On Exhibit

A Fair to Remember: One Hundred Years at the Fair
Through December 2006

Selected photos taken at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson and the Kansas Free Fair in Topeka from 1906 through 2005.

From Our Collections

The Records of the Central Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1813 - 1878 is available on microfilm at the Library in Topeka and through interlibrary loan. The 108 rolls of this microfilm publication also includes some of the records of its predecessor, the St. Louis Superintendency, 1823-50. A few records dated as early as 1813, principally relating to the Osage Indians, are also included. more

Articles

"She Defined How America Ate: Meet Clementine Paddleford"

"Tell me where your grandmother came from and I can tell you how many kinds of pie you serve for Thanksgiving," wrote Clementine Paddleford in How America Eats. Paddleford was known as "America's Number One Food Editor" for her ability to make good cooking read as fine literature. more

"Thanks" But No "Franks"

Kansans have been celebrating Thanksgiving since before there was a Kansas. Perhaps the first one was observed in 1845 at Shawnee Methodist Mission. Eleven years later the governor of Kansas Territory issued the first official Thanksgiving proclamations. And, despite ever-present wartime anxieties in 1861, Edward and Sarah Fitch of Lawrence "had a very good time Thanksgiving." more