1880 census of Rock Creek Township, Wabaunsee County, Kansas
Creator: United States. Census Office. 10th census, 1880
Date: June 11, 1880
This excerpt of a census schedule provides details--including the name, age, race, and occupation--of settlers in Rock Creek Township in Wabaunsee County, Kansas. The county included a black population (B=Black) who had settled there in 1879 with the help of the Freedmen's Relief Association.

229th Platoon U.S. Marine Corps in San Diego, California
Date: 1943
A photograph showing members of the 229th Platoon United States Marine Corps in San Diego, California. Lewis Glynn Magouirk from Cimarron, Kansas, is second from the right in the second row.

A. G. Bradford to James Denver
Creator: Bradford, A. G.
Date: March 18, 1858
A. G. Bradford, writing from Washington, D.C., to Kansas Territory's governor James H. Denver, suggests that the effort to admit Kansas Territory as a state under the Lecompton Constitution likely would fail in the U.S. Congress. Bradford also seeks Denver's support for Bradford's attempt to receive an appointment as Superintendent of Indian Affairs and comments upon Denver's future political opportunities in California.

AT&SF oil storage tanks, Barstow, Bagdad & Needles, California
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: May 20, 1903
This set of drawings shows locations of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway structures within 150 feet of Chanslor & Canfield Oil Storage Tanks in Barstow, Bagdad and Needles California.

AT&SF proposal ice house, Bagdad, California
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: May 12, 1903
This drawings shows plans for a proposed Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company ice house in Bagdad, California.

AT&SF proposed depot & freight house Amboy, California
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: February 29, 1904
This drawing shows plans for a proposed Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company depot and freight house in Amboy, California.

AT&SF proposed depot, Amboy, Arizona
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: April 23, 1903
This drawing shows plans for a proposed Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company in Amboy, Arizona

AT&SF proposed freight house & platform, Bagdad, California
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: July 30, 1903
This drawing shows plans for a proposed Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company freight house and platform in Bagdad, California.

AT&SF proposed freight house, Amboy, California
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: March 01, 1904
This drawing shows plans for a proposed Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company freight depot in Amboy, California.

AT&SF proposed ice, oil & store house Bagdad, California
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: July 11, 1903
This set of drawings show plans for a proposed Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company ice, oil and store house in Bagdad, California.

AT&SF proposed oil & storage house, Bagdad, California
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: July 18, 1904
This set of drawings show plans for a proposed Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company oil and storage house in Bagdad, California.

AT&SF proposed oil & store house Bagdag, California
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: June 11, 1903
This drawing shows plans for a proposed Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company oil and store house in Bagdad, California.

Actor Karl Malden and Roy Menninger, M.D.
Date: 1993
Actor Karl Malden was a member of the Board of Directors of the Menninger Foundation. He is shown here with Roy Menninger, M.D., in 1993 at a gathering in Los Angeles, California.

Adobe church
Date: Between 1880s and 1890s
This photograph shows a group of men possible repairing an unidentified adobe church. In the foreground a short adobe wall is visible. While in the background other adobe dwellings and a rolling hillside are visible on the horizon.

Agricultural development, wealth and rural population of the states on the tributory to the Union Pacific Railroad for the years of 1900-1910
Creator: Union Pacific Railway Company
Date: September 17, 1912
Union Pacific Railroad Company Agricultural Bulletin (No. 104). Union Pacific Railroad promotional advertisement showing aggregate statistical wealth values and population figures for areas west of the Mississippi River during a ten year period of time.

Amelia Earhart
Date: 1921
This is an informal photograph of pilot Amelia Earhart after her first solo flight in 1921. The image was copied from "Soaring Wings," which was written by her husband, George P. Putnam, and published in 1939 by Harcourt, Brace & Co. after her presumed death.

Anne G. Cravens to Governor Andrew Schoeppel
Creator: Cravens, Anne G.
Date: August 15, 1944
In this letter to Governor Schoeppel, Anne G. Cravens of Santa Monica, California, tells Schoeppel that he should work to establish a "Veterans City" in Kansas where returning soliders could live following the war.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe's diesel shop at San Bernardino, California
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: July 1973
A transparency showing the interior of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway diesel shop at San Bernardino, California. Visible in the image are diesel locomotives 4652 and 4551.

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe 561-R passing grade signal 582A in Cajon Pass, California.
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1954
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe 561-R (with helpers--extra engines to assist with steep grades or heavy loads), passes grade signal 582A in Cajon Pass, California. The phtograph was taken by Donald Erb for AT&SF.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Bicentennial 5702, near Hector, California
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1976
This slide shows the ATSF Bicentennial 5702 with trailer and flat cars, traveling near Hector, California.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Extra 1910 departing Barstow, California
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1968
A slide of ATSF Extra 1910 departing from Barstow, California.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's El Capitan passenger train
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1965
A view of passengers boarding the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's El Capitan train from a covered platform at the Union Passenger Terminal in Los Angeles, California.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's Golden Gate, Oakland, California
Date: Between 1950 and 1959
A black and white photograph of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's passenger train the "Golden Gate" near Oakland, California.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's San Francisco Chief near Glen Frazier, California
Creator: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1650 and 1959
This is a photograph of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's San Francisco Chief crossing the Muir trestle near Glen Frazier, California. The engine is pulling hi-level chair cars and full length dome cars. Also visible in the photograph is a semaphore along the tracks.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's autoveyor facility
Creator: Erb, Don
Date: Between 1960 and 1969
This black and white photograph is of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's autoveyor facility in Los Angeles, California. The terminal is situated on twenty acres of land and consists of five tracks which allow for the capacity of thirty-five autoveyor cars.