Agreement to give aid to the Memphis, Kansas and Colorado Railway Company, with 45 signatures. Parsons, Kansas.

History of the Missouri, Kansas and Colorado Railroad from 1873-1882 when it was a narrow-gauge line from Cherokee to Parsons.

The papers of Parsons, Kansas natives Lee Clifford Smith and his wife Carrie (Lakin) Smith, are comprised chiefly of their student records from Parsons in the 1920s and 1930s, and later from the Kansas State Teachers College of Pittsburg, and the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. The collection's photographs, which are chiefly of Lee Clifford Smith, depict his years as a student athlete and his later coaching career in basketball and football.