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Construction on the Post Office and Federal Courthouse in Topeka, Kansas
Here are photographs showing construction on the United State Post Office and Federal building located at 424 SW Kansas Avenue in Topeka, Kansas. The contract for the new building was for $608,000,...
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Arkansas River near Mount Hope, Kansas
This is a postcard view of the Arkansas River near Mount Hope, Kansas.
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Sandy Praeger
This is a color photograph of Sandy Praeger, Kansas Insurance Commissioner. She was first elected to the office on November 2, 2002 and reelected on November 7, 2006. Commissioner Praeger is...
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Camp Funston during World War I
Here are 16 postcards showing soldiers at Camp Funston during World War I.
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Greatest Thing in the World
This flyer published by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company is promoting travel to the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. The scenic landmarks of the canyon are visibly labeled on...
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State Bank of Ozawkie, Ozawkie, Kansas
This black and white photograph shows a man standing in front of the State Bank of Ozawkie in Ozawkie, Kansas. This building was later demolished for the construction of the Perry Dam and Lake.
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Kansas State Historical Society staff
Here are two photographs of the Kansas State Historical Society staff posed in the lobby of the Research Center.
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General Society of Mayflower Descendants
This certificate acknowledges the request for a charter to form a Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Kansas.
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Spring Hill Farm and Stock Ranch near Strong City, Kansas
This is a lithograph depicting the Spring Hill Farm and Stock Ranch owned by S. F. Jones, located on Fox Creek, three miles north of Strong City, Chase County, Kansas. The lithograph was copied from...
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Towns on the Santa Fe Route in Southern California
A brochure published by the Pacific Land Improvement Company promoting towns along the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company in southern California. The publication focuses on the prosperous...
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Street scene in Mount Hope, Kansas
This is a postcard view showing one block east of Ohio Street looking west on Main Street in Mount Hope, Kansas. Concdon's Drug Store and the hotel are on the right, and the First National Bank is on...
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Vada Watson presenting President Calvin Coolidge with a bag of wheat
This is a photograph showing Vada Watson Hoskinson, Miss Kansas Wheat Girl, presenting President Calvin Coolidge with a small bag of wheat in observance of Kansas' sixty-fourth anniversary of...
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Washburn School in Topeka, Kansas
This is a carte-de-visite showing Lincoln College, later Washburn College, located on the northeast corner of 10th and Jackson in Topeka, Kansas.
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Amelia Earhart
This is a photograph of Amelia Earhart after her solo flight, meeting with Jack Mollendyk, father of commercial aviation, and Mr. McKenney, one of TWA's first traffic managers.
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Yanks Land in French Africa
This front page of the Topeka Daily Capital features a number of articles related to U.S. forces landing in French Africa during World War II.
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Fairview School, Nicodemus, Kansas
This black and white photograph shows a group of African American students and their teacher, in front of the Fairview School in Nicodemus, Kansas. On the back of the photograph some of the students...
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Cable car on 12th St. viaduct in Kansas City, Kansas
A photograph showing a cable car on the original 12th Street viaduct in Kansas City, Kansas.
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Marshall's Band journal
This journal contains Marshall's Band meeting minutes, membership lists, officers, concerts and rehearsals, newspaper articles, financial reports, constitution, and by-laws. Marshall's Band was...
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Dunn's Mill, Douglas, Kansas
This sepia-colored photograph shows Dunn's Mill along the Walnut River in Douglas, Kansas. In the foreground a group of people are visible along the dam.
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J. F. Doty correspondence
J. F. Doty served the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway Company (part of the Rock Island system) under a variety of titles, including full agent, adjusting agent, and right of way agent. Doty was...
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