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Hawkins Photograph Collection
Hundreds of additional photos from the Omar Hawkins photograph collection are now available on Kansas Memory. Based in Marysville, Kansas, Hawkins captured scenes of his town and the surrounding...
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Kansas State Federation of Labor
One hundred and twenty-one years ago this month, in July of 1890, a small group of Kansas trade union leaders adopted a constitution for a new, centralized state labor organization. With the decline of...
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Women's Fashion and Gossip
Beginning in June 1897, a recurring column first appeared in the Wichita Daily Eagle, signed by the anonymous "Bab." The columns, often titled "Feminine Facts and Fancies," "Woman's Ways and Woman's...
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Cased Photograph Collection
The cased photograph collection in the State Archives & Library Division of the Kansas Historical Society includes more than 200 one-of-a-kind daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes. These are...
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Labor Day Proclamation
When Kansas governor Lyman Humphrey issued a proclamation in August of 1890 recognizing Labor Day in Kansas, he was heralded by many as being the first head of state, anywhere, to do so. See an...
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Cyrus K. Holliday
Recognized as one of the top 25 Notable Kansans, Cyrus K. Holliday and his claim to fame may be less well known to most Kansans than his counterparts also honored on the list. Cyrus Kurtz Holliday...
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Kansas Equal Suffrage Association
Take this off-year Election Day to revisit the history of the women's suffrage movement in Kansas. Suffrage in Kansas had many important supporters, including Stella Stubbs, the wife of Kansas Governor...
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Samuel Reader's lantern slides
Samuel J. Reader arrived in Indianola, Shawnee County, Kansas in 1855. As an adult, his occupation was farming but he was a man of many talents and interesting hobbies. He was an avid diarist, drawer...
View ArticleHistorical Society partnership with Ancestry
The Kansas Historical Society has partnered with Ancestry.com to make thousands of pages of records available for free to Kansans with a valid driver’s license. While Ancestry’s primary interest is...
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The Prairie Woodcutter
Herschel C. Logan (1901-1987) was a woodcut artist and printmaker raised in Winfield, Kansas. His depictions of the Kansas landscape, including the Flint Hills, dust storms, tornadoes, and farmhouses...
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William Clark (of Lewis & Clark)
Sometime between 1883 and 1885, John Speer, a former director of the Kansas Historical Society, happened upon a pile of leather-bound volumes outside a used bookstore in Lawrence. Immediately upon his...
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Riding bicycles
In the spirit of Biking Across Kansas, we're celebrating bicycles and the places they've taken us across the state. Bicycles have been used to deliver newspapers, carry home the bounty of a hunting...
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Kansas State Penitentiary
The Kansas State Penitentiary, now known as the Lansing Correctional Facility, was built in the 1860s. Since then, thousands of inmates have passed through its doors, most notably, Perry Smith and...
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250,000 images!
Congratulations are in order to the visitors, volunteers, and staff who support and work to improve digital access to the collections of the Kansas Historical Society. We now have over 250,000 digital...
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Voting ballots
With the November 6th election just around the corner, you're likely to see electronic ballots widely used at polling locations. While paper ballots are still used, they do not resemble the scratch...
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Veterans of WWII Oral History Project
In 2005, the Kansas Legislature awarded the Kansas Historical Society $150,000 to issue grants to nonprofit groups charged with collecting oral histories from WWII veterans. Each grant awardee focused...
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Bird's-eye views of Kansas
Thirty-eight 19th Century lithographic prints from the collections of the State Archives Division, Kansas Historical Society (KSHS), show many Kansas cities and towns from a novel “bird’s-eye”...
View ArticleWichita Eagle newspaper
Search the Wichita Eagle newspaper from 1872-1909 on Chronicling America. In 1872, the Wichita City Eagle debuted as the dominant newspaper of south-central Kansas and a pioneer newspaper of the state....
View ArticleThe Globe-Republican newspaper
Search the Globe-Republican newspaper from 1889-1910 on Chronicling America. The Globe-Republican was published weekly in Dodge City from October 23, 1889 until November 24, 1910. Always an eight-page,...
View ArticleThe Smoky Hill and Republican Union newspaper
Search the Smoky Hill and Republican Union newspaper from 1861-1964 on Chronicling America. With the noteworthy motto “We Join Ourselves to No Party That Does Not Carry The Flag, and Keep Step to the...
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