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Nellie Gayden

This is a photograph of Nellie Gayden who was born June 11, 1909, in Dunlap, Kansas.

Sarah Kline Pendleton

Moore, Henry

This is a photograph of Sarah Kline Pendleton, who resided in Kansas City, Kansas. She was the mother of Dr. Edward T. Pendleton, a successful physician who practiced in Wellsville, Kansas. Her step-brothers were J. D. Botkin, who ran for Kansas governor in 1908, and J. T. Botkin, who served as assistant secretary of state.

Fern Gayden

This is a photograph of Fern Gayden possibly taken in Dunlap, Kansas. Fern Gayden was born September 29, 1904, in Dunlap, Kansas, where she attended elementary and secondary schools. She went on to attend Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia and taught school for one year. Fern Gayden moved to Chicago at the age of 23. She had a 50-year career as a social worker but became best known as a literary, fine arts, and political activist. A founding member of the South Side Writers Group in the 1930s, Fern Gayden's long and diverse career included leadership roles in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the South Side Community Art Center. During World War II, she co-published Negro Story magazine with Alice Browning.

Isabel 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.

Lida Ann Beaty Pearce Jackson

This is a photograph of Lida Ann Beaty Pearce Jackson who was born November 19, 1881, in Tipton, Indiana. She lived there until 10 months of age when her parents, David and Jemima Beaty decided to go west to Kansas. The Beaty family stopped first in Linn County, just across the Missouri border, and stayed about a year with relatives, then moved onto Stafford until March 1885 when they set out to stake their claim. They settled in Hodgeman County between Jetmore and Kalvesta (10 miles from Jetmore / 6 miles from Kalvesta), not far from the Pawnee River, a few miles south from the Santa Fe Trail and 30 miles northeast of Dodge City. The Beaty family stayed for seven years until drought and wind forced them to leave. The family went to Osawatomie where Lida met and married Herbert Pearce, a newspaperman, in 1904. They had two daughters, Margaret and Josephine. Herbert died in 1907, and Lida moved with her daughters to Irvington, Indiana. Lida met Ed Jackson, her neighbor, in Irvington, Indiana, and they married in 1920; he was 47, she was 39. In 1924, Ed Jackson, an attorney, was elected and served four years as governor of Indiana, and she came to be known as Lady Jackson. She was a national leader in children's work for the Christian Church, as well an active worker for preserving historical sites and conservation in Indiana. In 1937, the couple moved to Orleans in southern Indiana, where Lida had a little antique shop and a collection of world dolls for which she fashioned clothes inspired by pictures from her beloved National Geographic. Most of the collection was donated to the James Whitcomb Riley Children's Hospital in Indianapolis. Lida Ann Beaty Pearce Jackson died in April 1956.

Josephine Braham Johnson

This is a studio photograph of Josephine Braham Johnson, who was born June 18, 1838, near Gallatin, Tennessee. She was one of 13 children born to Harriet Braham, a slave. When Josephine was 13, she married Columbus Johnson, and they had their first child a year later. After they gained their freedom, the Johnson's bought a home in Gallatin. Later they purchased and built homes in Topeka and Dunlap, Kansas. In Dunlap, she had a boarding house and sold vegetables, chickens, eggs, milk, and butter. She died on April 6, 1910.

Garfield School, Topeka, Kansas

Three black and white photographs of Garfield School in Topeka, Kansas, serving as an emergency hospital, possibly during the Spanish Influenza epidemic.

Tom Pratt residence, Studley, Kansas

This photo shows a group of women at the Tom Pratt residence in Studley, Kansas.

Students at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

A black and white photograph of female students sketching a human skeleton during an art class at the University of Kansas.

University of Kansas dormitory, Lawrence, Kansas

A black and white photograph of two female students studying in their dorm room at the University of Kansas.