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Brown's Garage, Dorrance, Kansas

Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981

View of three men in the Brown Garage in Dorrance, Russell County, Kansas. One man is leaning against a work bench, another is seated on an Indian motorcycle, and a third is seated in an open convertible automobile.

Yale motorcycle and Buick automobile, Dorrance, Kansas

Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981

View of Henry Major on a Yale motorcycle, and Mr. Blehm in a Buick convertible automobile, in Dorrance, Russell County, Kansas. Also visible are unpaved roadways, a utility pole, and fields fenced with wire and stone posts.

Adam and Fred Thielen and friends in an automobile, Dorrance, Kansas

Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981

View of four people seated in the open 1908 Reo automobile, and three people posed next to the auto, in Russell County, Kansas. The two men seated in the automobile may be Adam and Fred Thielen. One of the young women is seated on an American motorcycle. The Reo auto was noted as a 2 cylinder, chain drive car, with two seats in front and a small jump seat on the back.

Motorcycles and automobiles, Dorrance, Russell County, Kansas

Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981

View of eleven motorcycles and three automobiles on a business street, Dorrance, Kan. Two of the automobiles are identified as a Buick and Maxwell.

Union Pacific Railroad Company depot, Bavaria, Kansas

This photograph shows two men on a motorcycle in front of the Union Pacific Railroad Company depot at Bavaria, Kansas.

Topeka Police Department

This is a panoramic photo of the employees of the Topeka Police Department standing outside the police headquarters. Several officers are on motorcycles.

Shinzo Morita of Osaka, Japan

Kansas Industrial Development Commission

This image from the magazine, "To the Stars", shows Shinzo Morita of Osaka, Japan with a Shaw bicycle that was manufactured in Galesburg, Kansas. The Shaw company was founded in 1903 by Stanley W. Shaw, who manufactured and marketed bicycles, motors, sports cars, tractorized automobiles, and garden tractors. In 1903, the company converted an ordinary bicycle into a motorcycle and started the production of a one cylinder bicycle engine. Within a few years, the Shaw company was selling their motorcycle all over the world.

Shawnee Cycle Company, Topeka, Kansas

This black and white photograph shows a group of men standing before the Harley-Davidson and Shawnee Cycle shop. The business owned by Erwin Keller was located in 1912 at 117 East Seventh Street and later moved, in 1921, to 114 East Seventh Street in Topeka, Kansas.

William Henry Avery

Nine photographs of William Henry Avery riding a motorcycle driven by Doug Horner in Wakefield, Kansas. Horner gave William Avery a ride home from the post office.

Postal mail carriers, Webber, Kansas

This black and white photograph shows two mail carriers from Webber, Kansas, standing beside their delivery motorcycles. The gentleman have been identified from left to right: George Graham, RFD carrier for Route 2, and Mort Harding RFD carrier for Route 1.