300 Mile Race over New Santa Fe Trail
Creator: Moore Studio
Date: May 26, 1913
This black and white photograph shows one of the three Buick cars used during the 300-mile race over the new Santa Fe Trail in front of the Kansas City Star newspaper office. The three automobiles left the Hutchinson News office at 5:01 a.m., arriving at the Kansas City Star office at 4:24 p.m. proving a 300-mile automobile trip could be made on Kansas dirt highways in twelve hours. The only stop during the race was for lunch in Emporia, Kansas. Seated in the Buick are the following individuals from left to right: M.P. Newton, O.M. Wilhite, Ralph Faxton, in the middle, Kansas Governor George H. Hodges, and Fred Trigg.

Buick automobile, Dorrance, Kansas
Creator: Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981
Date: September 8, 1910
View of a Buick coupe automobile parked on a street in Dorrance, Russell County, Kansas. Also visible are houses, barns, windmills, a church and steeple, and stone post and wire fences along the city street.

Buick car
Date: around 1918
This black and white photograph shows a Buick car with an Anti-Automobile Thief Association sticker on the radiator. The emblem for the sticker was registered with the Library of Congress Copyright Office on October 14, 1918, by the Anti-Automobile Thief Association of Wichita, Kansas.

Edwin Boyer and family at Chair Rock Castle Garden in Gove County, Kansas
Date: Between 1908 and 1910
This is a photograph of Edwin Boyer and family members posed in a Buick automobile at Chair Rock Castle Garden, in Gove County, Kansas.

Edwin Boyer and family members at Castle Rock in Gove County, Kansas
Date: Between 1908 and 1910
This is a photograph of Edwin Boyer and family members in his Buick automobile in front of Castle Rock, located in Gove County, Kansas.

Edwin Boyer cranking his Buick automobile near Grainfield, Kansas
Date: Between 1908 and 1910
This is a photograph showing Edwin Boyer cranking his Buick automobile on a road near Grainfield, Kansas. The people in the photograph are: Robert Albin, resting his arms on the window; Thomas Bishop Albin, with mustache; S. R. Scott's sister is at the steering wheel; Flora Albin Boyer, front seat; Tom Rice, young boy on running board; Otto Albin, back seat; Lon Rice, young boy in back seat; Rose Albin Rice, back seat; Stanley Richmond Scott, back seat; and Stella Albin Scott.

Edwin Boyer driving his Buick in Grainfield, Kansas
Date: 1908
This is a photograph showing Edwin Boyer driving his Buick in Grainfield, Kansas. Part of a grain elevator is visible in the background.

Family in Buick car Russell County, Kansas
Date: October 28, 1908
This black and white photograph shows a family seated in a Buick car in front of the city pharmacy in Russell County, Kansas. In the background a gentleman is tying his horse to the hitching post as two small boys look on.

Harvesting crew and equipment, Russell County, Kansas
Creator: Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981
Date: September 17, 1910
One side of a stereograph showing S. A. Roe's threshing machine, operated by a steam-powered tractor, in Russell County, Kansas. Also visible are a threshing crew, a large mound of harvested wheat, a man seated in an open Buick automobile, and a man seated on a horse-drawn water wagon.

L. W. Halbe Collection
Creator: Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981
Date: 1908-1912
The L. W. (Leslie Winfield) Halbe photo collection consists of 1500 glass plate negatives produced by Halbe during his teenage years. Halbe lived in Dorrance, Russell County, Kansas, and began taking photographs of the region with an inexpensive Sears and Roebuck camera when he was fifteen years old.

Model Ten Buick
Date: Between 1900 and 1919
This black and white photograph shows a woman behind the wheel of an early model ten Buick and a male passenger in Greeley, Colorado. In the background, several horses can be seen roaming the open pasture.

Motorcycles and automobiles, Dorrance, Russell County, Kansas
Creator: Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981
Date: July 28, 1912
View of eleven motorcycles and three automobiles on a business street, Dorrance, Kan. Two of the automobiles are identified as a Buick and Maxwell.

Mr. & Mrs. T.B. Coleman Oneida, Kansas
Date: 1910
This sepia colored postcard shows Mr. & Mrs. T. B Coleman in their shiny new Buick on the streets of Oneida, Kansas in Nemaha County.

Robert Albin driving Edwin Boyer's Buick near Grainfield, Kansas
Date: 1910
This is a photograph showing Robert Albin driving Edwin Boyer's light colored Buick near Grainfield, Kansas. The other people in the photograph are: Flora Albin, standing on right, and Sella Albin Scott, in the back seat.

Weber in automobile, Dorrance, Kansas
Creator: Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981
Date: September 8, 1910
An informal portrait of Weber seated in a Buick coupe automobile in Dorrance, Russell County, Kansas. Also visible are houses, barns, windmills, a church and steeple, and stone post and wire fences along the city street.

Yale motorcycle and Buick automobile, Dorrance, Kansas
Creator: Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981
Date: December 17, 1910
View of Henry Major on a Yale motorcycle, and Mr. Blehm in a Buick convertible automobile, in Dorrance, Russell County, Kansas. Also visible are unpaved roadways, a utility pole, and fields fenced with wire and stone posts.