Artifact Collection from 14MY395
Date: 1-1900 CE
These three artifacts were collected from an archeological site in Montgomery County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1975. The site was listed as an Early Ceramic period site, but with the inclusion of the Historic pipe it shows that people were at the site long after that time period. Shown are a small scraper made on Permian chert, a corner notched dart point made on heat treated Permian chert, and a fragment of a molded ceramic pipe bowl.

Artifacts from the Excavations at the Baker House, 14MO701
Date: 1972
Shown are five views of cleaned and reconstructed artifacts from the excavations at the Baker house in Morris County. Shown are a tablesetting, smoking pipes, a tintype frame, a bowl and pitcher, and a grouping of scissors, needle, thimble, and lens from a pair of spectacles. The slides were processed in 1972. The artifact collection, along with these photographs, was donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1993. The excavation was undertaken by Emporia State Teacher's College (now Emporia State University) in 1972. The house was burned in 1862 by "Bloody Bill" Anderson and his cohorts.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's passenger terminal, Los Angeles, California
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1939 and 1945
This black and white photograph shows service men playing cards and pinball at a USO room in the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's passenger terminal in Los Angeles, California. Also visible are art posters on the walls, a woman seated at a desk with an American flag, and a woman offering a basket of loose cigarettes and stick matches to one of the card players.

Beaded and Quill Worked Pipe Bag
Date: 1880-1900
Though its origins are not know, this beaded pipe bag has a design similar to those favored by the Lakota Sioux. It was donated in 2006 to the Kansas Historical Society. The bag is made of leather with a leather fringe along the bottom. It is decorated with red, blue, yellow, green, white and gold beads, in addition to porcupine quills dyed red, white, purple, turquoise and yellow.

C. E. Booz to Governor Ben Paulen
Creator: Booz, C.E.
Date: January 22, 1927
In this letter, C. E. Booz, of the McPherson Hail Insurance Company, writes Kansas Governor Ben Paulen opposing legislation to repeal the Kansas Anti Cigarette law.

Ceramic Pipe
Date: Unknown
This ceramic pipe was donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1962. The pipe's surface has a brown glaze that has blackened over the years, perhaps due to smoking. There is tobacco residue present in the pipe bowl's interior. When the pipe arrived in the collections of the Kansas Historical Society it either had no or had lost its provenience, its record of ownership. While this is disappointing it does not mean the pipe has lost all of its utility and value. It can still be used for teaching purposes.

Ceramic Pipe Bowl from 14SA409
Date: 1-1500 CE
This pipe bowl was recovered from the surface of a Saline County camp site and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2017. The site was occupied during the Upper Republican and Smoky Hill phases during the Early and Middle Ceramic periods. The pipe retains faint traces of dottle (tobacco residue) within the bowl. The rim of the bowl was molded so as to flare outward.

Ceramic Pipe Bowl from the Markley Site, 14OT308
Date: 1000-1500 CE
This reconstructed ceramic pipe bowl fragment was recovered from House 1 at the Markley site, a Smoky Hill Phase occupation site containing two or more houses. The collection from the site was donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1971. The pipe bowl was refit by the donor and has an incised line below the lip.

Ceramic Pipe Bowl from the Paint Creek Site, 14MP1
Date: 1500-1800 CE
This ceramic pipe bowl was found at the Paint Creek village in McPherson County, Kansas. There are no traces of tobacco residue within the bowl. The pipe bowl was donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1971. The Paint Creek site is part of the Little River focus of the Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita), whose people practiced fishing, hunting, gathering, and agriculture.

Ceramic Pipe Fragment from 14AT405
Date: 1-1000 CE
This ceramic pipe stem was collected from an Early Ceramic period camp site in Atchison County and donated in 1979 to the Kansas Historical Society. The pipe bowl is missing.

Ceramic Pipe Fragment from El Cuartelejo, 14SC1
Date: 1650-1750 CE
This ceramic pipe fragment was recovered from the El Cuartelejo site in Scott County. The site, unique in Kansas, is the location of a seven room pueblo occupied by refugees from the Taos and Picuris pueblos in New Mexico in addition to Dismal River aspect groups (Apache). El Cuartelejo, also called the Scott County Pueblo, has been excavated and studied by many archeologists since 1898. The pipe was recovered during the 1976 Kansas Archeology Training Program. The fragment possibly represents a mouthpiece for a pipe or a fragment of a tubular style pipe called a "cloud blower."

Ceramic Pipe Fragments from Fort Zarah, 14BT301
Date: 1864-1869
These pipe stem and bowl fragments were recovered from Fort Zarah in 1972 by Kansas Historical Society archeologists at the location of the original fort building. The top row shows three glazed pipe bowls. The upper right pipe bowl is a fragment of a Presidential pipe. Based on the remnant of hair and right eye it depicts President Ulysses S. Grant and was made and distributed from 1865 to 1870. The bottom row shows an unglazed bowl, a decorated bowl and stem fragment, and a stem fragment. Fort Zarah was a small outpost on the Santa Fe trail in Barton County occupied from 1864 to 1869.

Ceramic Pipe Fragments from the Union Pacific Railroad Depot Site, 14DO324
Date: 1869-1920
These ceramic pipe bowl and stem, from two different pipes, were recovered during excavations at the Union Pacific Railroad Depot in Lawrence, Kansas. The pipe bowl shows no traces of having been smoked. The pipe stem is made of white clay, sometimes called pipe clay, and has been refit. The stem shows a partial decoration on each side. This site served not only as a depot, but also had dwellings, a meat market, a saloon, a possible boarding house or hotel, a grain elevator and other commercial buildings located within the project area excavated in 1995 by Kansas Historical Society archeologists.

Ceramic Pipe from the Ade Site, 14MP311
Date: 1850-1900
This pipe fragment was collected from a multicomponent site in McPherson County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2004. Most of the artifacts from this site dated to the Middle Ceramic and Late Ceramic periods, but this artifact is firmly into the Historic Period. Only the stem end of the pipe remains. It shows no traces of having been smoked.

Ceramic Pipe from the Kansas River Valley
Date: Unknown
This pipe was found in the Kansas River Valley and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1925. A raised band surrounds the stem attachment and a series of lines run perpendicular to the band. Traces of dottle (tobacco residue) remains in the pipe bowl's interior.

Ceramic Pipe from the Living the Dream Site, 14CO382
Date: 1400-1725 CE
The clay pipe fragment was recovered from a Phase IV salvage project in 1994 at the Living the Dream archeological site by Kansas Historical Society archeologists and crew. The pipe retains faint traces of dottle (tobacco residue) within the bowl. Scratches on the outer surface may have been intentional. The site, in Cowley County, was a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village that had been much impacted by modern activities.

Ceramic Pipe from the Minneapolis Site, 14OT5
Date: 1232-1409 CE
This ceramic pipe was recovered from excavations during the 1973 Kansas Archeology Program at the Minneapolis site in Ottawa County. The Minneapolis site was a Smoky Hill aspect village site, with this pipe being recovered from one of the many house mounds. The plain pipe was fashioned from clay. Traces of dottle (tobacco residue) remain within the pipe bowl's interior. Pipes were used during trade negotiations and to mark special occasions.

Ceramic Pipe from the Quindaro Site, 14WY314
Date: 1850-1859
This ceramic pipe was recovered during excavations at the Quindaro townsite in 1986. It was first associated with a feature at the site that was discovered to be a late 19th to early 20th century farmstead. However, as it was recovered deeply buried in a trench the Archaeologist determined that it dated from the 1850s. The pipe has a faint mark, perhaps a maker's mark, on either side of the stem. A small amount of charcoal-like residue is at the base of the pipe bowl's interior, though there are no other signs that it had been smoked.

Ceramic Pipe from the Radio Lane Site, 14CO385
Date: 1400-1725 CE
This ceramic pipe fragment was excavated at the Radio Lane site in Cowley County. Incised lines and triangles surround the bowl fragment. Traces of dottle (tobacco residue) remains in the pipe bowl's interior. The site was a large Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village. Kansas Historical Society archeologists and crew excavated there during a Phase IV archeological investigation in 1995.

Ceramic Pipe from the Woods Site, 14CY30
Date: 989-1436 CE
Ceramic (clay) pipes, such as this one, were commonly made by Plains and Eastern Native Americans in North America. This pipe was recovered from the Woods site, a Smoky Hill phase village in Clay County, occupied during the Middle Ceramic period. This tubular pipe was used for smoking tobacco.

Ceramic Pipe Stem and Bowl from 14EK309
Date: 1850-1920
This pipe fragment was recovered from the surface of a multicomponent (multiple occupations) site in Elk County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1975. This historic period artifact has a faint mark, perhaps a maker's mark, on one side of the stem.

Ceramic Pipe Stem from 14MY349
Date: Unknown
This pipe stem was recovered from a multicomponent site in Montgomery County with both Historic and Early Ceramic period artifacts. The pipe was made with a two part mold and has diagonal lines on both sides. The site has been much impacted by pot hunters and a reservoir.

Cheyenne Indians
Date: Between 1860 and 1869
This is a photograph of Eagle Shirt, on horseback, and Black Horse, members of the Cheyenne tribe, posed with their teepees.

Cigar Cutter Scissors from Fort Scott, 14BO302
Date: 1842-1853
This cigar cutter scissor was recovered from the Fort Scott National Historic Site during excavations conducted there between 1968 through 1972 by Kansas Historical Society Archeologists. It was found in the Quartermaster and Subsistence Storerooms (H-12). When Fort Scott was built it was on the western military frontier, but is now located within the city limits of Fort Scott. The brass scissors were meant to rest on three "feet," one of which is now missing. The cigar cutter still opens and closes on its hinge.

Clay Pipe Fragments from Constitution Hall, 14DO321
Date: 1856-1900
These pipe stem and bowl fragments were recovered from Constitution Hall in Lecompton. Different colored clays were used to make the pipes. One pipe bowl had a red glaze applied before firing. Constitution Hall was constructed in 1855 and functioned in a variety of different roles. In the summer and fall of 1988 Kansas Historical Society archeologists excavated at the site, trying to trace construction history prior to renovation. The Hall was designated a National Historical Landmark and is also listed in the National Register of Historic Places for its role in the 1857 Lecompton Constitution.