Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad depot, Fairview, Kansas
Creator: Killam, H.
Date: September 15, 1957
This photograph shows the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad depot in Fairview, Kansas. The two-story wooden structure was part of Western Division, Sub. Division 6-A at milepost 58.7 The building is still standing but the tracks have been removed.

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad depot, Fairview, Kansas
Date: Between 1890s and 1919s
This photograph shows a group of men and a dog in front of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad depot in Fairview, Kansas. The building is still standing but the tracks have been removed.

Fairview, Kansas
Creator: Hopkins, B. M.
Date: 1929
This silent film shows street and farm scenes of Fairview, Kansas.

Frank H. Sargent, World War I soldier
Creator: Sargent, Arta
Date: 1919
Around 1919, the Kansas State Historical Society and the American Legion solicited biographical information from returning veterans (primarily members of the 35th and 89th infantry divisions) and the families of those who died in service, notably from the Gold Star Mothers. Each veteran or family member was asked to provide letters, photographs, a biography, and military records. This file contains information on Frank H. Sargent, Headquarters Detachment, 35th Division.

Fred Iseley [Isely]
Creator: Judson H. Holt Photo Car
Date: Between 1895 and 1900
This is a photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Iseley [Isely], who lived in Fairview, Kansas.

Henry Isely's cemetery marker, Fairview, Kansas
Date: Between 1950 and 1955
These two photographs show Henry Isely's cemetery marker at the Isely Cemetery located northwest of Fairview, Kansas. On November 6, 1909 the Hiawatha Daily World ran an article entitled "Large Monument" about this marker: "The large boulder that was brought to town several weeks ago from the old Jerome Hochstetler farm and which will be made into a monument to mark the last resting place of the late Prof. Henry Isely, was loaded into a car Saturday and shipped to Wichita, where it will be polished and engraved and then mounted. A traction engine with a wire cable was used to pull the massive rock in the car. The stone weighs something around three tons."

Plat book of Brown County, Kansas
Creator: Northwest Publishing Company.
Date: 1904
This atlas shows maps of each township, school district boundaries, and the names of landowners in Brown County, Kansas. It has a patrons' directory and plats of towns as of the year of publication. Page twenty-nine shows the first allotment of the Kickapoo Indian Reservation. This copy made available through the cooperation of Morrill Public Library in Hiawatha, Kansas.

Shawnee Methodist Mission, North Building, Fairway, Kansas
Creator: Jones, Lester
Date: July 06, 1940
A view of the interior woodwork detail at the North Building, Shawnee Methodist Mission. The photograph was taken as part of the Historic American Building Survey, Library of Congress.

Standard atlas of Brown County, Kansas
Creator: Geo. A. Ogle & Co.
Date: 1919
This atlas shows maps of each township with the names of landowners. It has a patrons' directory, and plats of towns as of the year of publication.

Standard atlas of Lane county, Kansas
Creator: Geo. A. Ogle & Co.
Date: 1920
This atlas contains a plat book of the villages, cities, and townships of the county, a patrons' reference directory and illustrations. Also available on microfilm. Use KSHS microfilm LM 491 no.9 for research and photocopies.

Temperance history correspondence
Date: 1903-1904
This correspondence was sent and received by Kansas State Temperance Union secretaries Rev. J. E. Everett and Rev. W. L. Dexter. Correspondents include Howard H. Russell, Superintendent of the American Anti-Saloon League, Rev. H. W. Chaffee and Rev. C. S. Nusbaum of the Ottawa Chautauqua Assembly, Harry A. Caton, Mayor of Winfield, Woman's Christian Temperance Union representatives from several states, and several members of Congress. Included are subscription lists with members' names from several counties including Brown, Butler, Jackson, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, and Reno. Much of the correspondence concerns efforts to advance anti-liquor agendas in local, state, and national politics. Although Kansas was the first state to adopt a constitutional amendment prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors in 1880, the law was largely unenforced.

Thirtieth Biennial Report, Statistics by county showing population, acreage, production, and livestock, 1935-1936
Creator: Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Date: 1937
This published report contains statistics compiled by the State Board of Agriculture pertaining to crop conditions, livestock, and other farm products for all Kansas counties. It was copied from the Thirtieth Biennial Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, to the Legislature of the State for the Years 1935 and 1936. The most useful sections for seeing the impact of the Dust Bowl on agriculture are the sections for the counties of Finney, Ford, Grant, Haskell, Hodgeman, Morton, Seward, and Stevens in western Kansas.

Thirty-first Biennial Report, Statistics by county showing population, acreage, production, and livestock, 1937-1938
Creator: Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Date: 1939
This published report contains statistics compiled by the State Board of Agriculture pertaining to population, crop conditions, livestock, and other farm products in western Kansas during the Dust Bowl years of 1937 and 1938; copied from the Thirty-first Biennial Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, to the Legislature of the State for the Years 1937 and 1938. The most useful sections for seeing the impact of the Dust Bowl on agriculture are the sections for the counties of Finney, Ford, Grant, Haskell, Hodgeman, Morton, Seward, and Stevens in western Kansas.

Twenty-ninth Biennial Report, Statistics by county showing population, acreage, production, and livestock, 1933-1934
Creator: Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Date: 1935
This section of "Statistics by Counties, Showing Population, Acreage, Production, and Livestock" is from the Twenty-ninth Biennial Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, to the Legislature of the State for the Years 1933 and 1934. It contains statistics compiled by the State Board of Agriculture pertaining to crop conditions, livestock, and other farm products. The most useful sections for seeing the impact of the Dust Bowl on agriculture are the sections for the counties of Finney, Ford, Grant, Haskell, Hodgeman, Morton, Seward, and Stevens in western Kansas.