K-State Libraries' digital collections enables the preservation of important historical documents while still providing access to the wealth of knowledge they hold. These valuable resources range from books and primary records to photographs and other visual aids and are available below.
Important note:K-State Libraries’ digital collections may include images and text reflecting various forms of oppression, including but not limited to offensive language or negative stereotypes. Instances of bigotry reflect the attitudes, perspectives and beliefs of those that created and participated in them and should be considered records of the era in which they were produced.
The collection period includes the modern day as born digital resources are collected regularly. They are presented here without censorship as evidence of past activities.
Consumer Movement Archives
The Consumer Movement Archives preserves and documents the history of the consumer movement in the United States. It provides a repository for the papers and records of consumer leaders, activists and organizations, and it promotes scholarly use of the material.
The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) newsletter disseminates information on consumer issues. Titled News from CFA (1971-1972), CFA Consumer News and Comment (1972-1974) and CFAnews (1974-present).
This collection includes websites of consumer movement organizations, research, and projects. They are complementary to the Consumer Movement collection within the Morse Department of Archives and Special Collections.
Cookery
The Cookery Collection is a comprehensive collection dating from 1487 to the present. In addition to print materials, such as cookbooks, household management guides, etiquette manuals, and dietetics/nutrition books, the collection holds the personal papers of several nationally, and regionally-prominent food writers, journalists, and educators.
Originally titled Practical Cookery and the Etiquette and Service of the Table, this book was a standard textbook at K-State for over 50 years and remains a treasured cookbook among those who used it.
These web archives preserve the blogs of food/drink enthusiasts, historians, and critics.
K-State History
The K-State History collections document the history of the university through photos, newsletters, and yearbooks. These collections also reflect the university's land grant mission through an emphasis on agriculture and human ecology.
Currently titled Royal Purple, the Kansas State University yearbook has been known by a variety of names including The Bell Clapper and Sunrise. This collection contains yearbooks from 1891 to 2009.
The Kansas 4-H Journal services over 9,000 families in 105 counties. K-State Libraries has digitized 31 volumes from 1957 to 1988 to make them accessible to a large audience.
The Ag Student magazine was a Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University) publication that was written and edited by students interested in agricultural journalism. It ran from 1921 to circa 1970.
The Jayhawker newsletter was an alumni publication at Kansas State University that started August 1, 1902. It was published semi-quarterly and continued until 1907 when the name changed to The Alumnus which continued until circa 1910.
The first newspaper published at Kansas State University, in later years the Kansas Industrialist focused on content for alumni. This newspaper was published from 1875 to 1955.
Newsletter that “presented views on minority life, cultures, languages, and history.” Published by Kansas State University’s Farrell Library Minorities Resource and Research Center 1975-1986.
Who's Whoot is a yearbook that was published annually between 1927 and 1957 by the Collegiate 4-H Club of Kansas State College that focused on the club's work, achievements, activities, members, and organization.
This volume includes names and donation information related to Goodnow’s fundraising efforts for Bluemont Central College, the prededessor of K-State. Donors of note include Jared Sparks, president of Harvard University from 1849-1853, and author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Vol. 2, 1860: This volume was donated by Isaac Goodnow’s neice, Harriet A. Parkerson. It includes names and donation information related to Goodnow’s fundraising efforts for Bluemont Central College. He was part of the New England Emigrant Aid Society and often traveled to Massachusetts and elsewhere in the northeast United States to encourage donations
The Kansas State University web archives contains online resources and content of official university web pages, recognized student campus organizations and unofficial student groups, academic departments, administrative units, former and current faculty and staff, alumni, and events.
K-State Faculty Research Collections
K-State researchers past and present are expanding knowledge in agriculture, biodiversity and other fields. Exceptional research collections, theses and dissertations are available through the Libraries.
The Agricultural Dust Explosions collection is a donated research collection of reports and images from Dr. Robert W. Schoeff, who devoted over 30 years of his career at Kansas State University’s Department of Grain Science and Industry to the study and prevention of agricultural dust explosions.
This collection was created by Dr. Larry Claflin, a plant pathologist at K-State from 1975 to 2006 and an expert in grain sorghum diseases. Over his career Dr. Claflin traveled widely in Africa, Asia and North America, studying and recording the diseases of various crop.
Kansas History
This collection documents the history and research created by organizations and citizens of Kansas.
Personal diary of Manhattan, Kan. resident Sam Kimble, covering the period May-December 1894. Intermittent entries describe weather, crops and livestock, town life, local politics, and household affairs.
Personal diary of Manhattan, Kan. resident Cora L. "Toots" Kimble, covering the period Jan. 30-Dec. 4, 1881. Intermittent entries describe the weather, household affairs and Kimble's extended convalescence following the death of her child.
The Kansas 4-H Journal services over 9,000 families in 105 counties. K-State Libraries has digitized 31 volumes from 1957 to 1988 to make them accessible to a large audience.
Since 1954, Grass and Grain has been the meeting place for farmers, ranchers, stockmen and all in agribusiness. Grass and Grain is the established media of rural Kansas and adjoining states. Information about current Grass and Grain issues can be found at theGrass and Grain website.
The Ag Student magazine was a Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University) publication that was written and edited by students interested in agricultural journalism. It ran from 1921 to circa 1970.
Kansas Farmer was created in 1863 by the Kansas State Board of Agriculture. Soon after, the publication moved into public hands and developed into a weekly state farm magazine. This collection of Kansas Farmer magazines spans from 1863 to 1954.
Kansas Union Farmer was a weekly publication of the Kansas branch of the Farmers Educational and Co-Operative Union. This publication offers a window into farm politics and life in the 1920s through 1940s.
Who's Whoot is a yearbook that was published annually between 1927 and 1957 by the Collegiate 4-H Club of Kansas State College that focused on the club's work, achievements, activities, members, and organization.
The Kansas Aerial Photography Initiative (KAPI) is unavailable at this time. The collection includes over 65,000 Kansas aerial photographs created by the U.S. Department of Agriculture between 1950 and 1970.
K-State Partner Collections
K-State Libraries actively partner with local and national organizations to create high-quality online collections.
Kansas Rangelands is part of collaborative effort among Western Land Grant Universities to create an electronic network for seamless access to distributed sources of rangeland information. This web site is maintained by the Kansas Rangelands Project Team, composed of librarians and rangeland experts at Kansas State University.
Over 7,827 identification photos for 984 speciesof forbs, grasses, sedges, rushes, trees, and other woody plants found growing in Kansas. Photos by Mike Haddock.
