Overview

This collection contains the daybooks (studio registers) of Junction City, Kansas photographer Joseph Judd Pennell, as well as various artifacts, many engraved, from Pennell's personal possessions. The daybooks from the Pennell studio date from 1896 to 1925. Included in the collection are school essays and drawings by Pennell's son, Joseph Stanley Pennell.

Overview The J.J. Pennell Photograph Collection consists of 30,000 glass plate negatives taken in and around the Junction City, Kansas area between 1891-1923. Although Pennell was a highly successful portrait studio photographer, he also spent time in the community and at the nearby army post of Fort Riley recording social, church and school activities, construction and town growth, events such as floods, parades, polo games, and the routines of artillery and cavalry operations at the fort. The...