Aaron Kuykendall
Creator: Morse, A. S.
Date: Between 1861 and 1865
This is a carte de visite of Private Aaron Kuykendall from Moline, Illinois, who served in Company I of the 8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry. The carte de visite was removed from an album belonging to Lt. Charles H. Slawson, who served in Company I of the 8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry. The photographer was A. S. Morse in Nashville, Tennessee.

Abijah Wells
Creator: Purnelle Brothers
Date: Between 1880 and 1885
This is a carte-de-visite showing Abijah Wells who was an early pioneer, lawyer, and financier in Nemaha County, Kansas. He was born June 12, 1840, the son of William R. and Betsy K. Skinner Wells. The family came to Kansas in 1857, and soon after their arrival, William became involved in the free-state movement. Abijah attended Centralia College and later attended Kansas State Agricultural College. Early in life, Abijah decided to enter the legal profession, and after college, he entered the law office of J. E. Taylor, where he studied law. He was admitted to the Nemaha County bar in 1866 and practiced law all his life except for four years while a member of the Kansas Court of Appeals. In that same year, he married Loretta C. Williams, the daughter of Captain Arthur William Williams and Mary Angeline Nordyke. In early 1881, he became the editor and owner of the Seneca Tribune and later that year sold the paper. Wells held many offices including clerk of the district court, register of deeds, superintendent of education, mayor of Seneca, and the Seneca school board for a number of years. In addition to his legal career, he was vice-president of the National Bank of Seneca and involved in various financial interests. Abijah Wells died March 1, 1915 in Los Angeles, California.

Abraham (Bullet Hole) Ellis
Creator: Martin Leonard V.
Date: Between 1862 and 1889
This sepia colored photograph shows Abraham (Bullet Hole) Ellis. Abraham was elected to the Kansas Territorial Legislature in 1858 and to the first Kansas state legislature of 1861. In 1862, Ellis was shot by William Quantrill, the bullet passed through a sash and fur cap, crushing both plates of the skull and lodging against the inner lining. It lay buried in the wound for seventy hours. Abraham wouldn't fully recover from the wound for five months. The ball and twenty-seven pieces of bone are now in the Army and Navy Medical Museum in Washington, D.C.

Abraham Burnett
Date: Between 1850 and 1870
A portrait of Chief Abraham Burnett, 1812-1870, of the Pottawatomie Nation. Also known by his birth name, Nan-Wesh-Mah, and as Abram B. Burnett, in 1838 he and other Pottawatomies were removed from their homes in Indiana to the Mission Band Pottawatomie reservation in southeast Kansas Territory. In 1848, Burnett established a large farm in what was to become known as the Burnett Mound area along Shunganunga Creek in Topeka, Kansas, where he and his family farmed and traded horses until his death in 1870.

Abraham Lincoln
Date: 1861
An engraving of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the Civil War, saving the Union and ending slavery, only to be assassinated as the war was virtually over. Before becoming the first Republican elected to the Presidency, Lincoln was a lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, and a member of the United States House of Representatives.

Abraham Lincoln
Date: 1850s
A portrait of Abraham Lincoln. In December 1859, Lincoln traveled to the Kansas Territory and spoke at Elwood, Troy, Doniphan, Atchison, and Leavenworth. His speeches covered several issues including preventing the expansion of slavery, the theory of popular sovereignty, and the evils of states seceding from the Union. In 1860, Lincoln received the Republican party's nomination for president. Although Kansans liked him the delegation from the territory did not support his nomination. He won the election, and on February 22, 1861, at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA, Lincoln raised the United States flag bearing a 34th star, honoring Kansas as the newest state.

Agnes Lake Thatcher Hickok
Creator: Rankin & Co.
Date: 1870s
A carte-de viste portrait of Agnes Lake Hickok, wife of James Butler [Wild Bill] Hickok.

Alfred Johnson
Date: Between 1891 and 1865
This is a carte-de-visite of Lt. Alfred Johnson who served in the 12th Kansas Volunteer Infantry, Company D.

Alfred Robinson
Date: Between 1861 and 1865
This is a carte de visite showing Alfred Robinson, from Lawrence, Kansas, who served as quartermaster in the 8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry. The carte de visite was removed from an album belonging to Lt. Charles H. Slawson, who served in Company I of the 8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry.

Amos Adams Lawrence
Creator: Warren, George Kendall
Date: Between 1856 and 1860
A portrait of abolitionist Amos Adams Lawrence, 1814-1886, who was a Massachusetts philanthropist and a friend of the Free State cause in Kansas Territory.

Amy Rogers Athon
Creator: Ford, Harry
Date: Between 1888 and 1890
This is a carte de visite showing Amy Rogers Athon. She was born November 21, 1868 in Illinois and died October 3, 1926 in Topeka, Kansas. Amy married Harry Lincoln Athon c. 1889. He was born February 19, 1865 in Illinois and died October 20, 1942 in Topeka, Kansas.

Annie Mossman Landon
Creator: Hearn, J. P.
Date: Between 1880 and 1889
This is a carte-de-visite showing Annie Mossman Landon, the mother of Alfred Mossman Landon.

Arvine Ayers
Date: Between 1861 and 1865
This is a carte-de-visite of Sgt. Arvine Ayers who served in the 12th Kansas Volunteer Infantry, Company C.

Asa Maxson Fitz Randolph
Creator: Knight, J. Lee
Date: 1875
This is a carte de visite showing Asa Maxson Fitz Randolph who served as Kansas Attorney General from January 11, 1875 to January 8, 1877.

Asa Tongat, Kiowa man, in Indian Territory
Creator: Soule, William Stinson, 1836-1908
Date: Between 1869 and 1875
This carte-de-visite of Asa Tongat is believed to have been made in the early 1870s by William S. Soule at Fort Sill, Indian Territory. Asa Tongat is identified on the image as being Kiowa, but another known example of the same image identifies him as Kiowa-Apache. William Soule is well-known for the photographs he made of Southern Plains Indians in the late 1860s and early 1870s. He arrived at Fort Dodge in 1867, moved briefly to Camp Supply a couple of years later, then relocated to Fort Sill, where he remained until returning to Boston in late 1874 or early 1875. This carte-de-visite is one of at least fifty collected by Charles L. Wilson in the 1870s. Born in West Virginia, Wilson lived in Kansas most of his life, residing in St. George, Manhattan, Miltonvale, and Topeka. Little is known about how and why he acquired the cartes-de-visite. Notations on many of them suggest they were procured in Indian Territory; some notations also indicate that Wilson was a member of Company L of the Kansas Eleventh Cavalry. Because that regiment disbanded several years before the images were made, his military service was probably unrelated to the acquisition of the photographs. The Wilson collection is characterized by the unique style in which each carte-de-visite is mounted. The mounts obscure whatever photographer's imprint may exist on the original cards. More than one photographer is represented in the collection; however, many of the images can either definitely be attributed to Will Soule or, as in this case, are deemed likely to be his work.

Ashley Rood
Date: 1874
This is a studio portrait of (Edgar) Ashley Rood, son of George H. and Helen Mars (Thomas) Rood, at the age of three. The couple's only son and sole surviving child, Rood became a partner in his parents' farm, livestock, and feed business outside of Peabody, Kansas, when he graduated from high school.

Atchison, Kansas Territory
Creator: C. H. Masters, Photographer, Corner of 4th and Commercial Street, Atchison, KS.,
Date: Between 1858 and 1862
A view, taken sometime around 1860, of Commercial Street in Atchison, Kansas Territory. The photograph was taken by C. H. Masters, who had a business at the corner of 4th and Commercial Streets in Atchison.

Atchison, Kansas Territory
Creator: C. H. Masters, Photographer, Corner of 4th and Commercial Street, Atchison, KS.,
Date: Between 1858 and 1862
A view, taken sometime around 1860, of businesses and houses in Atchison, Kansas Territory. The photograph was taken by C. H. Masters, who had a business on the corner of 4th and Commercial Streets in Atchison.

Atchison, Kansas Territory
Creator: C. H. Masters, Photographer, Corner of 4th and Commercial Street, Atchison, KS.,
Date: Between 1858 and 1862
A view, taken sometime around 1860, of a residential area between 29th and 30th Streets, north of Commercial Street, in Atchison, Kansas Territory. The photograph was taken by C. H. Masters, who had a business at the corner of 4th and Commercial Streets in Atchison.

Atchison, Kansas Territory
Creator: C. H. Masters, Photographer, Corner of 4th and Commercial Street, Atchison, KS.,
Date: Between 1858 and 1862
A view, taken sometime around 1860, of Kansas Avenue at Fourth Street, looking North, in Atchison, Kansas Territory. The photograph was taken by C. H. Masters, who had a business at the corner of 4th and Commercial Streets in Atchison.

August Schultz
Creator: Larcombe, Augustus
Date: Between 1861 and 1865
This is a carte de visite showing First Lieutenant August Schultz from Leavenworth, Kansas, who served in Company B of the 8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry. The carte de visite was removed from an album belonging to Lt. Charles H. Slawson, who served in Company I of the 8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry. The photographer was Augustus Larcombe in Nashville, Tennessee.

Austin G. Carpenter
Creator: Wertz, G., proprietor of Kansas City Photograph Rooms
Austin G. Carpenter was an early resident of Allen County, Kansas Territory. He was part of a committee that reported on conditions related to the drought in 1860 and later served as a First Lieutenant, Company D, 9th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry,

Avra P. Russell
Date: Between 1861 and 1862
A portrait of Captain Avra P. Russell who was a member of Company G, 2nd Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. He was killed at the Battle of Prairie Grove on December 7, 1862.

Band, White Cloud, Kansas
Creator: Cottrell, D.E.
Date: Between 1870 and 1880
This is a view of the members of a band, posed with their instruments, in front of a building in White Cloud, Kansas. The band members are identified as: (back row from left) Mr. McCord, John Butterfield, Warren Austin, Sam Klinefelter, and George Peables; (front row from left) A.L. Ellis, John Klinefelter, John M. Embler, George Bird, John Snively, Ike Sellig, and Charles Chandler.

Battle of Platte River bridge in Wyoming
Creator: Playford, Jesse
Date: 1865
Here are two illustrations of the Platte Bridge Station drawn by Jesse Playford, a member of the 11th Kansas Cavalry, Company I. The station was established in 1858 as one of a series of fortified stations on the Oregon-California Trail. It was located on the south side of the North Platte River. Regular troops abandoned the station in 1859, the same year a 1,000-foot toll bridge was completed across the river. In 1862, during the Civil War, to counter increased Indian hostilities along the Oregon-California Trail and to guard the telegraph lines, volunteer regiments reoccupied Platte Bridge Station. The Indian threat reached a peak in the summer of 1865, when Lakota and Cheyenne descended on the trail from the Powder River country. At the time of the battle, the Platte Bridge Station was commanded by Major Martin Anderson of the 11th Kansas Cavalry. The garrison consisted of about 120 men of the Kansas Cavalry, detachments of Ohio Cavalry, and some volunteers. Following the battle, troops enlarged and rebuilt the fort in 1866, but the following year evacuated it and moved to Fort Fetterman, Wyoming. Almost immediately the Indians burned the buildings and the bridge.