Winfield Digital Collections

Winfield, Kansas

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Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Evelyn shared her memories of when she began working as a social worker in 1936 during the Depression Era. The upper floor of the courthouse had a…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Florence shared memories of her high school years and her normal training to become a teacher. In this training, she learned how to teach in country…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
George Bloomshine shares memories dating back to 1884 of living on a farm in the Winfield area. He also recalls attending the Cowley County Fair.
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Georgia shared the story of her father coming to Cowley County by covered wagon in 1869. At that time the city of Winfield had not be established and…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Gertrude Hankins shares the history of when her family came to Cowley County in 1871 from Ray County in Missouri. They first settled near Grouse…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Hallie shares the memories of her father-in-law coming to New Salem, KS from IA during the 1870s. His homestead there was where he lived the rest of…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Hobart shared his memories of the musicians that came to Winfield. In 1907, Frank Mossman, president of Southwestern College, asked his father to…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Ida shared her memories of growing up in the Tisdale area during the early 1900s. Her grandparents come from Kentucky in the early 1870s and settled…
Chautauqua Assembly in Winfield, Kansas
Map based on sketch by H. S. Wortman and photographs of Island Park
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
John Baird described the building of Byrant School which is now the Cowley County Historical Society Museum and other construction around Winfield,…