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L. W. Halbe Collection
Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981
The L. W. (Leslie Winfield) Halbe photo collection consists of 1500 glass plate negatives produced by Halbe during his teenage years. Halbe lived in Dorrance, Russell County, Kansas, and began taking photographs of the region with an inexpensive Sears and Roebuck camera when he was fifteen years old.
previewFletcher Bowman Howe family
This is a postcard view of the Howe family: (front row) Helen, Clara, Jenny, Bernice, Alice and Dick; (back row) Clifford, George, Edna and Mark. In 1873, Clara Livona McCreery Howes and her husband Fletcher Bowman Howes came to Jewell County, Kansas with their two sons Mark Watson Howe and George Christina Howe. They homesteaded and farmed near Esbon, Kansas.
previewSugar beet field, Finney County, Kansas
Photograph showing a man and two women standing in a sugar beet farm in Finney County, Kansas. The photograph also shows the man holding a very large sugar beet in his hand. The photograph was donated by the Garden City Chamber of Commerce.
previewJane C. Stormont Nurses, Topeka, Kansas
This sepia colored photograph shows a group of nurses standing in front of the Jane C. Stormont Hospital in Topeka, Kansas.
previewNursing students of Stormont-Vail Hospital, Topeka, Kansas
This black and white photograph shows freshman student nurses from the Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka, Kansas. To the left, Darlene Dial from Holton, Kansas, is wearing a nurse's cap and uniform that was originally worn by Edith Dodds, the first graduate of Christ's Hospital in Topeka, Kansas in 1894. While Donna Jamrard of Chapman, Kansas, center, is wearing a nurse's uniform from the 1960s. To the right, Beverly Fosdick from Wakefield, Kansas, is wearing a cap and uniform from 1904, it was previously worn by Katherine Stayer, the first graduate of the Jane C. Stormont Hospital and Training School for Nurses, in Topeka, Kansas.
previewNurses
These two black and white photographs from glass plate negatives show a group of nurses at a unidentified hospital.
previewIsabel Erickson, Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas
Isabel Erickson attended the Menninger School of Psychiatric Nursing. She is shown in her nurse's uniform, cap and cape. The Menninger Clinic was created to care for individuals with mood, personality, anxiety and addictive disorders, as well as teaching mental health professionals and advancing mental healthcare through research.
previewParrott's millinery store, Colby, Kansas
This postcard shows the interior of Parrott's millinery store in Colby, Kansas. In the foreground, decorative hats in various sizes and shapes can be seen on display as a gentleman and two women look on.
previewEmily Morgan
These two black and white photographs show Emily Morgan (1878-1960). The first image is Emily's 1908 graduation from the Methodist Hospital, formally the Ensworth Nurses Training School, in St. Joseph, Missouri. The second photograph shows Emily dressed in a fur parka and wearing mukluks. A native of Leon, Kansas, and a World War I and II nurse, Emily was assigned in 1923 to work as a public nurse in Nome, Alaska. When the town was stricken in 1925 with a diphtheria epidemic, she risked her life by walking in subzero weather to vaccinate the townspeople. The epidemic eventually subsided, and Emily returned to Kansas to resume her career as a Red Cross nurse. Over the years, she returned to Alaska to care for the sick, always returning to Kansas. On May 8, 1960, "The Angel of the Yukon", as Emily was called by The Anchorage Times, passed away at the age of eighty-two in El Dorado, Kansas. In 2013 Morgan was inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame for her heroic efforts in 1925.
previewKing's millinery shop, Harper, Kansas
This sepia colored photograph shows an interior view of King's millinery shop in Harper, Kansas. The owner of the business Almeda Doorley King is sitting in a chair beside a display of hats. The back of the image states that Almeda was born in Knox County, Ohio to the parents of Alvah Allen and Martha Cary and was the wife of George King. On September 15, 1925 she died in Osawatomie, Kansas.
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