Kenneth Spencer Research Library Archival Collections

This collection contains a DVD and scanned copies of glass plate negative images of building sites, as well as views of construction of pipelines and a dam structure in Topeka, Kansas.

Five sets of souvenir postcards in small booklets. There are three from Kansas, one of views of the State Capitol Building in Lincoln, Nebraska, and one from Tulsa, Oklahoma ("the oil capital of the world"). Two of the Kansas postcard sets focus on Topeka, and the other displays a variety of views from around the state.

H.D. Hart was a resident of Lawrence and worked as a printer for the Topeka Daily Capitol. Photography was his avocation. The photographs include a variety of subjects in and around Lawrence, Topeka, and Abilene, Kansas. All of the photographs are black and white unless otherwise noted.

This collection contains views of the 1951 Kansas River flood in Lawrence and Topeka, Kansas.

William Culver (1853-1919) was an amateur photographer who settled in Topeka, Kansas, where he opened a hardware store, Culver and Bailey, in 1886. This collection contains correspondence, architectural drawings, photographs, letters, photography paper, maps, and other materials related to Culver's personal and professional interests.

This collection contains two renderings created by architect W.M. Boedefeld, one of a bank and another of a building on Washburn University's campus in Topeka, Kansas.