jay to Colonel Joseph Fay
Date: 1803
This is a letter from John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, second governor of the state of New York, and a leader in the Federalist…
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Andrew Jackson to Col. Francis Preston
Date: 1805
This is a handwritten letter from Andrew Jackson to Colonel Francis Preston, dated January 23, 1805, forwarding to him bank bills for one thousand dollars in payment of a debt…
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John Quincy Adams letters
Date: 1823-1834
These two handwritten letters from John Quincy Adams are part of the William Treadway autograph collection at the Kansas State Historical Society. The two letters are dated 1823 and 1834…