History · Kansas
Kansas’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Kansas. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
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The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗A post office called Kansas has been in operation since 1855. The town was named after the Kansas Territory.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Kansas’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewStrong's dime caricatures. No. 2,…, 1861: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10By decade
Kansas, decade by decade
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Strong's dime caricatures. No. 2, Little Bo-Peep and her foolish sheep (1861) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.