Medium: Text
Date: Between 1960 and 1980
A scrapbook created by Pete “Blanco” Gomez of Topeka, Kansas to illustrate his fastpitch softball career. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, tournament brackets, photographs, programs, and ephemera. Pete played primarily…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1970 and 1980
Shawnee County Amateur Baseball Association, Inc. yearbooks for 1970, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979-1980. These yearbooks are related to the sports careers of a number of athletes from the Oakland neighborhood…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1970 and 1980
This collection includes photographs and materials related to Mike Torrez’s baseball games and tournaments. Some teams identified are Cosmopolitan Club and Panthers. Also included is information on little league and…
Medium: Text
Date: 1975
Handwritten scores for the 34th Newton fast-pitch softball tournament in Newton, Kansas. Also included is photocopies of newspaper clippings related to the Livingston softball team.
Medium: Text
Date: 1925
This scrapbook represents Vada Watson Hoskinson’s travels promoting Kansas wheat. A native of Turon, Kansas, Vada was selected as the state’s first Wheat Queen through a contest sponsored by Kansas…
Medium: Text
Date: Between April and May, 1879
A memorandum book containing notes written by Franklin George Adams between April and May of 1879. Many of the notes contained in this book are written in Pitman Shorthand. Franklin…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1911 and 1929
A scrapbook of photographs and newspaper articles kept by Albin K. Longren. Longren was an early Kansas aviator and airplane manufacturer. He was a popular barnstormer across the Midwest and…
Medium: Text
Date: Between July 04, 1858 and February 25, 1880
This map traced from a letter written by J.W. Gladding shows parts of Topeka, Kansas with the location of his house at that time. The building labeled “Stone Hall” near…
Medium: Text
Date: January 20 and 21, 1973
A program for the 1973 Topeka Mexican Basketball Tournament. The tournament featured teams from Illinois, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri.
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1970 and 2023
A binder scrapbook created by Ronnie Escobar. The scrapbook contains news articles, schedules and other materials related to Mexican American baseball and softball. Some of the teams featured include the…
Medium: Text
Date: 2009 - 2023
Two of Ronnie Escobar’s award plaques. The first commemorates Ronnie Escobar’s recognition in the Newton Mexican American Hall Class of 2009 Hall of Fame. The second plaque is from Ronnie…
Medium: Text
Date: Bulk 1861-1875
This photograph shows Samuel Austin Kingman, (1818-1904), copied from the book “History of Kansas” by Noble L. Prentis. He was appointed justice to the Kansas Supreme Court and served from…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1894 and 1909
This is the constitution, bylaws, and minute book for the years 1894-1909 for the Kansas Woman’s Press Association. The Woman’s Press Association was organized in 1890 in order to provide…
Medium: Text
Date: March 10, 1874
A federal land patent issued to Sarah Halverson on March 10th, 1974. The patent was issued for 160 acres in Independence, Kansas.
Medium: Text
Date: 1912
One folder of primary nomination papers signed by individuals to get their candidate listed on the ballot for the 1912 county sheriff primary election. Submitted to the county clerk. Organized…
Medium: Text
Date: 1902
One folder of school land purchase records from the Barton County Clerk’s Office. The Barton County Clerks office files contain certificates of purchase, notarized payment charts, renewal certificates of purchase,…
Medium: Text
Date: Between January 1930 and November 1933
The first volume ledger that serves as a record of deaths in Topeka and Shawnee County, Kansas. Recorded information includes the name of the deceased, sex and skin color, date…
Medium: Text
Date: Between January 1930 and March 1935
The first volume ledger that serves as a record of births in Topeka and Shawnee County, Kansas. Information recorded in this volume includes child’s and father’s names, mother’s maiden name,…
Medium: Text
Date: June 1895
This illustration shows the Northern Cheyenne warrior/war Chief Roman Nose, copied from Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, challenging U.S. Army forces at the Battle of Beecher Island in 1868.
Medium: Text
Date: 1933
This photograph shows Francis Murry Carter, (1886-1962), copied from the 1933 Kansas Legislative Blue Book. Carter was a farmer, stockman, and banker from Hamilton County, Kansas. He served as treasurer…
Medium: Text
Date: Between May 3, 1925 and December 5, 1925
John R. Brinkley’s journal from 1925. Brinkley worked as a physician, but is often considered fraudulent. Brinkley was known as the “goat-gland doctor” for his procedure of implanting goat glands…
Medium: Text
Date: 1988
This photograph shows from left to right Wayne Barngrover and Phil Poston. Barngrover and Poston served as board members of the Edwards County Economic Development Corporation in Kinsley, Kansas. Barngrover…
Medium: Text
Date: 1887
A petition in support of the 1887 municipal suffrage campaign. This petition includes the names of forty-two citizens, inculding twenty-six women, from Lincoln County, Kansas, that supported the passage of…
Medium: Text
Date: 1867
A manuscript of a speech written and delivered by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Stanton was an activist and prominent member of the Women’s Rights Movement in in the mid to late…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1893 and 1900
This photograph scrapbook is part of the William Elmer Blackburn collection. It is number one of three total albums. Albums two and three are described separately at UID: 533812. Album…
