Collections - Guides & Finding Aids

KSHS archivists processing a collection. These pages give more information about the research collections available in the State Archives. For items cataloged since 1994, please search: .

Guides to Collections
- By name
- By topic
- Architectural & engineering drawings
- Audio-visual materials
- Books and magazines
- Government publications
  - Federal
  - State
    - Kansas Historical Society Publications
- Government records
- Maps
- Newspapers
- Photographs
Online catalogs:
- Archives Catalog - manuscripts and government records
- ATLAS online catalog shared with other Topeka libraries

What is a finding aid?

Descriptions of unpublished collections: diaries, letters, journals, ledgers, scrapbooks, and more.

Manuscripts
Photographs
Government Records
- Federal
- State
- Local
- Archives Catalog

What is a finding aid?
Donate to our collections
Use the box below to search ATLAS for printed items cataloged since 1994.

For the majority of holdings, please contact reference staff.

Kansas Memory

Our online digital archives contains more than 300,000 images of photos, documents, and artifacts, and it's growing daily.