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Populist members of the House of Representatives, Topeka, Kansas
These are Populist members of the House of Representatives and others standing on the state capitol steps, Topeka, Kansas.
previewNellie Cline
Nellie Cline, a native of Larned, Pawnee County, served in the Kansas House of Representatives from 1921 to 1924. She is also credited with being the first female lawyer to argue a case before the United States Supreme Court.
previewMinnie Johnson Grinstead
This is a portrait of Mineola "Minnie" Tamar Johnson Grinstead, 1869-1925, who was the first woman elected to the Kansas House of Representatives. Grinstead served from 1919 to 1923 as the representative from Liberal in Seward County, Kansas.
previewLorraine (Lizzie) Elizabeth Wooster
Atherton & Hopkins
A profile portrait of Lorraine ( Lizzie) Elizabeth Wooster. In 1919, she was the first woman elected to the Kansas Superintendent of Public Instruction.
previewGovernor Kathleen Sebelius
Kansas Governor Kathleen Gilligan Sebelius was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives and served from 1987 to 1994. In 1994 she successfully ran for state insurance commissioner and became the first Democrat to hold that office in at least 100 years. Sebelius became the second female governor in 2002, when she was elected the forty-fourth Governor of Kansas. She served from January 3, 2003 to April 28, 2009. During her tenure, capital punishment laws were declared unconstitutional by the Kansas Supreme Court and a concealed carry bill was passed into law. On April 28, 2009, the U.S. Senate confirmed her as the 21st United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.
previewHazel Vivian Bowles Avery
A photograph showing Hazel Vivian Bowles Avery, wife of Kansas Governor William Henry Avery, with several unidentified women at either a luncheon or dinner. The gathering was held at the Kansas Governor's mansion, Cedar Crest, Topeka, Kansas.
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.
previewMinnie Tamar Johnson Grinstead
A photograph of Minnie Tamar Johnson Grinstead at her desk in the Kansas House of Representatives. Grinstead, a Republican from Seward County, Kansas, District 123, served from 1919-1923 and was the first woman legislator in the Kansas House of Representatives. She was born in Crawford County, graduated from the State Normal school at Emporia, taught school, and lectured for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Grinstead was married to Judge Virgil H. Grinstead.
previewPomona Tile Company, Arkansas City, Kansas
Kansas Industrial Development Commission
This black and white photograph shows a group of workers assembling tiles at the Pomona Tile Company in Arkansas City, Kansas. The company, a branch of the Pomona Tile Manufacturing Company of Pomona, California, was one of the largest manufactures of ceramic-glazed tiles in the United States. The facility was located at Strother Field between the towns of Arkansas City and Winfield.
previewCyrus Leland, Jr., with a Doniphan County group
This is a photograph of Cyrus Leland, Jr. with a group of people taken in Troy or Highland in Doniphan County. First row, left to right: Governor Willis J. Bailey; Cyrus Leland, Jr.; (possibly) Senator Long; 2nd row, left to right: unidentified woman; Judy Leland (Mrs. George P. Hayden), d. 1962, Long Beach California, George P. Hayden d. c1934; Mermie Castle; Fannie Leland (Mrs. G. C. Finley), d. c1959, Long Beach, California, G. C. Finley, d.1945; Eva Castle; the others are unknown. Cyrus Leland, Jr., (1841-1917), was born in Sauk County, Wisconsin and came to Kansas in 1858. He served as a lieutenant with Company F of the Tenth Kansas Infantry. He was a member of the Kansas Legislature in 1865-66 and again in 1903-1907. Beginning in 1866, he operated a store in Troy, Kansas, and served many years as a county commissioner and as a member of the Republican national committee. Appointed by President Benjamin Harrison to be collector of internal revenue for Kansas, Oklahoma and the Indian Territory, 1889-1893, Leland was named Missouri Valley pension agent by President William McKinley, a position he held from 1897 until 1901. He was a dominant force in Kansas politics and government, at both the state and national levels. He died in a St. Joseph, Missouri, hospital.
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