Scott Brothers Ice Cream carton lid
Creator: Scott Brothers Ice Cream Company
Date: between 1925 and 1935
Cardboard lid for small cup of ice cream or sherbet, with pull tab at side. From by Scott Brothers Ice Cream Company of Topeka. The company was founded in 1879 by Harry C. Scott and claimed to be the oldest ice cream manufacturer in Kansas.

Bottle of turkey red wheat
Date: 1974
Glass bottle containing turkey red variety of wheat seed. Charles Goebbel, of Burlingame, Kansas, purchased this bottle in 1974. That year residents of Goessel, Kansas, sold these bottles to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the introduction of turkey red wheat in Kansas. According to legend, German Mennonites emigrating from Russia first planted hard winter wheat in Goessell in 1874. Turkey red proved highly adaptable to the Kansas climate and provided greater yields than any previous variety.

AT & SF packing tool
Date: between 1944 and 1964
Iron rod used on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway on the Cyrus K. Holliday Locomotive #1 (restored ATSF #132.) It was used for packing driving box cellars on the axles of the locomotive.

AT & SF boilermakers inspection hammer
Date: between 1935 and 1955
A boilermakers inspection hammer, with a steel head and wooden handle, used on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway.

AT & SF waste bucket
Date: between 1944 and 1964
Galvanized metal bucket used for waste oil by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway on the Cyrus K. Holliday Locomotive #1 (Restored ATSF #132.)

Coupling pin
Date: between 1870 and 1880
Coupling pin was used to connect railcars while in transit. This was part of the Charles "Bud" Goebel collection, which was displayed at the Burlingame Santa Fe depot from 1963 until its donation to the Kansas Museum of History in 1981.

Coupling link
Date: between 1870 and 1880
Coupling link, which was used to connect railcars together in transit. This was part of the Charles "Bud" Goebel collection, which was displayed in the Burlingame Santa Fe depot from 1963 until donation to the Kansas Museum of History in 1981.

Bishop car-coupler
Creator: M. M. Buck & Company
Date: between 1881 and 1884
The Bishop Car-Coupler was a special steel blade with a wood handle used by railroad brakemen and switchmen for coupling and uncoupling cars with particular couplers. The original patent for this device was obtained by Goodwin O. Bishop of Hannibal, Mo. On December 6, 1881. J.B. Sheehan used this one while he worked for the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1884.

Rock Island Railroad water jug
Date: between 1890 and 1900
Ceramic water jug used on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (Rock Island Lines.) Where on the railroad it was actually used is not known.

Railroad spike
Date: between 1943 and 1963
A railroad spike is a pointed, iron object used to secure rails and tie plates to ties in the track. This one is from the "museum room" of collector Johnson Alcott Holmes of Manhattan, Kansas.

Tandem bicycle
Creator: American Bicycle Company
Date: between 1899 and 1902
Tandem bicycle with red painted steel frame. This two-seat bicycle was bought in 1906 by Harry Baugh of Garden City, then handed down to Joe Sartorius, and finally to Joe's daughter, Maria Sartorius Craig. The bike's manufacturer, the American Bicycle Company, existed for a very short time, from 1899 to 1902. Baugh and Sartorius both were living in Garden City when the tandem changed hands. Baugh moved to Kansas from Missouri in the 1910s, and the Sartorius family (originally from Germany) came to Garden City around the same time so Joe could work as foreman in a sugar beet factory. The bicycle's Wichita license tag apparently dates from Maria Craig's period of ownership.

Guide map of the great Texas cattle trail from Red River crossing to the old reliable Kansas Pacific Railway
Creator: Kansas Pacific Railway Company
Date: 1874
Railroad guide book produced by the Kansas Pacific Railway to aid cattle ranchers getting their herd to market.

Kansas illustrated. An accurate and reliable description of this marvelous state for the information of persons seeking homes in the great west
Creator: Bodine, L.T.
Date: 1879
Kansas Pacific Railroad promotional pamphlet highlights the important natural and economic resources of Kansas. Includes lists of crop production by county, inducements for emigrants, and county descriptions.

Eldridge House, Lawrence, Kansas. 323 miles west of St. Louis, Mo.
Creator: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
Date: 1867
One side of a stereograph showing the Eldridge House located on Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, Kan. In front of the Eldridge House is a Rail Road Line horse-drawn omnibus.

Overland Stage Line
Creator: Crescent
Date: 1865-1869
An Overland Stage Line stagecoach pulled by four horses.

Buffalo hunter's home, Sheridan, Kansas
Creator: Benecke, R.
Date: 1870
Buffalo hunter's home on the Kansas Pacific Railway, Sheridan, Kansas.

Grinter Ferry, Wyandotte County, Kansas
Creator: Kensler, Gordon
Date: 1952
A 1952 drawing of the earliest ferry on the Kansas river. Established in 1831 by Moses Grinter, the Grinter Ferry operated at the Delaware Crossing where the Fort Leavenworth-Fort Gibson road crossed the Kansas river in Wyandotte County, Kansas.

Amelia Earhart and Laura Ingalls
Date: August 19, 1935
This photograph shows Amelia Earhart Putnam and Laura Ingalls descending from a TWA "Sky Chief" airplane that stopped briefly at the municipal airport in Wichita, Kansas. The two female aviators were headed for Los Angeles, California.

Philip Billard
Date: Between 1914 and 1918
An informal portrait of pilot Philip Billard, 1891-1918, and a biplane. A native of Topeka, Kansas, Billard (born Louis Philip Billard) was well known in the Topeka area for his flying skills in the early days of aviation. When the U. S. entered World War I, Billard volunteered for service in the United States Army as a pilot. He was stationed in France, and assigned the dangerous duty of test pilot. On July 24, 1918, Philip Billard was killed when the DeHaviland 4 aircraft he was testing crashed. In 1938, his older brother, Robert T. Billard, donated Philip's own Longren No. 5 biplane to the Kansas State Historical Society. The biplane had been built by Topeka-based aircraft manufacturer, Albin K. Longren, and stored in the Billard family's garage for two decades following Philip's death. In 1940, the Philip Billard Airport in Topeka, Kansas, was dedicated to his memory.

Lear Jet, Wichita, Kansas
Date: 1960
An aerial view of the large Lear Jet factory plant in Wichita, Kansas. Also visible are jets and automobiles parked outside of the factory.

Boeing B-47 Stratojet
Date: Unknown
A view of a B-47 Stratojet subsonic jet bomber built by the Boeing Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kansas.

Wagon caravan
Date: Possibly between 1860-1890
A photograph of horse drawn wagons traveling through an unidentified town. Storefronts and dirt streets can also be seen.

Reo automobile, Dorrance, Kansas
Creator: Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981
Date: September 12, 1909
View of four men seated in Phil Thielen's Reo automobile on an unpaved country road outside of Dorrance in Russell County, Kansas.

Brown's Garage, Dorrance, Kansas
Creator: Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981
Date: August 29, 1911
View of three men in the Brown Garage in Dorrance, Russell County, Kansas. One man is leaning against a work bench, another is seated on an Indian motorcycle, and a third is seated in an open convertible automobile.

Glidden auto tour, Dorrance, Kansas
Creator: Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981
Date: July 29, 1909
View of two men in an open automobile, competing in a Glidden auto tour, parked on a street in Dorrance, Russell County, Kansas. The Glidden auto tours were timed, long distance road rallies organized from 1902-1913 throughout the United States by the American Automobile Association (AAA) as a means of encouraging automotive travel and the development of safe roads. Also visible are spectators standing around the automobile in front of Lindenmeyers General Merchandise store, a wagon, pennant flags, utility poles and power lines, windmills, a church steeple, a large grain elevator and barn, and the buildings and businesses along the city street.