Baseball team, Independence, Kansas
Date: 1896
This cabinet card photograph is of the 1896 Independence, Kansas, baseball team. Independence joined the Kansas State League when it was established in late June 1896. Other members of the league included Parsons, Emporia and Junction City. By mid-July, however, the league had expanded and reorganized into northern and southern divisions. The Northern Kansas League included Junction City, Topeka, Emporia and Minneapolis. Members of the Southern Kansas League were Independence, Parsons, Chanute and Coffeyville. Independence finished first in the Southern Kansas League. This photograph was taken fairly late in the 1896 season since it includes two players who joined the team in mid-August. The players pictured include: top row (l to r) -- Harry Colburn (p), Doc Goodell (p), Billy Oswald (ss), Jimmy Underwood (lf); middle row (l to r) -- Walter Frantz (3b); Tom Drummy (p), Claude Jones (c), Hulbert (cf); bottom row (l to r) -- William Conlin (1b), E. Jones (rf), and Wiley Hill (2b). The photographer was Brown of Independence.

Emma Palenske
Creator: Palenske, Louis F., 1858-1943
Date: Between 1880 and 1885
This is a cabinet card studio portrait of Emma (Thoes) Palenske, wife of the photographer, Louis Palenske, and mother of Fred Palenske of Alma, Kansas.

Hattie Wendland
Date: Between 1910 and 1920
This is a cabinet card studio portrait of a young lady identified as Hattie Wendland. She was the daughter of Ernest and Ida Wendland of Alma, Kansas.

Leala Haller
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
This is a cabinet card studio portrait of an infant, identified as Leala Haller, sitting in a tall arm chair. The photograph was taken in Alma, Kansas.

Louis Palenske
Creator: Palenske, Louis F., 1858-1943
Date: Between 1880 and 1890
This is a cabinet card studio portrait of Louis Palenske, a prominent photographer in Alma, Kansas.

Palenske children, Alma, Kansas
Creator: Palenske, Louis F., 1858-1943
Date: 1888
This is a cabinet card portrait of three Palenske children, identified as Fritz, Max, and Minnie. They were the children of photographer Louis Palenske of Alma, Kansas.

Richard Thoes and H. J. Palenske
Creator: Palenske, Louis F., 1858-1943
Date: 1888
This is a cabinet card studio portrait of Richard Thoes and Herman J. Palenske of Alma, Kansas. The studio prop gives the illusion that the men are sitting on a window ledge.

Swan Burk family members in McPherson County, Kansas
Creator: Grondal, B.G.
Date: Between 1887 and 1890
The Swan Burk family of McPherson County, Kansas, is shown in this cabinet card from the late 1880s. Swan and his wife Maria, who also went by Mary, are seated in the middle. Between them is a picture of their son Walter, who died at age 4. In the front are their children Carl Martin (standing), Ida, and Henry. Standing in the back are Emma and Tillie Burk, Swan's daughters by an earlier marriage. Swan Burk emigrated from Sweden to the U.S. in 1865, and homesteaded in the New Gottland area of McPherson County in the spring of 1871. He and his brother Gust were among the earliest settlers in that part of the county.

Three men in Alma, Kansas
Creator: Palenske, Louis F., 1858-1943
Date: Between 1885 and 1895
This is a cabinet card studio portrait of three men from Alma, Kansas. The men are identified on the back of the photograph as Richard Thoes, Herman J. Palenske, and Gus Meier.

Tillie Schmitz
Date: Between 1890 and 1900
This is a cabinet card studio portrait of Tillie Schmitz. The photograph was taken by Florence E. Potter in Dallas, Texas.

Wahlin family at the New Gottland parsonage
Creator: Grondal, B.G.
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
This cabinet card shows members of Pastor Aaron Wahlin's family at the New Gottland Evangelical Lutheran Church parsonage. Wahlin was pastor at the McPherson County church from 1887 to 1904. The photographer was B.G. Grondal of Lindsborg.