Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe diesel engine diagrams and blueprints
Creator: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1880-1956
This folder contains diesel locomotive diagrams and blueprints, showing classifications and specifications for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company engines.

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe steam engine diagrams and blueprints
Creator: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1880-1956
This folder contains steam locomotive blueprints, showing classifications and specifications for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company engines. There is an index at the front.

Eldridge Hotel floor plans
These handdrawn floor plans for the Eldridge Hotel in Lawrence, Kansas Territory, show the room layout and approximate size of the rooms on the first and second floors. The Eldridge Hotel was the site of numerous Free State meetings and the target of attacks by proslavery forces.

Lucio Bini 's Electroconvulsive therapy records
Creator: Bini, Lucio, 1908-1964
Date: circa 1935-1964 (bulk 1930s-1940s)
Lucio Bini's papers, largely, consist of incoming handwritten and typed correspondence; blueprints and related documentation for electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) equipment. They also include product information for selling equipment, records related to international patents, research notes from early experiments on animals (dogs), and from tracking early patients undergoing electroshock therapy. Newspaper clippings, photographs (both in color and black and white), and other miscellaneous materials are available. Correspondents include Lothar Kalinowsky and other professional colleagues, as well as some patients. The second box of materials are all xeroxed photocopies from Bini's materials and is not well organized. The materials also include correspondence related to the acquisition of Bini's papers by the Menninger Foundation.

Mamie Luella Williams blueprints
Date: 1928
A set of blueprints included in the Mamie Luella Williams collection. The blueprints include drawings of the front elevation, first floor, second floor, and basement. It is possible that these blueprints are from Mamie's house on Quincy street in Topeka, Kansas, but a large portion of the first page of the blueprints are missing. Mamie was an elementary school teacher and principal in Topeka, Kansas. In 1965 she was appointed to the Kansas Commission on the Status of Women, served as a delegate to the 1971 White House Conference on Aging, and was active on the Senior Citizens Advisory Council for the Republican Party for Kansas, 1974-1976. She received the Washburn University Distinguished Service Award in 1973, and an honorary doctorate in mathematics from Washburn in 1982. Williams Science and Fine Arts Elementary Magnet School at 1301 S.E. Monroe, Topeka, Kansas, was named in honor of Ms. Williams.

Meade Historical Park
Creator: United States. Work Projects Administration
Date: July - November 1940
Blueprints and drawings of the Meade Historical Park, more commonly known as the Dalton Gang Hideout and Museum, at 502 South Pearlette Street in Meade, Kansas. The site was developed around the former residence of Eva (Dalton) Whipple, a sister of the famed outlaw Dalton brothers known for their robbery of trains and banks. Though stories of the Dalton Gang visiting Meade surfaced in the early 20th century, evidence to support these claims has remained elusive. The Meade Chamber of Commerce, which purchased the former Whipple property in 1940, led the effort to develop the site into a tourist attraction with the financial assistance of the New Deal-era Work Projects Administration (WPA). John Sullivan served as supervisor of the park project. WPA officials reportedly turned down the community's first proposal, according to the March 5, 1942 edition of the Meade Globe-News, because it romanticized a gang of outlaws. The plans were resubmitted under the name Meade Historical Park and greater emphasis was given to developing a local history museum at the site. The blueprints include plans for a complete reconstruction of the Whipple barn, the construction of a rock-lined underground tunnel connecting the new barn and 1887 house, and landscape elements such as rock walls, outdoor stoves, picnic tables, a wishing well, and plantings. WPA and National Youth Administration laborers completed the site work and construction. A museum operated by Ruth and Walter Dingess opened in the Whipple residence in May 1941 and later moved to the upper floor of the barn. The community officially opened the park in June 1941 during the local Cavalcade of the Plains festival, which was part of a statewide commemoration of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado's travels through the region some 400 years earlier. The Meade County Historical Society has the original blueprints.

Planting plan for Orphan's Home of the Security Benefit Ass'n, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Hare & Hare Landscape Archs & City Planners, Kansas City, MO
Date: January 1922
This is a planting plan for the landscape surrounding the Orphan's Home of the Security Benefit Association in Topeka, Kansas.

Santa Fe car plans
Creator: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1930
Two blueprints showing Santa Fe car plans. The labels at the bottom right on the blueprints note "vestibule finish" and "cross section."

Santa Fe smoking car floor plan
Creator: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1900
A blueprint showing a Santa Fe smoking car floor plan.

Santa Fe smoking car floor plan
Creator: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1912
A blueprint showing a Santa Fe smoking car floor plan.

Sketch for the south pediment on the Kansas state house in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Ropes, George
Date: November 1889
This is a blueprint showing a proposed sketch for the Kansas state house's south pediment in Topeka, Kansas. The proposed design by George Ropes, architect, was not approved.