The Kansas Historical Society announced that 400,000 images of its collections are now uploaded to Kansas Memory. Image number 400,000 is a letter dated Aug. 30, 1918, from Miss Jennie B. Momyer to Helen McKenna Mulvane, state chairperson of the Women’s Committee of the Council of National Defense. The committee coordinated women’s activities and resources for national defense during World War I. The image may be viewed at kansasmemory.org/item/305559/page/29.In the letter, Momyer, a former superintendent of Barton County schools, asks Mulvane for information about the civilian school for nurses.
400,000 images uploaded to Kansas Memory
Letter from 1918 marks milestone for largest online collection of materials from Kansas history
