Topics in Kansas History: Business & Industry

Manufacturing

Find resources on manufacturing.

• Chrysler, Walter
• Valentine diners

Letters, documents, objects, and photographs

• Chinese checkers game
• Coca Cola vending machine by Kansas City company
• Currie Windmill
• Gunsmithing tools
• Hyer cowboy boots
• Lawn mower made in Kansas
• Plow developed by Kansan
• Queen Windmill
• Trade stimulator
• Tupperware
• Wooton desk

Bibliographies, finding aids, and guides to the collections

• McEntire-Brooke Family Papers, 1758-1982

Kansas History, our scholarly journal

• "Ploughshares into airplanes: Manufacturing Industry and Workers in Kansas during World War II," Winter 1999

Teaching Materials

• Classroom Materials: Business
• Field Trips: Business