Photo Gallery

 

1910 postcard, author’s collection.

Kansas Conference Luther League at Hebron Lutheran Church Burdick September 16-19, 1915. (Courtesy of Marvin Peterson.)

Fort Riley soldiers bivouacked near Skiddy July 25, 1911. (Courtesy of Dolly Anderson.)

Cutting ice on the Neosho River near Parkerville circa 1900. (Courtesy of Bob Strom.)

Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad bridge at Skiddy. (Courtesy of Dolly Anderson.)

Main Street Dunlap. (Courtesy of Morris County Historical Society.)

East Fifth Street Wilsey. (Courtesy of Morris County Historical Society.)

Main Street Burdick. (Courtesy of Marvin Peterson.)

Delavan looking east from the grain elevator circa 1915. (Courtesy of Warren Dix.)

North side of 200 block West Main Street Council Grove during the 1929 flood. (Courtesy of Morris County Historical Society.)

Train time Diamond Springs circa 1915. Leo F. Clark is standing in front of the depot. (Courtesy of Martha Senne.)

West Main Street Dwight circa 1914. (Courtesy of Morris County Historical Society.)

Road work on Main Street in Kelso. (Courtesy of Morris County Historical Society.)

Latimer creamery built in 1911. (Courtesy of Morris County Historical Society.)

James Oscar Rochat’s flour mill at Helmick. (Courtesy of Morris County Historical Society.)

Fleta post office four miles south of Wilsey. In operation from March 16, 1883 to December 15, 1887. (Courtesy of Morris County Historical Society.)

Store at Biglin in northeastern Morris County. (Courtesy of Morris County Historical Society.)

Burdick Cow Boy Band circa 1915. (Courtesy of Marvin Peterson.)

Group of Kaw on the reservation at Morris County. The Kaw were located here from 1848 to 1873. (Courtesy of Morris County Historical Society.)

Home of Henry Kingman, founder of Delavan. (Courtesy of Joyce Roever.)

Souvenir from Kelso High School. (Courtesy of Carole Day.)

Alex R. Gibb & Co. in Diamond Springs circa 1910. (Courtesy of Martha Senne.)

Katy depot at Council Grove. (Courtesy of Sharon Haun.)

Marion Hill Lutheran Church seven and a half miles west of Dwight, built in 1879. (Courtesy of White City Library.)

Home of Henry Miller at Skiddy built in 1871, seen here in 1913. (Courtesy of Carol Miller.)

Mark Coffin, Charlie Horton, George S. Riegel, John Vining and Robert Oneyers sharing in some tomfoolery in Wilsey, May 1892. (Courtesy of Elm Creek Township Library.)

Missouri Pacific depot at Council Grove. (Courtesy of Morris County Historical Society.)

Real cowboys at Burdick. (Courtesy of Marvin Peterson.)

Frank Phillips, Mollie Harris, Charlie Harris and Ruth Phillips pictured in front of Harris’ general store at Diamond Springs. (Courtesy of Morris County Historical Society.)

The Dick Scott farm north of Delavan. (Courtesy of Donna Anderson.)

Street scene in Wilsey. (Courtesy of Morris County Historical Society.)

Corner of Main and First Street (now Neosho Street) Council Grove, taken October 4th 1873. (Courtesy of Morris County Historical Society.)

First automobile/train wreck at Diamond Springs. (Courtesy of Martha Senne.)

Casualties of the first wreck at Diamond Springs. (Courtesy of Martha Senne.)

North side Main Street, White City. (Courtesy of White City Library.)

Miranda ‘Rand’ Burton’s house west of Parkerville. (Courtesy of Morris County Historical Society.)

Francis and Riegel general store in Wilsey. (Courtesy of Morris County Historical Society.)

Depot at Latimer. (Courtesy of White City Library.)

Wilsey post office. (Courtesy of Morris County Historical Society.)

Missouri, Kansas and Texas depot at White City. (Courtesy of Americus Township Library.)

White City. (Courtesy of Americus Township Library.)

Wolf or jackrabbit hunt believed to be in southwestern Morris County, possibly around Burdick. (Courtesy of Marvin Peterson.)

Unidentified photo from Marvin Peterson’s Burdick collection. ‘Kansas 1913’ appears on the cart.

Sunny Side grade school at Skiddy. (Courtesy of Dolly Anderson.)

Unidentified doctor’s office in Dunlap. (Courtesy Joan Lee.)

Another view of doctor’s office in Dunlap. (Courtesy Joan Lee.)

Judge Nicholson in his office at Council Grove. (Courtesy Morris County Historical Society.)

Minnie Klapp Harvey in the Leech Drug Store, Council Grove. (Courtesy of Morris County Historical Society.)