Medium: Text
Date: September 20, 1942 - October 2, 1944
A collection of three photos and letters written by Lt. Harry Turbet Taylor (a.k.a. Tea and H. T.) to the G. S. Houdyshell family in Topeka, Kansas. Taylor, a member…
Medium: Text
Date: 1936
This series of photographs shows Horatius Saunders, prisoner 5174 from the Kansas State Penitentiary.
Medium: Text
Date: 1961
This Kansas Centennial envelope and a notecard tells the history of the Kansas postal system from Council Grove, Kansas.
Medium: Text
Date: June 2, 1940
This poster displays the June 2, 1940 Ritz Theater weekly movie schedule in Council Grove, Kansas.
Medium: Text
Date: March 24, 1940
This poster displays the weekly movie schedule for the Ritz Theater in Council Grove, Kansas.
Medium: Text
Date: 1985
This is an envelope with a White City Centennial stamp cancellation.
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1950 and 1959
This is an advertisement for Bert Grauel Chevrolet in Council Grove, Kansas.
Medium: Text
Date: Oct. 12, 1904
This is a newspaper advertisement for The Leader, a men’s clothing store in Council Grove, Kansas. The store was owned by G. S. Peterson and Henry A. White.
Medium: Text
Date: Aug. 1, 1917
This is stock certificate #861 for Big Harvey Oil and Gas Company in Newton, Kansas. It was issued to B. E. Eatinger.
Medium: Text
Date: Aug. 1, 1917
This is stock certificate #854 for Big Harvey Oil and Gas Company in Newton, Kansas. It was issued to William Hutchinson.
Medium: Text
Date: 1864
This is a land patent issued to Francis Doran for the purchase of 160 acres on the Kansas Indian Trust Lands. The property was located in the southeast quarter of…
Medium: Text
Date: 1857
A letter from Patrick Doran, Ireland to Francis Doran, New York.
Medium: Text
Date: June 4, 2016
This is a watercolor of the Last Chance Store in Council Grove, Kansas. Shawna Bell painted this scene during the 2016 Kansas Archeology Training Program (KATP) Field School excavation of…
Medium: Text
Date: 1906
This map shows the township of the 6S, Range XXIIW in Ness County, Kansas. Some points of interest include: the names of landowners within the townships, the town of Brownell…
Medium: Text
Date: October 23, 1944
A change of address card for Robert D. Gallagher during his military service in World War II.
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1944 and 1946
A postcard showing La Cote D’Azur, or the French Riviera, sent by Robert D. Gallagher to Mrs. Robert D. Gallagher during World War II.
Medium: Text
Date: May 12, 1943
This postcard features an illustration of a black girl in the form of a racist caricature called a picaninny. The picaninny was the dominant racist stereotype of black children in…
Medium: Text
Date: January 1, 1945
A letter from Robert D. Gallagher to his wife and son, written during World War II.
Medium: Text
Date: December 6, 1945
A letter from Robert D. Gallagher to his wife, Eileen Gallagher, and son, Bobby, written during WWII.
Medium: Text
Date: December 3, 1945
A Victory-Mail letter from Robert D. Gallagher to his wife and son in Leavenworth, Kansas.
Medium: Text
Date: July 18, 1945
A letter from Robert D. Gallagher to Eileen Gallagher written during WWII.
Medium: Text
Date: January 30, 1945
A letter from Robert D. Gallagher to Eileen Gallagher written during WWII.
Medium: Text
Date: April 11, 1868
This is a stock certificate for the Town Company of the Town of Oswego, La Bette [Labette] County, Kansas. It was issued to W. S. Newlon.
Medium: Text
Date: September 23, 1889
This is a certificate for 20 shares of capital stock in The Geneseo Town Company. It was issued to S. H. Crihfield.
Medium: Text
Date: 1888
Here are two Hamilton County Clerk warrants issued by the Treasurer of Hamilton County, Kansas. One is dated January 7, 1888 and the other May 14, 1888.
