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300 Mile Race over New Santa Fe Trail
Moore Studio
This black and white photograph shows one of the three Buick cars used during the 300-mile race over the new Santa Fe Trail in front of the Kansas City Star newspaper office. The three automobiles left the Hutchinson News office at 5:01 a.m., arriving at the Kansas City Star office at 4:24 p.m. proving a 300-mile automobile trip could be made on Kansas dirt highways in twelve hours. The only stop during the race was for lunch in Emporia, Kansas. Seated in the Buick are the following individuals from left to right: M.P. Newton, O.M. Wilhite, Ralph Faxton, in the middle, Kansas Governor George H. Hodges, and Fred Trigg.
preview75,000 Legionnaires capture New York
Illustrated Current News, Inc.
These are picturegrams from the American Legion Convention in New York in 1952. "As some 3 million New Yorkers cheer their lagging footsteps, the delegates to the American Legion Convention, West Point Cadets, many bands, etc., parade on Fifth Ave. for 9 1/2 hours." 1. A zany 'Leapin Lena' gives the crowd a lot of laughs. 2. Presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Harry W. Colmery, march with the Kansas delegation. 3. Claude Buzich, Minneapolis, gives a reluctant policeman a great big kiss.
previewActor Karl Malden and Roy Menninger, M.D.
Actor Karl Malden was a member of the Board of Directors of the Menninger Foundation. He is shown here with Roy Menninger, M.D., in 1993 at a gathering in Los Angeles, California.
previewAdmiral Byrd
Herschel C. Logan
A black ink on rag paper woodcut, portrait of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr. in dress uniform by Herschel Logan. A member of the Prairie Printmakers, Logan executed this work in 1936. He was born April 19, 1901 in Magnolia, Missouri, and the family moved shortly afterwards to Winfield, Kansas. He attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He worked as an advertising artist in Salina until his retirement in 1968. Logan moved to Santa Ana, California, where he died on December 8, 1987.
previewA dream that has come true
"A Dream That Has Come True", Brinkley Hospitals from Dr. Brinkley's Doctor Book.
previewAdvertisement for Russell Brothers Circus
Advertisement for Russell Brothers Circus presenting Reb Russell and his horse, Rebel
previewAfter twenty-one years: the success story of Dr. John R. Brinkley
Brinkley Hospitals
This booklet was published by the Brinkley Hospitals of Little Rock, Arkansas. Brinkley moved his hospital operations to Little Rock from Milford, Kansas, after his Kansas medical license was revoked. He changed the name of his radio station to XERA and it was located in Villa Acuna, Mexico, just across the border from Del Rio, Texas, where the Brinkley's had a home. The pamphlet is a revised version of an earlier Brinkley hospital publication titled Your Health (Kansas Memory item 210693). It includes illustrations to accompany the medical information.
previewA Glimpse of the Smoky Hills
Coy Avon Seward
Black lithographed scene on tan kid finish Bristol paper. Depicts the Smoky Hills of Kansas through an arch formed by trees. The artist was Coy Avon Seward (1884-1939), born in Chase, Kansas, and trained at both Washburn and Bethany colleges. Seward was a founding member of the Prairie Print Makers Association. This group believed art should be affordable for all people, not just collectors. Seward produced this print in 1927.
previewAgreement, Construction of Office Building in Leavenworth
Reeder, Andrew H. (Andrew Horatio), 1807-1864
A. H. Reeder enters into an agreement with H. M. Hook for the latter to "erect" an office building on lot #8, block #3 of Leavenworth, Kansas Territory. Hook agrees to build the structure, "16 feet by 32 feet similar to the office of M. I. Parrot" (perhaps, Marcus J. Parrott) for $400. Hook is to be paid out of the rent received on this property when finished, as well as from what rent he receives on three other properties he has leased from Reeder.
previewA. H. Reeder to Franklin Crane
Reeder, Andrew H. (Andrew Horatio), 1807-1864
Andrew Reeder, former governor of Kansas Territory, wrote from Easton, Pennsylvania, to inform Franklin Crane of the eastern response to elections in Kansas, and the prospects for the Leavenworth Constitution. Reeder also discussed the value of Topeka lots and a request to donate one lot for a church.
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- Abbott, James Burnett, 1818-1897
- Adair, Florella Brown, 1816-1865
- Adair, Samuel Lyle, 1811-1898
- Adams, Abzuga (Zu), b. 1859
- Alderson, Lewis Allen, 1812-1881
- Allen, Forrest C., 1885-1974
- Allen, Henry Justin, 1868-1950
- Anderson, John, Jr., 1917-2014
- Arny, William Frederick Milton, 1813-1881
- Avery, William Henry, 1911-2009
- Baker, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, 1932-
- Barnes, Ebenezer, 1811-1858
- Bartholomew, Elam
- Blood, James
- Branscomb, Charles Henry
- Brewer, David Josiah
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- Brooks, Louise
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- Colmery, Harry W, 1890-1979
- Conway, Martin Franklin, 1827-1882
- Cook, Hugh A., 1827-1901
- Corbett, Boston, b. 1832
- Crane, Franklin Loomis
- Crumbine, Samuel Jay, 1862-1954
- Cunningham, Glenn, 1909-1988
- Curry, John Steuart, (1897-1946)
- Curtis, Charles, 1860-1936
- Cutter, George, 1833-1874
- Denison, Joseph, 1815-1900
- Diggs, Annie L. (Annie Le Porte), 1853-1916
- Dobbs, Mary E.
- Douglas, Aaron, 1899-1979
- Doy, Charles
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- Eisenhower, Dwight David, 1890-1969
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- Gailland, Maurice 1815-1877
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- Garvey, Edward C.K., -1884
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- Glick, George Washington, 1827-1911
- Goodnow, Isaac T., 1814-1894
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- Green, Elmer
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- Griffing, James Sayre, 1822-1882
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- Hall, Frederick Lee, 1916-1970
- Hay, George
- Hickok, James Butler, 1837-1876
- Highley, Brewster M, 1822?-1911
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- Hockaday, F.W. ("Woody"), 1884-1947
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- Holliday, Cyrus Kurtz, 1826-1900
- Hoyt, David Starr
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
- Hume, Lou E.
- Hutchinson, William
- Huxman, Walter Augustus, 1887-1972
- Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900
- Inge, William
- Jenkins, Gaius
- Jessye, Eva
- Johnson, Walter Perry, 1887-1946
- Jones, Samuel J.
- Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966
- Knight, J. Lee, 1837-1915
- Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987
- Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866
- Larzelere, Alfred, 1811-1881
- Lewelling, Lorenzo Dow, 1846-1900
- Lieurance, Thurlow
- Lines, C. B.
- Logan, Herschel C., 1901-1987
- Long, Chester Isaiah, 1860-1934
- Lum, Samuel Y., 1821-1895
- Lykins, Johnston
- March, George M., 1886-1954
- Marlatt, Washington, 1829-1909
- Martin, Albert Bugal, 1898-1986
- Martin, John Alexander, 1839-1889
- McCoy, Isaac, 1784-1846
- McCoy, Joseph Geiting, 1837-1915
- Mead, James R.
- Medary, Samuel, 1801-1864
- Meeker, Jotham, 1804-1855
- Menninger, Charles Fredrick (C. F.), 1862-1953
- Menninger, Karl Augustus, 1893-1990
- Menninger, Philip (Philip Bratton), 1928-
- Menninger, Robert Gaines, 1922-
- Menninger, Roy W., 1926-
- Menninger, William Claire, 1899-1966
- Menninger, W. Walter, 1931-
- Miller, Solomon
- Miller, Vern
- Monroe, Lilla Day, 1858-1929
- Moore, Henry Miles
- Morrison, V. L.
- Naismith, James, 1861-1939
- Nation, Carry Amelia,1846-1911
- Nichols, Clarina Irene Howard, 1810-1885
- Nute, Ephriam, 1819-1897
- Osborn, Thomas Andrew, 1836-1898
- Paddock, George Washington, 1823-1907
- Peffer, William Alfred, 1831-1912
- Perry, Barbara Rondelli
- Phillips, William Addison, 1824-1893
- Pike, Joshua A., 1833-1922
- Plumb, Preston B., 1837-1891
- Pomeroy, S. C. (Samuel Clarke), 1816-1891
- Popenoe, Frederick Oliver, 1863-1934
- Pratt, J. G. (John Gill), 1814-1900
- Price, G. F.
- Randolph, Anna Margaret (Watson), 1838-1917
- Reader, Samuel James, 1836-1914
- Redpath, James, 1833-1891
- Reed, Clyde Martin, 1871-1949
- Reeder, Andrew H. (Andrew Horatio), 1807-1864
- Reid, Albert T.
- Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894
- Rogers, Richard Dean
- Russell, Reb, 1905-1978
- Salter, Susanna Madora, 1860-1961
- Sandzen, Birger, 1871-1954
- Schoeppel, Andrew Frank, 1894-1962
- Sebelius, Kathleen
- Senix, Jacob
- Seward, C. A. (Coy Avon), 1884-1939
- Shannon, Wilson
- Sheldon, Charles Monroe, 1857-1946
- Shore, Samuel T.
- Simerwell, Robert W.
- Simmons, Thomas
- Simpson, Jeremiah, 1842-1905
- Simpson, Samuel Newell
- Singleton, Benjamin, 1809-1900
- Smith, Glee S., Jr.
- Smith, Mary Alice, 1896-1970
- Soule, Silas Stillman, 1838-1865
- Stewart, John E
- Stinson, Thomas N.
- St. John, John Pierce, 1833-1916
- Stone, Fred Andrew, 1873-1959
- Stone, George Melville, 1858-1931
- Stutz, John Godfrey, 1893-1995
- Trego, Joseph Harrington
- Twente, Esther Elizabeth, 1895-1971
- Wattles, Augustus
- White, William Allen, 1868-1944
- Willard, Jess, 1881-1968
- Willis, S. J.
- Winter, Lumen Martin
- Wood, S. N. (Samuel Newitt)
- Worrall, Henry, 1825-1902
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