• Portrait of John McCormick, lived at Seneca and McCormick
• Declaration of Independence, 1776
• Jessie Chisholm's oxen yoke and map of the Old Chisholm Cattle Trail 1873; photo of ox with long horns
• 1880s Davis sewing machine
• High School of 1896 faculty
• 1900 Keystone opaque projector
• 1906 Edison Fireside Phonograph
• Displays of the first decades of the WPS - written, pictoral and artifacts of school directories, yearbooks, a 1909 rotary stencil machine, a 1917 Oliver typewriter
• Pictoral display of the construction of the 1911 high school; 1911 plaque
• Framed Historical Sketch of the beginning of the Wichita Public Schools system, dated December 15, 1916
• Plaques: 
      Allison Intermediate School Dedication, 1920; 
      Roosevelt Intermediate School Dedication, 1921;
      Gettysburg Address
• 1923 Brunswick Victrola
• 1923 Wichita High School photograph (later East High)
• WPA dolls from the 1930s
• Portrait of John J. Pershing, donated 1930
• 1944 telephone switchboard (Western Electric)
• 1949 map of Kansas
• McCormick School Centennial display
• Closing of Jardine Middle School
• Pictures of early school buildings
• Display of WPS Mobile Trading Post and Museum Programs

Crystal McNally Library

• Old card files
• Old library stamps
• Stereoscopes and view cards
• WPS scrapbooks with clippings
• Old music record albums
• Old library desk and chair
• Old dictionary stands
• Pioneer artifacts display (Kansas Panorama 1800-1890s)
• Old globe
• Magazines and newspapers of key historical events
• Photographic reproductions from the Eisenhower Library
• Parent-Teacher Prayer
• Objects of Parent-Teacher Assocations
• Library books throughout the years, including BOE gists and school yearbooks

School Furniture Room

• Student, teacher, administrator and BOE desks, chairs, stools, podium, recitation bench, scale and stands throughout the years, dating back to the 1880s
• 1992 classroom photos
• "Going to School in the 1890s" photo display
• Pictoral display of McCormick School students and teachers from 1901 to 1969
• 1887 map of West Wichita and picture of the residence of John McCormick
• NEA Code of Ethics

1890s Classroom

• Slate chalkboards have replaced wooden blackboards or stretched canvas.
• Single desks have replaced the original double desks.
• Piano (not original) belonged to Miss Jessie Clark, the first music supervisor in WPS.
• The control for the furnace is mounted in the chalkboard at the front of the room. The original coal-fired furnace was located downstairs and worked by convection: the air was warmed in the basement and entered the room by way of the louvers at the front of the room; as the air cooled it was returned to the furnace by way of the registers seen under the windows and at the front of the room, where it was reheated and began the process again.
• The clock is a 3-day key-wound clock. Key holes are between seven and eight, and four and five. The clock strikes the number of hours on the hour, and once on the half-hour.
• The flag pledge, published in 1892, is written on the board.
• The States are listed on the board along with the year they were admitted to the union.
• Wainscoating: vertical wood below slate
• Ornate doorknob and hinges

Educational Room (upstairs)

• World cultures displays, artifacts and models, including American and International

Kansas Heritage Room - Artifacts from early Kansas history

• Kitchen hand pump and sink
• Kitchen cabinet and utensils
• Milk can
• Kitchen wood-coal stove, pots, pans, teakettle
• Free-standing pantry with utensils
• Kerosene stove
• Butter churn
• Sauerkraut krock
• Ice cream machine
• Old tools
• Weaving machine
• Spinning wheel
• Singer sewing machine
• Old shoes
• Washing machine and wash board
• Crocheting
• Home-made pantry for flour, beans, etc.
• Grindstone
• Wagon wheel
• Kitchen table, chairs, rug

Ecology Room - scientific displays of what was taught in USD 259

• Geology
• Physics
• Physical Science
• Electricity
• Outdoor products
• Clouds and weather forecaster
• Rocks and gems
• Insects and metamorphosis
• Turtles
• Dinosaur bones
• Birds
• Animal skeletons
• Microscopes
• Lantern projector
• Charts
• How birds feed
• History in tree growth
• Prairie animals
• Shells

Administrator's Office

• Windows to the ouside and to the inside can be opened. This was to facilitate the flow of air through the building, and to permit the observance of students. The office looked out over the only entrance.
• The 1890 office windows are wider and shorter than the 1911 office.
• Historical books: WPA, Wichita Century
• Old leather desk chair
• Secretary's desk with early stapler and spring-loaded typewriter lift
• Oak filing cabinet
• Roll-down desk
• Old dictaphone
• Columbia backing sheet for Mimeograph
• Embosser
• Old adjustable chair
• Adding machine with locking wheels
• Desk with recent intercom
• Outside the door: safety patrol podium to sign in and out; cap and belt; early bell and siron on the floor