Topics in Kansas History: Community & Daily Life

Children

For most children growing up in Kansas in the 19th century, their life centered around the family farm. While assisting their parents with daily chores, children learned skills they would need as adults. read more

Find resources on children and family.

• Crawford, Nelson Antrim
• Schoolchildren Began Celebration of Kansas Day

Letters, documents, objects, and photographs

• Baby carriage from the 19th century
• Child's band uniform
• Child-sized electric car
• Mourning lithograph
• Soap box derby racer

Bibliographies, finding aids, and guides to the collections

Museum Store

• Books for children
• Activity books
• Toys & games

Kansas Heritage, our popular history magazine

• "Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Children of the Orphan Trains," Spring 1999

Kansas Kaleidoscope, our children's magazine

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