Atchison County, Kansas Situated on the Missouri River in northeastern Kansas, Atchison County was created by the first territorial legislature in 1855 and named in honor of David R. Atchison, a United States Senator from Missouri.

9893 Kansas Highway 9, Effingham, KS Home of Wm (Bill) and Mae Stutz. Over 18 million aerial photos documenting the history of rural America spanning five decades.

Scope and content: Eleven photographs of Atchison County, Kansas.

This is an index of all our photos and maps in Atchison County. Click a link to view a scanned roll of film or map. Rolls in gray are not yet scanned, rolls crossed out are missing, and rolls in orange are undeveloped.

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Atchison, KS - Thompson's Restaurant at 117 North 5th Street - 1969 Back to the Top. Dodge City ... (Many of the photos in the 1954 series below are of poor quality. They are 600 pixels wide but grainy/blurry.) Ottawa, KS - Andrew's Mobil Service Station at 301 North Main - 1954

A series of photographs of unidentified residents of Atchison, Kansas. The photographs show the people in staged studio photographs as well as candid and posed shots in their daily lives. Digitization funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

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A series of Atchison Globe photographs of the Atchison Centennial Parade in 1954. The photographs show off the numerous social clubs, institutions, businesses, and famous people of Atchison, Kansas. Digitization funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.