Alden school bus
Date: 1920
This is the first school bus purchased by Alden School (Rice County), Consolidated School District No. 9, in 1920.

Children, Oakley, Kansas
Date: May 22, 1907
This black and white photograph shows a group of children dressed in cylinder designed costumes possibly for Halloween or a play in Oakley, Kansas.

Children, Salina, Kansas
Date: Between 1880 and 1889
This photograph shows a group of children called the "First East Side Kids" with their donkey cart in front of a unidentified home in Salina, Kansas. The individuals have been identified as follows: Lee Geis, Charles Schwartz, Ed Geis, Norb Schwartz and Ray Geis. Mother is looking out the window.

Children, Salina, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
This photograph shows a group of children gathered for a possible party in Salina, Kansas.

Children at a local fair, Marshall County, Kansas
Creator: Hawkins, Omar F. (Omar Finlay), 1890-1967
Date: 1931
This photograph shows a woman and children from Harbaugh School, District 44, at the Marshall County Fair in Marshall County, Kansas. The children, each wearing "sunflower" headbands, are holding field crops and vegetables. Two girls are holding a sign which reads "What Kansas Grows." Also visible in the background are buildings and parked cars. All of the rural school districts had a float or entry in a parade at the Marshall County Fair every year.

Children eating, Garland, Kansas
Creator: United States. Works Progress Administration
Date: Between 1939 and 1943
Children eating a school lunch in Garland, Kansas. This lunch program was part of the Works Progress Administration.

Children in Treece, Kansas
Date: 1957
Three photographs of children and their mother in a yard at an unidentified house in Treece, Kansas. The photographs were copied from an album loaned by the family.

Children petting horses, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Wolfe Commercial Photo Service
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
These children are gathered around a horse trailer petting the horses in Topeka, Kansas. This photo is part of the Works Progress Administration collection.

Children playing, Kansas City, Kansas
Creator: United States. Works Progress Administration
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
These children are on seesaws (teeter totters) at a play center, Kansas City, Kansas. This activity was part of the Works Progress Administration.

Children playing, Kansas City, Kansas
Creator: United States. Works Progress Administration
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
These children are playing on a wooden slide in Kansas City, Kansas. The playground slide was built as part of a Works Progress Administration project.

Children playing, Wichita, Kansas
Creator: United States. Works Progress Administration
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
these African American children are playing shuffleboard at a recreation center in Wichita, Kansas. This activity was part of the Works Progress Administration.

Children playing baseball, Kansas City, Kansas
Creator: United States. Works Progress Administration
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
These children are playing baseball at Waterway Park in Kansas City, Kansas. This activity was part of the Works Progress Administration. There is a stone structure in the background.

Children swimming in Beaver Creek, Wallace County, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
A group of children swim in the "old swimming hole" on Beaver Creek in Wallace County, Kansas.

Children swinging, Kansas City, Kansas
Creator: United States. Works Progress Administration
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
These children are on swings in Kansas City, Kansas. This was part of the Works Progress Administration activities.

Croquet game, Greeley County, Kansas
Date: around 1910
Children play croquet in Greeley County, Kansas. A wagon and a barn are visible in the background.

Dancing at a recreation center, Leavenworth, Kansas
Creator: United States. Works Progress Administration
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
This boy and girl are dancing at an African American recreation center in Leavenworth, Kansas. It was part of the Works Progress Administration activities.

Doll Parade, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1914
This sepia colored photograph shows a group of children dressed in formal attire with their dolls on the steps of the capitol in Topeka, Kansas. In the back row a young boy is holding a doll that resembles Santa Claus.

Ellsworth Children's Rhythm Band, Ellsworth, Kansas
A view of the members of the Ellsworth Childrens Rhythm Band of Ellsworth, Kansas. Their costumes consist of hats and capes, while the leader, near the center of the photograph, is wearing a top hat, bow tie, and black jacket. Band members are holding percussion instruments such as drums and tambourines.

Golden Charles Dresher photograph collection
Creator: Dresher, G. C.
Date: Between 1870 and 1940
This collection consists of 326 photographs taken by G. C. (Golden Charles) Dresher of Canton, McPherson County, Kansas. The photos mostly concern the Dresher family, their friends and the surrounding area. Photographs of McPherson College students and the flooding of Cow Creek are also included. Dorothy May (Dresher) Richards, the daughter of G. C. Dresher, donated the original glass plate negatives to the Kansas Historical Society in 1999.

J. W. Cummings to Harold Fatzer
Creator: Cummings, J. W.
Date: November 27, 1953
In this letter J. W. Cummings, a resident of Kansas City, Kansas, appeals to state attorney general Harold Fatzer to not desegregate public schools. According to Cummings, integration would lead to miscegenation and would be the downfall of society. He writes that "we must keep our country great by not permitting a Policing action forcing communities into a like pattern, forming a state against our will. We must have the liberty of community majority choice, to accept or reject the kind of life our children live." He also believed that those causing this "unrest" were violating the principles of democracy and had been unduly influenced by Communist doctrine.

Kansas children in Colonial era costumes
Creator: Lawrence Studio
Date: Between 1900s and 1930s
This photograph from a glass plate negative shows a group of children dressed in colonial costumes gathered around a 1776 American flag.

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.

Liberal, Kansas, Boy Scouts at Canon City, Colorado
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: July 19, 1922
This is a view of Liberal Rotary Club Boy Scouts, Troop 182, of Liberal, Kansas, at the top of Sky Line Drive near Canon City, Colorado.

Liberal, Kansas, Boy Scouts at Pikes Peak's Glen Cove Inn in Colorado
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: July 20, 1922
This is a view of the Liberal Rotary Club Boy Scouts, Troop 182, of Liberal, Kansas, at Glen Cove Inn (altitude 11,425 feet), on the Pikes Peak auto highway, Colorado Springs, Colorado. A log structure is in the background as well as a mountain.

Liberal, Kansas, Boy Scouts at the top of Pikes Peak
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: July 20, 1922
This is a view of Liberal Rotary Club Boy Scouts, Troop 182, of Liberal, Kansas, at the top of Pikes Peak (altitude 14, 109 feet) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Also visible are the three open buses used to transport the troop members.