Medium: Text
Date: October 21, 1874
Members of the John Brown Association, a French abolitionist group, presented this letter along with a gold medal to Mary Day Brown, the widow of John Brown, in 1874. Victor…
Medium: Text
Date: 1903
This illustration shows James Dunlavy, a private in Company D, Third Iowa Cavalry. It was printed in the book “Deeds Of Valor” edited by W. F. Beyer and O. F.…
Medium: Text
Date: 1914-1918
These two volumes, entitled Letters from Kansas Boys: European War, 1914-1918, contain letters from soldiers serving in World War I. The letters were printed in Kansas newspapers between 1914 and…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1930 and 1940
This draft of a poem or song about Teterville, Kansas (now a ghost town) was written by Francis Sullivan Caldwell. The fourth stanza begins, “Near Teeter-Town, I lost my way–…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1900 and 1919
This formal portrait shows Albert A. Doerr with parents Jacob and Dorothea and other family members.
Medium: Text
Date: 1940
In this booklet silent film star Louise Brooks outlines the fundamentals of ballroom dancing. Born November 14, 1906 in Cherryvale, Kansas, Louise Brooks studied dance in Wichita, Kansas until she…
Medium: Text
Date: January 13, 1919
This is a letter written by Arthur Willard Harwood to his aunt Leota Harwood in Claremont, California. He tells about his World War I experiences while serving in Company C,…
Medium: Text
Date: 6, 1918 - May 25, 1919
Letters written by Maximillian Joseph Tournade to Mrs. J. E. Rockhold, his mother, and Miss Roberta Tournade, his sister, in Lyndon, Kansas. He wrote the letters while serving in World…
Medium: Text
Date: February 03, 1922
This is a letter written by United States Senator Charles Curtis to Lalla Maloy Brigham, Council Grove, Kansas. In the letter, he corrects information about the Cheyenne Indians’ raid on…
Medium: Text
Date: 1964
This is the 1964 scrapbook of the American War Mothers, Topeka Chapter compiled by Pearl Cook, historian. The scrapbook contains photographs, newsclippings; programs, including one for Naturalization Proceedings; certificates; flyers;…
Medium: Text
Date: 1957-1963
This scrapbook of the Topeka Chapter of the American War Mothers includes certificates, photos, an annual report cover, memorial programs, and a volunteer recognition program. This patriotic service group was…
Medium: Text
Date: 1948-1952
This scrapbook of the Topeka Chapter of the American War Mothers includes newspaper clippings, photos, hand-lettering, memorial programs, and a VA schedule. The American War Mothers, a national organization founded…
Medium: Text
Date: 1956-1963
This scrapbook of the Topeka Chapter of the American War Mothers includes memorial programs, photographs and newspaper clippings. The American War Mothers, a national organization founded in 1917 and incorporated…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1935 and 1940
This is sheet music titled Baby Dear written by Maude J. Mitchell. She was the daughter of William Mitchell and Mary Chamberlain Mitchell of Wabaunsee, Kansas. Maude was an artist…
Medium: Text
Date: 1905
This is sheet music titled The Camp-Fire Song, words and music by William T. Hornaday (December 1, 1854 – March 6, 1937). He was an American zoologist, conservationist, taxidermist, author,…
Medium: Text
Date: September 07, 1899
Mary Leary Langston wrote this letter to Colonel Hinton after reading in the Kansas City Star about the August 1899 reburial of John Brown and his followers at Brown’s farm…
Medium: Text
Date: 1845-1935
Sixteen letters either written or received by members of the Mitchell family. Also, one gold license issued to William Mitchell, Jr. Several of the letters were written by William Mitchell…
Medium: Text
Date: January 20, 1924
This photograph shows John May, prisoner 8350, of the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas.
Medium: Text
Date: May 1, 1918 - December 31, 1918
Henry J. Allen used these three notebooks while working with the American Red Cross and the YMCA in France. Starting in July of 1918, Allen was embedded with the 35th…
Medium: Text
Date: 1941-1942
This is Colonel James C. Hughes’ notebook containing organizations and staff for the Philippine forces during World War II. He recorded the names of officers serving in the Philippine Department…
Medium: Text
Date: June 28, 1946
A letter from Joseph Zimmerman, Jr. to his parents. Zimmerman, who served on the USS Saratoga, notes the “big boom” won’t be long.
Medium: Text
Date: May 20, 1895-February 01, 1897
This monthly bicycle journal published in Topeka, Kansas, in the late 19th century was associated with the Topeka Athletic Association Wheelmen and meant to advance the interests of cycling, increase…
Medium: Text
Date: November 25, 1916
Tales of an Old Timer, containing early reminiscences, stories and sketches of Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas by John Calvin McCoy and compiled by W. W. Harris, Jr.
Medium: Text
Date: January 01, 1916
These reminiscences tell the early history of Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri as written by Mrs. Nelly McCoy Harris. The stories were published in Kansas City newspapers.
Medium: Text
Date: January 18, 1902-August 05, 1906
A diary kept by Maude Ethel Epling Beaty and Laura Grace Zibell. Maude’s entries start with January 18, 1902 and end April 4, 1902. She tells about accompanying her husband…
