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Blockhouse and guardhouse at Fort Hays, Kansas
This postcard shows the old blockhouse and old guardhouse at Fort Hays, Kansas. Fort Hays was an important U.S. Army post that was active from 1865 until 1889. Originally designated Fort Fletcher...
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Site of the Delaware Indian Agency in Wyanotte County, Kansas
This photograph shows the site of the Delaware Indian Agency in Wyandotte County, Kansas.
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Biennial report of the Boys Industrial School, 1928
This is the twenty-fourth biennial report of the Boys' Industrial School in Topeka, Kansas. Louis D. White was the superintendent. The Kansas State Reform School, also known as the Industrial School...
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View of the Kansas Women's Industrial Farm, Lansing, Kansas
A photograph showing the Kansas Women's Industrial Farm in Lansing, Kansas. In 1916, this facility was established, and for a year it was a branch of the men's prison at the Kansas State Penitentiary...
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Field of tomatoes under irrigation at Prison Island Farm, Lansing, Kansas
This is a photograph of a field of tomatoes under irrigation at Prison Island Farm in Lansing, Kansas.
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Views of the Kansas Women's Industrial hospital and library, Lansing,...
These two hotographs show the hospital and library at the Kansas Women's Industrial Farm in Lansing, Kansas. In 1916, this facility was established, and for a year it was a branch of the men's prison...
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Women gardeners at the Kansas Women's Industrial Farm, Lansing, Kansas
This photograph showis women gardeners in front of the vegetable storage cave at the Women's Industrial Farm in Lansing, Kansas. In 1916, this facility was established, and, for a year, it was a...
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Administration building at the Kansas Women's Industrial Farm, Lansing,...
This is a photograph of the administration building at the Kansas Women's Industrial Farm in Lansing, Kansas. In 1916, this facility was established, and, for a year, it was a branch of the men's...
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Rosan Potts Ke-o-ko-mo-quah and Wallace Stem-son on the Potawatomi...
This is a photograph showing Mrs. Rosan Potts Ke-o-ko-mo-quah and Wallace Stem-son, both members of the Potawatomi Prairie Band, sitting near a straw reed mat, iron kettles and wooden bowl. They are...
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Kansas Women's Industrial Farm in Lansing, Kansas
This is a photograph of women sitting outside of a building on the Women's Industrial Farm in Lansing, Kansas. In 1916, this facility was established, and, for a year, it was a branch of the men's...
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Views of the Kansas Women's Industrial Farm, Lansing, Kansas
Two views of the Kansas Women's Industrial Farm in Lansing, Kansas. In 1916, this facility was established, and for a year it was a branch of the men's prison at the Kansas State Penitentiary in...
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Milk maids at the Kansas Women's Industrial Farm, Lansing, Kansas
A photograph showing the dairy barn and milk maids at the Kansas Women's Industrial Farm in Lansing, Kansas. In 1916, this facility was established, and for a year it was a branch of the men's prison...
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Baseball team at the Kansas Women's Industrial Farm, Lansing, Kansas
A photograph of the women's baseball team at the Kansas Women's Industrial Farm in Lansing, Kansas. In 1916, this facility was established, and for a year it was a branch of the men's prison at the...
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Biennial report of the Boys Industrial School, 1924
The Kansas State Reform School, also known as the Industrial School for Boys, was established in 1879 by a legislative act that appropriated $35,000 for the erection of buildings, etc., in Topeka,...
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President William Howard Taft, Topeka, Kansas
This black and white photograph shows the twenty-seventh President of the United States William Howard Taft on the south steps of the capitol in Topeka, Kansas. He spoke to the crowd of citizens and...
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Josiah and Agnes B. Carlisle Miller
This sepia-colored image shows newspaper publisher and editor Josiah Miller and his wife, Agnes B. Carlisle Miller. The couple married on January 3, 1854, in Bloomington, Indiana, and later migrated...
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Noah Allen to Governor John St. John
In this letter, Wichita attorney Noah Allen invites Kansas Governor St. John to deliver a prohibition amendment address at a mass meeting in his community. He expresses concern that the "machine" may...
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George W. Bain to Governor John St. John
In this letter, George Bain of Kentucky describes for Kansas Governor St. John the events of a recent temperance meeting in Clear Lake, Iowa. Bain mentions the the morning and afternoon sessions were...
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E. C. Boaz to Governor John St. John
In this letter, E. C. Boaz of Girard, Kansas, invites Kansas Governor St. John to a Temperance meeting to be held in a grove near Girard on September 18th, 1880.
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D. Boswell to Governor John St. John
In this letter, having received notice that Kansas Governor St. John could visit Silver Springs on the 20th, D. Boswell reminds the Governor that "Barnum's Day" will be held in neighboring Topeka that...
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