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Crucifix holder
This crucifix holder was excavated from Fort Hays in Ellis County. Faint lettering on the front reads "ECCO HOMO," translated as "Behold (the) Man."
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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. Archeologists filled in the missing pieces with plaster. The vessel is from the Pratt...
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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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Bone Rasp
This rasp was found at the Saxman village site in Rice County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2014. The rasp was made by cutting grooves into a deer rib. Archeologists believe that...
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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 these portions as an example to...
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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 and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1971. The pot, which is shell tempered,...
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Bone Awl
This awl was found at the Saxman village site in Rice County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2014. Awls such as this one are usually made from deer bone. They were used to make holes...
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Bone Awl
This awl was found at the Saxman village site in Rice County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2014. Awls such as this one are usually made from deer bone. They were used to make holes...
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Bone Awl
This awl was found at the Saxman village site in Rice County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2014. Awls such as this one are usually made from deer bone. They were used to make holes...
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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 clay) pot was reconstructed from many individual sherds, with the spaces filled in...
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Snuff Jar
This ceramic snuff jar was found at Fort Hays (14EL301) in Ellis County. Its lettering declares it to be from the C. W. Gail & Ax snuff makers of Baltimore, Maryland for display in a store. Gail...
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Leola Haller and Margaret Schmitz on a bicycle in Alma, Kansas
This is a photograph of Leola Haller and Margaret Schmitz seated on a bicycle in Alma, Kansas.
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Kratzer store, Volland, Kansas
Photograph of a group of men, including the Kratzer brothers, gathered in front of the old Kratzer store at Volland, Kansas.
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Louie Haller with mules in Alma, Kansas
This is a photograph of Louis "Louie" Haller with a harnessed team of mules in Alma, Kansas.
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Flooded railroad cars, Wabaunsee County, Kansas
Photograph of two Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway cars swept away in flood waters near the Hendricks Creek entry to Mill Creek in Wabaunsee County, Kansas. A mail car and an express car...
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Kratzer homestead, Wabaunsee County, Kansas
A black and white photograph of unidentified members of the Kratzer family at the family homestead northwest of Alma, Kansas, located on Wabaunsee Road.
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Ed and Alfred Schwanke
Two photographs of Ed and Alfred Schwanke of Wabaunsee County, Kansas. In the first photograph, the pair are seen planting a field as one man sits on a planter being pulled by a Caterpillar D2 crawler...
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Bridge building, Volland, Kansas
This is a photograph from a glass plate negative of a bridge maintenance crew at Volland, Kansas, along with some citizens who appear eager to help the crew.
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Business district, Alma, Kansas
View looking east on 3rd Street in Alma, Kansas. Around 1920, the streets were renamed and this became East 4th Street. The Brandt Hotel is visible on the left and to the right, in the Limerick...
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