Aerial Navigation
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1885-1889 : Martin)
Date: 1885-1888
These letters, spanning 1885 to 1888, are from Dr. S. L. N. Foote in Lebo, Kansas regarding aerial navigation to Kansas Governor John Martin. Foote included pamphlets with endorsements of his inventions and scientific studies of aerial navigation including flying machines. Foote also discussed artificial intelligence and patents.

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot, Lebo, Kansas
Creator: Killam, H.
Date: February 02, 1956
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot in Lebo, Kansas. The wooden structure is located on the Eastern Lines, Eastern Division, Second District, along mile post 93.8.

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot, Lebo, Kansas
Date: Between 1976 and 1978
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot in Lebo, Kansas. The wooden structure is painted with patriotic stars to celebrate the 1976 Bicentennial.

Kansas Film Commission site photographs, towns Independence to Ludell
Date: 1989-2001
These are panoramic photographs of Kansas towns beginning with Ada and ending with Bunker Hill. The Kansas Film Commission created the photos to promote Kansas locations to film companies. Many of the photographs show business districts and buildings. The panoramics were created by taking individual photos and taping them together. Towns and cities included in this part of the collection are: Independence, Industry, Ingalls, Iola, Jennings, Jewell, Johnson City, Kanopolis, Kanorado, Kansas City, Kincaid, Kingman, Kingsdown, Kinsley, Kirwin, LaCrosse, Lamont, Lancaster, Langdon, Larned, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Lebanon, Lebo, Lenora, Leon, Leoti, Lerado, Levant, Lexington, Liberty, Lincoln, Lindsborg, Linwood, Longford, Longton, and Ludell.

Knox, Holman, Sparks, Mock, Ball and Workman families
Date: Between 1940 and 1945
Photographs of the Knox, Holman, Sparks, Mock, Ball and Workman families that lived near Lebo, Topeka, Emporia, and Lawrence, Kansas.

Lebo, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1909
This sepia colored postcard shows a view of store fronts and wagons along the main street in Lebo, Kansas. The only visible business signs are for a restaurant (front right) and Jones Groceries and Dry Goods (middle right). The town is located about twenty miles northeast of Burlington, Kansas.

Plat book, Coffey County, Kansas
Creator: North West Publishing Co.
Date: 1901
This atlas provides plat maps of each township within Coffey County, Kansas as of 1901. It includes the names of landowners, a patrons' directory, and detailed plats of all townships in the county.

Pull toy
Date: between 1920 and 1926
Rectangular-shaped tin frame base with wooden balls painted to look like a person, with black hair and a red body. When pulled the oval frame flips upside down and the red balls slide up down. Remnants of a maker's label on the center ball. A cotton string with a red wooden ball at the end is tied to one end of the toy. It was made between 1920 and 1926. Joseph E. Lake received this toy from his parents, Ralph E. and Ada V. (Hopkins) Lake in the 1920s. He believes he received it before 1926, the year he first attended school. He played with it at successive family homes in Lebo, Strawn, and Pomona, Kansas, between 1920 and 1932. His children played with it in the 1950s while visiting their grandmother.

Southern Kansas Railway Company
Creator: Southern Kansas Railway Company
Date: 1886
Map and timetable of the Southern Kansas Railway, previously known as the Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern Kansas Railroad. The railway was "the most direct route to all points in Southern Kansas and the Indian Territory" and encouraged settlement along the Oklahoma border.

Standard atlas of Coffey 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, a map of the state, United States, and world. It has illustrations, portraits and photographs of homes.

Stephen Ogden
Creator: Leonard & Martin
Date: Between 1885 and 1886
A portrait of Stephen Ogden who served as Sheriff of Douglas county from 1864 to 1868. He latter moved to Coffey County and was elected in 1885 from the forty third district to serve in the Kansas House of Representatives. Ogden served on the committee of Interstate Commerce an don militia and was a member of the Republican State Convention in 1884.

U.S. 50 coast to coast. The central pleasure route
Creator: U.S. 50 Federation
Date: 1950s
This pamphlet by the U.S. 50 Federation promotes travel on U.S. Route 50 from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts. It details specifically the travel and tourism sites to be found on the highway through Kansas. Automobile travel is highlighted as an exciting means to explore and see the many attractions found throughout the nation.

Wooden dachshund pull toy
Date: between 1920 and 1926
The dog is segmented into three pieces, and is hinged with nails just behind the front legs and just in front of the back legs with wooden wheels at the ends of the legs. It was made between 1920 and 1926. Joseph E. Lake received this toy from his parents, Ralph E. and Ada V. (Hopkins) Lake in the 1920s. He believes he received it before 1926, the year he first attended school. He played with it at successive family homes in Lebo, Strawn, and Pomona, Kansas, between 1920 and 1932. His children played with it in the 1950s while visiting their grandmother.