42/150: Four Topeka Trade Cards, advertisements for area businesses.

Sherry Best, Gallery Director, discusses texture with Gallery volunteer, Tim Elmer

19/150: Seal of the State of Kansas, Gift of the Sabatini Family. Ad astra per aspera is the state motto (to the stars through difficulty). The Territorial seal used the motto populi voce – “by the voice of the people” as the motto.

42/150: Four Topeka Trade Cards, advertisements for area businesses.

49/150: WIBW Radio booklet with information on radio performers. The programs include radio schedules, 1946. The Topeka Room has the whole series.

gallery entrance from rotunda

Visitors explored the exhibitions at the Nasher Museum through hands-on crafts. Photos by J Caldwell

35/150: Kansas Power and Light Service sign, Gift of Douglass Wallace

permanent collection — High Museum of Art

An attentive audience listens to Zan Popp about how paperweights are made and what millefiori means.

Patricia Nobo

Topeka KS

Night Waiting (2003)

Etching

Mulvane-Mountain Plains Art Fair purchase

2004.24

Yuji Hiratsuka

Osaka, Japan / New Mexico / Indiana

New Birth (2007)

Intaglio, chine collé

Friends of the Library Purchase Award

Printed Image II Competition

2008.24

Garlinghouse Company calendars on display.

The Topeka Room has a large collection of Garlinghouse material. To find out more about this collection call 785-580-4510 or visit the Topeka Room on the 2nd floor of the library.

Installation view

Volunteer orientation commences / view from Library rotunda

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12/150: Reproduction of United States Civil War discharge document, 1902.

from the permanent collection — High Museum of Art

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41/150: Garlinghouse home catalog. The Garlinghouse company designed and built homes all over the country.

Installation view with Teachers by Walter Hatke.

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30/150: Albert T. Reid, Untitled, 1901, ink on paper 81.23

in the permanent collection at the Getty Center

video and exhibit devoted to the Futurama world fair 60's at the Museum of the City of New York

at the de Young Museum, San Francisco

50/150: WIBW Radio album

Debbie and Delmo Tarsitano

Italy / New York NY

untitled paperweight (20th c)

Glass

2007.3

A father and daughter, Debbie and Delmo rarely worked together on the same weight. This shows off both of their talents.

–Sherry Best

Live personal soundtrack at the permanent collection at the Hammer Museum, 11.11.2010.

Machine Project / Hammer A.I.R.

Photo by Marianne Williams.

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111/150: Mary Huntoon, Kansas State Legislature in Chamber, 1930s, oil on canvas, Gift of Mr. Al Cambell

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23/150: Topeka Jail Log, 1892