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John William Gardiner diary
Gardiner, John William, 1851-1917
John William Gardiner was born in or near Platte City, Missouri, in 1851. In March 1855, Gardiner and his family moved to the future site of Winchester, Jefferson County, in the newly opened Kansas Territory. During 1875, he taught school and simultaneously took classes in Leavenworth to obtain his teaching certificate. Many of the diary entries describe his teaching, weather, the grasshopper plague, and extracurricular activities such as singing and visiting friends. A transcription prepared by the diary donor, Allen Gardiner, follows the diary images and includes a one page introduction. An uncorrected, searchable OCR file is available as "Text Version" below.
previewL. 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.
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This black and white photograph shows artist Maude Josephine Mitchell, (1875-1957), standing before a painting in her upstairs studio at the family farm. The painting depicts the family homestead, "Big Four Ranch", located three miles east of Wabaunsee in Wabaunsee County, Kansas. Her father Captain William E. Mitchell built the home in 1856. He was a member of the Beecher Bible and Rifle Society. The home once served as a safe house for slaves during the Underground Railroad but today it is maintained as a private residence. Maude began formal art training at the New York State Normal College in Buffalo, NY. After graduation she returned to Kansas to teach in the Manhattan area before entering the Columbia University School of Art in New York. In 1900, she graduated from Columbia and continued her studies at the Art Student League in New York City. Maude also spent some time at an art colony in the Catskills concentrating on her technique for landscape painting. Around 1901, Maude was appointed supervisor of art in the Dubuque, Iowa, public school system. A year later she became an art instructor at the Wisconsin State Normal College in Patteville, Wisconsin, where she taught for thirteen years. In the 1920s she returned to Kansas to oversee the family farm. In the 1930s and 1940s, Maude became well known as a Kansas artist for painting the prairie and wheat fields of Wabaunsee and Pottawatomie counties. Her paintings were included in art exhibits in Topeka and in Kansas City. In addition to her painting, Maude played and composed on the piano three songs "Prairie Roads a Windin", "The Dance of Romance" and "Ridin' in the Rain". In her later years Maude designed the gateway for the Wabaunsee Township Cemetery. To her family and friends she was remembered as a wonderful hostess who welcomed everyone with open arms into her home. On October 15, 1957, Maude passed away after a brief illness at the age of eighty-two.
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Herschel C. Logan
A black ink on paper woodcut of a man sitting inside a barn door working while it rains outside, by Herschel Logan. Logan, one of the Prairie Printmakers, , executed this work in 1924, and said it was a sketch of a ?rainy day at the old boyhood farm near Winfield.? Logan was born April 19, 1901, in Magnolia, Missouri, and the family moved to Winfield, Kansas, shortly afterwards. He attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He worked as an advertising artist in Salina until his retirement in 1968. He moved to Santa Ana, California, in his retirement, where he died on December 8, 1987.
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Herschel C. Logan
A black ink on long fiber board paper woodcut of four geese with water in the foreground, by Herschel Logan. One of the Prairie Printmakers, Logan executed this work in 1927, and said this was ?from a sketch done on the old boyhood farm near Winfield.? Logan was born April 19, 1901 in Magnolia, Missouri, and the family moved to Winfield, Kansas shortly afterwards. He attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He worked as an advertising artist in Salina until his retirement in 1968. He moved to Santa Ana, California, where he died December 8, 1987.
previewGus Meier photograph collection
Meier, Gustav H., 1865-1941
Photographs taken by Gus Meier. Several of the photographs were taken in his studio in Alma, Kansas.
previewFranklin, Crawford County, Kansas
These 147 images include photographs, newspaper clippings, and original records from the town of Franklin, in Crawford County, Kansas. It is located on U.S. Highway 69 alternate, approximately 7 miles north of Pittsburg, Kansas. The post office was established in 1908 and now operates as part of the post office in Arma. The town was struck by an EF-5 tornado in 2003 and much of the town has been rebuilt since that. Historically, Franklin was a coal mining town, and the major coal companies in the area were Western Coal and Mining, and Central Coal and Coke. The subjects of these materials include: schools, churches, businesses, coal companies, musicians, miners, the unions and strikes--including the Amazon women's march--and baseball, soccer, and basketball players.
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