Category Archives: Library

Library Closed for Holidays

The library will be closed from Wednesday, December 21, through Monday, January 2. We will be open on Tuesday, January 3.

If you have a genealogy emergency, or are coming to town over the holidays and would like to use the library, please email library@mhgswichita.org.

Happy holidays, and happy researching!

New Books November 2022

Call Number Date Author Title
VF Project Beauty 1967 – 1978 Project Beauty Collection
VF 010 Hein Sedgwick County Pioneer Certificate Files
R-210 LB 11 1988 Labette County Community High School Class of 1938 50th Reunion Booklet
R-040 046 V 38 2015 The Kettle
R-040 046 V 39 2016 The Kettle
R-040 046 V 40 2017 The Kettle
R-040 046 V 41 2018 The Kettle
R-040 046 V 42 2019 The Kettle
R-040 046 V 43 2020 The Kettle
R-040 046 V 44 2021 The Kettle
R-210 SG 296 1983 Cooking Classics
R-631 072 2021 2002 The Journal of Chickasaw history and culture
R-631 072 2020 2002 The Journal of Chickasaw history and culture
R-631 073 2018 F 2018 Chokma Chickasaw Magazine
R-631 073 2021 S 2021 Chokma Chickasaw Magazine
R-631 073 2021 F 2021 Chokma Chickasaw Magazine
R-631 073 2022 S 2022 Chokma Chickasaw Magazine
R-210 CL 21 2022 Bate, Seth Winfield’s Walnut Valley Festival
R-210 SG 295 2001 Belden, Dorothy Williams Wood Dorothy Williams Wood Belden: Columns of a Consummate Journalist
R-210 SG 294 2011 Cooper, Beth Wichita Haunts

New Books October 2022

Call Number Date Author Title
R-210 SG 293 1992 Bombardier: A Dream with International Reach
VF 001 Botanica Business & Organization Files
VF 001 Wichita Area Garden Council Business & Organization Files
VF Project Beauty 2011-20 Project Beauty Collection

New Books September 2022

Call Number Date Author Title
R-210 SA 19 2003 Salina First Covenant church Celebrating 125 Years: First Covenant Church
R-210 SG 290 2005 St. Anne’s Catholic Church St. Anne’s Church 50 Years of History
R-210 SG 291 1983 1983 St. Anne’s Catholic Church St. Anne’s Catholic Church Membership Directory
R-210 SG 291 1983b 1983 St. Anne’s Catholic Church St. Anne’s Catholic Church Membership Directory
R-210 SG 291 1987 1987 St. Anne’s Catholic Church St. Anne’s Catholic Church Membership Directory
R-210 SG 291 2000 2000 St. Anne’s Catholic Church St. Anne’s Catholic Church Membership Directory
R-210 SG 291 2001 2001 St. Anne’s Catholic Church St. Anne’s Catholic Church Membership Directory
R-210 SG 291 2002 2002 St. Anne’s Catholic Church St. Anne’s Catholic Church Membership Directory
R-210 SG 291 2012 2012 St. Anne’s Catholic Church St. Anne’s Catholic Church Membership Directory
r-210 SG 292 1976 1976 Wichita Public Schools Wind Work — a collection of poetry by elementary school children of the Wichita Public Schools
R-380 356 1878 Douglass, Benjamin History of Wayne County, Ohio, from the days of the pioneers and first settlers to the present time.
R-600 106 1914 Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson Rural life and education: a study of the rural-school problem as a phase of the rural-life problem
R-605 026 2002 Anderson, Robert Charles The great migration newsletter: volumes 1-20
R-640 112 1920 Smith, C. Henry The Mennonites: a brief history of their origin and later development in both Europe and America
VF Project Beauty 1998 – 2010 Project Beauty Project Beauty Collection

New Books August 2022

Call Number Date Author Title
A-180 007 1985 Combination Atlas of McHenry County, Illinois 1872
A-340 003 1983 Early Maps of Keene New Hampshire 1733-1892
R-210 SA 18 1986 Isis Temple, Salina, Kansas 100th Anniversary
VF Project Beauty 1988-89 1988 – 1998 Project Beauty Collection
R-210 SG 155 Current MHGS The Alert
R-180 245 1877 Baldwin, Elmer History of LaSalle County Illinois
R-210 289 2016 Beck, Bill A Century of Kanza Cooperative: 1915-2015
R-210 SG 288 1999 Bissonette, Bruce The Wichita 4: Cessna, Moellendick, Beech & Stearman
R-180 246 1963 Davy, Harriet (Wilson) From oxen to jets; a history of DeKalb County, 1835-1963
R-210 SG 289 2001 Elliott, Mal Wichita County Club: Centennial Edition
R-210 WY 04 1996 Friesen, Stanley R. The Kansas School of Medicine: Eyewitness Reflections on its Formative Years
R-340 037 1904 Griffin, S. G. A History of the Town of Keene
R-210 LV 10 2017 LaMaster, Kenneth M. Leavenworth
R-210 SG 286 2008 Larsen, Steve A. McConnell Air Force Base
R-210 283 2017 Lutz, Bob The Best I Could Do: A 20-Year Kansas Sports History
R-600 105 1985 Morantz-Sanchez, Regina Markell Sympathy & Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine
R-210 288 2008 Rhoads, Jane Glotfelty Kansas opera houses: actors & community events 1855-1925
R-210 282 1994 Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela Rooted in dust: surviving drought and depression in southwestern Kansas
R-210 SG 287 1996 Suellentrop, Joyce Kansas Newman College: educating the mind, inspiring the spirit

New Books July 2022

Call Number Date Author Title
G-D 086 1990 Day, Doyle Our Day family, 1597-1990
Online 1870 Record of Massachusetts Volunteers 1861-1865
R-190 230 1977 Beanblossom, Walter S. Marriage Affidavits and Certificates: Harrison County, Indiana 1809-1865
R-190 231 1989 Healy, Sherry Records of Harrison County, Indiana, from Walter Beanblossom’s Collection and Reprints from the ‘Ancestral News’
R-190 232 1977 Beanblossom, Walter S. A Collection of Harrison County, Indiana, Records
R-190 233 1977 Beanblossom, Walter S. School Enumeration: Harrison County, Indiana 1846 and 1847
R-210 171 2012 Biggs, Brandi 75 Years of KIOGA Leadership
R-210 BU 27 1996 King, Marsha K. Midian Townsite, Butler County, Kansas: Results of Phase III Archeological Investigations at 14BU381
R-210 SG 285 2022 Ramirez, Danielle Being Wichita Women
R-220 240 V1 Bolin, Daniel Lynn BreakMeade Area Cemeteries Series
R-220 240 V2 Bolin, Daniel Lynn BreakMeade Area Cemeteries Series
R-220 240 V3 Bolin, Daniel Lynn BreakMeade Area Cemeteries Series

New Books June 2022

Some interesting Kansas books this month…

Call NumberDateAuthorTitle
R-210 SG 284 19531953Iota Kappa Cook Book
R-210 SG 2831977Farber, Madeline K.Mulvane: City of the Valley, Past and Present
G-H 1721986Hogoboom, John B.The Long Line Kansas Skinner
G-W 1372022Jackson, JerryFamilies are Forever: William Frederick Winzer Sr and Christine Rosine Wirth Family
R-370 112Lee, Doris R.A History of Pillar Point
R-210 SG 2822013McCoy, GeraldMulvane
R-210 SG 2812011Norton, Karen KinneyA school like no other: the independent school: the first 26 years
R-210 MN 212004Ratzlagg, DonTrial by Fire: Images of Crisis, Courage and Commitment – The Hillsboro Mennonite Church Fire March 7, 2004
R-210 1701982Richmond, Robert W.Requisite Learning and Good Moral Character: A History of the Kansas Bench and Bar
R-210 MN 201999Schmucker, Kristine FlemingA Heritage of Care: A History of the Mennonite Bethesda Society
G-S 1692015Stangl, Vickie SandellEtta Semple: Kansas Freethinker and ‘Ideal’ Woman
I 3312021Wood, Marian BurkPlanning a Future for Your Family’s Past

New Books March 2022

Call Number DateAuthorTitle
R-210 SG 2762021A spell created: A Sesquicentennial History of Wichita and Sedgwick County
R-210 SG 2772022Stumpe, JoeIconic eats of Wichita: surprising history, people and recipes
G-S 165 V21951Stout, Herald F.Stout and Allied Families
R-210 SG 2742022Price, Jay MarshMexican Americans of Wichita’s North End
R-210 SG 2752021Hill, Carol SundeLiving in a Storied Place: Walnut Grove, a Memoir by Carol Hill
R-680 0102021Estes, RobertaDNA for Native American Genealogy
G-D 0851995Dimond, E. GreyDimond/Diamond/Dimon
R-210 CM 041980Comanche County history : Comanche County, Kansas