Medium: Text
Date: Between 1917 and 1919
This scrapbook was created by Lester Ira Arnold and contains photographs and documents of his training and service in World War I (1917-1919). The album shows views of barrack life…
Medium: Text
Date: 1855-1869
Series of records in the Isaac T. Goodnow collection relating to Bluemont Central College and its successor, the Kansas State Agricultural College, in Manhattan, Kansas. Goodnow was a land agent…
Medium: Text
Date: 1864
This is a map showing the campaign against Sterling Price. It accompanied a report by Major General S. R. Curtis, U. S. Army and was copied from the Atlas to…
Medium: Text
Date: 1864
This is a map showing the Osage or Mine Creek battle. It accompanied a report by Major General S. R. Curtis, U. S. Army and was copied from the Atlas…
Medium: Text
Date: October 22, 1864-October 23, 1864
This is a map showing the Battle of Westport and Big Blue. It accompanied a report by Major General S. R. Curtis, U. S. Army and was copied from the…
Medium: Text
Date: October 25, 1864
This is a map showing the Battle of Marais Des Cygnes or Osage or Mine Creek. The map was copied from The Story of a Cavalry Regiment, The Career of…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1946 and 1948
Here is a newspaper photograph showing the Wichita East High School state high school championship swim team. People in the photograph seated are (left to right) Bill Brinkman, Jim Sargent,…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1858 and 1895
Series of personal property records belonging to the Isaac T. Goodnow collection. Isaac Goodnow was an early resident of Manhattan, Kansas, and was a free-state supporter. He was a delegate…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1842 and 1915
Series of personal financial records in the Isaac T. Goodnow collection, including tax receipts, expense books, bank statements, and checks. The financial records of Goodnow’s wife, Ellen, and adopted daughter,…
Medium: Text
Date: 1855-1891
Documents relating to the Manhattan Town Association found in the Isaac T. Goodnow collection. These documents include the first known tax bill in Manhattan, Kansas, as well as numerous stock…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1838 and 1893
A series of manuscripts from the Isaac T. Goodnow collection that includes lectures, poems, and reminiscences. These manuscripts include those written, used, and collected by Isaac Goodnow.
Medium: Text
Date: 1859-1968
These are railroad incorporation records that include the Atchison and Fort Riley Railroad Company (1859), Atchison and Pikes Peak Railroad Company (1859), Atchison and Topeka Railroad Company (1860), Atchison, Topeka…
Medium: Text
Date: April 1, 1951-June 1, 1953
This baseball scorebook from the early 1950s was used by Fred Simpson, the Berryton High School baseball coach. Games scored in the book cover the years 1951-53, including the state…
Medium: Text
Date: 1860-1873
Three land patents issued by the United States General Land Office for land in Township 10 South, Range 7 East in Riley County, Kansas. Isaac T. Goodnow was granted 160…
Medium: Text
Date: January 12, 1893
Land contract made between the Union Pacific Railway Company and Miss Alice Moore of Arapahoe County, Colorado. Moore bought 160 acres in Wallace County, Kansas, from the railroad for $880.
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1857 and 1887
Petitions signed by citizens of Pottawatomie County, Kansas, for the land lying east of the 6th Principle meridian to be annexed by Riley County, Kansas. The petition specifies land “commencing…
Medium: Text
Date: 1845-1889
Two diplomas awarded to Isaac T. Goodnow. In August 1845, Goodnow received a teaching degree from Wesleyan University in Middleton, Connecticut. Goodnow came to Kansas in 1855 with the New…
Medium: Text
Date: February 13, 1875
This stock certificate entitles H. B. Cullum, receiver for the First National Bank in Topeka, Kansas, to 165 shares in capital stock of Brown’s Rotary Shuttle Sewing Machine Company in…
Medium: Text
Date: 1994-2000
In this photograph Dorothy “Dottye” Bogue Holt, born in 1925, stands in front of the Bodarc General Store building, which closed in 1951. Bodarc, also known as Bois d’Arc, was…
Medium: Text
Date: 1912
An autographed copy of suffragist writing by Lilla Day Monroe. She writes that her intentions are to show “the ‘bloody’ seriousness of it all, smile now and then, and to…
Medium: Text
Date: 1876
Diary kept by William Eaton Goodnow, who settled in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1855 with his brother, Isaac T. Goodnow.
Medium: Text
Date: 1875
Diary kept by William Eaton Goodnow, who settled in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1855 with his brother, Isaac T. Goodnow.
Medium: Text
Date: 1874
Diary kept by William Eaton Goodnow, who settled in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1855 with his brother, Isaac T. Goodnow.
Medium: Text
Date: 1873
Diary kept by William Eaton Goodnow, who settled in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1855 with his brother, Isaac T. Goodnow.
Medium: Text
Date: 1872
Diary kept by William Eaton Goodnow, who settled in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1855 with his brother, Isaac T. Goodnow.
