Topics in Kansas History: Business & Industry

Railroads

Find resources on railroads.

Kansas Historical Quarterly, our scholarly journal, 1931-1977

• The Building of the First Kansas Railroad South of the Kaw River, by Harold J. Henderson, August 1947
• Kansas Conflict: Populist Versus Railroader in the 1890's, by Donald E. Press, Autumn, 1977
• Thomas Ewing, Jr., and the Origins of the Kansas Pacific Railway Company, by David G. Taylor, Summer 1976

Other articles

• Harvey, Fred
• Railroads and Immigration (online exhibit)

Letters, documents, objects, and photographs

Books and Magazines

• Railroad immigration pamphlets

Objects

• Harvey House restaurant dinner gong
• Locomotive No. 132, AT&SF
• Railroad tool box
• Velocipede

Photographs

• Gardner, Alexander Photograph Collection

Bibliographies, finding aids, and guides to the collections

• Anderson Family, Papers, 1802-1905
• Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company Records
• Kansas Town and Land Company, Records, ca. 1886-1910

Teaching Materials

• Classroom Materials: Business
• Field Trips: Business