Overview This collection includes photographs owned by David Beard, a lifelong resident of Topeka, Kansas who worked as a porter at the Jayhawk Hotel in Topeka and later as a dining car employee for the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad. The photographs in black and white show various groups of African Americans from local Topeka organizations, including the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World (IBPOEW), St. John's African Methodist Epsicopal Church, and the Iron...

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The Josephine Brice papers are those of a long time Kansas resident who was active in Topeka organizations, especially St. John A.M.E. Church.

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The Records of St. John A.M.E. Church of Topeka, Kansas are those of an African American church in Topeka that is one of the oldest African Methodist Episcopal churches in Kansas.