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Opening activities at the new museum, Topeka, Kansas
These twelve photographs show a large pit being created to roast a pig as part of the opening activates for the new museum in Topeka, Kansas. The museum is located at 6425 SW 6th Ave.
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The Kansas famine call for a public meeting to aid the starving
Signatures gathered by the New York Kansas Relief Committee to "call for a public meeting to be held on the 12th day of December to consider what action shall be taken" to aid settlers in Kansas...
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Adjournment from constitutional convention in Minneola, Kansas
Motion for adjourning the constitutional convention from Minneola in Franklin County to Leavenworth, Kansas. The motion states, "We have organized temporarily and are now getting ready to adjourn if...
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Street car #223 used by the Topeka Railway Company in Topeka, Kansas
This is a photograph showing street car #223 used by the Topeka Railway Company in Topeka, Kansas. The man on the left is Edson McKee.
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Mrs. Charles W. Adams
This is a carte-de-visite of Mrs. Charles W. Adams, who resided in Lawrence, Kansas. During the Civil War, her husband Charles W. Adams served in the 12th Kansas Volunteer Infantry Headquarters. He...
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Isaac Tichenor Goodnow diary
Diary belonging to Isaac Goodnow, a free-state supporter and the founder of Bluemont College (predecessor to Kansas State University) in Manhattan, Kansas Territory. Although many of the entries are...
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George Perine
This is a carte-de-visite of George Perine, who lived in Lawrence, Kansas.
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Juliette Lovejoy
Portrait of Mrs. Juliette Lovejoy. Juliette was the daughter of Julia Hardy Lovejoy and the wife of Dr. Samuel Whitehorn. Juliette died of typhoid fever on November 20, 1860 at Manhattan, Kansas.
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Isaac Tichenor Goodnow diary
Diary belonging to Isaac Goodnow, a free-state supporter and the founder of Bluemont College (predecessor to Kansas State University) in Manhattan, Kansas Territory. Although many of the entries are...
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Julia Lovejoy
A carte-de-visite of Julia Louisa Hardy Lovejoy (1812-1882). She and her husband, Charles Lovejoy, came to the Kansas Territory in March 1855.
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Edna Corbet
Photograph of M'Edna Corbet (1885-1930) sitting at a desk. She was superintendent of Shawnee County schools.
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Edna Corbet
Portrait of M'Edna Corbet (1885-1930). She was superintendent of Shawnee County schools.
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Colonel Don Estevan Miro to the Ioway Indians
This document was presented to Antoine Burada by his uncle, George Campbell. George Campbell was the "half-breed" son of Vance Murray Campbell, a fur trader and U. S. treaty interpreter, who fathered...
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Dismal River vessel
This Dismal River pottery vessel was recovered from the El Cuartelejo site in Scott County. The micaeous (mica in the clay) pot was reconstructed from many individual sherds, with the spaces filled in...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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