$1,000,000 beet sugar factory in Garden City, Kansas
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
This is a photograph of the United States Sugar and Land Company sugar beet factory. In front of the factory is an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe train advertising The Great Western Land Co. The train is pulled by locomotive No. 2170.

101 Ranch Cowboy Band, Wichita, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1909
A photograph of a parade taken at the intersection of Douglas Avenue and Main Street in Wichita, Kansas. Visible is the float for the 101 Ranch Cowboy Band of Bliss, Oklahoma, as well as the Manhattan Cigar Company store and several other buildings and businesses along the city streets.

11th - 17th Annual Kansas Day Meetings
Creator: Ackerman, Gertrude
Date: 1902-1908
This series of documents represents officer and program listings for the 11th through 17th Annual Kansas Day banquets. This is part of a bigger collection from Gertrude Ackerman.

18th - 28th Annual Kansas Day Meetings
Creator: Ackerman, Gertrude
Date: 1909-1919
This series is part of a bigger collection from Gertrude Ackerman. These documents represent participant lists, speeches and addresses, and correspondence from the 18th to 28th annual Kansas Day meetings. These documents included annotations throughout.

1903 flood in Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1903
Here are twelve photographs showing the 1903 flood in Topeka, Kansas.

1904 Wichita, Kansas flood
Date: 1904
Pictured here is the Manhattan Hotel, located on the Northwest corner of Douglas and Topeka at 328 East Douglas Avenue during the 1904 flood in Wichita, Kansas. Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

1905 Lecompton First Grade, Lecompton, Kansas
Date: 1905
Photograph of First Grade Lecompton School, 1905, as stated on the back of the photo. Albert Drake in front row in striped shirt. Lenora Caldwell, teacher. Photo mounted on board. Twenty-five students and one teacher. Standing outside in front of wooden doors and stone building. Several African American students in photo. Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

1905 tornado in Alta Vista, Kansas
Creator: McCoy, W. A.
Date: May 13, 1905
Photographs of a tornado passing over Alta Vista, Kansas, on May 13, 1905.

1906 Kansas University basketball team
Creator: Squires, C. F.
Date: 1906
This is a photograph of the 1905-06 Kansas University basketball team. The player on the floor is Phog Allen and the player in the second row, second from left is Chester Alexander Smith. The photograph was taken in 1906.

1906 Liberty Head Penny from 14BN353
Date: 1906
This penny was recovered from a Brown County farmstead by Kansas Historical Society archeologists. The obverse side has Liberty with a headdress in profile and the date of 1906. The reverse side has an oak wreath, shield, and the words "ONE CENT."

2nd Regiment Band of Emporia in Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1919
View of the members of the 2nd Regiment Band of Emporia, Kansas, marching at the front of a parade as part of a Women's Christian Temperance Union convention in Topeka, Kansas. Also visible are spectators, electric trolleys and trolley tracks, horse-drawn carriages and carts, and two long lines of people marching in the parade.

2nd Regiment Bugle Corps, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1919
This is a view of the two adult leaders and the eighteen boy members of the 2nd Regiment Bugle Corps standing in formation on the steps of the Kansas State Capitol building in Topeka, Kansas.

4th of July parade in Alta Vista, Kansas
Date: 1905
Photograph of the parade held on July 4, 1905 in Alta Vista, Kansas. William F. Kahle is seen hauling a large log behind the Royal Neighbors and Modern Woodmen of America float.

$5,000 Reward, Dead or Alive!
Creator: Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909
Date: Between 1898 and 1902
View of "$5,000 Reward, Dead or Alive!" drawing by Frederic Remington.

50 Camp, Crawford County, Kansas
Date: Between 1870 and 1920
A photograph of 50 Camp, or Camp 50, a small unincorporated community in Crawford County approximately 2 miles west of Arma. It was a company town of Central Coal and Coke and continues as a small residential community. Visible is a mine and mining equipment.

6th Cavalry Band, Fort Riley, Kansas
Date: 1900
View of members of the 6th Cavalry Band of Fort Riley, Kansas, posed with their instruments on the wooden steps of a stone building.

6th Cavalry Band, Fort Riley, Kansas
Date: 1900
View of the mounted 6th Cavalry Band at Fort Riley, Kansas.

6th Infantry Band, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas
Date: 1904
A formal view of the members of the 6th Infantry Band at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, under the leadership of Assistant Bandmaster Toner.

9th Cavalry Regiment, Fort Riley, Kansas
Date: Between 1898 and 1919
This set of photographs show members of the 9th Cavalry Regiment from Fort Riley, Kansas practicing mounted drills, cavalry tactics and riding.

A.A. Jones' wagon shop, Bennington, Kansas
Date: Between 1880 and 1900
This photograph shows a group of men standing in the showroom of the A.A. Jones' wagon shop in Bennington, Kansas. According to the back of the photograph the business sold Studebaker, Courtland and Bradley Buggies along with water pumps.

Aaron Jackson, prisoner 9686
Creator: Kansas State Penitentiary
Date: March 14, 1901
This photograph shows inmate, Aaron Jackson, prisoner #9686. He was received at the Kansas State Penitentiary on March 14, 1901 from Shawnee County, Kansas for larceny.

Aaron Lane Lanning
Creator: Ford, Harry
Date: Between 1905 and 1910
This is a photograph of Aaron Lane Lanning who was born in Middlesex, New Jersey on November 3, 1845, the son of Ralph and Diana (Bendy) Lanning. Aaron came to Kansas in the summer of 1865 after he was discharged from the Army. He brought his parents and siblings to Mound City, Kansas, and it was here he married Sarah Emma Preston on November 3, 1867. Lanning settled in Melvern where he farmed, served as a township clerk, township trustee, county commissioner superintendent of the Maxon Presbyterian Sunday School, officer on the school board, and post commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. Aaron and Sarah had five children and three of them were living when he died on March 12, 1935.

Aaron Lane Lanning and Sarah Emma Preston Lanning
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
This is a postcard showing Aaron Lane Lanning and Sarah Emma Preston Lanning standing in front of their house near Melvern, Kansas.

Aaron Lane Lanning and Sarah Emma Preston Lanning family
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
This is a photograph showing members of the Aaron Lane Lanning and Sarah Emma Preston Lanning family. People in the photograph are identified as front row (left to right) Frank Athon, Lourah King, Oliver Green and Emma Athon; second row Pauline King, Aaron Lane Lanning, Sarah Emma Preston Lanning, Hallie Athon with a baby; third row Howard Athon, Eva Green, __________, Pauline Green.

Aaron Zadik and Daul Mans, prisoners 9196 and 8443
Creator: Kansas State Penitentiary
Date: February 17, 1901
This photograph shows inmates, Aaron Zadik, prisoner #9196 and Daul Mans, prisoner #8443. Aaron Zadik was received at the Kansas State Penitentiary on January 1, 1900 from Oklahoma for larceny and escaping prison. Inmate Daul Mans was received at the penitentiary on February 10, 1898 from Elk County, Kansas for rape.