Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad time table number 28
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: April 20, 1873
This timetable was for the exclusive use of the employees of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and included the eastern, Arkansas Valley and Wichita divisions.

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas
Creator: Killam, H.
Date: August 1955
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. The station was located on the Eastern Division, Middle Division, Cottonwood District mile post 1.8.

Bird's Eye View of Cottonwood Falls, Chase County, Kansas
Creator: Morse, D. D
Date: 1875
This colored lithograph is a bird's eye view of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, which was the county seat of Chase County. The legend at the bottom identifies churches, schools, the Courthouse, hotels, newspapers, wagon shops, and a flour mill. Street names are given. The Cottonwood River and Spring Creek run near the community. A subtitle indicates that Cottonwood Falls is one mile from the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad. The lithograph was drawn by D. D. Morse and published by Lott & Zeuch Lithograph, Chicago, Illinois.

Boys Band, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas
Date: 1895
This is a photograph of the director and members of the Boys Band of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.

Charles Langston to Samuel Wood
Creator: Langston, Charles
Date: April 7, 1867
Charles Langston, Leavenworth, Kansas, wrote this letter to Samuel Wood, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, in response to a letter Wood had written him on April 4, 1867, concerning a suffrage convention in Topeka. Langston was unable to attend and felt misrepresented. Wood claimed Langston thought supporters of female suffrage opposed Negro suffrage, which was not the case. Langston went on to explain that he needed Wood's financial help to secure black male voting rights. Enclosed at the end of the letter is a petition from the State Executive Committee of Colored Men. This proposition asked for two things; a vote in the fall election to remove the word white from the state constitution and funds to further the black male suffrage cause. The vote to remove the word white did not pass in the fall of 1867. Black men had to wait three more years before they received their right to vote in Kansas elections. Charles Langston later served as the principal of the Normal School--Colored in Quindaro, Kansas.

Chase County courthouse
Date: Between 1960 and 1970
A view of the Chase County Courthouse building in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. Designed by John G. Haskell and completed in 1873, the courthouse is an example of the Second Empire/Franco-American architectural style with limestone walls and trim, and pressed metal ceilings.

Chase County Courthouse
Date: Between 1879 and 1885
A view of the Chase County Courthouse, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. The architect for the courthouse was John Haskell and the contractor was James Bannon. It was constructed between 1871 and 1873.

Chase County Courthouse
Date: Between 1874 and 1879
A view of the Chase County Courthouse building in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. Designed by architect John G. Haskell and completed in 1873 by contractor James Bannon, the courthouse is an example of the Second Empire/Franco-American architectural style with limestone walls and trim, and pressed metal ceilings.

Chase County Courthouse, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas
Date: Between 1870 and 1890
A view of the Chase County Courthouse in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. The courthouse was constructed between 1871 and 1873. The architect was John Haskell and James Bannon was the contractor.

Chase County High School football team, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas
Date: 1910
This black and white photograph shows the Chase County High School football team from Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. The members have identified according to their respected rows. Front row- left to right: Carl White, Bill Stewart, Kirk Hilton. Second row- left to right: Geo. Holmes, Claude, Yeager, Bill Selves, Merton Whitcomb, Eugene Gamer. Back row- left to right: Lloyd Darrah, Mr. Clyde I. Blanchard, Raymond Barrett, Glen Harmon, Karl Anderson, Jay Errett, Wesley Leason, June Smith.

Chase County High School football team in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas
Date: 1911
This is a photograph showing the Chase County High School football team in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.

Confiscated liquor, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
These four black and white photographs show a group of gentlemen, at least one with a badge, standing beside bottles of confiscated liquor in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. The liquor bottles are on the hood and running board of the car and on the ground.

Confiscated liquor, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
These four black and white photographs show bottles of confiscated liquor placed on the hood and running board of a car in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. In two of the images gentlemen wearing badges can be seen standing beside the liquor. These images are similar to ones that are associated with item number 226331 on Kansas Memory.

Consolidated Street Railway Company, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1919
This photograph shows a group of men gathered around horse drawn trolley cars operated by the Consolidated Street Railway Company between Cottonwood Falls, Kansas and Strong City, Kansas.

Consolidated Street Railway Company, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1919
This postcard shows horse-drawn trolley number 12 of the Consolidated Street Railway Company in downtown Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. The text at the top of the trolley or streetcar reads, "Main Street and Union depot."

Drought reports, Kansas Territory
Date: 1860
This document contains additional reports of conditions in various Kansas Territory counties during the drought of 1860. It consists of letters that W. F. M. Arny copied and sent to Thaddeus Hyatt, president of the National Kansas Committee. The reports were submitted by Josiah G. Fuller, James Whary, and Henry Brock, Eureka, Greenwood County; W. A. Harris and A. L Williams, Cottonwood Falls, Chase County; H. H. George, W. Wendell, and R. W. Cloud, Waterloo, Breckenridge County; I. P. Herrick, Iowa Township, Doniphan County; G. S. Northrup, J. H. Spicey, and A. G. Carpenter, Geneva Township, Allen County; and Charles P. Twiss, Cofachique Township, Allen County. The reports describe prospects for crops and other conditions resulting from the prolonged drought.

Flood at Cottonwood Falls, Kansas
Date: 1904
A photograph showing people standing on a bridge over the Cottonwood River during a flood, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.

Governor Crawford Indian correspondence
Date: 1867-1868
In response to Indian attacks on frontier settlers, Governor Samuel J. Crawford was authorized by Congress to recruit a battalion of men to handle the crisis. This series of correspondence in Governor Crawford's papers contains many documents from men requesting commissions in the new battalion and permission to recruit soldiers. There are also letters from settlers documenting atrocities, asking for protection from hostile Indians, requesting compensation for stolen goods and livestock, and needing aid merely to survive after losing their supplies to Indian raids. A searchable transcription is available by clicking "Text Version" below. Funds for digitization provided by Mr. Steve Peckel in memory of William Chalfant.

G. Stockmyer, Starving Kansas
Creator: Stockmyer, G
Date: December, 1860
This broadside was prepared by G. Stockmyer, agent for Kansas Relief. It included descriptions of the conditions in most parts of Kansas Territory from individuals such as Thaddeus Hyatt, Allen Hodgson, and W. F. M. Arny and excerpts from various newspapers. Relief efforts were being coordinated by Samuel C. Pomeroy from Atchison, Kansas Territory. Freight and railroad companies provided free shipping for relief goods sent to K. T.

Hoel Hardware Company and Ford dealer, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas
Date: 1915
This is a postcard showing Hoel Hardware Company and a Ford dealership located at 306 Broadway in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. Standing outside the building is a delivery boy, Billy Wolfron, owner of the garage, and Clyde Mann in the automobile.

Holmes Boys Band, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas
Date: 1900
View of the Holmes Boys Band in the 1900 Cottonwood Falls Independence Day Parade in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. Also visible are spectators and buildings along the town street.

Jackson and Bates wearing their Chase County High School baseball uniforms
Date: Between 1909 and 1910
This is a photograph showing Jackson and Bates wearing their Chase County High School baseball uniforms. The school is located in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.

J. B. Hodgin to Samuel N. Wood
Creator: Hodgin, J. B.
Date: August 25, 1860
From Cottonwood Falls, Kansas Territory, J. B. Hodgin writes Samuel N. Wood about whiskey that was reportedly "supplied" to the Kaws at Cottonwood Falls on August 23, 1890. Hodgin states that "as is generally the result, a big fight occurred" among the Indians and several were killed. Hodgin calls for an investigation into the incident.

John Michael (Mike) Hayden
Date: Between 2002 and 2003
The photograph of Mike Hayden, Kansas Governor from 1987 to 1991 and Kansas Secretary of Wildlife and Parks, is taken at the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas with frontier reenactors. Born in Atwood, Kansas, Hayden entered politics after a decorated career in the military. Beginning as state representative in 1962, Hayden held offices in the Kansas House of Representatives and the Interior for Fish and Wildlife. In 2002, he returned to Kansas to accept a position as Secretary of Wildlife and Parks.

Kansas Film Commission site photographs, subject businesses
Creator: Kansas Film Commission
Date: 1980s-2000s
These are panoramic photographs of locations in Kansas created by the Kansas Film Commission to promote scenes to film companies. The panoramics were created by taking individual photos and taping them together. The photographs are arranged alphabetically by subject and then location. The subject of this part of the collection is businesses, including banks, bars, general stores, food stores, funeral homes, gas stations, hotels, malls, miscellaneous buildings, newspaper offices, restaurants, toy stores, and workshops.