1880 census of Farmer Township, Wabaunsee County, Kansas
Creator: United States. Census Office. 10th census, 1880
Date: June 1, 1880 through June 2, 1880
This excerpt of a census schedule provides details--including the name, age, race, and occupation--of settlers in Farmer Township in Wabaunsee County, Kansas. The county included a black population (B=Black) who had settled there in 1879 with the help of the Freedmen's Relief Association.

1880 census of Nicodemus Township, Graham County, Kansas
Creator: United States. Census Office. 10th census, 1880
Date: June 8, 1880 through June 23, 1880
This census schedule provides details--including the name, age, race, and occupation--of both white and black settlers in Nicodemus Township in Graham County, Kansas. This township had been settled by African Americans in 1877 along the south fork of the Solomon River.

1880 census of Rock Creek Township, Wabaunsee County, Kansas
Creator: United States. Census Office. 10th census, 1880
Date: June 11, 1880
This excerpt of a census schedule provides details--including the name, age, race, and occupation--of settlers in Rock Creek Township in Wabaunsee County, Kansas. The county included a black population (B=Black) who had settled there in 1879 with the help of the Freedmen's Relief Association.

1880 Charles A. Thresher Diary
Date: 1880
Charles A. Thresher's diary from 1880. Charles Thresher lived and farmed in the Berryton, Shawnee County area. Entries are typically brief and provide information regarding the weather, chores and activities around the farm, what family members did, Thresher's and his family's health, visiting neighbors or those that Thresher visited, Sunday school and other church activities, and other such information about daily life in rural Kansas.

1881 Charles A. Thresher Diary
Date: 1881
Charles A. Thresher's diary from 1881. Charles Thresher lived and farmed in the Berryton, Shawnee County area. Entries are typically brief and provide information regarding the weather, chores and activities around the farm, what family members did, Thresher's and his family's health, visiting neighbors or those that Thresher visited, Sunday school and other church activities, and other such information about daily life in rural Kansas.

1882 Charles A. Thresher Diary
Date: 1882
Charles A. Thresher's diary from 1882. Charles Thresher lived and farmed in the Berryton, Shawnee County area. Entries are typically brief and provide information regarding the weather, chores and activities around the farm, what family members did, Thresher's and his family's health, visiting neighbors or those that Thresher visited, Sunday school and other church activities, and other such information about daily life in rural Kansas.

1883 Charles A. Thresher Diary
Date: 1883
Charles A. Thresher's diary from 1883. Charles Thresher lived and farmed in the Berryton, Shawnee County area. Entries are typically brief and provide information regarding the weather, chores and activities around the farm, what family members did, Thresher's and his family's health, visiting neighbors or those that Thresher visited, Sunday school and other church activities, and other such information about daily life in rural Kansas.

1884 Charles A. Thresher Diary
Date: 1884
Charles A. Thresher's diary from 1884. Charles Thresher lived and farmed in the Berryton, Shawnee County area. Entries are typically brief and provide information regarding the weather, chores and activities around the farm, what family members did, Thresher's and his family's health, visiting neighbors or those that Thresher visited, Sunday school and other church activities, and other such information about daily life in rural Kansas.

1885 Charles A. Thresher Diary
Date: 1885
Charles A. Thresher's diary from 1885. Charles Thresher lived and farmed in the Berryton, Shawnee County area. Entries are typically brief and provide information regarding the weather, chores and activities around the farm, what family members did, Thresher's and his family's health, visiting neighbors or those that Thresher visited, Sunday school and other church activities, and other such information about daily life in rural Kansas.

1886 Charles A. Thresher Diary
Date: 1886
Charles A. Thresher's diary from 1886. Charles Thresher lived and farmed in the Berryton, Shawnee County area. Entries are typically brief and provide information regarding the weather, chores and activities around the farm, what family members did, Thresher's and his family's health, visiting neighbors or those that Thresher visited, Sunday school and other church activities, and other such information about daily life in rural Kansas.

1887 Charles A. Thresher Diary
Date: 1887
Charles A. Thresher's diary from 1887. Charles Thresher lived and farmed in the Berryton, Shawnee County area. Entries are typically brief and provide information regarding the weather, chores and activities around the farm, what family members did, Thresher's and his family's health, visiting neighbors or those that Thresher visited, Sunday school and other church activities, and other such information about daily life in rural Kansas.

1888 Charles A. Thresher Diary
Date: 1888
Charles A. Thresher's diary from 1888. Charles Thresher lived and farmed in the Berryton, Shawnee County area. Entries are typically brief and provide information regarding the weather, chores and activities around the farm, what family members did, Thresher's and his family's health, visiting neighbors or those that Thresher visited, Sunday school and other church activities, and other such information about daily life in rural Kansas.

1888 Missouri Pacific railway system map
Creator: Rand McNally & Co., Engravers, Chicago
Date: 1888
This 1888 map illustrates the following rail lines: Mo.Pac, St. L., I, MT'N & S'N, MO., Kan. & Tex, Cent, BR. Un. Pac, INT & GT, and North'N, Texas & Pacific.

1889 Charles A. Thresher Diary
Date: 1889
Charles A. Thresher's diary from 1889. Charles Thresher lived and farmed in the Berryton, Shawnee County area. Entries are typically brief and provide information regarding the weather, chores and activities around the farm, what family members did, Thresher's and his family's health, visiting neighbors or those that Thresher visited, Sunday school and other church activities, and other such information about daily life in rural Kansas.

18th Infantry Band, Fort Hays, Kansas
Date: 1886
This is a view of the members of the 18th Infantry Band at Fort Hays, Kansas. Fort Hays was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

1987 Annual Report of the Kansas Historical Society
Date: 1987
The annual report prepared for the Kansas Historical Society from 1987. This report was prepared by the Administration Division and the leadership team of the Kansas State Historical Society.

1988 Annual Report of the Kansas Historical Society
Date: 1988
The annual report prepared for the Kansas Historical Society from 1988. This report was prepared by the Administration Division and the leadership team of the Kansas State Historical Society.

200 block of Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Leonard & Martin
Date: Between January 01, 1875 and December 31, 1885
224 to 234 block of Kansas Avenue. The city of Topeka was founded in 1857 along the banks of the Kansas River in present day Shawnee County.

4th Cavalry musician with helicon at Fort Riley, Kansas
Date: Possibly between 1864 and 1884
This is a photo of a 4th Cavalry musician, holding a helicon (a predecessor of the sousaphone), at Fort Riley, Kansas.

4th of July parade in Eskridge, Kansas
Date: Between 1881 and 1889
Two photographs showing the 4th of July parade on Main Street in Eskridge, Kansas. The first photograph is a view of the east side of Main Street looking toward the intersection of 1st and Main. The town of Eskridge had moved to this location only six years before this photo was taken. The second photograph, looking south on Main Street from 1st Avenue, is a rare view of the west side of Main Street prior to the 1890 fire which destroyed all of the block down to the Trusler Building. In 1913, fire destroyed the exact same portion of that block. In this view, a re-enactment of Bill Cole's Last Ride, a story of Indians attacking Cole and the Smith boys, who were overland mail carriers.

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.

8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry monument at Missionary Ridge
Creator: Schmedling Photographer
Date: Between 1870 and 1900
These are three photographs of the 8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry monument on Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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Creator: Kansas. Governor (1879-1883 : St. John)
Date: 1879-1883
This file includes letters on topics such as agriculture, the American Institute of Christian Philosophy, bondsmen, and acknowledgement of receipts. In the first letter to Kansas Governor St. John the person requests the governor speak to the Legislature to adjust measures in securing the Fort Hays reservation as a school for the promotion of agriculture. There is a letter from Joe Anderson of Kansas City, Kansas requesting that Governor St. John be a bondsman for the Olathe Asylum. Other letters in this file discuss appointments, advocacy for temporary amendments, as well as other matters.

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.

A.A. Rassicot family
Date: Between 1870 and 1899
This photograph shows the A.A. Rassicot family leaving Ransom, Kansas in a covered wagon heading to St. Anne, Illinois.