600 and 700 block of South Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Wolfe, Harold B., 1898-1966
Date: December 23, 1934
This panoramic view shows the west side of the 600 and 700 blocks of South Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas. Businesses visible in the photograph are: Palace Clothing Company, Central National Bank, F. W. Woolworth Company 5-10 and 15 Cent Store, Hall Printing and Stationery, and S.S. Kresge Company. The buildings and light poles are decorated for Christmas and there are automobiles parked on the street.

700 and 600 blocks of South Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Wolfe, Harold B., 1898-1966
Date: December 23, 1934
This is a panoramic view of the 700 and 600 blocks, west side of South Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas. Businesses visible in the photograph are: O'Neal Shoe Company, Vogue, Crosby Brothers Company, Nightingales, The Palace, and Central National Bank. The buildings and light poles are decorated for Christmas and automobiles are parked on the street.

Catholic Church in Piqua, Woodson County, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1959
This is a photogragh of the altar of St. Martin(s) Catholic Church at Piqua, Woodson County, Kansas adorned with Christmas decorations.

Christmas decorations at the F. W. Woolworth Company store in Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1925 and 1930
This is a photograph showing Christmas decorations at the F. W. Woolworth Company store located at 627 Kansas Avenue in Topeka, Kansas.

Christmas scene
Creator: Wesely, Francis J., 1907-1985
Date: Between 1925 and 1927
This is a photograph of two young boys posed with a decorated Christmas tree and toys.

Christmas scene
Creator: Wesely, Francis J., 1907-1985
Date: Between 1925 and 1927
This photograph shows two young boys posed with a Christmas tree. One of the boys is seated on a rocking horse.

Governor Alfred Mossman Landon's family at Christmas
Creator: International News Photos, Inc
Date: December 26, 1935
This photograph represents Theo Cobb Landon (1898-1996), wife of Kansas Governor Alfred Mossman Landon, with two of their children, Nancy and John opening Christmas presents at the governor's mansion in Topeka, Kansas.

LINKS, Incorporated Debutantes Ball and Ball committees
Creator: Dandridge, Deborah L., 1946-
Date: Between 1960 and 1969
These photographs show planning committee members and attendees of the LINKS Debutantes Ball in Topeka, Kansas throughout the 1960s.

L. W. Halbe Collection
Creator: Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981
Date: 1908-1912
The L. W. (Leslie Winfield) Halbe photo collection consists of 1500 glass plate negatives produced by Halbe during his teenage years. Halbe lived in Dorrance, Russell County, Kansas, and began taking photographs of the region with an inexpensive Sears and Roebuck camera when he was fifteen years old.

Meeting hall decorated for Christmas, Marion, Marion County, Kansas
Creator: Wymer, J. P.
Date: Between 1890 and 1910
This photograph, by J. P. Wymer of Marion, Marion County, Kansas, shows a large, decorated meeting hall, probably at Christmas time.

Nancy Landon Kassebaum
Creator: United States Senate
Date: December 13, 1988
A photograph of Nancy Landon Kassebaum, United States Senator from Kansas, placing an ornament on a Christmas tree.

Needlepoint bookmark
Creator: Blair, Ethel Ingalls
Date: between 1880 and 1900
Needlepoint Christmas-themed bookmark.The design is stitched on a small, rectangular-shaped piece of off-white perforated paper, which is sewn to a piece of red silk. The bookmark was made by Ethel Ingalls Blair, the daughter of U.S. Senator John J. Ingalls. Ingalls Blair was born in Atchison in 1868. As a young woman, she spent most of her time in Washington, D.C., where she was popular in social circles and saw some success as a writer, penning newspaper articles and writing poetry. Her best-known article, "The Modern Girl of Society," appeared in the "Ladies Home Journal". She married Edward Blair, a physician who specialized in treating goiters and was a pioneer in plastic surgery. They lived in Kansas City, Missouri. Ingalls Blair died in 1958 and is buried in Atchison.