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Wichita Beacon Building, Wichita, Kansas

View of the Wichita Beacon Building after it opened on January 2, 1911. It was the first skyscraper in Kansas.

Blizzard, Oakley, Kansas

These men are clearing the railroad tracks after a blizzard in Oakley, Kansas.

Arthur Capper

Portrait of Arthur Capper, 1865-1951, shown here at the age of fifty-three. Capper, a native of Garnett, Kansas, served Kansas as Governor from 1915 to 1919, and as U. S. Senator from 1919 to 1949.

Arthur Capper

An informal portrait of Kansas Governor Arthur Capper, 1865-1951, signing the "Bone Dry Law" passed by the Kansas Legislature. The law prohibited possession of liquor within the state and ended direct shipments of liquor to Kansas from out-of-state vendors. Capper, a native of Garnett, Kansas, served Kansas as Governor from 1915 to 1919, and as a U. S. Senator from 1919 to 1949.

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company's steam locomotive #3000

Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company

This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company's steam locomotive 3000 with a Jacobs-Shupert non-explosive fire box. The locomotive was built in the Topeka, Kansas, shops in 1911 and was the largest steam engine in the world, 121 feet and 6 inches long.

Painless Romine advertisement

Advertisement for Painless Romine, a Topeka dentist. The ad was copied from a lantern slide.

Jess Willard

This sepia colored photograph shows Jess Willard, 1881-1968, defeating Jack Johnson, 1878-1946, in Havana, Cuba for the title of heavyweight champion of the world.

Theodore Roosevelt at Baldwin, Kansas

Bridwell, Arthur

This is a photograph of Theodore Roosevelt, William Allen White, Henry J. Allen, Joseph Bristow, and Osmon Grant Markham standing on the back of a passenger car at the Baldwin, Kansas railroad station.

Road construction, Beloit, Kansas

This photograph shows men building roads on a Good Roads Day, Beloit, Kansas.

Road construction, Beloit, Kansas

This is a photograph showing men building roads on a Good Roads Day in Beloit, Kansas.