1911 Mount Hope High School football team in Mount Hope, Kansas
Date: 1911
This is a postcard showing the 1911 Mount Hope High School football team in Mount Hope, Kansas. People in the photograph are back row (left to right) HenryTihen, Glen Hill, LeRoy Kaufman, Doc Watt, Lucian Tucker, Fern Lumbert; second row (left to right) Everett Dilley, Clyde Harris, Chas. Merryfield, John Caffrey, Ross Hitt; and front row (left to right) Earl Rhodes, John Culk, Frank Royse, Zade Jordan, and Herman Johnson.

50th anniversary of Kansas
Date: 1911
This postcard shows the ornate work of the Fetter pillow honoring the Fiftieth Anniversary of statehood in Kansas.

Adam and Fred Thielen and friends in an automobile, Dorrance, Kansas
Creator: Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981
Date: May 7, 1911
View of four people seated in the open 1908 Reo automobile, and three people posed next to the auto, in Russell County, Kansas. The two men seated in the automobile may be Adam and Fred Thielen. One of the young women is seated on an American motorcycle. The Reo auto was noted as a 2 cylinder, chain drive car, with two seats in front and a small jump seat on the back.

Albin K. Longren airplane
Date: 1911
Photo of Albin K. Longren's first airplane

Albin K. Longren's first flight
Date: September 2, 1911
A postcard showing Albin K. Longren taking his first flight in plane number 1. The plane built by Longren was powered with a Type A-2 Hall-Scott, eight cylinder, water cooled, 60 H.P. motor. He built and flew the airplane without any prior experience.

Albin Longren's first airplane
Date: November 25, 1911
View of Albin Longren's first airplane in Winfield, Kansas.

An evening with the stars, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: April 4, 1911
A small flyer announcing a lecture on the stars and sun by Mary Proctor, the daughter of a noted astronomer. Mary will use the Santa Fe's stereopticon, which has one of the finest lens ever made, to throw eighty-one pictures on the screen. She will be accompanied musically by Maud Haldane. The lecture and musical dramatization of the stars will be held at Carnegie Hall in Newton, Kansas, on Tuesday evening, April 4, 1911.

Atchison High School baseball team
Creator: Hill Studio (Atchison, Kan.)
Date: 1911
A photograph of the Atchison High School baseball team. The players and their positions are identified on the backside of the photograph as Norman Myers at catcher, Fred Randolph at pitcher, Charles Hagdon at first base, John Walsh at second base, Richard Soloman at short stop, George K. at left field, Horace Chandler at center field, Vearle Baldwin at right field and catcher, Ned Casteli as a substitute, and Daugherty as coach. Digitization funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's turntable, Syracuse, Kansas
Creator: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: August 1911
This photograph, copied from the August 1911 Santa Fe Magazine, shows employees from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company standing in front of steam locomotive #1871 on the turntable at Syracuse, Kansas. The turntable allowed for a steam locomotive to be turned around for a return trip.

Auto race, Rush County, Kansas
Creator: Cottage Studio Photo
Date: 1911
This black and white photograph shows Frank Collins driving a Velie 40 to victory at the first auto race in Rush County, Kansas.

Band participating in the Midian Temple parade, Wichita, Kansas
Date: Between 1908 and 1911
A view of an unidentified band marching in formation in a Midian Temple parade in Wichita, Kansas. Also visible are spectators, buildings and businesses along the city street, utility poles and power lines, a streetcar and streetcar tracks, automobiles, a bicycle and streetlights. The parade may have been associated with the Peerless Prophets Jubilee, a civic festival held in September or October beginning in 1908.

Bank of Tescott, Tescott, Kansas
Creator: Bank of Tescott (Tescott, Kan.)
Date: 1903-1974
This series of photographs contains reproductions of the Bank of Tescott in Tescott, Kansas, between 1903 and 1974. Reproductions include the Flood of 1903, construction of a new bank building in 1911, interior views of the bank, and the bank as it appeared in the 1970s.

Baseball game in progress
Date: 1911
This photo postcard from 1911 features a baseball game in progress, probably in or near Westmoreland, Kansas. The pitcher is thought to be William Bert Hart, who was a well-known semi-professional player in northern Kansas during the 1910s and early 1920s. Both a pitcher and infielder, Bert Hart played not only for the Westmoreland town team, but also for semi-pro teams in Green, Clay Center, and Beloit. In 1920, with Hart as its regular shortstop and occasional pitcher, the Beloit Leaguers salaried team claimed the "independent state championship of Kansas." The postcard is addressed to Hart, who was visiting a relative in Manchester at the time it was sent. The "Wiley" referenced in the message probably was Wiley Taylor from Louisville, Kansas. Taylor was a professional baseball player who pitched for Austin during the 1911 season, and who made his major league debut for Detroit later that fall.

Baseball team, Abilene, Kansas
Date: 1911
This black and white photograph shows baseball players from Abilene, Kansas. The members have been identified as: BACK ROW from left to right: Roy Garver, Six McDonnell, David Stanley, Earl Briney, Frank Madded, Francis Little, Jack Hutton. FRONT ROW from left to right: Eddie Kincaid, Otto Smith, Earl Merrifeld, Milton Huffman, and Carl L. Nicolay.

Birds-eye view of Tribune, Greeley County, Kansas
Date: 1911
Birds-eye view of Tribune, Greeley County, Kansas with a school house or church in the foreground.

Bonner Springs Livery Stable
Creator: Rottluff, Blanche
Date: 1911
This is folder 28 of the Rottluff Family papers collection. The papers relate to the establishment of present-day Bonner Springs, Kansas. This file comes from box 1 of the collection.

Bonner Springs postcard
Date: June 2, 1911
This postcard, sent from a neighboring town, shows the corner of Front and Oak Street in Bonner Springs, Kansas, at time of digitization in 2019. The postcard represents Bonner Springs looking Northwest from the railroad tracks. Digitization funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Brown's Garage, Dorrance, Kansas
Creator: Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981
Date: August 29, 1911
View of three men in the Brown Garage in Dorrance, Russell County, Kansas. One man is leaning against a work bench, another is seated on an Indian motorcycle, and a third is seated in an open convertible automobile.

Byram Hotel
Date: 1911
A photograph of the Byram hotel in Atchison, Kansas, taken from the northeast corner of 2nd street and Commercial street. The reverse side of the photograph says property of Louis Bush. Digitization funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Carnival Visitors in Front of Township Booths, Kaffir Corn Carnival, El Dorado, Kansas
Creator: C. Otis Boston Studio (El Dorado, Kan.)
Date: 1911
This photograph shows a crowd of men and women in front of a number of the booths built by each township in Butler County as a display for the Kaffir Corn Carnival in El Dorado, Kansas. The booths for Spring, Murdock and Fairview townships are visible. This publication was funded in part by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Carry Amelia Nation memorabilia
Date: 1911
A table with memorabilia from the life of temperance leader Carry Amelia Nation, 1846-1911, in front of Hatchet Hall, her home in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Cessna airplane
Date: 1911
Photo of "Silverwing," a Cessna monoplane in flight. The "Silverwing" was completed by May 1911 and was based on the Bleriot monoplane designed by French aviator and inventor Louis Bleriot.

Charles Hadsell house near John Brown's fort, Linn County, Kansas
Date: 1911
This is a photograph of the Charles Hadsell house that was built near John Brown's fort, close to the Marais des Cygnes massacre site. On May 19, 1858, Missouri border ruffian Charles Hamilton and some 30 other men rode through the village of Trading Post, Kansas, where they captured 11 free-state men. The Missourians marched them into a ravine where they opened fire upon them. Five of the men were killed, five were seriously injured, and one escaped unharmed. John Brown, arriving at the scene toward the end of June 1858, built a "fort" some 220 yards south of the ravine. The land on which the fort was built belonged to Eli Snider, a blacksmith. Later he sold it to Brown's friend Charles C. Hadsall, who agreed to let Brown occupy it for military purposes. Brown and his men withdrew at the end of the summer, leaving the fort to Hadsall. In later years Hadsall built a stone house adjoining the site of Brown's fort, enclosing the spring within the walls of the first floor. In 1941 the Kansas legislature authorized acceptance of the massacre site, including Hadsall's house, as a gift to the state from the Pleasanton Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars. In 1961 it provided funds for the restoration of the building, and, in 1963, the entire property was turned over to the Kansas Historical Society for administration. A museum was established in the upper floor of the building in 1964. Today the park is operated as Marais des Cygnes Massacre State Historic Site. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and as a National Historic Landmark in 1974.

Charles Henry Hyer
Creator: Colville, Photographer
Date: 1911
This is a photograph of Charles Henry Hyer, who owned The Hyer Boot Company. Hyer, the son of an immigrant German shoemaker, settled in Leavenworth in 1870 and worked, for a time, building railroads. He soon moved to Olathe and got a job teaching shoe and harness making at the Kansas School for the Deaf. With money he saved, he opened his own shoemaking shop in Olathe and asked his brother, Ed, to join him in running the business. In the years that followed, the Hyers developed a measurement chart to send out with their flyers that enabled customers, even cowboys at the remotest ranches, to order custom made boots to fit their precise size and fashion preference. The business blossomed and, by 1900, it had grown from two employees to 15. During World War I, the Hyers made boots for the officers at Fort Leavenworth and at Camp Funston. By the 1960s more than 70 people were busy making boots for a worldwide clientele. This photograph was taken while Hyer, a Republican, was serving in the 1911 Kansas House of Representatives representating District 10 from Olathe, Kansas.

Charles H. Hyer
Date: 1911
This is a photograph of Charles H. Hyer, who owned The Hyer Boot Company. Hyer, the son of an immigrant German shoemaker, settled in Leavenworth in 1870 and worked, for a time, building railroads. He soon moved to Olathe and got a job teaching shoe and harness making at the Kansas School for the Deaf. With money he saved, he opened his own shoemaking shop in Olathe and asked his brother, Ed, to join him in running the business. In the years that followed, the Hyers developed a measurement chart to send out with their flyers that enabled customers, even cowboys at the remotest ranches, to order custom made boots to fit their precise size and fashion preference. The business blossomed and, by 1900, it had grown from two employees to 15. During World War I, the Hyers made boots for the officers at Fort Leavenworth and at Camp Funston. By the 1960s more than 70 people were busy making boots for a worldwide clientele. This photograph was taken while Hyer, a Republican, was serving in the 1911 Kansas House of Representatives representating District 10 from Olathe, Kansas.