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Branding cattle, Scott City, Kansas

This photograph shows cattle being branded on the J.W. Lough's ranch near Scott City, Kansas. In the foreground a woman dressed in white is branding a cow while ranch hands look on. Several cattle are visible in the background.

The Young Ladies Band of Downs, Kansas

This photograph of the Young Ladies Band of Downs, Kansas, shows women sitting on a wagon playing their instruments.

L. 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.

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.

Golden Charles Dresher photograph collection

Dresher, G. C.

This collection consists of 326 photographs taken by G. C. (Golden Charles) Dresher of Canton, McPherson County, Kansas. The photos mostly concern the Dresher family, their friends and the surrounding area. Photographs of McPherson College students and the flooding of Cow Creek are also included. Dorothy May (Dresher) Richards, the daughter of G. C. Dresher, donated the original glass plate negatives to the Kansas Historical Society in 1999.

Sheridan County, Kansas, farm scene

This photograph is of an unidentified farm yard in Sheridan County, Kansas. Visible are two sod buildings, two boys with dog in the foreground, two women with a toddler near a wagon, a man with work horses by hay stack, another man and two children on another wagon, and two cows.

J.R. Watkins Medical wagon, Eureka, Kansas

This black and white photograph shows a couple standing beside a J.R. Watkins Medical wagon with sampling cases near Eureka, Kansas. The medical company, founded in 1868 by Joseph Ray Watkins from Plainview, Minnesota, sold medical liniments and salves from the back of a horse drawn wagon. The company may have sold supplies for animals as well as humans because a bucket in the front of the photograph is labeled "stock tonic" and the wagon has "stock and poultry tonic" on it.

Group of people in a horse drawn wagon near Grainfield, Kansas

This is possibly a photograph of a church group. Ed and Fred Albin are on the front seat left and behind them is their father Thomas Bishop Albin and Flora Albin Boyer (#4).

Salina Plumbing Company delivery wagon, Salina, Kansas

These three photographs show the delivery wagons of the Salina Plumbing Company in Salina, Kansas. The first image shows Anna Geis, the bookkeeper, standing next to the wagon. The second view shows Ed Sharp leaning on the wagon. The last photograph shows just the horse and wagon.

Ladies' Ideal Band of Bethany photograph

Kansas City View Co.

This photograph represents the Ladies' Ideal Band of Bethany, riding in a horse-drawn wagon in MIssouri. The banner adorning the wagon reads, "Tourist Coffee M. & J. Blend." The women band members hold brass instruments and drums.