Advertisement for The Sellers Motor Car Company, Hutchinson, Kansas
Date: 1910
Advertisement for the Sellers Motor Car Company with photos of the investors and the factory, Hutchinson, Kansas. Copied from Hutchinson, The Salt City.

Advertisements for W. W. Gavitt Medical Company, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1902
These images show advertisements for the W. W. Gavitt Medical Company located at 5th and Madison Streets in Topeka, Kansas. The first image is an advertisement for Gavitt's System Regulator, advertised to cure "all blood, stomach, kidney, and liver troubles." The second image is a group of advertisements for three different businesses owned by W. W. Gavitt: a business of investment bankers and brokers, a medical company, and a mercantile company. The W. W. Gavitt Medical Company manufactured "standard and proprietary remedies."

Hesston crawler illustration
Creator: Hesston Corporation. Farm Equipment Division
Date: 1980
This illustration from the Hesston Corporation, farm equipment division, illustrates three individual models of Prime Line Ag crawlers. This publication funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Swift and Holliday, Wholesale Druggists; Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1892
This image is an advertisement for Swift and Holliday, Wholesale Druggists, located at 523 Kansas Avenue in Topeka, Kansas. The advertisement originally appeared in Volume 4 of the Kansas Medical Journal in 1892, and promotes "Elastic stockings made to order," and "Surgical instruments and physicians' supplies." A drawing of a woman is visible on the left side of the advertisement, and it shows the various products offered for sale.

The Sellers "35", The Sellers Motor Car Company, Hutchinson, Kansas
Date: 1910
Advertisement for Sellers Motor Car Company, Hutchinson, Kan, copied from Hutchinson, The Salt City.

World's famous books
Date: Between 1920 and 1935
An advertisement for books published by Emanuel and Marcet Haldeman-Julius, Girard, Kansas. The Little Blue Books were 3 ½ by 5-inch reprints of classical, educational, biographical, and other literature with heavy-paper covers. Originally the books were 25 cents each, but with mass advertising and greater volume, the price was reduced to a dime, later to a nickel. Haldeman-Julius devoted his life to crusading against "bigotry and bunk. prejudices and fanaticism." He believed that the life of the average American was harmed by political, economic, and religious restriction designed to promote inequality. One of his purposes for publishing the Little Blue Books was to inform people about things those in power did not want them to know--self-improvement, birth control, the hypocrisy of religion, and similar topics.