Fort Randall in South Dakota
Creator: Hays, William Jacob
Date: July 19, 1860
This is a drawing by William Jacob Hays depicting Fort Randall located in South Dakota on the Missouri River.

Robert Taft correspondence related to frontier artists, Adams - Blakelock
Date: 1930-1955
A series of research correspondence from the Robert Taft collection relating to frontier artists. Robert Taft (1894-1955) was a professor of chemistry and author on the subjects of photography and art. The artists included here are Cassilly Adams, J. W. Albert, J. W. Alexander, Thomas Allen, Francis G. Atwood, James M. Bagley, George H. Baker, William Henry Bartlett, William Holbrook Beard, Joseph Becker, Otto Becker, Albert C. Berghaus, Albert Bierstadt, George C. Bingham, William Bishop, and Ralph A. Blakelock.

Robert Taft correspondence related to frontier artists, Blumenshein - Cary
Date: 1930-1955
A series of research correspondence from the Robert Taft collection relating to frontier artists. Robert Taft (1894-1955) was a professor of chemistry and author on the subjects of photography and art. The artists included here are Ernest L. Blumenshein, Karl Bodmer, C. E. H. Bonwill, George D. Brewerton, Albertus Del Orient Browere, Grafton T. Brown, Joseph G. Bruff, George de Forest Brush, Edwin Bryant, J. W. Buel, Harold D. Bugbee, Elbridge Ayer Burbank, Frederick A. Butman, Edgar S. Cameron, A. H. Campbell, Solomon Carvalho, and William de la Montagne Cary.

Robert Taft correspondence related to frontier artists, Catlin - Deming
Date: 1930-1955
A series of research correspondence from the Robert Taft collection relating to frontier artists. Robert Taft (1894-1955) was a professor of chemistry and author on the subjects of photography and art. The artists included here are George Catlin, Henry Caylor, Carl Christian Anton Christensen, Samuel Colman, Vincent Colyer, George Victor Cooper, Eanger Irving Couse, H. F. Cox, Charles Craig, Henry H. Cross, Edwin A. Curley, Frank H. Cushing, Felix Octavius Carr Darley, Theodore R. Davis, Charles Deas, and Edwin W. Deming.

Robert Taft correspondence related to frontier artists, Dickerman - Foote
Date: 1930-1955
A series of research correspondence from the Robert Taft collection relating to frontier artists. Robert Taft (1894-1955) was a professor of chemistry and author on the subjects of photography and art. The artists included here are Sumner Dickerman, E. Didier, Maynard Dixon, William H. Dougal, William Herbert Dunton, John Durkin, Thomas Eakins, Lawrence C. Earl, Thomas Martin Easterly, Seth Eastman, Elk Eber, Frederick von Egloffstein, Henry A. Elkins, Henry W. Elliott, George H. Ellsbury, W. A. Emory, Henry F. Farny, Father Nicholas Point, Harry Fenn, and Mary Hallock Foote.

Robert Taft correspondence related to frontier artists, Ford - Hamilton
Date: 1930-1955
A series of research correspondence from the Robert Taft collection relating to frontier artists. Robert Taft (1894-1955) was a professor of chemistry and author on the subjects of photography and art. The artists included here are Henry Chapman Ford, R. Atkinson Fox, Paul Frenzeny and Jules Tavernier, Gilbert William Gaul, Sanford Robinson Gifford, J. B. Girard, James F. Gookins, Elling William Gollings, Adolphe Goupil, Charles Graham, Ernest Henry Griset, John Hafen, and Hamilton Hamilton.

Robert Taft correspondence related to frontier artists, Hansen - Hutton
Date: 1930-1955
A series of research correspondence from the Robert Taft collection relating to frontier artists. Robert Taft (1894-1955) was a professor of chemistry and author on the subjects of photography and art. The artists included here are Herman W. Hansen, Alexander F. Harmer, Matthew Hastings, William J. Hays, Gwynn Harris Heap, Joseph Heger, Thomas Hill, Ransome Gillett Holdridge (or Ransom Holdredge), William H. Holmes, Arthur Boyd Houghton, John D. Howland, and William Rich Hutton.

Robert Taft correspondence related to frontier artists, Jackson - Leigh
Date: 1930-1955
A series of research correspondence from the Robert Taft collection relating to frontier artists. Robert Taft (1894-1955) was a professor of chemistry and author on the subjects of photography and art. The artists included here are William H. Jackson, Eastman Johnson, Christian Jorgensen, Edward Jump, Paul Kane, William Keith, John Frederick Kensett, Richard and Edward Kern, Kicking Bear, Charles Koppel, Rudolph Friedrich Kurz, Remington W. Lane, Thomas LeClear, and William R. Leigh.

Robert Taft correspondence related to frontier artists, Landers - Metcalf
Date: 1930-1955
A series of research correspondence from the Robert Taft collection relating to frontier artists. Robert Taft (1894-1955) was a professor of chemistry and author on the subjects of photography and art. The artists included here are Emil W. Landers, Charles Alexandre Lesueur, Emanuel Leutze, Henry Lewis, Richard Lorenz, Henri Love, Marc Lucas, Arthur Lumley, Fernand H. Lungren, William Macy, F. O. Marvin, Alfred Mathews, Louis Maurer, Frank Mayer, Charles Mente, William M. Merrick, and Willard Leroy Metcalf.

Robert Taft correspondence related to frontier artists, Miller - Mollhausen
Date: 1930-1955
A series of research correspondence from the Robert Taft collection relating to frontier artists. Robert Taft (1894-1955) was a professor of chemistry and author on the subjects of photography and art. The artists included here are Alfred J. Miller, John Harrison Mills, Alfred Mitchell, and Heinrich Balduin Mollhausen.

Robert Taft correspondence related to frontier artists, Moran - Reedy
Date: 1930-1955
A series of research correspondence from the Robert Taft collection relating to frontier artists. Robert Taft (1894-1955) was a professor of chemistry and author on the subjects of photography and art. The artists included here are Peter and Thomas Moran, Samuel F. B. Morse, R. A. Muller, John Mulvany, Charles Nahl, Henry Alexander Ogden and Walter Yeager, George Martin Ottinger, Charles Parsons, Edgar Samuel Paxson, Frederick Piercy, Theodore B. Pitman, Henry R. Poore, Henry Cheever Pratt, Charles Preuss, Sam Pride, William Tylee Ranney, Edward Rapier, Frank Reaugh, Allen C. Redwood, and Leonard H. Reedy.

Robert Taft correspondence related to frontier artists, Rindesbacker - Schott
Date: 1930-1955
A series of research correspondence from the Robert Taft collection relating to frontier artists. Robert Taft (1894-1955) was a professor of chemistry and author on the subjects of photography and art. The artists included here are Peter Rindesbaker, Julian Rix, Cornelius Rogers, William Allen Rogers, Warren E. Rollins, Charles M. Russell, John Sartain, Frank Sauerwein, Joseph Scheuerle, A. Zeno Schindler, and Arthur Carl Victor Schott.

Robert Taft correspondence related to frontier artists, Schreyvogel - Sprague
Date: 1930-1955
A series of research correspondence from the Robert Taft collection relating to frontier artists. Robert Taft (1894-1955) was a professor of chemistry and author on the subjects of photography and art. The artists included here are Charles Schreyvogel, Carl Schuchard, Julian Scott, Samuel Seymour, Joseph Henry Sharp, Joshua Shaw, Walter Shirlaw, James D. Smillie, Dan Smith, De Cost Smith, Gean Smith, Jerome Howard Smith, William Smyth, Gustav Sohon, William Louis Sontag, and Isaac Sprague.

Robert Taft correspondence related to frontier artists, Stanley - Washburn
Date: 1930-1955
A series of research correspondence from the Robert Taft collection relating to frontier artists. Robert Taft (1894-1955) was a professor of chemistry and author on the subjects of photography and art. The artists included here are John Mix Stanley, L. T. Stanley, Charles Stobie, Howard A. Streight, Max Strobel, Joseph Dwight Strong Jr., William H. Tappan, Bayard Taylor, W. E. Terry, Thure de Thulstrup, John C. Tidball, Peter Tofft, Newbold H. Trotter, Henry Ulke, Douglas Volk, James Walker, J. C. Ward, Henry James Warre, and Edward P. Washburn.

Robert Taft correspondence related to frontier artists, Waud - Zogbaum
Date: 1930-1955
This is a series of research correspondence from the Robert Taft collection relating to frontier artists. Robert Taft (1894-1955) was a professor of chemistry and author on the subjects of photography and art. The artists included here are Alfred R. Waud, Alfred S. Waugh, William E. Webb, Danquart Anthon Weggeland, John E. Weyss, J.S. White, Worthington Whittredge, Samuel M. Wiles, Charles "Carl" Wilmar, George Winter, John D. Woodward, Henry Worrall, N.C. Wyeth, Harvey B. Young, John T. Young, and Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum.

Robert Taft general correspondence
Date: 1918-1955
Rober Taft (1894-1955) was a professor of chemistry, author, historian, and editor at the University of Kansas. The general correspondence letters of Mr. Taft consist of letters between various organizations and people.

Robert Taft photography correspondence
Creator: Taft, Robert, 1894-1955
Date: 1926-1955
This correspondence documents the research Robert Taft undertook in writing his works on the history of American photography. It includes letters he wrote and responses. Correspondents include staff in historical and other collecting institutions, family members of early photographers and expedition members, publishers, and other people researching early U. S. photographers. It also documents some preservation work he did on early photographs. See Taft's photography research notes as Kansas Memory unit 228066.

Robert Taft photography research notes
Creator: Taft, Robert, 1894-1955
Date: 1920s - 1950s
These research notes document the research Robert Taft undertook in writing his works on the history of American photography. This series complements the series of Taft's photography correspondence included on Kansas Memory as unit 221204.

The Grand Canyon of the Colorado
Creator: Mollhausen, Balduin, 1825-1905
Date: 1861
A copy of "The Grand Canyon of the Colorado" drawn by H. B. Mollhausen. It appeared in Reisen in die felsengebirge Nord-Amerikas bis zum hoch-plateau von Neu-Mexico by Heinrich Balduin Mollhausen.