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Spectators at a baseball game

Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936

View of people, cars, and carriages at a baseball game, presumed to have been taken in Haskell County, Kansas.

Big Timber Band, Decatur County, Kansas

This is a photograph of young children and members of the Big Timber Band of Decatur County, Kansas. The children are dressed in uniforms with caps and ribbon sashes.

Dunlap Academy and Mission School, Dunlap, Kansas

This photograph portrays the students and teachers of the African American school in Dunlap, Morris County, Kansas. Dunlap was located in eastern Morris County and was established in May 1878. The colony was founded by Benjamin Singleton and the Tennessee Real Estate and Homestead Association. This was the last colony Singleton founded in Kansas.

Flood in Ottawa, Kansas

Martin, William H., 1865-1940

A photograph showing men rowing a boat in flood waters at Ottawa, Kansas. Visible in the photograph are children wading through water in front of a mill.

First steam plow in Garden City, Finney County, Kansas

Wolf, Henry L. 1850-1924

A photograph showing a group of people posing with the first steam tractor, plow and harrow in Garden City, Finney County, Kansas.

First steam plow in Garden City, Finney County, Kansas

Wolf, Henry L. 1850-1924

The photograph shows a group of people around the first steam plow in Garden City, Finney County, Kansas. Also in the background of the photograph there are some tents, buggies, wagons, and a horse.

T.J. Dyke's irrigation plant in Garden City, Kansas

Wolf, Henry L. 1850-1924

The photograph shows T.J. Dyke's irrigation plant in Garden City, Finney County, Kansas. On the right side of the photograph there is a man fishing, a windmill, and a woman and a child standing together. Near the center a man is standing beside a dog. On the left, there is a man using a shovel and another windmill. In the background, there are some buildings, fields, and animals.

Avis Chitwood

The Elite

This is a portrait of Avis Chitwood as a child. Avis was born in Mound City, December 29, 1893, and died in Topeka, January 25, 1994, at the age of 100. She is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Topeka. She was a teacher, painter, illustrator, printmaker, and etcher. She specialized in rustic buildings, wildflowers, and missions.

African American musicians

Lawrence, A (Alfred), 19th cent.

This photograph, from a glass plate negative, shows a group of African American men holding musical instruments alongside two women and children. Alfred Lawrence's studio was located in Lawrence, Kansas, but the actual location of this photograph is not known.

Gus 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.