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 Railway Light & Power Company motormen in Atchison, Kansas
Date: 1915
This is a photograph showing the Atchison Railway Light & Power Company motormen with a trolley in Atchison, Kansas.

Atchison Railway Light and Power Company's car #5 in Atchison, Kansas
Date: 1890
This is a photograph showing Atchison Railway Light and Power Company's car #5 possibly at the Forrest Park turnaround in west Atchison, Kansas.

Cable car on 12th St. viaduct in Kansas City, Kansas
Date: April 12, 1913
A photograph showing a cable car on the original 12th Street viaduct in Kansas City, Kansas.

Casa Bonita Café and Bus Depot, Salina, Kansas
Date: May 10, 1936
This photograph shows the Casa Bonita Café and Bus Depot in Salina, 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 Street Railway Company, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1919
This photograph shows a group of men gathered around horse drawn trolley cars operated by the Consolidated Street Railway Company between Cottonwood Falls, Kansas and Strong City, Kansas.

Consolidated Street Railway Company, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1919
This postcard shows horse-drawn trolley number 12 of the Consolidated Street Railway Company in downtown Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. The text at the top of the trolley or streetcar reads, "Main Street and Union depot."

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.

Dome construction, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Cone, W. W.
Date: 1889
View of construction of the Kansas State Capitol building's dome in Topeka, Kansas. Also visible is an American flag, a small brick building on the Capitol grounds, wooden fences, utility poles and power lines, a horse-drawn carriage, and two men in a trolley car in the foreground.

Harvey House in Rush Center, Kansas
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
Here are three photographs of the Harvey House in Rush Center, Kansas.

Horse car in McPherson, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1905
A photograph of a horse-drawn car operated by the McPherson Street Railway Company in McPherson, Kansas.

Horse drawn streetcar, Strong City, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
This is a photograph showing the Consolidated Street Railway Company's horse drawn streetcar, which operated between Strong City and Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.

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.

Livery Feed & Sale Stable
Date: Between 1880 and 1900
This is a view of the Livery Feed & Sale Stable in Sedan, Kansas. The early day residents referred to the Old Stage (that was Sedan's Taxi) as the "Bus". This served as transportation to and from the depot.

Main street, Westmoreland, Kansas
Date: 1915
This black and white photograph shows two men standing beside the muddy wheels of the Westmoreland-Wamego stage on main street in Westmoreland, Kansas. In the background is the furniture-undertaking business, the post office, and the Citizens State Bank. The town of Westmoreland is the county seat of Pottawatomie County.

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.

Ninth Street Incline in Kansas City, Kansas
Date: Between 1890 and 1896
A photograph showing the Ninth Street Incline main cable car route from Union Depot to downtown Kansas City.

Ninth Street cable car incline in Kansas City, Kansas
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
A photograph of the Ninth Street cable car incline as seen from the Union depot yards in Kansas City, Kansas.

Notice! Whereas smallpox exists
Creator: Kansas. State Board of Health
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
This bright orange poster, issued by the Kansas State Board of Health, aims at preventing an epidemic of small pox. It charges persons responsible for public transportation to prohibit its use to those people who have smallpox or who have been exposed to smallpox.

South Topeka and Potwin Station street car #33 in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Farrow, W. F.
Date: Between 1895 and 1900
This is a photograph showing South Topeka and Potwin Station street car #33 in Topeka, Kansas. The car was owned by the Topeka Railway Company which purchased the line in 1892. It was the major transit line for the city until the 1920s when the Kansas Power & Light purchased the trolley line.

Street car #223 used by the Topeka Railway Company in Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1905 and 1910
This is a photograph showing street car #223 used by the Topeka Railway Company in Topeka, Kansas. The man on the left is Edson McKee.

Street car, Salina, Kansas
Creator: Kansas Post Card Company, Salina, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
This colored postcard show a group of people gathered inside a Salina Street and Interurban Railway Company car.

Street car barns in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Harrison, Paul
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
This is a photograph of the street car barns located near 11th and Jackson in Topeka, Kansas.

Streetcar conductors in Kansas City
Date: Between 1890 and 1910
A photograph of streetcar conductors in either Kansas City, Kansas or Kansas City, Missouri.