1941 Canton High School senior class in Canton, Kansas
Date: 1941
This is a photograph of the 1941 Canton High School senior class in Canton, Kansas. Members of the class are identified on the photograph.

1941 Senior Class of Lecompton Rural High School, Lecompton, Kansas
Date: 1941
Photograph of the 1941 Senior Class of Lecompton Rural High School. The students are posed in front of the entrance of the high school in three rows. The names of some students can be seen written beside them. A label contains a listing of the students: Junior Sulzen, Dale Glenn, Glenn Cre, Harold Crady, Charles Sulen, Donna Littleton, Betty Hodson, Christine Traynor, Lura Holloway, Warren Hartmen, Harry Carr, Mrs. Arloa Summers (teacher), Maxine Glenn, Opal Lasswell, Phyllis Martin. Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

1941 calendar with a photograph of the WIBW Round-Up Gang
Date: 1941
This is a calendar with a photograph of the WIBW Round-Up Gang and an advertisement for Pe-Ru-Na, cold medicine. The calendar was distributed by Consolidated Drug Trade Products, a Division of Consolidated Royal Chemical Corp in Chicago, Illinois.

ATSF locomotive #3457 train derailment, Lecompton, Kansas
Date: 1941
Two views of the derailment of ATSF locomotive #3457, train #27, in Lecompton, Kansas. The Kansas River can be seen in the background.

American flag
Creator: United States. Navy
Date: between 1940 and 1942
Wool forty-eight star U.S. flag. Appliqued stars. National Ensign from the USS Ralph Talbot, a destroyer in the U.S. Navy fleet. The Talbot was anchored at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked, but made it out of the area with no damage or casualties. The Talbot was later involved in the Battle of the Marshalls and Gilberts in February of 1942 and the Battle of Wake and Marcus Islands in March of 1942. The flag was the USS Ralph Talbot's streaming colors, flying behind the smokestacks when the ship was underway. It was flown on the Talbot as it steamed out of Pearl Harbor. Sharitt Baker acquired the flag while serving on the USS Ralph Talbot during the war. Baker was born in Topeka in 1917 and enlisted in the Navy in 1938. He was assigned to the Talbot as a Third Class Petty Officer in 1939 or 1940. The flag was exchanged for a new one by the Quartermaster just before dawn on February 1, 1942, the morning of the raids on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. While it was standard procedure to burn a flag once it was retired, Baker received tacit permission from the Quartermaster to keep the flag. While still on the Talbot, Baker stored the flag under his mattress to keep it flat.

Arthur Capper to Mrs. Barbara Winthrop
Creator: Capper, Arthur, 1865-1951
Date: February 18, 1941
In this letter from Senator Capper to Mrs. Barbara Winthrop, Evanston, Illinois, President of We the Mothers Mobilize for America, Capper explains his stance on involving the United States in the conflict underway in Europe.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's refrigerator car, Hutchinson, Kansas
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: April, 1941
This photograph shows an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's new "reefer" refrigerator car ,Rr-33 class # SFRD 36584, on display at Hutchinson, Kansas.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's steam engine #1005
Creator: Goebel, Charles, 1898-1987
Date: April 06, 1941
This black and white photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company's engine #1005 at Syracuse, Kansas. It is a 2-6-2 engine.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's steam locomotive #2014
Creator: Goebel, Charles, 1898-1987
Date: April 07, 1941
This black and white photograph shows three employees with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's steam locomotive #2014 at Las Vegas, Nevada.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's steam locomotive #4114
Creator: Goebel, Charles, 1898-1987
Date: April 01, 0941
This black and white photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's steam locomotive #4114 at the rail yard in Topeka, Kansas.

Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Company FT diesel engines, Hutchinson, Kansas
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: April 1941
This photograph shows a line of people, inspecting a new Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's FT 100 class diesel engine and new stainless steel coach at Hutchinson, Kansas. Also visible are a water column, utility pole and power lines, and a switch engine.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway flat car number 91165
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1941
A view of an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway flat car number 91165. The 60 foot car was built by General American Transportation Corporation.

Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe switch engine # 400
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1941
This 44 ton switch engine was probably built for the AT&SF by General Electric. It had 360 horsepower. This is the builders photo from 1941.

Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company's FT diesel engines, Hutchinson, Kansas
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: April 1941
This photograph shows the inspection of the new Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's FT 100 class diesel engines at Hutchinson, Kansas. Also visible is the "El Capitan", a steel-sided passenger car (#3199).

Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company's FT diesel engines, Hutchinson, Kansas
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: April 1941
This black and white photograph shows the crowd of people inspecting the new Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's FT 100 class diesel engines at Hutchinson, Kansas. The building in view is the freight depot called the Santa Fe Freight House.

Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company's FT diesel engines, Hutchinson, Kansas
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: April 1941
This photograph shows a public event sponsored by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company for the new FT 100 diesel engines at Hutchinson, Kansas. Also visible are parked cars, of an "El Capitan" round-ended observation car, and other buildings.

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company's steam locomotive #3463
Date: September 1941
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company's steam locomotive #3463 at the depot in Burlingame, Kansas. The locomotive was designed by H.H. Lanning and his staff in Topeka, Kansas and built in 1937 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The steam locomotive was first assigned between La Junta, Colorado and Chicago, Illinois. Later with the introduction of the diesel engine, service was changed to Kansas City and Oklahoma City and Kansas City and Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1953 the #3463 made one last run between Newton, Kansas and Emporia, Kansas. For three years, the class 4-6-4 locomotive remained in Emporia until 1956 when it was permanently moved to the Topeka Fairgrounds or more commonly known today as the Kansas Expocentre. This steam locomotive is the only one in existence today.

Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company Officials
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1941
This photograph shows a number of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company officials standing in front of a Santa Fe locomotive.

Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company steam and diesel engines, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1941
This photograph shows several new Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company FT 100 class diesel engines, lead engine #100 and the Cyrus K. Holliday diamond stack steam-powered locomotive #1 at the ATSF shop in Topeka, Kansas.

Attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Creator: Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean Areas
Date: December 7, 1941
These seventeen photographs shows the bombing and destruction at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The surprise attack by Japanese aircraft brought the United States into World War II. The attack demolished two U.S. Navy battleships, one mine layer, two destroyers, 188 aircraft, and killed 2,388 and wounded 1,178 personnel. Damaged warships included three cruisers, a destroyer, and six battleships. The Japanese losses were minimal.

Await a Parsons Boom
Creator: Kansas City Times
Date: July 01, 1941
This article, from the Kansas City Times, details the often significant economic impact associated with the building of military or defense related facilities. In Parsons, Kansas, the most obvious impact of the decision to build a artillery munitions plant was on the area around Parsons where more than 300 homes were built to house the men and women who worked at the plant.

Beech Aircraft Corporation, Wichita, Kansas
Date: December 31, 1941
This black and white photograph shows the Beechcraft AT-11 production line in Wichita, Kansas. These aircrafts were used during World War II and produced by Beech Aircraft Corporation.

Boeing B-29 Superfortress Production in Wichita
Date: 1941-1945
Final assembly line point in Wichita for the completed Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers ready for delivery to the United States Air Force during World War II.

Boom not all joy
Creator: Kansas City Times
Date: September 27, 1941
This article, from the September 27, 1941, edition of the Kansas City Times, addresses the concerns of the residents of Parsons, Kansas, following news that an artillery munitions plant will be built near their town.

Burgess family home in Montezuma, Kansas
Date: 1941
This is a photograph of the Burgess family home in Montezuma, Kansas. There is a bicycle on the porch as well as a porch swing.