11th - 17th Annual Kansas Day Meetings
Creator: Ackerman, Gertrude
Date: 1902-1908
This series of documents represents officer and program listings for the 11th through 17th Annual Kansas Day banquets. This is part of a bigger collection from Gertrude Ackerman.

A. Roenigk to George W. Martin
Creator: Roenigk, Adolph, 1847-1938
Date: April 06, 1907
A letter from Adolph Roenigk of Lincoln County, Kansas, to George W. Martin, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas. Roenigk writes that a paper he submitted to the Historical Society, a reminiscence of Ferdinand Eberhardt, had a mistake in the years Mr. Eberhardt remained a widower before his second marriage.

A. Roenigk to George W. Martin
Creator: Roenigk, Adolph, 1847-1938
Date: April 08, 1907
A letter from Adolph Roenigk of Lincoln, Kansas, to George W. Martin, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas. Reonigk tells of his friend, Ferdinand Erhardt, and of Erhardt's service and friendship to the late Senator Plumb.

AT&SF Railway Company hotel, Syracuse, Kansas
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: November 02, 1907
This series of plans designed by chief engineer, C.A. Morse, represents a hotel in Syracuse, Kansas for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.

Adolph Roenigk and George W. Martin correspondence
Creator: Roenigk, Adolph, 1847-1938
Date: October 10, 1904-January 24, 1908
In this correspondence with George W. Martin of the Kansas State Historical Society, Adolph Roenigk addresses issues related to the Pawnee Indians. In the letter dated October 10, 1904, Roenigk explains that "a Battle between the Potowatomie and the Pawnee Indians was fought here [Lincoln, Kansas] in 1863." According to Roenigk, between 14 and 16 Native Indians were killed during the fighting. Similarly, Roenigk's letter of October 24, 1906, concerns violence between Kansans and Native Indians during the late 1860s when a man named Solomon Humbarger and Solomon's brother were attacked by Native Indians. After killing one of their chiefs Roenigk states that Humbarger was shot in the thigh with an arrow.

Advance sheet of the 1907 Great Smith car
Creator: Smith Automobile Company
Date: 1907
A small catalog giving the specifications of the Great Smith car. The Smith Automobile Company built cars in Topeka, Kansas, from 1902-1911.

Alma High School football team
Creator: Williams, C. U.
Date: 1907
A real photograph postcard showing the Alma High School football team in Alma, Kansas. The postcard is addressed to Mr. Ernest Wetzel in Topeka, Kansas.

An act to amend section 8, article 2, of chapter 31 of the general statues of 1901
Creator: Kansas Legislature.
Date: 1907
The Kansas Legislature passed House Bill 66 by January 18 and Governor Edward W. Hoch signed the bill into law on January 30, 1907. The law abolished capital punishment in Kansas by prescribing life imprisonment, instead of the death penalty, as punishment for persons convicted of first degree murder. While executions by state authority were legal in Kansas from 1861-1907, the legislature imposed tighter regulations in 1872 that required the time of execution to be ordered by the governor. Kansas governors between 1872-1907 refused to issue execution orders, as required by law, effectively banning state authorized executions during that period. Governor Hoch was a strong opponent of capital punishment.

Ass't Attorney General Trickett's address
Creator: Kansas State Temperance Union
Date: February 05, 1907
An address by Assistant Attorney General C.W. Trickett at the Convention State Temperance Union in Topeka, Kansas on February 5, 1907, with a subtitle of "The Story of the Kansas City Clean-up by the Man Who Made Good."

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company's Fred Harvey Bisonte Hotel, Hutchison, Kansas
Creator: Fred Harvey (Firm)
Date: Between 1906 and 1907
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot and the Fred Harvey Bisonte Hotel in Hutchison, Kansas. The two-story red brick building designed by architect J.G. Holland features a gable roof and a veranda style porch. The facility opened in November of 1897 and provided accommodations for a number of years until closing its doors in the late 1940s due to the decline in rail services. The building was razed between 1964 and 1965.

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company's Fred Harvey Bisonte Hotel, Hutchison, Kansas
Creator: Fred Harvey (Firm)
Date: Between 1906 and 1907
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot and the Fred Harvey Bisonte Hotel in Hutchinson, Kansas. The two-story red brick building designed by architect J.G. Holland features a gable roof and a veranda style porch. The facility opened in November 1897 and provided accommodations for a number of years until closing its doors in the late 1940s due to the decline in rail services. The building was razed between 1964 and 1965.

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company's Fred Harvey Bisonte Hotel, Hutchison, Kansas
Creator: Fred Harvey (Firm)
Date: March 1908
This photographs shows a furnished bedroom at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company's Fred Harvey Bisonte Hotel in Hutchinson, Kansas. The eighty guest room facility designed by architect J. G. Holland opened in November of 1897. For a number of years the hotel provided accommodations until closing in the late 1940s due to the decline in rail services. The building was razed between 1964 and 1965.

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company's theatrical directory
Date: June 1, 1907
This theatrical directory published by the Santa Fe Railroad Company provides a list of theaters and opera houses with their locations along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company system. At the back of the book, a map illustrates the locations of the theatrical facilities along the Santa Fe lines. The directory was a useful guide in determining routes and bookings for the season's theatrical tour.

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot, Peabody, Kansas
Date: April 07, 1907
This postcard shows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depot at Peabody, Kansas. The one-story "prairie style" station features a hipped roof with a semi-hexagonal operator's bay and a matching bay at the waiting room end.

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot, Peabody, Kansas
Date: May 02, 1907
This postcard shows a west view of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depot in Peabody, Kansas. The postcard was sent to Mr. Chester A. Smith in St. Marys, Ohio. The prairie-style station features a hipped roof, and a semi-hexagonal operator's bay and waiting bay.

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot and Fred Harvey Bisonte Hotel, Hutchinson, Kansas
Creator: Fred Harvey (Firm)
Date: Between 1906 and 1907
This photograph shows the dining room of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company's Fred Harvey Bisonte Hotel in Hutchinson, Kansas. The facility designed by architect J.G. Holland opened in November of 1897. For a number of years the hotel provided accommodations until the late 1940s when it closed its doors due to the decline in rail services. The building was razed between 1964 and 1965.

Automobile show, Salina, Kansas
Creator: Rolfe Photo, Salina, Kansas
Date: August 1907
This photograph shows a street scene of an automobile show in Salina, Kansas. The automobiles with their drivers are parked along Santa Fe Avenue in downtown Salina.

Baseball team in Alma, Kansas
Date: 1904
Photograph of members of the 1904 baseball team from Alma, Kansas. Players include George Zahner, Elmer Bartell, M. Norlin, Jimmy Lane, Ralph St. John, John Falk, Roy McMahan, Butch Stuewe, and Charles Strawn.

Belle Jones Dresher
Creator: Dresher, G. C.
Date: August, 1907
An informal portrait of Belle Jones Dresher, kneeling before the open oven of her new stove. Also visible are two pie pans, a match holder on the door frame behind the stove, the stove's flue and gas line, a teakettle, a throw rug, patterned wallpaper and linoleum, and a pair of slippers that have been placed along the baseboard to the right of the stove.

Belle R. Greene to George W. Martin
Creator: Greene, Belle R.
Date: March 28, 1907-April 3, 1907
In this correspondence with George W. Martin, Belle R. Greene, daughter of Jesse Greene, discusses the material covered in her father's papers from the period when he worked at the Shawnee Indian Methodist Manual Labor School. As Belle Greene indicates in her letters to G.W. Martin, her father's papers are full of details regarding the individuals he dealt with at the Methodist school.

Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks' baseball team in Olathe, Kansas
Date: 1907
This is a photograph of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks' baseball team in Olathe, Kansas. People in the photograph are identified as: (standing) Mat Churchill (umpire), ____ Reed, _____Ounaway, _____ Allread, ______ Allread, second row _____ Luvirmore, C. L. Tew, Herman Elwell, _____ Bedell, and seated Duch Baker, _____ Snyder, _____ Hill _____Ranfro, and Dean Elwell.

Blackhoof or Catahecassa, the famous Shawnee Chief
Date: February 19, 1907
This item provides a detailed history of the Shawnee Native American warrior Blackhook (Catahecassa). Born in Florida, Blackhoof moved with his tribe as it was pushed north and west during the early expansion of Colonial America and, later, the United States.

Bonner Spings. The Kansas Karlsbad
Creator: Shook, John Morgan
Date: About 1907
A pamphlet promoting Bonner Springs, Kansas, as a health resort. Includes photographs by Urbin Rudell. See also the Urbin Rudell photograph collection as item 210247.

Bridge at Peabody, Kansas
Creator: Bowers, John
Date: October 26, 1907
This is a postcard showing a bridge in Peabody, Kansas.

Bridge near Florence, Kansas
Date: May 06, 1907
A postcard showing a bridge near Florence, Kansas.