Alden school bus
Date: 1920
This is the first school bus purchased by Alden School (Rice County), Consolidated School District No. 9, in 1920.

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company bus station & Fred Harvey Restaurant, Los Angeles, California
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1940 and 1949
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company bus station and Fred Harvey Restaurant in Los Angeles, California. In the background, The Lido Hotel and Apartment sign is visible

Bookmobile in Kansas
Date: July 3, 1958
This postcard shows a bookmobile for Kansas, a service provided by the Traveling Libraries Commission. The postmark is July 3, 1958, and it is addressed to Nyle Miller, executive director of the Historical Sociey. It concerns Miller sending the writer information about the Society's publication "The Annals of Kansas."

Brockway school buses
Date: 1925
View of Brockway school buses waiting outside Protection, Kansas school.

Cimarron Consolidated School bus, Cimarron, Kansas
Date: Between 1955 and 1959
This photograph shows children riding the Cimarron Consolidated School bus, Cimarron, Kansas.

Cimarron Consolidated School, Cimarron, Kansas
Date: Between 1935 and 1940
This photograph shows children from the Cimarron Consolidated School riding the bus in Cimarron, Kansas. A dog is also visible in the photograph

Cimarron Consolidated School, Cimarron, Kansas
Date: May 20, 1938
This photograph shows school children from the Cimarron Consolidated School at a picnic on the last day of classes. The Cimarron Consolidated School bus is visible in the background.

Colby Consolidated School District school bus with unidentified bus driver, Colby, Thomas County, Kansas
Date: Between 1930 and 1939
The Colby Consolidated School District school bus with an unidentified bus driver, Colby, Thomas County, Kansas.

Colby school bus with students, Colby, Thomas County, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
In this photograph, a group of students pose with the Colby school bus, Colby, Thomas County, Kansas.

Commemorative medal
Creator: Weinman
Date: 1972
Metal bar pin with blue grosgrain ribbon and hinged pin and clasp on back. Rectangular box with lid hinged at one end, covered in dark blue simulated leather paper. Lid is padded and lined with dark blue silk. Bottom has insert with slots fitted to medal and pin. Lucille Widsteen received this medal from the U.S. Congress for seizing the wheel of a bus after the driver suffered a heart attack on the Kansas Turnpike east of Topeka on Feb. 29, 1972. She was credited with preventing injury and death to the passengers on the bus by bringing it back on the roadway and to a safe stop.

Consolidated School Number 1, Cimarron, Kansas
Creator: Hungate, Frank
Date: Between 1925 and 1929
This is a photograph showing buses parked in front of Consolidated School Number 1, Cimarron, Kansas.

Deluxe Transportation Company bus, El Dorado, Butler County, Kansas
Date: 1923
This photogaph shows five passengers and a driver seated in a Deluxe Transportation Co. bus parked outside the El Dorado Hotel on South Main in El Dorado, Kansas. Lott Leonard is the bus driver, and the woman passenger is Alta Peterson Hyde. This publication was funded in part by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Donald Raub Kirkwood
Date: 1940
This photograph shows life-long Topeka resident and semi-professional baseball player Donald Raub Kirkwood (1819-2013) with the Kernels's baseball team bus in Mitchell, South Dakota. Kirkwood's baseball career began with the Capitol Post 1 American Legion team and the Junior Owls of the Kiwanis league. As a young adult, he played infield for the Mitchell, South Dakota Kernels. After World War II, Kirkwood returned to baseball to play as shortstop and third-baseman for the Decker Oilers in Topeka, Kansas. Off-field, Kirkwood also worked as a substitute rural mail carrier and farmer in Topeka, Kansas.

Dust storm, Logan County, Kansas
Date: 1937
This series of three photographs shows a "western Kansas duster" in Logan County, Kansas on May 25, 1937. One photograph is the series shows a transcontinental bus stopped on its journey because of the storm. The photographer signature is Oakes.

First school bus in Greeley County, Kansas
Date: 1931
Students pose in front of the first school bus to be used in Greeley County, Kansas.

Ingalls school bus in Ingalls, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1925
This is a photograph of the Ingalls school bus taken at the Burgess family farm located 12 miles north of Ingalls, Kansas. The school bus driver is Earl Burgess who was 15 or 16 years old.

Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: King, Orin C.
Date: May 10, 1980
A photograph showing a bus stopped in front of the Intracity Transit building located at 8th and Kansas in Topeka, Kansas.

Kansas Museum of History's, grand opening, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Kansas State Historical Society
Date: June 22, 1984-June 22, 1984
These eight photographs grand opening activities at the new Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas. The museum is located at 6425 SW 6th Ave.

Kansas State Chamber of Commerce in Wichita, Kansas
Creator: Boeing Airplane Company
Date: 1955
A photograph of Kansas State Chamber of Commerce members and their wives, standing by chartered buses at the Boeing Airplane Company as part of the program for their 31st annual convention.

Ku Klux Klan
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
This photograph shows members of the De Soto Ku Klux Klan No. 76 inside a chartered U.S Stage Lines bus decorated with Klan flags and banners.

Liberal, Kansas, Boy Scouts at the top of Pikes Peak
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: July 20, 1922
View of Liberal Rotary Club Boy Scouts, Troop 182, of Liberal, Kansas, at the top of Pikes Peak (altitude 14, 109 feet) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Also visible are the three open buses used to transport the troop members.

Liberal, Kansas, Boy Scouts breaking camp at Pueblo, Colorado
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: July 19, 1922
View of Liberal Rotary Club Boy Scouts, Troop 182, of Liberal, Kansas, breaking camp at Pueblo, Colorado. Visible in the background are pup tents, and three open buses.

Liberal, Kansas, Boy Scouts in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: July 19, 1922
This is a view of the Liberal Rotary Club Boy Scouts, Troop 182, of Liberal, Kansas, at their camp in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Also visible are a building, three open buses, pup tents, and an open field.

Liberal, Kansas, Boy Scouts preparing to leave Colorado Springs for Denver
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: July 21, 1922
View of the Liberal Rotary Club Boy Scouts troops, from Liberal, Kansas, preparing to depart from Colorado Springs for Denver, Colorado. Visible in the background are utility poles and power cables, buildings, and three open buses.

Menninger Foundation bus stop shelter in Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1952-1972
These two black and white photographs show the bus stop in 1952 and rebuilt in 1972.