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Jerusha Webster Lord Burritt

Date: 1846-1850

These are two daguerreotypes of Jerusha Webster Lord Burritt. Jerusha was the wife of Rev. Charles David Burritt and the mother of Mary Lord Burritt Foster. She died in 1854.

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Mary Lord Burritt Foster

Date: Between 1849 and 1851

Here are two daguerreotypes of Mary Lord Burritt Foster. She was the daughter of Rev. Charles David Burritt and Jerusla Webster Lord Burritt. Mary Lord Burritt Foster came to Kansas…

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Art Work on Eastern Kansas

Date: 1900

This pictorial book gives a brief overview of eastern Kansas. This is part ten of twelve. Views of the Melan Arch Bridge in Topeka, Plymouth Congregational Church in Lawrence, Independence…

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Art Work on Eastern Kansas

Date: 1900

This pictorial book gives a brief overview of eastern Kansas. This is part nine of twelve. Views of Manhattan from Mount Prospect, the Jane C. Stormont Hospital and Christ’s Hospital…

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Evelyn Irene Brant

Date: Between 1935 and 1938

A photograph of Evelyn Irene (Peggy) Brant when she was drum major for the high school band and drum and bugle corps in Cameron, Missouri. Evelyn later lived in Sabetha,…

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People with a soldier in Waco, Texas

Date: 1918

Here are two photographs of unidentified people in Waco, Texas. These people are possibly members of the Allison family from McPherson, Kansas. One of the men is dressed in a…

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Come!

Date: Between 1879 and 1880

This broadside advertises the availability of land in Hodgeman County, Kansas, and encourages African-American emigration to the area. This migration is commonly referred to as the Exoduster Movement and resulted…

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Fred Everett McManis

Date: Between 1887 and 1888

This is a photograph of Fred Everett McManis who was born about 1883 in Olivet, Kansas. He was four years old when this photograph was taken. McManis married Gertrude Werden…

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“En route for Kansas”

Date: August 16, 1879

This illustration was drawn by Sol Eytinge Jr., based on a sketch by H. J. Lewis. Published in Harper’s Weekly, it shows a family of Exodusters emigrating to Kansas as…

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“Another Investigation Committee”

Date: January 31, 1880

This illustration by cartoonist Thomas Nast was published in Harper’s Weekly. It depicts a potential Exoduster being questioned by a watchful Irishman with the caption “An’ what right have you,…

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Art Work on Eastern Kansas

Date: 1900

This pictorial book gives a brief overview of eastern Kansas. This is part eight of twelve. Views from Burnett’s Mound in Topeka, the Republican River in Junction City, and the…

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Art Work on Eastern Kansas

Date: 1900

This pictorial book gives a brief overview of eastern Kansas. This is part seven of twelve. The stockyards in Kansas City, Kansas, the Soldier’s Home in Leavenworth, and Ft. Scott…

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Art Work on Eastern Kansas

Date: 1900

This pictorial book gives a brief overview of eastern Kansas. This is part six of twelve. The Blue River in Manhattan, the Montgomery County courthouse in Independence, and a street…

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Isaac Goodnow residence, Manhattan, Kansas

Date: 1938

These are two photographs of Mrs. Payne with her daughter and Hattie Parkerson, Isaac Goodnow’s adopted niece, at the Isaac Goodnow home in Manhattan, Kansas. Isaac T. Goodnow, a native…