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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company's Fred Harvey House, Hutchinson, Kansas

This photograph shows a group of Harvey Girls gathered in the dining room of the Harvey House at the Bisonte Hotel in Hutchinson, Kansas. The facility designed by architect J.G. Holland opened in November of 1897. For a number of years the hotel provided service until the late 1940s when it closed its doors due to the decline in rail services. The building was razed between 1964 and 1965.

Harvey Girls, Syracuse, Kansas

This photograph shows a group of Harvey House girls standing in front of the Fred Harvey restaurant in Syracuse, Kansas. The women, wearing modest black dresses with long white aprons, served meals to travelers at the Fred Harvey hotels and restaurants along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway line.

Saxton Automobile, Sedgwick County, Kansas

This black and white photograph shows a group of people in a two seated Saxton automobile holding a pennant that reads " Excuse My Dust".

Garver Flying Circus

This black and white photograph shows members of the Garver Flying Circus at the Lone Tree Ranch in Attica, Kansas. Standing from left to right: David Garver, LeVaughn Neville, Ruth Garver, Mrs. R. O. Williamson (or Mrs. Ruby Arrowsmith), Ray O. Williamson ( or Jay Sadowsky), Karl Garver, Paul Duncan, Wayne Neville. The Garver Flying Circus, established around 1920 or 1921 by Karl Garver from Attica, Kansas, and Cyle Horchem an ex-army flyer from Ransom, Kansas, performed spectacular aerial stunts across the Kansas sky. The group of daredevils successfully entertained the crowds of spectators with death defying acts until tragedy struck in 1924, when Ruth Garver "Champion Lady Parachute Jumper" fell to her death from one thousand feet with a tangled parachute. Later that year, Cyle Horchem slipped and fell to his death as he climbed onto a wing while in flight. Karl Garver continued to perform at air shows, but eventually sold his airplanes and died of alcohol poisoning in 1926.

Women in car, Lane County, Kansas

This black and white photograph shows a group of young woman sitting in a car in Lane County, Kansas. The women have been identified from L to R as follows: Thelma Tymer, Ions Consret, Adelphia McCoy, Lethea Hyames, Marie Vavis Yey, Ethel Myers, Mildred Hyames and Mattie Morehead.

Scenes of Sherman County, Kansas

Multiple scenes of Sherman County, Kansas.

Santa Fe Festival Days float, Topeka, Kansas

King, Ernest V., 1874-1964

This sepia colored photograph shows nine ladies from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's treasury department on a parade float for Santa Fe Festival Days in Topeka, Kansas. The woman have been identified by their numbers. Number One: Driver; Elizabeth Dyer, Number Two: Pansy Entrim, Number Three: Lillie Mc Fadden, Number Four: Helen Dickerson, Number Five: Anna Erickson, Number Six: Anna Heartburg, Number Seven: Joyce Swartz, Number Eight: name unknown, Number Nine: Anna Goodman.