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Famous Kansans

Discover more about some famous and infamous Kansans.

• Brooks, Louise
• Famous Kansans
• Inge, William
• Jessye, Eva
• Johnson, Osa
• Johnson, Osa
• A Kansas Portrait

Letters, documents, objects, and photographs

• Diary of Abbie Bright, 1870-1871
• Asner's Desk, The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• Blunt's Flag
• Brinkley's Yachting Cap and Jacket
• Brown's Melodeon
• Brown's Pike
• Capper's Stained Glass Windows
• "Coronado" Sword
• Curry's Statehouse Studies
• Custer's Boots
• Eisenhower's Jacket
• Harvey's Dinner Gong
• Inge's Splendor in the Grass Lobby Card
• Johnson's Barong
• Kansas Platinum Record
• Koch's America3 Model
• Landon's Podium
• Lincoln's Banner
• Longren's Biplane
• Nation's Hammer
• Nation's Lecture Poster
• Nation's Purse
• "Not Today Fred" Sign
• White's Printing Press
• Willard's Boxing Gear

Bibliographies, finding aids, and guides to the collections

• William Allen White Bibliography

Classroom Materials to Print

• Amelia Earhart Game
• Carry Nation Curriculum Packet
• Famous Kansans Collector Cards
• Junior Detective Series: On the Trail of Some Famous Kansans
• Martin and Osa Johnson Flip Book

Online Exhibits

• Carry A. Nation: "The Famous & Original Bar Room Smasher"
• Leading the Way: Famous Kansans
• Moments of Glory

State Historic Sites

• William Allen White House in Emporia

Kansas History, our scholarly journal

• "A Review Essay: Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks and The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley," Winter 1998

Kansas Kaleidoscope, our children's magazine

• "Our Claims to Fame," November/December 1998

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