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John Ritchie
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This sepia colored carte-de-visite shows John Ritchie, (1817-1887), an abolitionist from Franklin, Indiana who moved, in 1855, to Topeka, Kansas. Actively involved in the Free State movement, Ritchie operated a…
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Free State Meeting!
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Photograph of a broadside announcing the election of delegates to a District Convention where delegates were to be chosen to attend the Kansas Free State Convention at Lawrence. The announcement…
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Martin Franklin Conway
Date: Between 1878 and 1882
A portrait of Martin Franklin Conway (1829-1882), of Lawrence, Kansas. Conway was an abolitionist, Free State activist, and political leader. He was an agent for the New England Emigrant Aid…
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Cyrus Kurtz Holliday
Date: Between 1850 and 1855
A formal portrait of Cyrus Kurtz Holliday (1826-1900), of Topeka, Kansas. Holliday came to Kansas Territory in 1854 from Meadville, Pennsylvania. He was an agent for the New England Emigrant…
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Sumner, Kansas Territory
Date: 1858
This lithograph, published by Middleton, Strobridge & Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio, depicts Sumner, Kansas Territory, about 1855. The bottom of the lithograph includes a small map of northeast Kansas.
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Squirrel Tooth Alice
Date: Between 1870 and 1880
A studio portrait of Squirrel Tooth Alice. Born Mary Elizabeth “Libby” Haley in Belton, Texas, in 1855, she ran away from home as a teen and became a dance hall…
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North side of Front Street looking east, Dodge City, Kansas
Date: Early 1880s?
A view of the north side of Front Street looking east from Third Street, Dodge City, Kansas, during the early 1880s. Businesses visible in the photograph include a saddle shop,…
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Front Street in Dodge City, Kansas
Date: April 30, 1879
A stereograph showing Front Street in Dodge City, Kansas. Businesses visible in the stereograph include J. Mueller, Dodge House, and Billiard Hall.
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Edward Everett Hale
Date: c. 1859
Portrait of Edward Everett Hale, author and member of the New England Emigrant Aid Company. Hale wrote the first book (1854) printed about Kansas, ” Kanzas and Nebraska: the history,…
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Julia Louisa Hardy Lovejoy
Date: Circa 1861
Portrait of Julia Louisa Hardy Lovejoy. Lovejoy and her husband, Charles Haseltine Lovejoy, came to the Kansas Territory in 1855, where Rev. Lovejoy was the second traveling Methodist preacher in…
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Franklin Pierce
Date: c. 1857
Portrait of Franklin Pierce, President of the United States from 1853-1857.
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Thomas John Wood
Date: 1860
Portrait of Captain Thomas John Wood, U.S. Army, First Cavalry station at Fort Scott in 1858. Wood and a deputy U.S. Marshall arrested members of Colonel Harvey’s free-state party after…
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John Greenleaf Whittier
Date: c. 1860
Portrait of John Greenleaf Whittier, poet and Free-State supporter. In September, 1858, he published a poem in the Atlantic Monthly titled “Le marais Du Cygne”, telling the story of the…
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Samuel Walker
Date: c. 1860
Copy of a portrait showing Samuel Walker, Free-State and military leader. On August 16, 1856, Capt. Samuel Walker led an attack on the fortified house of Col. Titus, near Lecompton,…
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William H. Russell
Date: Around 1860
A formal portrait of William H. Russell, who was a proslavery supporter and businessman. In the winter of 1858-1859, Russell, with Alexander Majors, William Waddell, and John Jones, founded the…
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Sara Tappan Lawrence Robinson
Date: 1857
This portrait represents the free-state activist and author, Sara Tappan Lawrence Robinson. She was the wife of Kansas first Governor Charles Robinson. The portrait presented here is a digital reproduction…
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Edward Russell
Date: Around 1865
This is a portrait of Edward Russell, a newspaperman and politician. He came to Kansas Territory in 1856, and located in Elwood, in Doniphan County, Kansas. Shortly after moving to…
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Charles Robinson
Date: [1860]
Portrait of free-state activist Charles Robinson. In his work as a free-state activist, Robinson negotiated a truce to the end of the Wakarusa War, attended and led Free-State Conventions, and…
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Andrew Horatio Reeder
Date: 1856
A photograph of a painting depicting Andrew Horatio Reeder as he escaped from Kansas Territory disguised as a woodchopper. The artist probably painted this from a photograph taken upon Reeder’s…
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Samuel Clarke Pomeroy
Date: c.1860
A portrait of Samuel Clarke Pomeroy, businessman and politician. In 1859, he attended the Convention at Osawatomie and the Republican Convention at Lawrence. Pomeroy was elected president of the Kansas…
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William Addison Phillips
Date: 1861-1865
Portrait of William Addison Phillips, an author, lawyer, journalist and politician. In 1857, Phillips attended the Constitution Convention at Topeka and the Free State Conventions at Centropolis, Lawrence, and Grasshopper…
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Marcus Junius Parrott
Date: c. 1857
A portrait of Marcus J. Parrott, a lawyer and politician from Leavenworth. He was a member of the Topeka Constitutional Convention, 1855. In 1857, Parrott was a delegate to the…
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James H. Noteware
Date: c. 1856
A portrait of James H. Noteware. He served as territorial superintendent of schools from March 1858 to December 1858.
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John James Ingalls
Date: 1858
A uncased sixth plate ambrotype portrait of John James Ingalls. He came to the Kansas Territory in the late 1850s. Ingalls, a lawyer and politician, represented Atchison County at the…
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Abraham Lincoln
Date: 1850s
A portrait of Abraham Lincoln. In December 1859, Lincoln traveled to the Kansas Territory and spoke at Elwood, Troy, Doniphan, Atchison, and Leavenworth. His speeches covered several issues including preventing…