Happy 150th to Kansas! Neat pictures

[proud2BlibKansan]

This is a photo of an unidentified family standing in front of their sod house near Norcatur, Decatur County, Kansas. There is a windmill in view which was used to get water from the ground. Date: Between 1880 and 1889





Image showing assistant sergeant at arms in the Kansas State House of Representatives in Topeka, Kansas, after peace was made between the Populists and Republicans at the conclusion of the Populist War. February 20, 1893





Original photograph of the "Dodge City Peace Commission" in June 1883. Front (l-r), Chas. E. Bassett, Wyatt S. Earp, Frank McLain, and Neil Brown. Back (l-r), W. H. Harris, Luke Short, W. B. Bat Masterson, and W. F. Petillon.





Artist Henry Worrall drew this illustration of "Drouthy Kansas," which portrayed Kansas as a place where men climbed ladders and used hatchets to cut the ears off corn. This illustration, which first appeared in the November 1869 issue of Kansas Farmer, was published throughout the world and in handbooks to attract settlers to Kansas.





A prototype of a Dymaxion House designed by Richard Buckminster Fuller. The word Dymaxion means DY (dynamic), MAX (maximum), and ION (tension). The house, constructed in Rose Hill, KS, was made of aluminum and used tension suspension from a central column or mast. This model was one of only two prototypes ever produced. Fuller hoped to convert the Beech aircraft factory in Wichta to produce these houses to give returning veterans jobs and to help resolve the shortage of homes following World War II. In 1991 the William Graham family donated it to the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. Date: Between 1948 and 1958





Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kansas, spoke to about 500 farmers in a hangar at Topeka's Forbes Field on Saturday, Dec. 9, 1977, after many of the farmers completed tractor caravans from points in Kansas to Topeka. Sen. Dole's speech was interrupted several times.





An aerial view of Greensburg, Kan., taken on Saturday, May 5, 2007, after a tornado blew through on Friday night.





This illustration was designed for Kansas Day on Jan. 29, 1912 as part of a publicity campaign. Coy Avon Seward, was a native Kansan, known across the nation. He was raised in Chase but moved to Wichita to develop a career as an artist. He would later become one of 11 founders of Birger Sandzen's Prairie Print Makers, which during the 1930s produced some of the nation's finest art prints. In 1912, the illustration was mass produced as a postcard encouraging people to come to Kansas. Special Collections and University Archives, Wichita State University Libraries http://specialcollections.wichita.edu





Original Pizza Hut building
Pizza Hut was founded by brothers in Wichita in 1958.





The Dalton Gang crime spree came to an end in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1892.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/01/28/2616795/kansas-celebrates-150-years.html#ixzz1CR18qvtS

[slackmaster]

1. Endorsed. I haven't lived in Kansas since 1962 but still have deep roots there.

:kick:

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Politically it sucks. But it's still not a bad place to live.

Great people and very interesting history.

[slackmaster]

3. The thing I dislike most about the environment there is the entrenched racism

My relatives there are all highly educated, intelligent and mostly reasonable people. But every time I have extended contact with some of them, eventually they'll say something to the effect that black people fundamentally think and behave differently than white people, and that the differences are based on biology rather than culture.

My now-deceased uncle would always carry a handgun when we went walking around town. If he saw a black man, he became tense and would try to make sure we were on the other side of the street when we passed him. This was the case no matter what the black man looked like. It could be a young college student wearing a KU T-shirt, and my uncle would act that way every time.

One of my cousins used to go into a rant, when she had three children in public school, about how the Brown v. Board of Education decision was originally about a family wanting for their child to go to the school closest to her home, which is factually indisputable. But she would continue into a tirade against forced busing and mandated integration.

I couldn't really argue with her about it, but it seemed to me that she was taking a narrow view of the situation.

I know that racism is not rare in this country, but it always seems out of character coming from people so close to me.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Kansas was settled by many looking to escape that crap

I honestly think racism is worse in other states but there is still too much of it in Kansas.

[pipoman]

8. One of the great stories of Kansas

is the story of the settlement of Nicodemus Kansas

http://www.nicodemuskansas.org/

Also the story of the "Buffalo Soldiers" of Ft. Riley.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Riley

[Scruffy1]

41. Proud to be a native Kansan

I think that the racism has been put there more recently. My father grew up in Kansas in the twenties and thirties and went to an integrated school and detested racism. I attended K-State in the 60's and never saw any racism there-but then we only had a small number of minorities. My best friend and bridge partner was black and he was a BMOC. The Republican party has a lot to do with the growth of racism through the eighties and nineties in my opinion.

[DURHAM D]

9. I just can't let this stand.

I am over 65 years old and a native Kansas - 6th generation. My roots are in the farming communities in the middle of the state - Reno, Barton and Rice counties. To this day I have never once heard anyone in my extended family or anyone in my small town express racial bias. They are worried about the weather, grain production and prices - not skin color.
Perhaps the fact they are not "highly educated" but made/make their living through hard physical labor is the difference.

[pipoman]

14. I think Kansas is unique

in there are still communities which identify with the old south and Dixie and others which identify with Yankee philosophy. I lived in the Barton, Pawnee, Rice, Stafford Co. area and didn't see any of the Dixie Kansans until I spent some time in the southeast part of the state.

[blondeatlast]

15. Interesting--my gramma and grampa were tenant famers in central Kansas--

uneducated and pretty damn poor but somehow managed to send my dad and his brothers and one sister to college (GI Bill helped a LOT).

With the exception of my dad and my aunt, all are/were racist--and yet they worked alongside blacks with no problem. their rhetoric was racist, their actions weren't. :shrug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. I don't hear it much here in Johnson County either

But when I volunteered at the phone banks in 2008 and we were calling all over Kansas, I was stunned by the racism. It was not infrequent. Really blew me away.

[slackmaster]

29. I'm not saying everyone in Kansas is racist

If you don't like my first-person observation, too bad.

There is palpable racial tension in Topeka. I've seen it and felt it.

[pipoman]

10. The battles for free state vs. slave state at the Civil war

created sharply divided population.

The story of John Brown is a great one..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_%28abolitionist%29

[blondeatlast]

12. My strongly yellow dog Dem relatives are much the same way. Most are

very well-educated but with the exception of my now deceased dad and aunt, they were all pretty racist and used the "n" word with no restraint.

[blondeatlast]

11. Agreed--Arizona is the same way. As you know, I'm from Winfield--I'm homesick now! nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. OH i love Winfield!

Do you ever come home for the bluegrass festival?

[blondeatlast]

23. No, but I'd love to sometime. Even though I was very young when we left there,

I spent lots of time with my grands there and it always feels like I'm coming home. Last time I was there downtown was still thriving. I hope it still is.

Maybe this summer--I've no relatives left there but I'd love for my son to see it!

Edit: Ugh--I just checked and of course, they have a Wal-Mart. :cry:

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. I married a Kansas musician and have never been to Winfield

We keep saying we are going to go one year but the timing really sucks for a teacher. Maybe when I retire.

[Blue_Tires]

5. kick

<<<<<< KU grad!

[pipoman]

6. The original glass negative of that Dalton Gang pic surfaced

around 20 years ago at an estate sale in McPherson KS. I was the under bidder at $50....I didn't know it was in there until after the box sold..

One of my favorite Kansas attractions...




The Garden of Eden Mausoleum Lucas, Kansas
Sam Dinsmoor encased his first wife in concrete upon her death in 1917 and placed her in the mausoleum. In 1924 at age 81 Dinsmoor remarried 20 year old Emilie who he fathered 2 children with. Upon his death in 1932 Dinsmoor wished to be placed on top of the encasement containing his first wife behind glass. To this day if you pay for the tour you may view Dinsmoor's body inside the Mausoleum.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. How cool!

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. The Garden of Eden is such a treasure

I haven't been out there for a couple years. It's time for a road trip!

[cynatnite]

13. I lived in Woodward, OK when the tractor caravans were going on...

I stood out in the front yard of our house and watched them go by. I didn't fully understand it. I was only 12 at the time.

[DURHAM D]

16. Great pics - thanks for posting.

The windmill pic reminded me of the fact that about 10 years ago someone came to our family's farm during the day while no one was at home and stole the head off the windmill. Its a pretty common theft and not easy to do.

[pipoman]

30. I have a windmill 20 feet from my front door.

I have 2 or 3 people stop by per year trying to buy it..

[kaiden]

17. Born and raised in Southeast, Kansas. Independence, in fact.

At the turn of the century, Independence had the largest income per capita in the world -- 80% of the population were millionaires due to the ownership of oil and gas wells. The Republicans there didn't want factories in the town and with them the requisite blue collar workers until the 1970s. I found living there a little like being trapped in Stephen King's CHILDREN OF THE CORN. Some of the notable citizens of Independence are: Alf Landon, Laura Ingalls Wilder, William Inge and Bill Kurtis. Oh, and me, of course.

hahahahahahahaha

[proud2BlibKansan]

26. We had good friends who lived in Independence for about 10 years

so we spent quite a few long weekends there. Neeowollah was fun when our kids were little.

[kaiden]

38. hahahahaha. I was a Queen Neelah candidate in 1969.

[SoCalDem]

18. 50 years ago I wore a very uncomfortable "prairie dress & bonnet"

and rode in a covered wagon for the Centennial Parade in Salina.. The parade must have been in the spring though because I wore no coat. My aunt & uncle were quasi big-shots in town & they pulled strings to have me and my brother in the parade..of course, we were not happy with the costumes we had to wear:)

[blondeatlast]

20. My sisters were in the Cowley County one; family is from Winfield.

I wasn't quite born yet!

[proud2BlibKansan]

24. I remember being in a parade here in Prairie Village that day

but I don't remember if it was warm.

The centennial was a huge deal, though. One of my stronger childhood memories.

[Octafish]

27. Happy Birthday, Kansas!

Got a nephew who's a Wildcat. He loves the place...Great people, too!

[NV Whino]

28. I was born there

and am very happy to be from there rather than there.

[pipoman]

31. Very diplomatic...

"am very happy to be from there rather than there." :rofl:

[aka-chmeee]

32. And now, with the coronation of Sam Brownback,

We get to return to 1861.

[proud2BlibKansan]

40. Ain't that the truth

[Starry Messenger]

33. k&r

Wow, great history. Thank you!

[demigoddess]

34. I went to school in Kansas 50 years ago, and they had damn

good schools back then. we moved to another state and I was two years ahead of that school. Back then the people of Kansas were not religious crazy or right wing. i remember as president, Eisenhower driving down the middle of the town in one car, no big entourage like today.

[pipoman]

35. No history of Kansas would be complete without the story of

Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence

http://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-historical-quarterly-quantrill-s-raid-on-lawrence/13185

[proud2BlibKansan]

36. Very true.

Strange story.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

37. I went 1st thru 3rd

grade in South Haven
Happy B'day KS:party:

[nadinbrzezinski]

39. That Dalton photo, we no longer do this

reminds of this, even if these guys are still alive.

[handmade34]

42. Happy Birthday!

just pulled into Hiawatha, Kansas (traveling from Colorado) a few minutes ago... pics along the way (pony express station!!)



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