This collection contains 12 photographs depicting downtown Abilene, Kansas near the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. It includes 6 photographs depicting the City Roller Mills and the fire which destroyed it on July 4, 1901 and a potrait of J.B. Edwards, an early pioneer of the town.

Photographic postcards of Abilene, Kansas, with scenes of buildings, businesses, houses, street scenes, and school groups.

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.