1897 Liberty Head V Nickel from 14WY408
Date: 1897
This 1897 nickel was collected from a multicomponent camp site in Wyandotte County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2018. On the obverse is Liberty wearing a coronet and wreath with the date. On the reverse is "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V E PLURIBUS UNUM."

A. Cutler residence in Council, Grove, Kansas
Creator: Anderson, Walt
Date: December 09, 1897
This photograph shows the Cutlers standing on the back porch of their home in Council Grove, Kansas.

Address of C.E. Adams before the second flag raising of the Pawnee Republic Historical Society
Creator: Adams, C.E.
Date: September 29, 1897
This item is a draft of C.E. Adams's speech to mark the occasion of the second flag raising of the Pawnee Republic Historical Society in September 1897.

A farm out west. Emigration folder of the great Rock Island route
Date: 1897
This Chicago & Rock Island railroad pamphlet promotes agricultural production and settlement in the southwestern states of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.

A. J. Eastman Drug Store, Burlington, Kansas
Date: 1897
This photograph shows an exterior view of the A. J. Eastman Drug Store in Burlington, Kansas. Also visible is the Pioneer Hardware and Implement Store. A few people are visible in front of the stores, and a carriage and a bicycle are also visible.

Albert R. Greene to Franklin G. Adams
Creator: Greene, A.R.
Date: August 18, 1897
In this letter to Franklin G. Adams, Albert R. Greene explains that he recently met with Charles C. Haynes, with whom he discussed the waning days of the Overland Stage. Greene explains that Haynes was old but that his eye was as "keen as when he ran the gauntlet of hostile Indians and brought his coach into the home station bristling with arrows."

Alfalfa hay on Miles Bros' Ranch, Finney County, Kansas
Creator: Wolf, Henry L. 1850-1924
Date: 1897
This photograph shows large stacks of alfalfa hay on Miles Bros' Ranch in Finney County, Kansas.

Allison and Denver Drugs and Groceries, Hutchinson, Kansas
Date: 1897
This photograph shows an exterior view of Allison and Denver Drugs and Groceries in Hutchinson, Kansas. The building, located on the southeast corner of Sherman and Main streets, also houses Raff Brothers Dry Goods and other stores. Several people are visible in front of the stores, and a few people are visible sitting in the windows of the upper part of the store on the left side of the picture. A large American flag is also seen flying above the building.

Antelope in Woodward County, Oklahoma Territory
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: 1897
View of two antelope standing near the Beaver River in Woodward County, Oklahoma Territory.

A round-up on Tom Kern's ranch in Coldwater, Kansas
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: 1897
A round-up herd of about 1,200 cattle on Tom Kerns' ranch south of Coldwater, Kansas, in 1897. Cowboys on horses are visible in the background.

A sod house in eastern Beaver County, Oklahoma Territory
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: 1897
This is a view of a sod house in the eastern portion of Beaver County, Oklahoma Territory. In the foreground, a woman is pouring water into a livestock trough and there is a boy on a horse.

Bank of Perry, Perry, Kansas
Creator: Bank of Perry (Perry, Kan.)
Date: Between 1893 and 1930
This series contains reproductions of photographs of Bank of Perry in Perry, Kansas between 1893 and 1930. One reproduction shows the blown safe after a bank robbery in December 1897.

Battle of the Big Blue
Creator: Reader, S. J.
Date: 1897
This painting depicts Union forces fighting Confederate soldiers at the Battle of the Big Blue River on October 22, 1864, the day before the defeat of Price at Westport. The artist, Samuel Reader, fought for the Union as part of the Second Kansas State Militia, whose members were was almost all from Shawnee County. Reader served as an officer in the "field and staff" of the militia with the rank of First Lieutenant, Assistant Quartermaster. In the Battle of the Big Blue he was captured by Confederates, who were on their way to Texas when Reader escaped and returned to his farm in southeast Kansas. In this painting, which is housed in a gilded wood frame (not shown), timber fences flank both sides of a tree-lined road. A stone building and horse-drawn caisson (ammunition chest) are visible to the right, and a mounted cannon is on the left. Armed men, wearing brown and blue coats, are scattered along the road. The Union infantry skirmish line, marked by a federal flag, recedes into the background. Confederate forces, with Confederate flag, are visible in the background to the left. Elizabeth Reader, the daughter of the artist, donated the painting in 1909.

Cabinet card, Minnie Palenske
Creator: Meier, Gustav H., 1865-1941
Date: Around 1897
This is a studio portrait cabinet card of Minnie Palenske Zwanziger, the daughter of Louis and Emma Palenske of Alma, Kansas. Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Cattle round-up on M. C. Campbell's ranch near Ashland, Kansas
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: 1897
This is a herd of cattle on the M. C. Campbell ranch near Ashland, Kansas. Also visible are a horse-drawn carriage and cowboys on horses.

Cattle round-up on the Medicine River, Kiowa County, Kansas
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: 1897
View of the round-up of about 2,000 head of cattle, owned by C. P. Fullington of Belvidere, Kansas, near the Medicine River, Kiowa County, Kansas. People seated in a horse-drawn carriage are visible in the foreground.

C. C. Evans to Governor Edmund Morrill
Creator: Evans, C. C.
Date: December 24, 1894
The chairman of the Sheridan County Republican Central Committee, C. C. Evans, of Allison (Decatur County), writes Governor Edmund Morrill to inform him of the desperate circumstances facing farmers in western Kansas and to ask the state to furnish seed grain to the farmers. Several years of drought and low crop yields left many farmers without sufficient seed grain for the next season's crops. Evans asks the governor to rally Republican legislators to quickly pass an appropriation for farm relief. The letter claims that Populists have thwarted local efforts to address the problem and that effective actions by Republicans at this time would attract more people in western Kansas to the Republican Party.

C. E. Doyle and cowboys on the Doyle ranch near Englewood, Kansas
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: 1897
View of C. E. Doyle and cowboys on horseback at the Doyle ranch near Englewood, Kansas, in 1897. Visible in the background are a herd of horses, a pond, a windmill, and ranch buildings.

Central Congregational Church in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: M. L. Zercher Book and Stationery Company
Date: 1897
This is a postcard showing the Central Congregational Church located at 1248 SW Buchanan in Topeka, Kansas. The photograph was taken after the Bowman Memorial addition was built in 1897. The shed on the west was used for Sunday School classes. The main entrance in this photograph would have come into the auditorium which is now the north balcony of the church.

Chain C cattle, Woodward County, Oklahoma Territory
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: 1897
View of about 3,000 head of the Chain C outfit's cattle owned by William Herring of Woodward County, Oklahoma Territory.

Charles Curtis correspondence, 1897
Creator: Curtis, Charles, 1860-1936
Date: 1897
These letters are written by Charles Curtis and pulled from the Howel Jones and Ross Burns Collection. Charles Curtis was born January 25, 1860, in North Topeka, Kansas. He was descended from White Plume, chief of the Kaw Tribe, and Louis Pappan, one of the original settlers of North Topeka. He served as County Attorney from 1884-1889. In 1892, he was elected to the House of Representatives; he served in that body until his election to the Senate in 1907. He continued to serve in the Senate until his election to the vice-presidency under Herbert Hoover in 1928. He was the first Native American to be elected to national office. Howel Jones was a railroad officer; attorney; friend and senatorial campaign manager of Charles Curtis. His father-in-law is Ross Burns, who served in the Civil War in Battery A, 2nd Regiment of the Kansas State Militia.

Chautauqua in Forest Park, Ottawa
Date: 1897
These three photographs were taken of various groups at the Chautauqua in Forest Park, Ottawa, Kansas, in 1897. The photos were given by J. L. Benson.

Chautauqua in Forest Park, Ottawa, Kansas
Date: June 1897
These four photographs show the tents and living conditions, leisure activities and camaraderie during a Chautauqua in Forest Park, Ottawa, Kansas. The women pictured are not identified.

Cheyenne Indians at the Topeka Fall Festival
Date: September 30, 1897
This is a photograph of a large group of posed Cheyenne Indians taken at the Topeka Fall Festival. Funds for digitization provided by Mr. Steve Peckel in memory of William Chalfant.

Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Workers, Arkalon, Kansas
Date: 1897
This black and white photograph shows workers from the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad repairing tracks near Arkalon, Kansas.