A. B. Hunt's garage, Liberal, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1945
This photograph shows A. B. Hunt's Ford dealership and auto repair garage and employees in Liberal, Kansas. It is a brick structure with some decorative work and plate glass windows. A group of people are standing in fromt of the building.

Aerial Sprayer plane, Liberal, Kansas
Date: September 22, 1949
This black and white photograph shows a field being sprayed for noxious weeds by an aerial spray play using 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic near Liberal, Kansas. 2,4-D, as it was commonly called, was a pesticide/herbicide used to control broadleaf weeds.

Airplanes flying over Liberal, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1940
This is an aerial view of biplanes flying over Liberal, Kansas.

Alexander and Allie McCoid, Liberal, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1920
This photograph shows Alexander and Allie McCoid standing in front of their residence in Liberal, Kansas.

Alysia Kysar to Governor Joan Finney
Creator: Kysar, Alysia
Date: March 19, 1991
Alysia Kysar of Liberal, Kansas, writes Governor Joan Finney of Topeka concerning a water rights conflict at Cheyenne Bottoms wetlands in Barton County, Kansas. Kysar is eleven years old. She argues that the importance of wildlife habitats and communal ownership of natural resources, like water, supercede the rights of individual water users along Wet Walnut Creek. Kysar further questions the suitability of irrigated agriculture to an arid environment. In Wet Walnut Irrigators v. Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area (1992), the Kansas Supreme Court ruled in favor of Cheyenne Bottoms, citing its earlier claim to water rights.

Arkalon schoolhouse in Arkalon, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1930
This is a photograph of the Arkalon schoolhouse in Arkalon, Seward County, Kansas. It is a two story frame structure.

Band in Liberal, Kansas
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
This is a photograph of a band in Liberal, Kansas. The band might be the Seward County Band.

Bell View School, Seward County, Kansas
Date: Between 1890 and 1920
This is a photograph showing the Bell View School, District 71, in Seward County, Kansas. Students, parents, and teachers are pictured in front of the building.

Bert Kennedy and family, Seward or Barber County, Kansas
Date: Between 1905 and 1915
This photograph shows Bert Kennedy and family. There are three children in the photograph. It was taken in either Barber or Seward County, Kansas. They are standing in front of a wooden building.

Cattle branding
Creator: Reid, Hal
Date: Between 1908 and 1912
The postcard is a real photo postcard, titled Branding on the Plains, published by Hal Reid, a jeweler, in Liberal, Kansas. His postcards were mostly all about ranching and farming in the Liberal area and views of Liberal.

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad depot, Liberal, Kansas
Creator: Kelley, Frank O.
Date: 1972
This black and white photograph shows the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad depot at Liberal, Kansas.

Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad wreck near Liberal, Kansas
Date: 1904
This black and white photograph shows the wreckage to a Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad train and its rolling stock near Liberal, Kansas.

Citizens gathered in the streets, Liberal, Kansas
Date: Between 1915 and 1930
This view of the business district in Liberal, Kansas, shows citizens congregated in the middle of the street. Automobiles are parked along the sides of the street.

Citizens wearing dust masks in Liberal, Kansas
Date: 1935
In this photograph, residents of Liberal, Seward County, have donned gas masks to protect their lungs from blowing dust. The photograph was taken in front of the Red Cross building in Liberal, Kansas.

Crowd in the streets, Liberal, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1925
This photograph shows a crowd gathered in the streets of Liberal, Kansas. A welcome sign can be seen in the background, along with a platform where someone seems to be speaking.

Delivery truck for the Star Grocery Company, Liberal, Kansas
Date: Between 1905 and 1915
This is a photograph of the Star Grocery Company delivery truck in Liberal, Kansas.

Dodge City Cowboy Band, parading in Liberal, Kansas
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
This photograph shows the Dodge City Cowboy Band parading in Liberal, Kansas. Visible in the background are streetcars.

Dollie and Mrs. Bertrand
Date: Between 1895 and 1899
This is a photograph of Dollie and Mrs. Bertrand possibly taken in Liberal, Kansas.

Dust storm in Liberal, Kansas
Creator: Turtle Studio, Liberal, Kansas
Date: April 14, 1935
This photograph shows a dust storm in Liberal, Kansas. An automobile is in the foreground.

Ella Bird Lott's eightieth birthday, Liberal, Kansas
Date: Between 1940 and 1941
This photograph shows Ella Bird Lott celebrating her 80th birthday, with three people holding birthday cakes. Left to right are T.C. Lott, C. Van Lott, Ella Bird Lott, Bernice Hoagland, and Blanche Kennedy.

Emma R. Jaquins, Liberal, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1929
A photograph of Emma R. Jaquins of Liberal, Kansas. Emma Jaquins' family resided in New York and Pennsylvania before coming to Liberal, Kansas in 1903. Emma's father died when she was a small child and her mother remarried L. K. Orr. Emma was employed as editor of The Liberal Democrat and was a successful writer of fiction, poetry and articles which she sold to newspapers and magazines. Although Emma suffered from severe asthma attacks, she loved the out of doors and she spent the summers at Cuchara Camps in Colorado where she owned a rustic little cabin. At one point in her life, she took up drums and was an outstanding musician, and she traveled with a company on a Chautauqua circuit. In 1927, she operated Jaquins Produce, and later sold the business. In 1930 she operated the Meriden Cream and Produce station in Liberal, Kansas; however, as her health declined, she had to give up the heavy work associated with the produce company. Emma died April 20, 1933 at her home in Liberal, Kansas.

Eureka Steam Laundry, Liberal, Kansas
Date: Between 1880 and 1900
This is a photograph of the Eureka Steam Laundry in Liberal, Kansas, with a family and horse drawn carriage in front of the building.

Event at a fair ground possibly in Liberal, Kansas
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
This photograph shows civilians and soldiers attending an event at a fair ground possibly in Liberal, Kansas.

Exhibits at the Seward County fair in Liberal, Kansas
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
Here are two photographs of exhibits at the Seward County fair in Liberal, Kansas. The image with the ears of corn and other agricultural products has a sign that says "Stanton Co. Exhibit By L. Dickey & Co." The other image has a steer's head and a spinning wheel, with some quilts in the background.

Fred Iles correspondence
Date: 1906-1930
Fred Iles was assistant right of way and tax agent for the Kansas Town and Land Company which bought and sold lands on the right of way of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company. In 1917, he assumed Ernest Warren Cline's position as right of way agent, responsible for representing the railroad's interest in all matters concerning the acquisition and disposition of land on the right of way. This correspondence includes Iles' activities and expenses accounts at the behest of E. W. Cline and the CRI&P Railway.