Abilene, Kansas photograph collection
Overview
This collection contains 12 photographs depicting downtown Abilene, Kansas near the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. It includes 6 photographs depicting the City Roller Mills and the fire which destroyed it on July 4, 1901 and a potrait of J.B. Edwards, an early pioneer of the town.
Dates
- Creation: approximately 1879-1901
Conditions Governing Access
No access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
History of Abilene, Kansas
Abilene is a city in and the county seat of Dickinson County, Kansas. Founded in 1858, Abilene became the northern terminus of the Chisholm Trail and a stop for the Kansas Pacific Railroad in the late 1860s and into the 1870s. Abilene is the childhood home of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who is now buried at the Eisenhower Campus where the Eisenhower Presidential Library and the Place of Meditation gravesite are located.
Extent
12 folders
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
RH PH P98
Custodial History
Collection transferred from the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History to the Libraries in 1949. Photographs were received by the museum from H.H. Eicholtz of Abilene.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred from KB H1 561 Ab57a, 1949.
Separated Materials
An illustrated pamphlet of Abilene, Kansas issued by the Abilene Commercial Club in 1915 was also included in the transfer and is located at RH BK122.
Geographic
- Title
- Guide to the Abilene, Kansas Collection
- Subtitle
- Abilene, Kansas photograph collection
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by jss, February 1985. Finding aid encoded by cmp, 2021.
- Date
- 2021-03
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in English.
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/3754266247
- Preferred citation
-
Abilene, Kansas photograph collection, RH PH P98, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository