The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

  "Log Cabin, Kansas." Photo of a family posing in front of an expanded log cabin house somewhere in Kansas Territory, c. 1859. Ta...

Photo of a ferry boat with a settler family's covered wagon on it crossing the Big Blue River in Kansas, 1859. Taken by photographers Ch...

Animated stereoview portrait of a group posing in front of a sod house somewhere in Kansas, c. 1800's. By Conklin and Kleckner. Sou...

People posing with a stagecoach in front of a row of businesses in the Eldridge House in Lawrence, Kansas, 1867. By Alexander Gardner. ...

A group posing in front of a drover's cottage at MacCoy's Stock Yard in Abilene, Kansas, 1867. By Alexander Gardner. Source.

American artillerymen and infantrymen posing at Fort Harker in Kanopolis, Kansas, 1867. By Alexander Gardner. Source.

A group of men posing in front of a public school under construction in Leavenworth, Kansas, 1867. By Alexander Gardner. Source.

View of traffic on Turnpike Bridge in Lawrence, Kansas, 1867. The darkroom used to develop this photograph is possibly visible on the bac...

View of a busy Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, Kansas, c. 1867. By Alexander Gardner. Source.

  President-elect Abraham Lincoln raising a flag at Independence Hall in honor of the admission of Kansas into the Unio...