Western
Trails Project
The Historical Society digitized photographs, printed
materials, and maps that document several facets of
transportation across
Kansas.
 Online Exhibits
Railroads and Immigration
The Advent of Automobiles
Online Collections
Photographs
Alexander Gardner, Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railway,
Eastern Division
Stereographs showing the Union Pacific Railway,
Eastern Division’s
progress across Kansas.
L. W. Halbe Collections
Photographs documenting the change from
horses to horsepower in the small agricultural community of Dorrance,
Kansas.
Printed Materials and Maps
Immigration Pamphlets and Maps
The State Of Kansas.
A Home For Immigrants. . . Kansas.
Bureau of Immigration, 1865.
Emigrants'
Guide to the Kansas Pacific Railway Lands. . . Kansas Pacific
Railway Company, 1871.
How
and where to get a living. . . Atchison, Topeka, and Santa
Fe Railroad Company, 1876.
The
Immigrant's Guide to the Most Fertile Lands of Kansas. . . Union
Pacific Railroad Company, c. 1879.
Free Sleeping Cars
For Emigrants. . . Atchison,
Topeka & Santa
Fe Railway, 1884.
Lands in Kansas.
Union Pacific Railway Company, c. 1891.
"A
Farm Out West" Emigration
Folder of the Great Rock Island Route. Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific
Railroad, 1897.
Automobile and Road Pamphlets and Maps
Year Book. Automobile
Club of Wichita, 1909-1910.
The
Good Roads Problem.
F. L. Coburn, c. 1912.
National
Old Trails Road Project.
J. M. Lowe, c. 1913.
Annual
Report. Kansas
Good Roads Association, 1918.
  
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