Western Trails ProjectAbout the ProjectThe Kansas State Historical Society joined a collaborative project
to digitize collections relating The Historical Society digitized photographs, printed materials, maps, and broadsides that document several facets of transportation across Kansas. We selected materials from four collections in the Library/Archives: 1. Alexander Gardner stereograph collection showing the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division’s progress across Kansas, 2. Railroad land sales promotion and emigrant pamphlets for the three major railroads that traversed Kansas, 3. Early automobile travel guides, and 4. Photographs from the L. W. Halbe collection documenting the change from horses to horsepower in the small agricultural community of Dorrance, Kansas. |
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to Western Trails. The project built
on the successful Colorado Digitization Program (CPD), which organized
a consortium of Colorado institutions to create web-based digital
collections. The CDP created a digital resource for the unique and
special collections
in Colorado’s archives, historical societies, libraries and
museums. With funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services,
the Colorado
Digitization Program extended their boundaries to include Kansas,
Nebraska and Wyoming. Four Kansas institutions participated in the
Western Trails
Project: Boot Hill Museum, Dodge City, Kansas Heritage Center, Dodge
City, Wichita State University, Wichita, and the Kansas Collection,
University of Kansas, Lawrence.
