Automobiles in Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1920
These photographs show two examples of cars produced before 1920.

Automobiles in Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1905 and 1915
This is a photograph of Beers General Store with its slogan "The busiest store in the county." It was located on Main Street in Hoxie, Kansas. Also visible are a number of automobiles parked in front of the store.

Auto repair shop, Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1920
This is a photograph of the interior of an unidentified auto sales business or auto repair shop in Hoxie, Kansas. Model T's or A's are pictured.

Baby Blocks or Tumbling Blocks quilt
Creator: Chambers, Regina V. Mills
Date: between 1888 and 1889
Red, brown and white cotton quilt in Baby Blocks or Tumbling Blocks pattern. The quilt maker was Regina Mills Chambers, born in Ohio in 1867, who immigrated to Kansas in the 1880s where she briefly taught school in Alma. Chambers eventually settled in Hoxie, Kansas, where she practiced law with her husband. About 180 names are inscribed in brown ink on the quilt's white pieces. Some inscriptions also include locations and professions. There are Kansas place names as well as a number of other states. All marks were written by the same hand (probably Chambers) in brown ink. Hand-pieced and hand-quilted in outline stitching. Red cotton binding and white cotton backing.

Belmont Ariovistus Julius Caesar Dillon in Hoxie, Kansas
Date: 1955
This photograph shows Belmont Ariovistus Julius Caesar Dillon in Hoxie, Kansas. Monte Dillon, as he was commonly known, was returning from service in World War I when the motor broke down on his transport ship. It was reported that he repaired the motor from odds and ends so that the ship was able to reach the United States. Dillon died in a Veteran's Administration hospital in 1960 or 1961.

Cafe, Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1940
This photograph shows the interior of a café, strewn with decorations, in Hoxie, Kansas.

Campaign songs, ancedotes and speeches
Creator: Judd, Charles Pratt, 1840-
Date: 1892
This People's Party songster including campaign songs, anecdotes and speeches used at political rallies.

Centennial celebration in Hoxie, Kansas
Date: 1961
This photograph was taken at the Kansas centennial celebration in 1961. There is a group of ladies dressed in long dresses and bonnets standing in front of a store in Hoxie, Kansas. The fifth person standing from the left is Emma Hedge, the seventh from the left is Helen Pratt, and the far right person is identified as Anna Currier.

Charles E. Montgomery house, Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1905
This photograph shows three people standing by the Charles E. Montgomery house in Hoxie, Kansas.

Charles E. Montgomery house, Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1905
This is a photograph of a two young girls on the steps of Charles E. Montgomery's house, Hoxie, Kansas.

Charles E. Montgomery house, Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1905
This photograph shows three people posed by Charles E. Montgomery's house in Hoxie, Kansas. A porch is visible and a woman is looking out from the shade on the porch.

Charles Taylor farm in Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1920
This is a photograph of the Charles Taylor farm located south of Hoxie, Kansas. Seven adults and one child are in the photograph, but the only ones identified are Sarah Lister Pratt, Anne Pratt Taylor, and Charles Taylor. Also in the photo are a two-story barn with cupola, wooden windmill, haystack, three horses and wagons in the farmyard.

Chas. H. Beers store, Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1905 and 1925
This photograph is of the Charles H. Beers store in Hoxie, Kansas, possibly taken in 1918. A sign across the front of the store reads, "The busiest store in the county." Horses and buggies and one car are on the street beside the store.

Christian Church in Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
This photograph is of the Christian Church in Hoxie, Kansas, possibly in 1906.

City Meat Market, Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1905 and 1915
This photograph shows an exterior view of the City Meat Market, W. O. Freeman, proprietor, Hoxie, Kansas.

Court house, Sheridan County, Kansas
Date: Between 1905 and 1915
These are four photographs of the Sheridan County, Kansas, courthouse in Hoxie, Kansas. Three are postcards. The 1910 photograph shows six people standing in front of the court house: the county clerk, probate judge, county treasurer, registrar, and two men who were working on the roof.

Covered wagons in Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1915
This photograph shows a train of covered wagons "going further west." Photo possibly taken in 1907 or 1908, in Hoxie, Kansas, Main street.

Dr. Beckner's residence, Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1915
This photograph of Dr. Beckner's residence in Hoxie, Kansas, shows a group of people sitting on the front porch.

Dust storm in Hoxie, Kansas
Creator: Long, R. N.
Date: 1912
This postcard shows a dust storm entering Hoxie, Kansas.

EMF automobile in Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1918
This is a photograph of Fred Andregg and Ceola Smith in an EMF auto, possibly 1911 or 1912, in Hoxie, Kansas. A real estate business building is in the background.

Edward Ray and Julia Wright Sloan
Creator: Long, Nelson
Date: January 24, 1906
This is a photograph of Edward Ray and Julia Wright Sloan taken on their wedding day. Edward Ray Sloan later served three terms in the Kansas House of Representatives from 1923 to 1929. In March 1931, he was appointed by Governor Woodring to fill a vacancy on the Kansas Supreme Court. Judge Sloan served the remaining 21 months of the term but opted not to seek election for another term.

Edwin A. Beers, World War I soldier
Date: 1918-1919
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 Edwin A. Beers, Airplane Service, Kelly Field. Beers died from pneumonia on February 9, 1918, while traveling home on furlough.

Erastus Johnson Turner
Creator: Leonard & Martin
Date: Between 1887 and 1891
This cabinet card shows Erastus Johnson Turner, a lawyer and politician from Hoxie, Kansas. A native of Erie County, Pennsylvania and the son of a Methodist minister. He lived in several states before locating to Henry, Illinois, in 1859 to attend college; a year later he moved to Bloomfield, Iowa. The start of the Civil War put a temporary hold on Turner's future plans. He enlisted with Company E of the Thirteenth Regiment of the Iowa Volunteer Infantry and was assigned to the Provost Marshal's Office. Turner served in Louisville, Kentucky and Nashville, Tennessee until mustering out in July 1865. After the war, he resumed his education by attending Adrian College of Michigan (1866-1868) where he received his degree in 1868. Turner passed the bar in 1871 and began practicing law in Michigan and Iowa before migrating to Hoxie, Kansas in 1879. In the northwest Kansas town he became a prominent member in the community through his law practice, real estate ventures, and ownership of a sheep ranch on the south banks of the Solomon River. He also served two terms as a Republican (1881-1885) in the Kansas House of Representatives from District 125. In addition to his political responsibilities, Turner was elected secretary of the Kansas Board of Railroad Commissioners. He held this position from April 1, 1883 to August 1, 1886. His political career continued to intensify when Turner was elected two terms, 1887-1891, to the U. S. House of Representatives. He served as a Republican in the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses until he returned to private life in 1891. For a number of years, Turner practiced law in Washington, D.C. and Seattle, Washington. On February 10, 1933, Turner passed away at the age of eighty-seven in Los Angeles, California. Burial was conducted at Forest Lawn Mausoleum, Glendale, California.

Fernan (?) Lake Ice Company ice wagon, Hoxie, Kansas
Date: Between 1905 and 1915
This is a photograph of the Fernan (?) Lake Ice Company horse-drawn ice wagon in Hoxie, Kansas, possibly in 1907.

Fire scene in Hoxie, Kansas
Date: 1911
This photograph is a fire scene in the business district of Hoxie, Kansas, possibly in 1911.