Balloon ascension in Rossville, Kansas
Date: 1909
A photograph of a balloon ascension in Rossville, Kansas.

Horse race and balloon ascension at a fair in Ashland, Kansas
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: Between 1891 and 1912
View of a horse race and balloon ascension at a fair in Ashland, Kansas.

Legless Andrews to Seat of G.A.R.
Creator: Andrews, Legless
Date: May 22, 1914
Legless Andrews of Kansas City, Missouri, writes to the Kansas Department of the Grand Army of the Republic of Topeka, Kansas, concerning free attractions to be provided at the dedication ceremony of the Soldiers' Memorial Building in Topeka, May 27, 1914. Mr. Andrews describes himself as a legless airnaut [sic] and proposes to perform three balloon ascensions and parachute leaps for fifty dollars. He claims to be the only legless acrobat conducting such performances. This letter is significant for its documentation of the social history of disabled persons in the early twentieth century.

Fair at Cawker City, Kansas
Date: September 24 - 27, 1889
This poster announces a fair to be held at Cawker City. The poster includes a color illustration promoting ballooning and parachuting.

Nineteenth annual fair of the Franklin County Agricultural Society
Creator: Franklin County Agricultural Society
Date: 1880s
This poster announces the nineteenth annual fair at Ottawa, Kansas, sponsored by the Franklin County Agricultural Society. Highlights include livestock, ballooning, horse racing, and a brass band. The poster includes illustrations of sulky racing and balloon ascensions.

Cawker City fair, Cawker City, Kansas
Creator: Cawker City District Fair Association
Date: September 24 - 27, 1989
This poster announces the fourth annual fair of the Cawker City District Fair Association at Cawker City, Kansas. Highlights include $5,000 in premiums, a good band, races each day, and grand balloon ascension.

The fourteenth annual fair of the Smith County Agricultural Society
Creator: Smith County Agricultural Society
Date: August 31 - September 3, 1886
This poster announces a fair at Smith Centre, Kansas, sponsored by the Smith County Agricultural Society. Highlights of the fair include good speakers, a band contest, and a balloon show. Free coffee provided by the Mokaska Coffee Company. The poster includes color illustrations of livestock, produce, and sulky racing. Also includes a circular of the Solomon Valley Fair Circuit with events in Smith Centre, Osborne, Kirwin, Phillipsburg, Norton, and Cawker City.

Fair of the Smith County Agricultural Society, Smith Center, Kansas
Creator: Smith County Agricultural Society
Date: August 31 - September 3, 1886
This poster announces a fair at Smith Centre, Kansas, sponsored by the Smith County Agricultural Society. Highlights include $2,000 in premiums, races, and a grand balloon ascension each day. The poster includes a color illustration of a sulky race with horses and riders.

L. W. Halbe collection
Creator: Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981
Date: 1908-1912
The L. W. (Leslie Winfield) Halbe photo collection consists of 1500 glass plate negatives produced by Halbe during his teenage years. Halbe lived in Dorrance, Russell County, Kansas, and began taking photographs of the region with an inexpensive Sears and Roebuck camera when he was fifteen years old.

Osage County fair, Burlingame, Kansas
Date: 1896
This poster announces the twentieth annual Osage County Fair sponsored by the Osage County Fair Association to be held at Burlingame, Kansas. Highlights of the fair include livestock shows, a grand balloon ascension, ball games, and a program of races.

Behold with bated breath a death defying airnaut
Creator: Haskell Show Print
Date: Between 1890 and 1910
This Cowley County fair poster advertises Professor Le Roy, a man who jumps from a balloon 4,000 feet in the air, and uses a "parachute umbrella " to come safely down to earth. The fair's dates are shown as September 2-4, in Winfield, Kansas. The exact year is not known.

Miami County fair, Paola, Kansas
Creator: Whitaker & Son, Printers
Date: September 29, 1896-October 02, 1896
Professor Montz Bozarth's cannon act is featured on this poster for the Miami County fair in Paola, Kansas.

Paola fair
Creator: Seip Brothers, Printing
Date: September 24, 1895-September 27, 1895
Professor Frank A. Squires, assisted by Mlle Corrine, are the featured performers on this advertising poster for the Paola fair in Paola, Kansas. The stunt they perform is to ascend in a hot air balloon and then fall back to earth with just a parachute.