Benjamin Franklin Mudge
Date: Between 1861 and 1865
Tintype portrait of Benjamin Franklin Mudge, 1817-1879, who was the first State Geologist of Kansas. In 1862, geologist Mudge was invited to deliver a series of lectures before the Kansas legislature. The body passed legislation to organize a state geological survey and decided to make Mudge the state geologist, "an honor," he said, "entirely unsought, yet thoroughly enjoyed." Mudge was elected professor of geology and associated sciences at the Kansas State Agricultural College. He published the first "Geology of Kansas," a 65-page report issued in 1866, and the first geological map of the state in 1875. Born in Maine in 1817, Mudge grew up in Massachusetts, attending academies there and graduating from Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1840. Mudge studied natural science and history, but also completed the classical course and studied law. He was admitted to the bar and embarked on a political and legal career, but Mudge always maintained his interest in geology and natural history. During the summer of 1861, in order to demonstrate his antislavery convictions, Mudge moved his family to Quindaro, Wyandotte County, Kansas, a bustling river town with a reputation as an important point on the Underground Railroad and as a stronghold of the free-state movement during the preceding years. After leaving the agricultural college in 1873, Mudge collected specimens for Yale University and was named geologist under the State Board of Agriculture. Mudge also was a founding member of the Kansas Natural History Society, which became the Kansas Academy of Science. Mudge, who gathered the nucleus of the college's mineral collection, was later remembered as a one of the foremost pioneer scientists of Kansas. A biographer said he was "outstanding not only as a great explorer and collector of geological and paleontological specimens," he was also "recognized as an enthusiastic and inspiring teacher and was highly esteemed by the people of the State."

Benjamin Franklin Mudge
Creator: DaLee, A.G.
Date: 1879
A carte de visite of Benjamin Franklin Mudge, 1817-1879, who was the first State Geologist of Kansas. Mudge was elected professor of geology and associated sciences at the Kansas State Agricultural College. He published the first "Geology of Kansas" a sixty-five page report issued in 1866, and the first geological map of the state in 1875. He was also a founding member of the Kansas Natural History Society which became the Kansas Academy of Science. Mudge, who gathered the nucleus of the college's mineral collection, was later remembered as one of the foremost pioneer scientists of Kansas.

Clyde Tombaugh
Date: 1928
Photograph of astronomer Clyde William Tombaugh, 1906-1997, at age 22 with his homemade 9 inch Newtonian Telescope on his family farm near Burdett, Kansas. Tombaugh discovered the planet Pluto in 1930 and fourteen asteroids during his long career.

Clyde Tombaugh
Creator: New York Times Company
Date: 1930
Front page article on the discovery of planet Pluto from the New York Times, March 14, 1930.

Clyde Tombaugh
Date: 1938
Clyde Tombaugh, 1906-1997, examining planet photograph plates under the Blink Microscope Comparator at the Lowell Observatory.

Dr. Elmer Verner McCollum
Date: Between 1925 and 1929
This is a portrait of Dr. Elmer Verner McCollum, who was born and raised on a farm near Fort Scott, Kansas. He graduated from the University of Kansas in 1903 and earned his doctorate at Yale University in 1906. McCollum was a faculty member in agricultural chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, and, in 1917, Johns Hopkins University recruited McCollum as the first chair and professor in the Department of Chemical Hygiene. He published 150 papers at Johns Hopkins reporting research on tooth decay, vitamins D and E, and the role of trace minerals in nutrition, including aluminum, calcium, cobalt, fluorine, phosphorus, potassium, manganese, sodium, strontium and zinc.

Elam Bartholomew
Date: Between 1890 and 1910
Elam Bartholomew settled in Rooks County, Kansas, in 1874. He was born in Pennsylvania and his family moved to Ohio and then Illinois. In 1873 he became engaged to Rachel Montgomery and returned to Illinois to marry her in June 1877. They returned to Kansas in September of 1877. The Bartholomews lived on their farm on Bow Creek until 1929 when they moved to Hays. Elam Bartholomew was a well know botanist specializing in rust flora and he served as curator of the mycological museum at Fort Hays Kansas State College. He died in 1934. A diary for the years 1877 and 1878 is contained in Kansas Memory.

Elam Bartholomew
Date: Between 1890 and 1910
Elam Bartholomew settled in Rooks County, Kansas, in 1874. He was born in Pennsylvania and his family moved to Ohio and then Illinois. In 1873 he became engaged to Rachel Montgomery and returned to Illinois to marry her in June 1877. They returned to Kansas in September of 1877. The Bartholomews lived on their farm on Bow Creek until 1929 when they moved to Hays. Elam Bartholomew was a well know botanist specializing in rust flora and he served as curator of the mycological museum at Fort Hays Kansas State College. He died in 1934. A diary for the years 1877 and 1878 is contained in Kansas Memory.

Elam Bartholomew diary
Creator: Bartholomew, Elam
Date: 1879
Elam Bartholomew was a resident of Rooks County and Hays, Kansas. He was a horticulturalist internationally known for his work with fungi. His diary reflects his active participation in Republican Party politics, local government, the United Presbyterian Church, farm organizations, and experimental farming. Elam Bartholomew settled in Rooks County, Kansas, in 1874. He was born in Pennsylvania and his family moved to Ohio and then Illinois. In 1873 he became engaged to Rachel Montgomery and returned to Illinois to marry her in June 1876. They returned to Kansas in September of 1876. The Bartholomews lived on their farm on Bow Creek until 1929 when they moved to Hays where he served as curator of the mycological museum at Fort Hays Kansas State College. He died in 1934.

Elam Bartholomew diary
Creator: Bartholomew, Elam
Date: January 1, 1880-December 31, 1880
Elam Bartholomew was a resident of Rooks County and Hays, Kansas. He was a horticulturalist, internationally known for his work with fungi. His diary reflects his active participation in Republican Party politics, local government, the United Presbyterian Church, farm organizations, and experimental farming. Elam Bartholomew settled in Rooks County, Kansas, in 1874. He was born in Pennsylvania and his family moved to Ohio and then Illinois. In 1873 he became engaged to Rachel Montgomery and returned to Illinois to marry her in June 1876. They returned to Kansas in September of 1876. The Bartholomews lived on their farm on Bow Creek until 1929 when they moved to Hays, where he served as curator of the mycological museum at Fort Hays Kansas State College. He died in 1934.

Elam Bartholomew diary
Creator: Bartholomew, Elam
Date: January 1, 1881-December 31, 1881
Elam Bartholomew was a resident of Rooks County and Hays, Kansas. He was a horticulturalist, internationally known for his work with fungi. His diary reflects his active participation in Republican Party politics, local government, the United Presbyterian Church, farm organizations, and experimental farming. Elam Bartholomew settled in Rooks County, Kansas, in 1874. He was born in Pennsylvania and his family moved to Ohio and then Illinois. In 1873 he became engaged to Rachel Montgomery and returned to Illinois to marry her in June 1876. They returned to Kansas in September of 1876. The Bartholomews lived on their farm on Bow Creek until 1929 when they moved to Hays, where he served as curator of the mycological museum at Fort Hays Kansas State College. He died in 1934.

Elam Bartholomew diary
Creator: Bartholomew, Elam
Date: From January, 1877 to December, 1878
Elam Bartholomew was a resident of Rooks County and Hays, Kansas. He was a horticulturalist, internationally known for his work with fungi. His diary reflects his active participation in Republican Party politics, local government, the United Presbyterian Church, farm organizations, and experimental farming. Elam Bartholomew was born in Pennsylvania, and his family moved first to Ohio and then Illinois. In 1873, he became engaged to Rachel Montgomery. Bartholomew settled in Rooks County, Kansas, in 1874, and returned to Illinois to marry Montgomery in June, 1876. The Bartholomews returned to Kansas in September, 1876, and lived on their farm on Bow Creek in Rooks County until 1929. They then moved south to Hays, Kansas, in Ellis County, where he served as curator of the mycological museum at Fort Hays Kansas State College until his death in 1934.

Elam Bartholomew in an experimental corn field
Date: Between 1890 and 1910
Elam Bartholomew settled in Rooks County, Kansas, in 1874. He was born in Pennsylvania and his family moved to Ohio and then Illinois. In 1873 he became engaged to Rachel Montgomery and returned to Illinois to marry her in June 1877. They returned to Kansas in September of 1877. The Bartholomews lived on their farm on Bow Creek until 1929 when they moved to Hays. Elam Bartholomew was a well know botanist specializing in rust flora and he served as curator of the mycological museum at Fort Hays Kansas State College. He died in 1934. A diary for the years 1877 and 1878 is contained in Kansas Memory.

Elam Bartholomew residence, Rooks County, Kansas
Date: Between 1899 and 1905
This is an interior view of the Bartholomew's sod house. Elam and his wife Rachel are in the photograph. Elam Bartholomew settled in Rooks County, Kansas, in 1874. He was born in Pennsylvania and his family moved to Ohio and then Illinois. In 1873 he became engaged to Rachel Montgomery and in June 1877 traveled to Illinois for the wedding. They returned to Kansas in September of 1877. The Bartholomews lived on their farm on Bow Creek until 1929 when they moved to Hays. Elam Bartholomew was a well known botanist specializing in rust flora and he served as curator of the mycological museum at Fort Hays Kansas State College. He died in 1934. A diary for the years 1877 and 1878 is contained in Kansas Memory.

Evan Elmer Evans
Date: June 24, 1978
This newspaper clipping shows Evan Elmer Evans receiving the first Winfield Art Center " Achievement in the Arts" at Memorial Park in Winfield, Kansas. Evans served as superintendent of schools in Winfield from 1931 to 1952. He is also recognized as the first executive director of the National Aerospace Council in Washington, D.C.

Geological team, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Date: 1915
This black and white photograph shows a geological team at Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The group of men were a part of a 220 team of geologist searching for oil in a three state region. The exploration started in 1914 in Butler County, Kansas, and extended up to the Nebraska border and down into Oklahoma.

George Washington Carver
Date: between 1930 and 1940
Portrait of George Washington Carver.

George Washington Carver and Dr. and Mrs. M. L. Ross
Date: April 06, 1932
George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, and Dr. and Mrs. M. L. Ross.

George Washington Carver and friends
Date: April 06, 1932
This photo shows George Washington Carver standing on porch steps with Dr. and Mrs. M. L. Ross and Harry O. Abbott.

National Guard - Discharge Requested
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1915-1919: Capper)
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence relating to discharge requests from the National Guard. Topics included but not limited to in the correspondence is, delayed responses to discharge requests by service men and their families, interference of military service with work expectations, and priorities of the National Guard. This is part of a bigger collection of Governor Arthur Capper correspondence.

Research at the Menninger Foundation (Topeka, Kansas) using computers
Date: 1979
These three photographs show some of the researchers of the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, and their use of computers. Menninger Research and the Principal Investigators included Robert Wallerstein and the Psychotherapy Research Project; Riley Gardner and Cognitive Control Projects (Equivalence Range, Twin Study, etc.); Philip Holzman and Perception/Cognition Projects (Self-Confrontation, My Voice, Thyroid, etc.); Harold Voth and the Autokinesis Projects (Phenomenology, Hypnosis, Suicide, etc.); Riley Gardner and Perceptual Learning Projects, ( ESP Studies); Herbert Spohn and Schizophrenia Studies; Joseph Kovach and Quail Genetics Projects; Elmer Green and Biofeedback, Magnetic Field Studies (Copper Wall), and Healers; Howard Shevrin and Studies of the Unconscious (Poetzel, Rebus, Hypnosis, etc.); Nancy Shand and the Infancy Project; Joseph Sargent and Biofeedback Projects (Migraine, Tension Headache,etc.); Joseph Hyland and Breast Cancer Counseling Project; James Taylor and Social Psychology Projects (Urban Renewal, Tornado), Multitrait-Multimethod Scaling Method; Fred Glixman and Parent Interaction Project; and Steven Fahrion and Biofeedback and Brain Wave Studies (Hypertension, Immunology, Cancer, Addiction etc.).