Campbell Room of Kansas Research
The staff of the Information Services department encourage you to become acquainted with the Campbell Room's special Kansas collection which contains a concentration of material pertaining to state and local history.
The collection includes information on the Plains Indians, the territorial period, Civil war years in Kansas, pioneer history, and ethnic settlement. It contains such valuable sources as emigrant guides, published journals, family genealogies, local histories, geological surveys, and historical maps.
Local Researchers will Find:
- Salina-Saline County directories
- Biographical files on Saline county residents
- Card files on births, deaths, and marriages before 1900 (extracted from local papers)
- Oral history tapes
- Large photographic collection
- Salina/Saline Co. newspapers on microfilm
- Kansas Census on microfilm (1955-1930)
- Federal Census on-line
The Campbell Room of Kansas Research is open to any interested person. Materials must be used on the premises or in the library; however, many duplicate volumes are available for circulation.
School children may use the collection under the supervision of their instructors, parents or the librarians.
Limited research for out-of-town patrons can be done by a staff person if exact names & dates are supplied.
Mail (301 W. Elm, Salina, KS 67401), email ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) and telephone (785-825-4624) requests concerning the Kansas collection are welcome.
