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Urban renewal in Topeka, Kansas
Here are three photographs of Urban Renewal in Topeka, Kansas. They show buildings being razed on Kansas Avenue at Fourth Street.
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Central Plains tradition abrader
This abrader was recovered from the Wollenberg village site in Washington County in 1991. Archeologists call abraders groundstone tools as they are shaped by grinding. This sandstone abrader has been...
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Hollenberg Pony Express Station flatware
This knife and fork were recovered from the Hollenberg Pony Express Station in Washington County in 1991. They were found below the station and may have been lost anytime during the buildings use as a...
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Dinner Plate
This whiteware plate sherd was recovered from the Hollenberg Pony Express Station in Washington County in 1991. It was found below the station and may have been lost anytime during the buildings use...
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General Service Button
This General Service button was found near the Enlisted Barracks at Fort Wallace in Wallace County. Excavations took place at the fort in 1997 by archeologists from the Kansas Historical Society. The...
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Modified Mussel Shell
This fragment of a mussel shell was found along Mill Creek in Wabaunsee County. It was donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1925. The hole was cut or drilled into the shell, but it isn't known...
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Pony bead
This bead was recovered from the surface of a camp workshop site (14TO313) along the Saline River in Trego County during the 1997 Kansas Archeology Training Program. Beads that are 4.0mm to 4.5mm in...
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Hollenberg Pony Express Station buttons
Several buttons were found during the 1991 excavations at the Hollenberg Pony Express Station in Washington County. One button fragment is made of shell and the rest are glass.
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Alternately Beveled Knife
This alternately beveled knife was found in Wabaunsee County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1925. Archeologists believe that a knife shaped like this one would have been used for...
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Hammerstone
This chert hammerstone, a hard cobble used to strike flakes from a stone, was recovered from a camp site in Seward County. The river cobble shows battering on two ends.
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Spencer Cartridge from Fort Wallace
This 50-56 caliber Spencer cartridge, manufactured by the Sage Ammunition Works of Middleton, Connecticut, was found near the guardhouse at Fort Wallace in Wallace County. Excavations took place at...
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Art Priebe and Jake Watkins, Topeka, Kansas
Infielder Art Priebe (on the left) and outfielder Byron 'Jake' Watkins (on the right) are shown in this snapshot from 1947. Priebe and Watkins played for the Topeka Owls minor league baseball team in...
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's dining car department
This photograph shows a group of women assembling napkins and tablecloths for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's dining car department.
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's military train
This photograph shows U.S. soldiers loading supplies into an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's military train.
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Dawn Coffman, Topeka, Kansas
This photograph from the early 1950s shows a young Dawn Coffman posing on the bus used by the Topeka Decker Oilers semi-pro baseball team. Her father, Harland Coffman, was a minor league pitcher...
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Harland Coffman, bowling in Topeka, Kansas
Topekan Harland Coffman is bowling in this photograph from the 1960s. Coffman was a lifelong Topekan who played high school, American Legion, minor league, and semi-pro baseball throughout his youth...
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Harland and Burton Coffman, Topeka, Kansas
These two photographs from the 1940s show Harland and Burton Coffman of Topeka. In the earlier of the two photos, dated 1940, the boys are posing with their bicycles outside the service station owned...
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Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, Kansas
This is a photograph showing the west side of Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, Kansas.
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Pitcher Lee Dodson, Topeka, Kansas
Lee Dodson is pictured in these two snapshots from 1947, the year he pitched for the Topeka Owls minor league baseball team. With an 18-4 record and an ERA of 2.37, Dodson led the Class C Western...
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Harland Coffman in Independence, Kansas
This photograph of Topekan Harland Coffman was taken in Independence, Kansas, in 1948. That summer, Coffman was a right-handed pitcher with the Independence Yankees, a Class D minor league club in the...
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