Arthur Jellison photograph collection | KU Libraries Digital Collections

Arthur Asa Jellison was born August 31, 1894 in Wilson, Kansas, the son of Charles Reynard and Iva Bertha (Humphrey) Jellison. He attended the University of Kansas. He owned a photography studio in Wilson, taking studio portraits of individuals and families for events including births and baptisms, child portraits, weddings, naturalization photographs, confirmation or first communion celebrations, and graduations. In the 1950s and 1960s at least, Jellison also took photographs for yearbooks and annuals for some of the area schools.

This collection consists of negatives and some prints and correspondence from the photographic studio of Arthur Asa Jellison, who worked and lived in Wilson, Ellsworth County, Kansas in the first half of the 20th century. Individuals photographed in the collection came from Wilson, Dorrance, Ellsworth, Redwing, Corning, Bennington, Claflin, Kanopolis, Dubuque, Holyrood, and Sylvan Grove, Kansas.

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: Papers

: Ann McNutt

: Barbara Jean Kuck

: Bernadine Keck and Carl Rogg wedding

: Betty June Kepka

: Bisch boy

: Carrine Robinson and son

: Charles Richard Vague

: Chauffeur pictures

: Church alter (Wilson, KS)

: Church alter (Wilson, KS)

: Church baptism (3 sisters)

: Copy of Union Pacific Railway sign

: Daughters of Joe and Rose Brokes

: Dee Minear

: Dorothy and Josephine Somer

: Ellsworth High School (copy)

: Ernest Hauylicek children (Ernest, Richard, Evelyn)

: Ethel Claussen

: Eva Brown passport photo

: F.L.J. Carter

: Francis Chrudinksy

: Fred Karban Jr.

: Friebus children

: George Eschbaugh

: Girl with top hat

: Glenn Kuck (son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kuck)

: Griffin boy

: Henry J. Major's wife

: Henry Stoffle

: High school scenes (yearbook?)

: J. Oscar Brown passport photo

: James Zamryla Jr.

: Joan Weber

: John B. Hoch

: Jonathan Basil Carter

: Joseph L. Kyner II

: Julia Eschbaugh

: Karen Sue Showball

: Katherine Whitner

: Kenneth Noland

: Kenneth Urbonek and Janda wedding

: Kristel Kasfer in basket

: L.E. Sams

: LaVerne Hoch

: Lois Jands

: Loretta Novak

: Louis Simon Mattas for ordination

: Lutheran church 50th anniversary

: Man reaching for gavel while 3 other people look on

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