This panoramic view shows the west side of the 600 and 700 blocks of South Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas. Businesses visible in the photograph are: Palace Clothing Company, Central National Bank, F. W. Woolworth Company 5-10 and 15 Cent Store, Hall…
Current National Historic site. In 1877, over 300 African American's from Kentucky, relocated to western Kansas and established the town of Nicodemus. The Nicodemus National Historic Site remains the the oldest and only remaining Black settlement…
During the Topeka Outpouring, Agnes Ozman, a student at Bethel Bible College, according to her account of the events could only speak what was assumed to be Chinese for three days. When asked to communicate through writing she was only able to write…
Aimee Semple McPherson in front of a dedication plaque installed in a column at the newly opened Angelus Temple in 1923. The main inscription on the plaque reads "Dedicated onto the cause of INTER-DENOMINATIONAL and World Wide EVANGELISM." Aimee…
A page from The Alliance Songster. Currently, the collection is incomplete but holds 45 populist political songs advocating a change from the status quo and promoting the ideas of the Populist or People's Party.
This is a photograph showing the house where Charles Fox Parham held his Bible school in Houston, Texas. Parham was the central figure in the development of the Pentecostal faith. He moved to Kansas with his family as a child. As an adult, his…