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Olive Ann Beech

This is an informal portrait of the "First Lady of Aviation," Olive Ann Beech (1903-1993), co-founder and President of the Beech Aircraft Corporation, standing by a Beechcraft Bonanza (Model 35) airplane. Beech was born and raised on a farm south of Waverly, Kansas. She attended business college in Wichita and worked for the Travel Air Manufacturing Company in Wichita, before marrying Walter H. Beech on February 24, 1930. In 1932, they co-founded the Beech Aircraft Corporation. After her husband's death in 1950, Beech assumed the position of president of the corporation, and was named its chairman emeritus after her retirement in 1982. She brought the company through fifty years of growth from the Staggerwing Biplane to Skylab and from ten employees to ten thousand. Her other honors include: Woman of the Year (1951); Kansan of the Year (1958); and nomination to the NASA Space Shuttle Study Committee (1971).

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Velda O'Donnell, telephone operator, Rossville, Kansas

Velda O'Donnell worked as a Rossville, Kansas, operator in 1953. Public telephone service started in Rossville in 1900. This photograph is provided through a pilot project to host unique cultural heritage materials from local libraries on Kansas Memory and was accomplished by mutual agreement between the Northeast Kansas Library System, the Rossville Community Library, and the Kansas Historical Society.

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Betty Murray at the Shawnee County Reporter's linotype, Rossville, Kansas

Bill Murray and his wife, Betty, purchased the Rossville Reporter in March of 1953. The name was then changed to The Shawnee County Reporter. The Murrays sold the paper in 1967 to the Pictorial Times, a Topeka paper. This photograph is provided through a pilot project to host unique cultural heritage materials from local libraries on Kansas Memory and was accomplished by mutual agreement between the Northeast Kansas Library System, the Rossville Community Library, and the Kansas Historical Society.

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Christina Zickefoose at Farm Bureau, Rossville, Kansas

Christina Zickefoose is pictured working at Farm Bureau in Rossville, Kansas. This photograph is provided through a pilot project to host unique cultural heritage materials from local libraries on Kansas Memory and was accomplished by mutual agreement between the Northeast Kansas Library System, the Rossville Community Library, and the Kansas Historical Society.

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Manufacturing band uniform hats, Wichita, Kansas

This is a view of a young woman making a band uniform hat at the Fruhauf Uniform Company in Wichita, Kansas.

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Madonna of the trail

Kansas Industrial Development Commission

View of a statue titled Madonna of the Trail, in Council Grove, Morris County, Kansas.

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Veselik-Gannon photograph collection

Gannon, Richard

The Veselik-Gannon photograph collection documents farming and ranching activities in Sherman County, Kansas, in the early twentieth century. The photographs include images of sod houses and other residences, barns and outbuildings, many children and farm and ranching families, tractors and other farm machinery, horses and cattle, people doing farm chores, cowboys, and early automobiles and motorcycles. The John L. and Mary Veselik residence near Ruleton appears in many of the photographs. The photographer is unknown. Richard Gannon donated copies of the photographs to the Kansas Historical Society in 1983 after discovering them in a building on his property.

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Beth Rogers

A photograph of Beth Rogers, who was chosen by the Manhattan Mercury, a local newspaper, as one of the "Ten Best Dressed Women". She was the wife of Richard Dean Rogers, mayor of Manhattan, Kansas. The photograph was taken in their home at 800 Humboldt, Manhattan, Kansas.

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Priscilla Club, Cimarron, Kansas

This photograph shows members of the Priscilla Club dressed in formal attire, Cimarron, Kansas. The photo has mostly women with three men.

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Priscilla Club, Cimarron, Kansas

This photograph shows members of the Priscilla Club at a dinner, Cimarron, Kansas.

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