Your Home and Familysmall box camera and began taking pictures of his community in Dorrance, like...

Make a difference in your Kansas community through photographs. The photo contest is open to Kansas students from ﬁrst through 12th grade. Winners will be announced as part of the state’s 158th birthday in January 2019, at the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka. L. W. Halbe was a teenager who left a legacy of time and place growing up in Kansas. At the age of 15 he discovered a small box camera and began taking pictures of his community in Dorrance, like this one of his brother and sister. His photographs are now among the Kansas Historical Society collections. KANSAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY YOUR STORIES OUR HISTORY ©2018 You, too, can leave us with a remarkable record of Kansas, from the 21st century. August 1 through December 15, 2018 Your Home and Family HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KANSAS! Student Photo Contest Coming Home, by Ashton Imel, 11th grade; From the Hand of a Child, by Sadie Grimm, eighth grade; Growing Food for Others, by Oliver Stephan Simmonds, second grade.

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Page 1: Your Home and Familysmall box camera and began taking pictures of his community in Dorrance, like this one of his brother and sister. His photographs ... by Ashton Imel, 11th grade;

Make a difference in your Kansas community through photographs. The photo contest is open to

Kansas students from first through 12th grade. Winners will be announced as part of the state’s

158th birthday in January 2019, at the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka.

L. W. Halbe was a teenager who left a

legacy of time and place growing up in

Kansas. At the age of 15 he discovered a

small box camera and began taking pictures

of his community in Dorrance, like this one

of his brother and sister. His photographs

are now among the Kansas Historical

Society collections.

KANSASHISTORICALSOCIETY

YOURSTORIES

OUR

You, too, can leave us with a remarkable record of Kansas, from the 21st century.

August 1 through December 15, 2018

Your Home and Family

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KANSAS! Student Photo Contest

Coming Home, by Ashton Imel, 11th grade; From the Hand of a Child, by Sadie Grimm, eighth grade; Growing Food for Others, by Oliver Stephan Simmonds, second grade.

Page 2: Your Home and Familysmall box camera and began taking pictures of his community in Dorrance, like this one of his brother and sister. His photographs ... by Ashton Imel, 11th grade;

Participants: First grade through high school, school year 2018 to 2019

Partners: Sponsored by the Kansas legislative spouses in conjunction with the Kansas Historical Society

First place winners from each grade level will receive iPads, second place entries from each grade level will receive Kindles.

Images above: Harvest Time, by Trudy Hein, sixth grade; A Day on the Farm, by Regan Hedstrom, sixth grade; Little Harvest Helpers, by Sammie Strnad, 10th grade

Contest specifics:

• Happy Birthday, Kansas! website, happybirthdayks.org, contains more information about the contest

• Must be work of students and photographed in Kansas in 2018

• Categories divided by grade, first through 12th

• Students are encouraged to tell a story through their photographs

• Entries can be submitted online and via email

• Maximum of five entries per student

• Winners will be announced as part of Kansas Day in January 2019, at the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka

Contact: Marearl Denning, project coordinator,

913-345-9416, 913-488-1076, [email protected],

or Kansas Historical Society, 785-272-8681, [email protected]

August 1 through December 15, 2018