Posted to KGI Online Library Blog on March 24, 2020 at 9:18 AM by Bill Sowers
A great look at life in Kansas in 1887! The State Library of Kansas' KGI Online Library offers up a digitized copy of a large tome, scanned and edited by our staff with color maps and black/white etchings of buildings, farms and other sites in Kansas over 130 years ago... Enjoy this virtual journey back in time while you're at home during this difficult time...
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Posted to KGI Online Library Blog on June 17, 2019 at 12:29 PM by Bill Sowers
A speech given in 1938 to the 67th meeting of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture on the endurance of the farmer... Available at the State Library of Kansas' KGI Online Library...
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Posted to KGI Online Library Blog on March 22, 2019 at 8:09 AM by Bill Sowers
The October 1958 issue of "The Kansas Future Farmer" featured the American Star Farmer of 1958, Jimmie John Jarnigan of Jetmore, Kansas. Read up on the life of young farmers in Kansas during the 1950s...
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