Kansas Posters, Prints, Photographs, Maps, & Calendars
for educators and home schoolers; themed decor in studio or office.

Meadowlark
Kansas State Bird

The Western Meadowlark, a medium sized passerine or songbird whose permanent habitat is grasslands and prairies, forage on the ground and low vegetation for insects, seeds and berries.

• more birds posters

Sunflower
Kansas State Flower

The term “sunflower” refers to annual or perennial plants native to the Americas, in the genus Helianthus, family Asteraceae.

Sunflowers have a large flowering head, made up of numerous florets packed closely together on stems that can grow to 9 ft (3 meters) tall.

• botany posters
• Sunflowers

Honey Bee, Apis Mellifera
Kansas State Insect

The honey bee is important as a principal pollinator of crops and for producing pleasant-tasting and healthful honey. A social insect, the honey bee lives in highly organized colonies.

• insect posters
• food posters

Cottonwoods
Kansas State Tree

Cottonwoods, native to North America, Europe and western Asia, grow along river banks in the riparian zone (between land and water) thus providing soil conservation in flood prone areas. The wood, though course and strong (used for shipping crates and pallets) has the lowest BTU of any wood.

• trees posters
• Autumn posters

American Bison
Kansas State Animal

The American bison, commonly known as buffalo, is the largest terrestrial mammal in North America. Bison are nomadic grazers and travel in herds.

The American Bison species close to extinction due to commercial hunting. The current population is estimated at 350,000 compared to an estimated 60 to 100 million in the mid-19th century.

• animal posters
• Eadweard Muybridge photographs

Wheat, a cultivated grass originally from the Levant area of the Middle East (southwest Asia), is the most widley grown crop in Kansas. Watch wheat grow.

• more grain (food) posters

Native American Cultures -
The Plains

• more Native American Cultures posters

The Buffalo Soldiers
Black History Biographical Timeline Fine Art Poster

The Plains Indians nicknamed the black cavalrymen Buffalo Soldiers - a title the troopers proudly accepted. To be associated with the fighting spirit of the Indian's sacred buffalo was a measure of respect.
The Buffalo Soldiers consistently received some of the worst assignments the Army had to offer and repeatedly faced fierce prejudice. Despite this, the 9th and 10th Cavalries fought with great dedication and courage and developed into two of the most effective and distinguished fighting units in the Army.

• more Black History Military posters
• more Black History Pioneers Biographical Timeline posters

Aerial view of the Boeing factory in Wichita, Kansas

The Boeing plant is a major facility for commercial aviation manufacture.

• aviation posters

An estimated 5,000,000 head of Texas cattle traveled the Chisholm Trail across the Red River and Oklahoma to the railheads of the Kansas Pacific Railway between 1867-1871.

The trail was named for Jesse Chisholm, an early trader in Texas, Oklahoma Indian Territory and in the area of Wichita, Kansas. Chisholm, who died in 1868, never drove cattle.

• more horse posters

Eisenhower House,
Abilene, Kansas

Dwight Eisenhower grew up in Abilene, Kansas in “a simple clapboard home which [he] would later remark had less floor space than his office at the Pentagon”.

• Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower print
• WWII posters
• Birthplace, Denison, TX
• Eisenhower Library Abilene

William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody
b. 2-26-1846; LeClaire, Iowa
d. 1-10-1917; Colorado

The showman William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody lived in Leavenworth, Kansas as a young child. One of the reasons his family moved to Kansas was because his father believe Kansas should be a Free State. After his father's death due to stab wounds from a pro-slavery supporter, 11 year old William went to work becoming an Army scout, hunter, fur trapper, gold prospector, Pony Express rider, and Union soldier in the Civil War, at various times. Cody earned his nickname because of his ability to plentifully supply the Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with bison meat.

Cody's “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West” was a show that presented Native Americans and real working people of the fast disappearing Old West. Cody, one of the founders of Cody, WY, was also noted for his conservation efforts and speaking out in favor of women voting.

• more Buffalo Bill at barewalls.com

Carrie A. Nation
b. 11-25-1846; Kentucky
d. 6-9-1911; Kansas

Carrie Nation, née Moore, a leader in the temperance movement, starting a chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in Medicine Lodge, Kansas. She was known for smashing the stock of saloons with rocks and finally a hatchet. She is buried in Belton, Missouri.

• more notable women activists

Route 66, The Mother Road

Kansas had the shortest section of Route 66, just 12.8 miles in the far southeastern corner, from Missouri to Oklahoma.

The film musical, The Wizard of Oz, was based on the L. Frank Baum's fantasy children's book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The story of is of young Dorothy Gale who is swept up with her Kansas farmhouse and little dog Toto, by a tornado and dropped into Munchkin Land, right on top of the Wicked Witch of the East. The story, illustrated by W.W. Denslow, was published in 1900, the first in a series of thirteen books. Baum adapted the book for the stage and it was also made into a very popular film musical starring Judy Garland as Dorothy.