Full-text issues from 1890-1906. Part of "Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers" web site developed by Library of Congress and National Endowment for the Humanities. The full run of the Wichita Eagle is available in Microfilm.
Dr. Edward N. Tihen's notes from nearly every issue of Wichita's newspapers dating from 1872 to 1982. Digitized by WSU Libraries' Department of Special Collections.
This website is a great place to start your research. Historical bibliographies exist for a number of topics and can be a life saver for finding the right resources for your project.
For digitized copies of county plat atlases follow these links on KSHS: Research - Research Toolkit - Guides & Finding Aids - Maps - Kansas County Atlases.
The U.S. Geological Survey has done detailed topographical maps of most of the United States. These maps are updated from time to time, and comparing two different maps can illustrate regional change over time. SEARCH FOR WICHITA WEST OR WICHITA EAST TO FIND THE MAPS.
A growing partnership of over 70 libraries and research institutions, primarily university libraries, pooling their resources to create a digital library. The primary goals are long-term preservation of fragile collections, along with methods for making these records more readily accessible while still respecting in-copyright works. While WSU faculty, staff, and students can search across the entire digital library, they have full-text access to only the items in the Public Collections. Terms of Use
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