Medium: Text
Date: September 28, 1973
This technical drawing by the International Car Corporation of Kenten, Ohio, and Buffalo, New York, shows a detailed floor plan and interior elevations for a Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1910 and 1940
Excerpts from Richard Sallet’s history of Russian-German settlements in the United States, focusing primarily on Kansas. Sallet was the editor of the Dakota Free Press and paid special attention to…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1900 and 1940
Letters, notes, and reminiscences of the Oregon Trail. Included are first hand accounts of traveling the trail, routes taken, and the hardships endured. The Oregon Trail was primarily used from…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1920 and 1925
These are notes and maps about the National Old Trail’s Road, a route that stretched from Boston, Massachusetts to San Francisco, California. The National Old Trail’s Road was established in…
Medium: Text
Date: 1962
A listing and detailed account of each station on the Leavenworth Pike’s Peak Trail. A map is also included showing the route of the trail, cutting across Kansas into Colorado…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1910 and 1940
These accounts describe travel on the Mormon trail, which went from Independence, Missouri, through several southeast Kansas counties, eventually exiting the state through Washington County. This trail was primarily used…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1905 and 1915
Accounts of the Kiowa trail, which traveled from Wichita, Kansas through Harper, Kingman, and Barber counties. This trail’s origins date back to the early 1870s and was used primarily for…
Medium: Text
Date: 1936
An account of the Kaw Trail, once used by Kaw Indians looking to trade at Council Grove around 1850 and 1860. This trail passed through Morris, Chase, and Marion counties.
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
These letters, maps, and reminiscences relate to the Fayetteville road, also known as the Fayetteville Emigrant Trail. This trail started at Arkansas Post in Arkansas, then headed towards the northeast…
Medium: Text
Date: 1905-2003
Letters, accounts, correspondence, and reminiscences of trails. Some trails covered are the Chisholm, California, Palo Duro, Jones and Plummer, Oregon, and the Butterfield Overland.
Medium: Text
Date: 1936
This account of grasshopper activity in Kansas, was compiled by George A. Root using information from Wilder’s Annals and the Kansas Historical Collections, July 1936.
Medium: Text
Date: December 05, 1908
Reminiscences of Mary Brown during the grasshopper invasion for the years 1866 and1867. Mary writes of the grasshoppers devouring almost every bit of green vegetation in sight and her attempts…
Medium: Text
Date: February 03, 1910
This is a letter from J.W. Honey to George W. Martin, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society. Honey writes of his experiences during the grasshopper invasion of 1874, focusing…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1840 and 1850
An illustration of Jedediah Smith copied from The Travels of Jedediah Smith by Maurice S. Sullivan. The sketch was made by a friend from memory after Smith’s death.
Medium: Text
Date: 1906
This catalog was published by Avery Manufacturing Company advertising their engines, threshers, self feeders, pneumatic straw stackers, water tanks, and farm machinery. All of the pages of the catalog have…
Medium: Text
Date: 1909
This souvenir booklet features Hamilton County and Syracuse, Kansas. Many photographs and descriptions of local areas are featured.
Medium: Text
Date: November 13, 2010
A certificate presented to Judge Richard Rogers for his contributions to the Shriners Hospitals For Children.
Medium: Text
Date: 1870
The Last Train is a forty-three page handwritten account (with additional notes interleaved with the original) of what is purported to be the last organized Underground Railroad (UGRR) journey through…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1864 and 1869
Eight photographs relating to Artemus Ward, born Charles Farrar Browne. The portrait of Ward was copied from the Complete Works of Artemus Ward and one of the advertisements for Ward’s…
Medium: Text
Date: July 21, 1941
A letter written by Dr. John R. Brinkley to Minnie Brinkley. It was written on stationery from the Hotel Bellerive in Kansas City, Missouri. In the letter, he writes about…
Medium: Text
Date: May 6, 1942
A letter written by Dr. John R. Brinkley to his wife Minnie Brinkley on Mother’s Day. He asks her to remember the good times, care for their son, and never…
Medium: Text
Date: 1901
This atlas of Cloud County, Kansas, includes a plat book of the villages, cities and townships of the county with the names of landholders. It also includes a patron and…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1940s and 1950s
This aerial view shows the Security Benefit Association grounds in Topeka, Kansas. The facility was located west of Sixth Avenue in Topeka, Kansas, and was owned and operated by the…
Medium: Text
Date: 1921
This plat shows the general plans for the Security Benefit Association’s home and hospital grounds in Topeka, Kansas. The facility was located west of Sixth Avenue in Topeka, Kansas and…
Medium: Text
Date: April 1975
This plat shows the Security Benefit Association cemetery in Topeka, Kansas. The Security Benefit Association was located north of Sixth Avenue near Wanamaker Road in Topeka, Kansas. The cemetery plots…
