Farm life -- Kansas
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 records:
Anne E. Bingham reminiscences
Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH MS P56
Overview
Reminiscences of life on a farm near Junction City following migration west in 1869. Sixteen years on a Kansas farm, 1870-1886.
Dates:
1869, 1870-1886, 1921
Diaries
Collection
Call Number: RH MS D132
Scope and Contents
These diaries were written by Hudson detailing his activities and those of his family and acquaintances. He consistently notes weather conditions, chores he performs, and other activities of a business and social nature. Hudson's diaries are unusually complete, but he discontinued writing in 1905.
Volumes are handwritten in pencil and ink.
Volumes are handwritten in pencil and ink.
Dates:
1902 - 1904
Henry Messenger photographs
Collection
Call Number: RH PH 526
Overview
This collection contains photographs and postcards from the Messenger family, who were ranchers in the Dodge City, Kansas area. The collection also includes several poems, booklets, and a piece of wood from the Petrified Forest in Arizona. Most of the photographs are undated, and the people in them are unidentified. The photographs are mostly taken in small farmtown settings, probably between 1920 and 1940. The postcards contain a mixture of commercial images and photographic prints. The...
Dates:
between 1910 and 1950
Samuel Emmons Hudson diary
Collection — Volume 1
Call Number: RH MS A36
Overview
This diary, one of four extant, is incomplete. In its entries Hudson notes weather conditions, his daily activities and those of his family. Farming activities and social occasions are consistently detailed.
Dates:
January 1, 1881 - September 17, 1881