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C. D. Perry's irrigation ditch near Englewood, Kansas

Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936

View of a couple standing along an irrigation ditch on the Clarence D. Perry farm near Englewood, Kansas.

Goodland Ladies Band

This is a photograph of members of the Goodland Ladies Band of Goodland, Kansas, posing with their instruments.

Randall Band, Jewell County, Kansas

This is a formal portrait of the members of the Randall Band, which was the first band in Jewell County, Kansas, posed before an unidentified building, possibly the east side of the Methodist Church in Randall. Pictured are: (left to right) Back row: Bob Sadler; Charley Schott; Allie Crawford; Jesse Kibbe; Grace Hall; Clara Fairchild; Monta Seaver. Middle row: Edwin Shoemaker; Jennie Way; Lola Townsdin; Edith Bowman; Lily Kibbe; George Bruch; Elmore Sadler; Front row: Bertha Morris; Dr. Way; C.M. Conley; James Shaul; Ed Bowman (leader); Charley Kibbe; Will Hall.

Lilla Day Monroe and Lillian Mitchner

Lilla Day Monroe (left) was one of Topeka?s leading citizens during the early part of the twentieth century. Over the course of her life, she served as president of the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association, editor of "The Club Member" and "The Kansas Woman?s Journal," and as a founding member of the Good Government Club. Lillian Mitchner (right) was state president of the Kansas Woman?s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).

Myra McHenry

Buck, G.V.

Myra McHenry was a reformer who fought for anti-smoking laws as well as temperance and women's suffrage.

Kansas State Teachers College Emporia, Kansas

This black and white photograph shows a classroom at the Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia, Kansas. The students dressed in formal clothing are gathered in a large circle with their teachers. In the background, a group of women are observing the students and a Christmas tree has been decorated. A nearby chalkboard has decorations and stockings adorning it's surface.

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.

Fletcher Bowman Howe family

This is a postcard view of the Howe family: (front row) Helen, Clara, Jenny, Bernice, Alice and Dick; (back row) Clifford, George, Edna and Mark. In 1873, Clara Livona McCreery Howes and her husband Fletcher Bowman Howes came to Jewell County, Kansas with their two sons Mark Watson Howe and George Christina Howe. They homesteaded and farmed near Esbon, Kansas.

Milking cows on a farm in Riley County, Kansas

A photograph showing Nellie Zimmerman White milking a cow while her daughter, Flora White, watches. The dairy farm was located east of the Kaw River bridge across from Manhattan.

Women's tennis club, Lawrence, Kansas

This black and white photograph shows the women's tennis club from Lawrence, Kansas.