Advertising

Scope and Contents

This collection contains one copy of the Dodge City Pictorial Magazine from 1957, which contains articles about farming wheat, sugar beets, and sorghum, as well as cattle ranching. There are also a number of other articles about the region, and advertisements for various businesses, most of which were located in Dodge City.

Scope and Contents The majority of the items in this collection relate to Hamilton “Ham” Bell, documenting various elements of his life, such as his Elephant Livery Stable, his role as Ford County Sheriff, and his automobile company and ambulance service. Many items also relate to the later years of his life in the 1930s and 1940s, documenting Kansas Pioneer Picnic events, The Last Round Up and other events honoring and commemorating Bell’s life and work in Dodge City. As a collection largely assembled by...

Scope and Contents

This collection contains an advertisement for a stove sold at the Langton and Sherlock Co. in Dodge City, Kansas in 1885.