Baseball players, Dodge City, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1920
Members of the Leans and McFats baseball teams from Dodge City are shown in this postcard. The 22 players comprising the two teams are identified as follows: (top row, standing) - George Groberty; J.S. Cady; J.F. O'Neal; H. Hubbard; E.J. Marsh; unidentified; unidentified; L.L. Taylor; J. Hulpieu; Harry Eash; Sam Wilkerson; E.C. Sturgeon; (bottom row, seated) - H.A. Tice; unidentified; Warren Brown; Chas. States; W.T. Cooledge; John Madden; Clifford Teeters; Hienie Schmidt; Clyde Smith; unidentified.

High school baseball team, Dodge City, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1920
This postcard shows a high school baseball team from Dodge City. Ten uniformed players are pictured with their adult coach. The players are wearing two different styles of uniform. One displays DCHS down the jersey placket, with the letter "D" stitched on the sleeve. The other, the lettering of which is only partially visible, appears to bear the name "Pirates," and has the skull and crossbones symbol on the left sleeve. Names are given for ten of the eleven individuals, but it is not clear which of them remains unidentified. The notation accompanying the postcard names the following, from left to right: Hienie F. Schmidt; Leland Daughtry; George Pond; Tommy Streater; Addison Stafford; Charles Herzer; Billie Wilson; Louie Miller; Gene Fortney; John Cord. Team members not pictured include: Otto Streater; Sammy Stuubs; and, Joe Holfrietz.

Public library in Dodge City, Kansas
Date: 1912
This postcard shows the Carnegie library in Dodge City, Kansas. It was postmarked January 28, 1912 and sent to Mr. Clifford Fullen in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

Cattleman, Dodge City, Kansas
Date: Between 1880s and 1890s
This black and white photograph shows a group of cattleman from Dodge City, Kansas. The men have been identified from left to right as: W.H (Hank) Cresswell, Bud Driskill, Richard J. Hardesty, George E. Harder and Nick Easton. According to the back of the photograph, Bud Driskill's family drove 65,000 head of cattle in twenty-one herds to Dodge City in one season

Globe-republican
Creator: Globe-Republican Pub. Co.
Date: October 23, 1889-December 28, 1899
View and search this newspaper by clicking on the Chronicling America link below. This newspaper comes from the collections of the Kansas Historical Society and was digitized with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program. The Globe-Republican was published weekly in Dodge City from October 23, 1889 until November 24, 1910. Always an eight-page, six-column paper, subscribers received the Globe-Republican every Wednesday until August 1895 when it switched to a Thursday publishing schedule. By 1893, the Globe-Republican was the "Official Paper of the County" and boasted "a circulation more than twice as large as any other newspaper in the county." After the November 24, 1910 issue, the name officially changed to the Dodge City Globe, commonly referred to as just the Globe, which remained in publication until 1918.

Dodge city times
Creator: Shinn, Walter C., 1854-
Date: October 14, 1876-December 18, 1891
View and search this newspaper by clicking on the Chronicling America link below. This newspaper comes from the collections of the Kansas Historical Society and was digitized with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program. The first issue of the Dodge City Times was published on May 20, 1876. Readership extended beyond Ford County into the unsettled, frontier regions of southwest Kansas. Walter C. Shinn, only 22 years old when he established the Times, worked as proprietor and editor along with his younger brother Otis "Lloyd" Shinn. The Dodge City Times had several different editors, before joining forces with the Western Kansas Ensign, thus becoming the Dodge City Times-Ensign in January 1892.

Sewing kit
Date: between 1861 and 1865
Hand-sewn Civil War sewing kit, also known as a housewife. Rectangular folded case of black-coated fabric resembling leather. Triangular front flap with two string ties. Interior compartments include needle storage flaps, raw wool pincushion, and compartments for thimbles and scissors. Interior is embroidered with owner's initials. Carried throughout the Civil War by Pierce R. Hobble of the 13th Ohio Infantry, Company D. The 13th's service record includes the battles of Shiloh and Chickamauga. Hobble came to Kansas with his family in the late 1870s, settling at Dodge City where he operated a grocery store and bakery, worked as a beekeeper, and served as Justice of the Peace.

Movie poster
Creator: Warner Brothers Pictures
Date: 1951
Narrow, rectangular-shaped poster promoting the re-release of the movie "Dodge City." The poster is printed in sepia tones. The film starred Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Ann Sheridan. Flynn plays a settler and sheriff who tries to clean up Dodge City with the help of the townspeople. The movie premier was held in Dodge City in April 1939. Warner Brothers chartered a Santa Fe train to carry two dozen celebrities from Hollywood to Kansas. Though the population of Dodge City was only 10,000, around 60,000 people attended the festivities. This poster is part of a large collection of Western film posters donated to the Kansas Museum of History in 2007. All of the posters represent films with a Kansas connection.

St. James saloon in Dodge City, Kansas
Date: Between 1875 and 1880
A photograph showing the interior of the St. James Saloon in Dodge City, Kansas.

United States Army Airfield, Dodge City, Kansas
Creator: United States Engineer Office
Date: December 01, 1942
This black and white photograph shows a northwest view of the fire station, parachute and link trainer buildings at the United States Army Airfield at Dodge City, Kansas.

United States Army airfield, Dodge City, Kansas
Creator: United States Engineer Office
Date: October 27, 1942
This black and white photograph shows a north view of the United States Army airfield hospital in Dodge City, Kansas.

"Gunsmoke" lunchbox
Creator: Columbia Broadcasting Systems, Inc.
Date: between 1955 and 1965
This tin lunchbox depicts multiple scenes from the television show "Gunsmoke" with Marshall Matt Dillon in Dodge City, Kansas. It was made in 1955 by Aladdin Industries, which began illustrating school lunch boxes with images of popular radio, TV, and movie figures beginning in 1950. The TV Western "Gunsmoke" aired from 1955-1975 and depicted the fictional life of Marshal Matt Dillon in Dodge City, Kansas.

Santa Fe Trail in Dodge City, Kansas
Date: 1872
This black and white photograph shows an east view of the Santa Fe Trail through Dodge City, Kansas.

Kansas in 1875
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1875
A pamphlet produced by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company to promote Kansas and its resources. It focuses on the Cottonwood and Arkansas Valleys of Kansas. Also included is a map of ATSF railroad connections with an advertisement of land for sale.

Billy Bader's and Louie Laubner's saloon in Dodge City, Kansas
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
An interior view of Bill Bader's and Louis Laubner's saloon in Dodge City, Kansas. The photograph shows two bartenders and a customer standing at the end of the bar.

Chalkey McCarty Beeson
Date: Between 1895 and 1900
A photograph showing Chalkey McCarty Beeson seated on his horse. He came to Dodge City from Colorado in 1875. During his life, he owned the Long Branch Saloon and a cattle ranch, organized the Cowboy Band, served as sheriff and was a state legislator representing District 101 Dodge City and Ford County for the sessions 1903, SS1903, 1905, 1907, SS1908.

Thomas Clayton Nixon
Date: 1884
A portrait of Thomas Clayton Nixon, a successful buffalo hunter and assistant marshal of Dodge City, Kansas. On July 22, 1884, Nixon was killed over a feud, by Mysterious Dave Mather, the ex-Marshal and local saloon owner.

C.C. Isley to Reverend W.C. McGuire, and accompanying manuscript
Creator: Isely, Charles C.
Date: September 06, 1943
These two items, from C.C. Isely of Dodge City, Kansas, contain Isely's thoughts on his experience at the Kickapoo Indian Reservation in the late 1890s. In the letter to Reverend W.C. McGuire of Hoyt, Kansas, Isely asks McGuire if he was familiar with two Potawatomies that Isely appeared with in a picture taken at the time of his 1897 visit. The accompanying story, titled "Democracy in the Primitive" contains Isely's recollections of his visit to the Kickapoo Indian Reservation near Powhattan, Kansas.

Frederick C. Zimmerman's hardware store, Dodge City, Kansas
Date: 1895
A interior view of Frederick C. Zimmerman's hardware store in Dodge City, Kansas. People in the photograph are (left to right) Tom Rice, an unidentified man, John C. Churchill, and John Rush. Visible in the photograph is a carriage and other hardware store items.

Driving park, Dodge City, Kansas
Date: Between 1890s and 1900s
A black and white photograph of a two-wheeled horse drawn vehicle at the driving park in Dodge City, Kansas.

Dodge House and Billiard Hall, Dodge City, Kansas
Date: 1874
A stereograph showing the Dodge House and Billiard Hall in Dodge City, Kansas.

Masonic Temple, Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas
Date: Between 1905 and 1910
Exterior view of the Masonic Temple, Dodge City, Kansas.

Presbyterian Church, Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas
Date: Between 1905 and 1909
Exterior view of the Presbyterian Church in Dodge City, Kansas.

First M.E. Church, Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas
Date: Between 1905 and 1908
Exterior view of the First M. E. Church, Dodge City, Kansas.

Front Street, Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1909
View of Front Street in Dodge City, Kansas.