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Box 1

 Container
Call Number: RH PH 568

Contains 9 Results:

1st H.S. [High School] Class, Wilson, 1890

 Item — Box: 1, item: 1
Scope and Contents The 4 ¾ x 3 ¼ inch glass plate image depicts four young men in suits, two standing and two sitting in wooden chairs. Pulled from an envelope marked, "1st H.S. Class, Wilson 1890; Greenhalgh-Keller Grover- Tobias; First copied for use in 1921 WHS [Wilson High School?] annual Julia Simm class 3-15-21; Next used in 1954 WHS annual Johns class 1-14-54." It is unclear who is who, but the class of 1890 of Wilson High School in Wilson, Kansas included John Rothwell Greenhalgh, Oscar...
Dates: 1890

Joseph Woydziak, 82 ½ years, born Feb 14, 1850, Germany, May 10, 1932

 Item — Box: 1, item: 8-9
Scope and Contents

These two 8x10 inch images show Woydziak seated, wearing a suit coat and vest, with sparse hair on his head and a long beard. Item 8 includes more of his torso in the frame.

Dates: May 10, 1932

Charley Fisher a good workman

 Item — Box: 1, item: 2
Scope and Contents

The 4 ¾ x 3 ¼ inch image is a headshot of a young man in a suit coat.

Group at Latshaws, February 1917

 Item — Box: 1, item: 3
Scope and Contents

The 5x7 inch image shows 30 or more people of all ages wearing suits, dresses, and hats posing in a room in three rows, standing, sitting and kneeling on the rug with toddlers in laps.

Dates: February 1917

Lawrence water works by Irvin Humphrey, 1910

 Item — Box: 1, item: 4
Scope and Contents

Cracked and deteriorated 5x7 plate shows a stone building with rounded windows and a smoke or steam stack surrounded by trees with a dog in the foreground. Written on the plate is “[$] 39 WATER WORKS PLANT LAWRENCE, KANS.”

Dates: 1910

Operetta- Miss Riester, January 27, 1921

 Item — Box: 1, item: 5
Scope and Contents

Two deteriorating 5x7 inch plates depicting people standing on a stage. One shows the piano, stairs and people surrounding the stage, and one shows only the stage and 30 or more people, some children, standing in rows for the picture.

Dates: January 27, 1921

Snow on Trees at Grandma Humphrey’s, January 26, 1932

 Item — Box: 1, item: 6
Scope and Contents

The 8x10 plate shows round clumps of snow hanging on the twigs of a large bush and the branches of an evergreen tree.

In addition to the title and date, the envelope from which this plate was pulled read, "11 A.M. Bright sun Trees only 722 Exp 1/10 sec Filter and Hamner Extra Special Plate.”

Dates: January 26, 1932

Snow on Trees at Grandma Humphrey’s (Showing home), January 26, 1932

 Item — Box: 1, item: 7
Scope and Contents

In this 8x10 inch image, the porch railing and front door of a house can be seen behind two large evergreen trees and a deciduous tree with snow on the branches.

In addition to the title and date, the envelope from which this plate was pulled read, "11 A.M. (Showing home) 722 Exp 1/10 sec Filter and Hamner Extra Special Plate.”

Dates: January 26, 1932

Joseph Woydziak, 82 ½ years, born Feb 14, 1850 Germany (flexible negatives), May 10, 1932

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Two 4¾x3¼ inch flexible negatives and one 5x7 inch flexible negative showing two slightly different portraits of Joseph Woydziak in the smaller negatives. Both images show Woydziak seated wearing a suit coat and vest, with sparse hair on his head and a long beard.

Dates: May 10, 1932