This collection consists of stereoviews of Larned, Pawnee County, Kansas and the surrounding countryside. Stereocards are a double set of photographic paper prints mounted on cardstock that is viewed through a stereoscope to produce a three-dimensional image. Once mass-production methods became available, stereocards became widely distributed across the United States by the 1880s.

Frank Gerhardt Henry Meckfessel (1879-1968) was a general practitioner physician who began his career in Claflin (Barton County), Kansas. This collection consists of photocopy and photographic reproductions of papers and photographs from the Meckfessel-Schroeder family.