Topics in Kansas History: Business & Industry

Automotive

Find resources on the automobile industry in Kansas.

• Chrysler, Walter
• Smith Automobile Company
• "Paved With Good Intentions: Good Roads, the Automobile, and the Rhetoric of Rural Improvement in the Kansas Farmer, 1890-1914," Kansas History, Winter 1995

Letters, documents, objects, and photographs

• Advent of the Automobile (online exhibit)
• Automobile and road pamphlets
• Chevy Eagle Autombile
• Child-sized electric car
• Halbe, L. W. automobile photographs

Teaching Materials

• Classroom Materials: Business
• Field Trips: Business