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Lone Pine
Coy Avon Seward
Black and white intaglio print on paper, depicting a single pine tree in a rocky terrain. 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. Seward inscribed this print to the donor, Virginia McArthur of Hutchinson, who saw Seward produce the print in 1934.
previewGarfield School, Topeka, Kansas
Three black and white photographs of Garfield School in Topeka, Kansas, serving as an emergency hospital, possibly during the Spanish Influenza epidemic.
previewUnited States astronauts, Frankfort, Kansas
This black and white photograph shows a group of U. S. astronauts at Dan Horigan's home north of Frankfort, Kansas. The astronauts came to Kansas to hunt on the Horigan farm. Back row (left to right): Neil Armstrong, Stuart Rossa, William Anders, James Lovell and Donald K "Deke" Slayton. Front row (left to right): Kansas native Ron Evans, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Gordon Cooper, and Charles Duke.
previewNancy Landon Kassebaum
United States Senate
A photograph of Nancy Landon Kassebaum, United States Senator from Kansas, placing an ornament on a Christmas tree.
previewAlfred Larzelere
Alfred Larzelere of Doniphan County was active in free state politics. He served as speaker of the Kansas House in 1859 and as a delegate to the Leavenworth constitutional convention. He was also a member of the Free State Central committee.
previewAppointment of William H. Bush to postmaster at Pond Creek, Wallace County, Kansas
Post Office Department
These are appointment papers for William H. Bush from the Post Office Department. He was named the Post Master at Pond Creek, Wallace County, Kansas.
previewDavid J. Brewer and C. B. Brace to William Kincaid
Brewer, David J. (David Josiah), 1837-1910
A letter written by David J. Brewer and C. B. Brace, Leavenworth, Kansas, to Reverend William Kincaid, minister of the Congregational Church in Rushville, New York, encouraging him to become the minister of the First Congregational Church in Leavenworth, Kansas. The letter describes the church and invites Rev. Kincaid to spend time with the congregation. He accepted the position and served from the fall of 1870 through January, 1876. Brewer was a lawyer. During his distinguished legal career, he was a Kansas Supreme Court Justice,1871 - 1884, United States Circuit Court Justice, 1884 - 1889, and United States Supreme Court Justice, 1889 - 1910.
previewPaola fair
Seip Brothers, Printing
Professor Frank A. Squires, assisted by Mlle Corrine, are the featured performers on this advertising poster for the Paola fair in Paola, Kansas. The stunt they perform is to ascend in a hot air balloon and then fall back to earth with just a parachute.
previewHenry and Mary Worrall playing guitars
Guitarist and artist Henry Worrall of Topeka, Kansas, plays music with his wife, Mary Elizabeth Harvey Worrall. Henry and Mary frequently performed together in Cincinnati, Ohio, before moving to Topeka, Kansas, in 1868. Worrall's celebrated solo guitar instrumentals "Sebastopol" and "Spanish Fandango" enjoyed great popularity in the nineteenth century. In the early twentieth century, Worrall's popular solo guitar pieces played a key role in the development of the guitar styles of southern rural folk musicians and country and blues musical idioms. Henry Worrall died in Topeka in 1902. Mary Worrall died in Topeka in 1915.
previewAvis Chitwood
The Elite
This is a portrait of Avis Chitwood as a child. Avis was born in Mound City, December 29, 1893, and died in Topeka, January 25, 1994, at the age of 100. She is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Topeka. She was a teacher, painter, illustrator, printmaker, and etcher. She specialized in rustic buildings, wildflowers, and missions.
previewObjects and Artifacts
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- Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917
- Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
- Cattle Drives, 1867 - 1885
- Civil War, 1861 - 1865
- Eisenhower Years, 1946 - 1961
- Exploration, 1541 - 1820
- Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
- Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
- Indian Territory, 1820 - 1854
- Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
- The Recent Past, 1975 - present
- The Sixties and Vietnam, 1961 - 1975
- The Twenties, 1920 - 1929
- Trails, 1821 - 1880
- World War I, 1914 - 1919
- World War II, 1939 - 1945
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