Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe miniature passenger train in Topeka, Kansas
This is a panoramic photograph showing (left to right) Jim Donnelly and Merle A. Benson with Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's miniature train at the Topeka shops. Benson drove the little...
View ArticlePanoramic view of Topeka, Kansas
This is a panoramic photograph taken from the statehouse dome showing downtown Topeka, Kansas.
View ArticleStudents and teachers at the public school in Moline, Kansas
This is a panoramic photograph showing students and teachers posed in front of the public school in Moline, Kansas.
View ArticleMunkers Creek Axes
The Munkers Creek phase describes a stone tool technology restricted primarily to the Flint Hills. During this time most of North America was in a prolonged drought so severe that Archeologists...
View ArticleMunkers Creek Bifaces
The Munkers Creek phase describes a stone tool technology restricted primarily to the Flint Hills. During this time most of North America was in a prolonged drought so severe that Archeologists...
View ArticleMunkers Creek Knives
The Munkers Creek phase describes a stone tool technology restricted primarily to the Flint Hills. During this time most of North America was in a prolonged drought so severe that Archeologists...
View ArticleMunkers Creek Knives, Gouges and Bone Awl
The Munkers Creek phase describes a stone tool technology restricted primarily to the Flint Hills. During this time most of North America was in a prolonged drought so severe that Archeologists...
View ArticleMunkers Creek Gouges
The Munkers Creek phase describes a stone tool technology restricted primarily to the Flint Hills. During this time most of North America was in a prolonged drought so severe that Archeologists...
View ArticleMunkers Creek Projectile Points
The Munkers Creek phase describes a stone tool technology restricted primarily to the Flint Hills. During this time most of North America was in a prolonged drought so severe that Archeologists...
View ArticleMunkers Creek Projectile Points and Drill
The Munkers Creek phase describes a stone tool technology restricted primarily to the Flint Hills. During this time most of North America was in a prolonged drought so severe that Archeologists...
View ArticleThe life and times of Howard Athon, a pictorial account
This is a photograph album containing photographs of Howard Lincoln Athon. He was born and grew up in Quenemo, Kansas. After graduating from high school, he joined the U S. Navy during World War I....
View ArticleStudio portrait of A.L. Coffman, Topeka, Kansas
This studio portrait of Albert Leaverne Coffman of Topeka dates to the late 1920s or early 1930s. Coffman (who was known as Al, Vern, or most frequently, by his nickname 'Pooch'), operated a service...
View ArticleEmployees of the Cook's paint store in Topeka, Kansas
This photograph from the late 1940s or early 1950s shows the interior of the Cook Paint and Varnish Company's store in Topeka, located in the 800 block of Kansas Avenue. Posing in the photo are six...
View ArticleA.L. Coffman campaign photo and card
This studio portrait of Albert Leaverne Coffman of Topeka was taken in 1960 to be used in his primary campaign for Shawnee County Sheriff. Also shown is a small campaign card. Coffman (who was known...
View ArticleBaseball team in Topeka, Kansas
This snapshot from the late 1930s shows members of a semi-pro baseball team in Topeka. Players on the team include at least three members of the Coffman family, who later would become associated with...
View ArticleCook's Paint training session in Kansas City, Missouri
This photograph from the late 1940s or early 1950s was taken during a training class for employees of Cook's Paint. Warner Studio of Kansas City, Missouri, created the photo, so it is likely that the...
View ArticleMunker's Creek phase Bifaces
These three Munker's Creek phase Paleoarchaic bifaces were found in Wabaunsee County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1925. In addition to hunting, the Munker's Creek people harvesting...
View ArticleCentral Plains tradition abraders
These three abraders were recovered from the Wollenberg village site in Washington County in 1991. Archeologists call these groundstone tools as they are shaped by grinding. The sandstone abraders...
View ArticleAtchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's dining services
This photograph shows two employees from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company examining crates filled with food before loading them into the dining cars of the Santa Fe's Super Chief.
View ArticleAtchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's commissary building,...
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's commissary building, at Eighteenth Street and Coach Yards, in Chicago, Illinois. In the foreground dinning cars can be seen...
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