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34th Western District Mennonite Conference

34th Western District Mennonite Conference
Creator: Harden, Homer Thomas, 1882-1939
Date: October 20, 1925-October 23, 1925
This is a panoramic photo of the attendees of the 34th Western District Mennonite Conference in Buhler, Kansas, standing outside a tent and a church building.


34th Western District Mennonite Conference

34th Western District Mennonite Conference
Date: October 20 - October 23, 1925
This is a panoramic photo of the delegates to the 34th Western District Mennonite Conference in Buhler, Kansas, standing outside a tent and a church.


4146 Cambridge Street, Hanover Heights, Kansas City, Kansas

4146 Cambridge Street, Hanover Heights, Kansas City, Kansas
Date: 1920
This series of photographs represents 4146 Cambridge Street in Hanover Heights, in Kansas City, Kansas.


4156 Cambridge Street, Kansas City, Kansas

4156 Cambridge Street, Kansas City, Kansas
Date: 1920
This photograph shows the exterior of 4156 Cambridge Street in Hanover Heights in Kansas City, Kansas.


8th grade graduation class at Our Lady of Guadalupe, Topeka, Kansas

8th grade graduation class at Our Lady of Guadalupe, Topeka, Kansas
Date: April 12, 1929
A photograph of Lucy Aguirre's 8th grade graduation class at Our Lady of Guadalupe School in Topeka, Kansas.


A and B Drug Company on Broadway, Marysville, Kansas

A and B Drug Company on Broadway, Marysville, Kansas
Date: 1926
This photograph shows an exterior view of the A and B Drug Company on Broadway west of 10th Street in Marysville, Kansas. The sign on the side of the building also reads, "The Rexall Store, where you get what you call for." To the left of the drug store, a sign for W. H. Grindle's Dental Office is visible. Other businesses partially visible along the street include Electric Signs Talk, Isis Theatre, Exchange Bank, a shoe store, the City Bakery, a grocery store, another drug store, Independent Garage, and Pioneer Tire Service. A few people are visible walking on the sidewalks, and many automobiles are visible parked or driving along the street.


A. B. Hunt's garage, Liberal, Kansas

A. B. Hunt's garage, Liberal, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1945
This photograph shows A. B. Hunt's Ford dealership and auto repair garage and employees in Liberal, Kansas. It is a brick structure with some decorative work and plate glass windows. A group of people are standing in fromt of the building.


A Clock's Spring Mechanism from 14CT380

A Clock's Spring Mechanism from 14CT380
Date: 1900-1965
This clock's spring mechanism was recovered in 1995 during an archeological salvage project undertaken by Kansas Historical Society archeologists at a Chautauqua County farmstead. The clock spring controlled the wheels to keep accurate time. Such clocks required periodic winding. This mechanism would have been for a mantle or table top sized clock.


Adair building at the Osawatomie State Hospital, Osawatomie, Kansas

Adair building at the Osawatomie State Hospital, Osawatomie, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1925
A photograph of the Adair building at the Osawatomie State Hospital in Osawatomie, Kansas. The hospital was established by the State of Kansas in 1866 and had beds for 12 patients when it opened. By the end of the next year it housed 22 with applications for 50 more.


Administration building at the Osawatomie State Hospital, Osawatomie, Kansas

Administration building at the Osawatomie State Hospital, Osawatomie, Kansas
Date: Between 1917 and 1940
A photograph showing the administration building at the Osawatomie State Hospital in Osawatomie, Kansas. The hospital was established by the State of Kansas in 1866 and had beds for 12 patients when it opened. By the end of the next year it housed 22 with applications for 50 more.


Administration building, Kansas State Penitentiary

Administration building, Kansas State Penitentiary
Creator: Kansas State Penitentiary
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
This is a view of the administration building at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas.


Administration Bulding, Bethel College, Newton, Kansas

Administration Bulding, Bethel College, Newton, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1919
This photo shows the exterior of the Administration Bulding, Bethel College, Newton, Kans.


Adolph Duever farm near Bremen, Kansas

Adolph Duever farm near Bremen, Kansas
Creator: Hawkins, Omar F. (Omar Finlay), 1890-1967
Date: March 27, 1929
This is a view of people and dairy cattle on the Adolph Duever farm near Bremen, Kansas. A man and woman are each posed with cows, and a second woman is in the center of the photograph with a dog. Also visible are a milking machine, part of the barn, and dairy cows in a fenced corral to the right of the barn.


Agnes Hertzler Memorial Hospital, Halstead

Agnes Hertzler Memorial Hospital, Halstead
Date: August 1927
Photo of the Agnes Hertzler Memorial Hospital in Halstead with staff members standing outside the building, 1927.


Airplanes flying over Liberal, Kansas

Airplanes flying over Liberal, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1940
This is an aerial view of biplanes flying over Liberal, Kansas.


Alden school bus

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


Alexander Howat interview

Alexander Howat interview
Creator: Topeka Journal
Date: April 12 - 14, 1921
In this series of articles, Alexander Howat, president of the Kansas miners, pleads the cause of organized labor and denounces the newly created Kansas Court of Industrial Relations in an interview with Topeka Journal staff reporters. The reporters were Wm Huggins, Jr, son of the current Court of Industrial Relations judge, and Mildred Reed, daughter of a former judge.


Alfred and Wilfred Neidiger

Alfred and Wilfred Neidiger
Date: 1924
This is a miniature photograph, possibly from an automatic photo booth, of Alfred and Wilfred Neidiger. They lived in Cimarron, Kansas, while attending high school.


Alfred Mossman Landon

Alfred Mossman Landon
Date: 1920
Portrait of Alfred Landon prior to his time as governor of Kansas. This portrait represents Landon without his glasses which he was normally seen wearing while in office.


Alfred Mossman Landon as a young man

Alfred Mossman Landon as a young man
Date: 1920
This portrait represents Alfred Mossman Landon prior to being governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937.


Allen County Cow Testing Association tour

Allen County Cow Testing Association tour
Date: Between 1910 and 1940
This is a photograph of the Allen County Cow Testing Association tour leaving F.J. Dudley's farm.


Allen County fair exhibits, Allen County, Kansas

Allen County fair exhibits, Allen County, Kansas
Date: 1925
Here are several photographs of exhibits at the 1925 Allen County fair. Exhibits are for a music company, the Iola Creamery, Northrup Lumber Company, Krannich Battery Service (radios), Paul Klein, Lumber, and one unidentified business showing pianos and phonograph record players.


Allen D. Birch and family gathered to listen to radio

Allen D. Birch and family gathered to listen to radio
Date: 1920-1929
Allen D. Birch and family are gathered to listen to radio at their home in Topeka, Kansas, in the 1920s.


All the world watches Dayton

All the world watches Dayton
Creator: Topeka Daily Capital
Date: July 16, 1925
A political cartoon titled "All the World Watches Dayton" that was featured in the Topeka Daily Capital on July 16, 1925. This political cartoon is centered around the trial of John Scopes, a high school teacher from Dayton, Tennessee, who was arrested for teaching the evolutionary theory developed by Charles Darwin.


Amazon army, near Pittsburg, Kansas

Amazon army, near Pittsburg, Kansas
Creator: New York Times
Date: December 25, 1921
This newspaper clipping, from the New York Times, features a group of women marching in protest during a coal mine strike in southeast Kansas. Dubbed the" Amazon Army," the women marched through the coal fields carrying large American flags to show their support for better wages and improved working conditions for their family members who worked in the camps.


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