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Decoration Day Newspapers
Memorial Day, previously referred to as Decoration Day, is a federal holiday that has been observed on the last Monday of May each year since 1868 in remembrance of those who have died in military...
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Weather stories
The Forces of Nature exhibit currently on display through January 9th at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka showcases our state’s extreme weather conditions--including tornados, droughts, floods,...
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Dust Storm Scrapbook
The magnitude of the dust storms sweeping across southwest Kansas in the mid 1930s was truely unbelievable. In Ness City, Kansas, in 1935, Lillian Foster wrote: "The idea of a dust scrap book...
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Spirit of Washington film
Washington Elementary School was one of four Black elementary schools in Topeka, Kansas, prior to the U. S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. The Board of Education (1954) that called for the...
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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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New feature: search-browse feeds
By subscribing to a category or search feed, you can now receive updates of new content on a specific subject. First, conduct a word search or category browse that returns the results you want....
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Halbe photo collection
Working at his father's candy shop in 1908, 15-year-old L. W. Halbe of Dorrance, Kansas, discovered a small box camera among the shelves. Curious, he began to take pictures and thus embarked upon a...
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Omar Hawkins exhibit
A special exhibit featuring the photographs of Kansas photographer Omar Hawkins is now on display at the Kansas Museum of History. The exhibit, Backward Glance: Images from Marshall County, is also...
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Sherman County photographs
Eighty-seven photographs by an unknown photographer emerged in Sherman County, Kansas, in the early 1980s. Richard Gannon found the photographs in a building on his property and donated copies of the...
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Tuttle Creek Story film
The people of the Blue River Valley in Kansas produced this short film as part of their campaign against the construction of the Tuttle Creek dam on the Big Blue River in the Flint Hills of Northeast...
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Irish History and Film
Posted by musuem curator Laurel Fritzsch: Irish immigrants and their descendants’ devotion to Ireland has created an enduring sense of Irish identity throughout the world. In no case is this more...
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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 emergency relief movie
Kansas Governor Harry Woodring created the Kansas Federal Relief Committee in July of 1932 to obtain and administer federal emergency loans made available to states through Herbert Hoover’s Emergency...
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Ledger art
When the London Circus came to Lawrence, Kansas, on July 30, 1879, its most conspicuous guests were six Northern Cheyenne Indians: Wild Hog, Old Man, Blacksmith, Left Hand, Run Fast, and Meheha. The...
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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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Big Dam Foolishness
Family historians often visit Kansas looking for their ancestor's homestead. The lure of cheap or free land guaranteed that many families had ancestors who lived in Kansas in the 19th century, though...
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Joplin's lost trunk
For decades ragtime aficionados have been searching for a lost trunk supposedly containing unpublished music manuscripts by Scott Joplin. Edward Berlin, author of King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His...
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Wild Bill Hickok family collection
In the 1980s, Ethel Ann Hickok, the last surviving niece of James Butler (“Wild Bill”) Hickok, donated fifty-four family letters and five photographs to the Kansas Historical Society. She donated two...
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The KSHS staff are very excited to announce a new feature to Kansas Memory: Integrated Search and Browse.This new feature allows you to search for a term, or choose a category from our category...
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