This is a photograph of (left to right) Yolanda Duran Bowyer, Marino Lopez and Julietta Duran Soza. The two girls are twins.
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Yolanda Duran Bowyer, Marino Lopez and Julietta Duran Soza
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Marie Vargas, Virginia Villafranco Duran and Gomez Del Herro
This is a photograph showing (left to right) Marie Vargas, Virginia Villafranco Duran and Gomez Del Herro.
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Concepcion Villafranco
This is a photograph of Concepcion Vallafranco who was born March 12, 1882 and died August 20, 1926.
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Virginia Villafranco Duran and Jose G. Duran
Here are four photographs of Jose G. Duran and Virginia Villafranco Duran. The top photograph shows members of the family at Virginia Villafranco Duran's 90th birthday, May 21, 1996; the middle photograph shows Virginia Villafranco, Victoria Morales, Marie Vargas, and unidentified women in the 1920s; the bottom left is Jose G. Duran and the right is Virginia Villafranco with an unidentified man.
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Jose G. Duran and Virginia Villafranco Duran wedding and family
Here is a photograph showing Jose G. Duran and Virginia Villafranco Duran with family members.
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Jose G. Duran, Hacinta Gutierrez Duran, and Cruz Duran
This is a photograph of Hacinta Gutierrez Duran (center) with her two sons Jose G. Duran (left) and Cruz G. Duran (right).
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Jose G. Duran and Virginia Villafranco's wedding day
Here are two postcards, one showing Virginia Villafranco in her wedding dress and the other Jose G. Duran and Virginia Villafranceo posed together on their wedding day.
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Francis Soza, Phila Soza, and Rudy Rocha Soza
This is a photograph showing siblings Francis Soza, Phila Soza, and Rudy Rocha Soza.
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Robert Gomez military scrapbook
This is an album covering the military career of Robert Gomez of Topeka, Kansas. Gomez served in the Navy during WWII and the Korean War and was stationed aboard the USS Ranger and the USS Essex. Robert died on September 24, 2001 in Topeka.
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Gonzales family album
This family album contains numerous photographs and documents detailing the lives of Robert and Hazel Gomez and their family, who lived in Topeka, Kansas.
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Virginia Mendoza family photograph album
This is a photograph album containing photographs of the Mendoza family and extended family. Some baseball photographs include the teams Cuahtemo, Piratas, and Cometas. Many photographs are captioned on the back but are too fragile to remove from the photograph album.
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Virginia Gomez baby book and photograph album
This is a baby book and photograph album of Virginia Gomez, the daughter of Robert and Hazel Gomez of Topeka, Kansas. Hazel Gomez recorded many highlights of her daughter's first few years, recording young Virginia's immunization and vital records, birthday parties and presents, and religious occasions. The cards in the album have only their front covers digitized.
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Lupe, Asension, Gloria, Patrick, and Frankie Gonzales
A photograph of Lupe, Asension, Gloria, Patrick and Frankie Gonzales.
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Kindergarten p. m. class at Lincoln School, Topeka, Kansas
This is a photograph of the kindergarten p.m. class at Lincoln School in Topeka, Kansas. Mrs. Parkinson is identified as the teacher.
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Second grade at Lincoln School, Topeka, Kansas
This is a photograph of the second grade class at Lincoln School in Topeka, Kansas. Teachers identified are Miss Shellhorn and Miss Clement.
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Smoky Hill Phase Middle Ceramic vessel
This Smoky Hill Phase vessel was found at the Minneapolis Archeological Site in Ottawa County. A cord-wrapped paddle was used to make the roughened surface treatment of this otherwise undecorated pot. The globular or round shape of the vessel was efficient for cooking and storage.
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Pratt Complex Middle Ceramic vessel
The sherds of this reconstructed vessel were found at the Seuser Archeological Site in Rush County in 1970. The vessel is from the Pratt Complex which occurred during the Middle Ceramic Period. This pottery is typically cord marked, sometimes smoothed over cord marked, with sand tempering. The decorations around the rim were made by a pointed tool and by pinching the clay. Archeologists filled in the missing pieces of the vessel with plaster.
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Central Plains tradition vessel
When the individual sherds of this vessel were reconstructed it showed it to be a typical Central Plains tradition pot. It was found in the remains of an earthlodge in an Indian village site in Ottawa County. Vessels of this sort tend to be rounded or globular in shape, have a restricted neck and grit temper. A cord-wrapped paddle was used to make the roughened surface treatment of this otherwise undecorated pot. Archeologists used plaster to fill in the missing portions of the vessel.
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Kansas City Hopewell Early Ceramic vessel
Pieces of this pottery vessel were found at the Arrowhead Island Archeological site in Coffey County. Archeologists reconstructed what was possible and then used the example of these portions to complete the vessel with plaster. Holes were drilled in the pot by its owner so that cracks could be laced to mend it. The Arrowhead Island site was a village site of the Early Ceramic Period and the Kansas City Hopewell culture.
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Little River Focus Great Bend Aspect vessel
This pottery vessel was found at the Paint Creek Archeological site, a village site in McPherson County, Kansas. It was donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1971. The pot, which is shell tempered, was reconstructed from many individual sherds, with the spaces filled in with plaster. The Paint Creek site is what archeologists call part of the Little River Focus of the Great Bend Aspect, whose people practiced fishing, hunting, gathering, and agriculture.
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