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Edgar Watson Howe

Date: Between 1915 and 1925

Portrait of Edgar Watson Howe, 1853-1937, author and founder of the Atchison Globe newspaper, Atchison, Kansas.

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John Brown, Jr

Date: March 13, 1888

Portrait of John Brown, Jr., abolitionist and son of John Brown.

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John Brown, Jr.

Date: Between 1870 and 1880

Portrait of John Brown, Jr., abolitionist and son of John Brown.

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John Brown, Jr.

Date: Between 1880 and 1885

A copy of a portrait probably made in 1857 of John Brown, Jr., an abolitionist and son of John Brown.

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Charles Robinson

Date: 1856

This reproductive illustration shows Kansas Governor Charles Robinson giving a speech to the Lecompton Territorial Legislature. The original illustration was taken from “Beyond the Mississippi” by Albert D. Richardson.

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Lutie A. Lytle

Date: 1897

Portrait of Lutie Lytle, one of the nation’s earliest African American female lawyers. Her family came to Topeka and lived at 1435 Monroe Street and Lutie and her brothers attended…

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Shooting in Sheridan, Kansas

Date: November 1875

This is a Harper’s Magazine illustration captioned “Old Neb in Rat Row.” It shows a man shooting into a group of people, Sheridan, Kansas.

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Boys! Girls! kill the flies

Date: September, 1914

This advertisement encourages boys and girls to kill flies for a prize. The contest was sponsored by the Board of Health of Hutchinson. The ad was in a publication from…

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J. W. Lough farm, Scott County, Kansas

Date: July 12, 1920

This photograph shows 60 acres of irrigated alfalfa on the J. W. Lough farm, Scott County, Kansas. The first cutting is in the stacks and the second is growing.

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Joan Finney

Date: 1994

Portrait of Joan Finney, Kansas Governor, 1991-1995.

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Wyatt Earp

Date: February, 1907

Portrait of Wyatt Earp copied from William Barclay Masterson’s “Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier” published in “Human Life”.

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Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kansas

Date: Between 1930 and 1945

View of Tauy Jones Hall, the oldest building at Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kansas. It was originally constructed in 1869, burned in 1875, rebuilt in 1877, damage by fire in 1921…

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Theodore Roosevelt at Baldwin, Kansas

Date: August 31, 1910

This is a photograph of Theodore Roosevelt, William Allen White, Henry J. Allen, Joseph Bristow, and Osmon Grant Markham standing on the back of a passenger car at the Baldwin,…

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Eli Thayer

Date: Between 1880 and 1885

Portrait of Eli Thayer, 1819-1899, who in 1853-54 was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature and while there, originated and organized the New England Emigrant Aid Company. He worked to…

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Eli Thayer

Date: Between 1870 and 1875

Portrait of Eli Thayer, 1819-1899, who in 1853-54 was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature, and while there, originated and organized the New England Emigrant Aid Company. He worked to…

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Nicodemus Town Company certificate

Date: Between 1880 and 1882

This certificate for the Nicodemus Town Company was used to acknowledge membership which, along with a five dollar fee, was required of every emigrant seeking to settle in Nicodemus. The…

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Benjamin “Pap” Singleton

Date: 1880

Benjamin “Pap” Singleton was born a slave in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1809. Singleton escaped to Canada to gain his freedom, returning to Tennessee after the end of the Civil War.…