Laying a pipe line in Allen County, Kansas
Date: 1927
A black and white photograph of two men putting in a pipe line in Allen County, Kansas. Machinery and an automobile can also be seen.

Rossville high school's football team
Date: 1924
A photograph of Rossville high school's football team.

Rossville high school's football team
Date: 1927
A photograph of Rossville high school's football team.

Confiscated beer, Eureka, Kansas
Date: 1929
This black and white photograph shows a group of gentlemen standing inside a courtroom with confiscated bottles of beer at the Greenwood County Courthouse in Eureka, Kansas.

The Court of Industrial Relations
Creator: Kansas. Court of Industrial Relations
Date: 1920
This booklet includes the Industrial Court Law as enacted by the Kansas Legislature, a legislative history of Senate Bill No. 1 (The Industrial Court Bill), and Governor Henry J. Allen's message to the legislature. The Kansas legislature created the Court of Industrial Relations by special legislation in January 1920 following a series of coal strikes in Southeast Kansas. The court's purpose was to resolve labor disputes between labor organizations and employers and it caused considerable debate throughout the United States. The United States Supreme Court declared the court unconstitutional in 1923. The Kansas Public Service Commission succeeded the court in 1925.

Iola Oilers, Iola, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
This black and white photograph shows members of the Iola Oilers men's baseball team from Iola, Kansas.

Baseball team, Iola, Kansas
Date: 1925
This black and white photograph shows members of a men's baseball team from Iola, Kansas.

Cory Saxton Autos at Bentley, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
Two photographs of Cory Saxton Autos parked in front of the Johnson's Cash Store in Bentley.

Mill in Bentley, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
Photograph of the Alex Armour Grain Elevator, Bentley, Kansas. Two unidentified men are standing nearby.

William Marion Jardine
Creator: Henry Miller News Picture Service
Date: March 06, 1925
A photograph of William Marion Jardine (fourth from the right) taking the oath of office for United States Secretary of Agriculture. He served in this office during the presidency of Calvin Coolidge. As one of the first Kansans to gain a cabinet level position at the national level, he was instrumental in directing a farm program that had become economically depressed during the post World War I period. Prior to his selection to this cabinet level position, he had served as Dean of the School of Agriculture at Kansas State Agricultural College (Kansas State University) and subsequently became president of that institution from 1918 - 1925. Following his tenure as Secretary of Agriculture, President Hoover appointed Jardine as Ambassador to Egypt in 1930. Upon his return to this country in 1933, Gov. Alf Landon appointed him a temporary Kansas State Treasurer in the wake of the Finney Bond Scandal. Jardine resigned from that position in April 1934 and became the president of the University of Wichita (now Wichita State University).

Hotel Dighton, Dighton, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1925
A photograph of Hotel Dighton located in Dighton, Kansas. Seated on the bench are the owners with their children (l to r) Dodd, Adelphia, Caleb, Nettie Ellen Tucker McCoy and James Eriah McCoy. The hotel was built in the 1920s and at one time was considered one of the nicer places to stay in western Kansas. After James McCoy's death, Nettie acquired sole ownership of the hotel.

William Marion Jardine
Date: Between 1925 and 1930
A photograph of William Marion Jardine who served as Secretary of Agriculture during the presidency of Calvin Coolidge. As one of the first Kansans to gain a cabinet level position at the national level, he was instrumental in directing a farm program that had become economically depressed during the post World War I period. Prior to his selection to this cabinet level position he had served as Dean of the School of Agriculture at Kansas State Agricultural College (Kansas State University) and subsequently became president of that institution from 1918 - 1925. Following his tenure as Secretary of Agriculture, President Hoover appointed Jardine as Ambassador to Egypt in 1930. Upon his return to this country in 1933, Gov. Alf Landon appointed him a temporary Kansas State Treasurer in the wake of the Finney Bond Scandal. Jardine resigned from that position in April 1934 and became the president of the University of Wichita (now Wichita State University).

Warren G. Harding, Hutchinson, Kansas
Creator: Wide World Photos
Date: July 23, 1923
These black and white photographs show the twenty-ninth President of the United States Warren G. Harding standing in a wheat field, owned by Chester O' Neal, near Hutchinson, Kansas. The president was visiting the area to talk to farmers about the legislative measures taken by the government to assist American farmers. In the second and third photographs, President Harding can be seen holding toddler Mary Jane Dyson the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Andis Dyson from Hutchinson. On the right hand side of these two images, Kansas U.S. Senator Arthur Capper is visible standing in the crowd.

Girl's cloche hat
Date: between 1925 and 1928
A girl's cloche hat worn in the late 1920s. The hat is made of light blue wool and has crocheted flowers on its brim. Cloche hats were very popular in the 1920s and into the early 1930s. They were usually made of felt or wool so that they would conform to the head.

Garver Flying Circus
Date: June 26, 1923
This black and white photograph shows members of the Garver Flying Circus at the Lone Tree Ranch in Attica, Kansas. Standing from left to right: David Garver, LeVaughn Neville, Ruth Garver, Mrs. R. O. Williamson (or Mrs. Ruby Arrowsmith), Ray O. Williamson ( or Jay Sadowsky), Karl Garver, Paul Duncan, Wayne Neville. The Garver Flying Circus, established around 1920 or 1921 by Karl Garver from Attica, Kansas, and Cyle Horchem an ex-army flyer from Ransom, Kansas, performed spectacular aerial stunts across the Kansas sky. The group of daredevils successfully entertained the crowds of spectators with death defying acts until tragedy struck in 1924, when Ruth Garver "Champion Lady Parachute Jumper" fell to her death from one thousand feet with a tangled parachute. Later that year, Cyle Horchem slipped and fell to his death as he climbed onto a wing while in flight. Karl Garver continued to perform at air shows, but eventually sold his airplanes and died of alcohol poisoning in 1926.

Kaw Valley Girl Scouts, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Wolfe, Harold B., 1898-1966
Date: 1928
Photo of a group of Kaw Valley Girl Scouts taken in front of the Oakland Presbyterian Church, Topeka, Kansas. The girls are: front row, left to right: Margaret Graham, Elizabeth Nagle, Mary Ellen Doyle, unidentified, Hilda Isaacson, Mildred Graham, _____ Shaffer; second row, second from left is Mary Saidon, the others are unidentified; some of the girls in the third row (unsure of position in the row): _____ Ballard, Roberta Badsky, Esther Slaybaugh, Helen Doyle; back row (unsure of position in the row): _____ Hilleland, Julia Wright, Gladys Tittering.

Fold-wing biplane built by Albin Kasper Longren
Date: 1921
Photograph of Albin Kasper Longren's fold-wing biplane parked in front of a garage. In less than 30 seconds, four pins could be removed and wings folded back so the plane could be stored in a Model T Ford garage. The composite fuselage was made of a hard vulcanized fiber molded to a streamline form. It weighed 550 pounds with side-by-side seating. The trial test flight took place on August 6, 1921 from Kelsey's potato field located east of the Longren factory at 1401 Winfield in northeast Topeka, Kansas.

George Thyfault's Garage, Tribune, Kansas
Date: 1923
This black and white photograph shows two men standing in front of the George Thyfault's blacksmith and garage in Tribune, Kansas.

Carey Brother's general hardware store, Tribune, Kansas
Date: 1923
This black and white photograph shows the exterior view of the Carey Brother's general hardware store in Tribune, Kansas.

Harvesting wheat, Greeley County, Kansas
Date: July 10, 1926
This black and white photograph shows a harvest crew with a Case tractor and a McCormick- Deering combine in a wheat field in Greeley County, Kansas.

Santa Fe Trail ruts, Ford County Kansas
Date: Between 1925 and 1929
This is a photograph showing the Santa Fe Trail ruts ten miles west of Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas.

Jo Everhart
Creator: Lawrence Studio
Date: Between 1920s and 1930s
These photographs from a nitrate negative show two informal portraits of Jo Everhart dressed in an evening gown.

Children of D. H. Gilges
Date: Between 1920s and 1940s
This photograph from a glass plate negative shows the children of D. H Gilges dressed in white graduation caps and gowns holding diplomas.

E. W. Norris service station, Glen Elder, Kansas
Date: Between 1926 and 1930
Twenty-one photographs showing the E. W. Norris service station under construction and following completion. Norris hired Frank A. Slack, Beloit, Kansas, to design the service station and Charles Eby to work on the interior. It was built in 1926 with native limestone quarried near Glen Elder, Kansas. The service station is located at the southeast corner of Market and Main Streets in Glen Elder. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places.

American Legion Auxiliary, Woodson County
Date: 1921
An account of the formation of the Woodson Post of the American Legion Auxiliary, Unit #13. Also listed are officers elected, meeting happenings, and members.