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Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Date: 1864
Colored battery & guardhouse in distance; Ft. Leavenworth, KS 1864; Ft. Leavenworth-Military
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Bethel College
Date: Unknown
Bethel College; North Newton; Main bldg. (after 1890 construction date)
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Battle of Beecher’s Island
Date: Oct. 17, 1868
An illustration of the Battle of Beecher’s Island printed in Harper’s Weekly on October 17, 1868.
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Milton Eisenhower
Date: Unknown
A formal portrait of Milton Eisenhower, president of Kansas State College, who was brother to President Dwight David Eisenhower, and son of David and Ida Eisenhower of Abilene, Kansas.
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John Speer
Date: Unknown
A photograph of John Speer a Free-State leader in the Kansas territory.
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John Speer
Date: Unknown
Speer, John-Lawrnece, Free-State Leader; “Very Respectfully, John Speer”
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Kansas Weekly Herald, 1854
Date: Sept. 15, 1854
Kansas Weekly Herald; Leavenworth, KS; Vol. 1, #1; 9/15/1854
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Kansas State Fair, Hutchinson, KS 1906
Date: 1906
Leisure-Hutchinson, KS; Kansas State Fair; 1906
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John Geary
Date: Unknown
John Geary on horse (Civil War)
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Battle of Hickory Point
Date: Unknown
Drawing of Battle of Hickory Point from IMLS project
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Ft. Atkinson
Date: Unknown
Ft. Atkinson-Sites
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Mary Elizabeth Lease
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
Mary Elizabeth (Clyens) Lease is perhaps the best-known Kansas Populist. She was born in Pennsylvania on September 11, 1850 to Irish immigrants. At the age of twenty she moved to…
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Alfred Mossman Landon
Date: 1890
This photograph captures a young Alfred Mossman Landon at the age of two. In the photograph, he is wearing a straw hat with a toy sailboat in a barrel filled…
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Clyde Cessna
Date: Unknown
Photograph of Clyde Cessna
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Susan Brownell Anthony
Date: between 1870 and 1879
This is a portrait of Susan B. Anthony. A national advocate for women’s suffrage, Anthony played an important role in advocating for women’s suffrage in Kansas.
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Prairie dog town, Abilene, Kansas
Date: 1867
A photograph from Alexander Gardner’s Photographic Art Gallery, showing prairie dog town in Abilene, Kansas.
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Free-State Convention Ad
Date: 1855
Big Springs-Politics; Free-State Convention; Broadside, 1855
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Birger Sandzen
Date: Between 1940 and 1949
This is an informal portrait of artist Birger Sandzen, 1871-1954, seated in his Lindsborg, Kansas, study with samples of his artwork and art collection.
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Edgar Watson Howe
Date: Between 1905 and 1910
A portrait of Edgar Watson Howe a novelist and newspaper editor. Howe founded the Atchison Daily Globe newspaper in Atchison, Kansas and was known as “The Philosopher of Potato Hill.”
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Albin Kasper Longren and Dolly Longren with plane #5
Date: 1914
A photograph showing Dolly Longren at the controls of Longren airplane #5. Albin Kasper Longren the designer and builder is standing by the plane.
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Sterling Price
Date: 1860s
A portrait of General Sterling Price, 1809-1867, in military uniform. General Price’s raid in Missouri had a significant impact on Kansas and its troops.
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Arrival of the Caravan at Santa Fe
Date: Between 1844 and 1845
This illustration from Josiah Gregg’s Commerce on the Prairies depicts a caravan of Americans arriving in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Santa Fe Trail, opened in 1821 by William Bucknell,…
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President Theodore Roosevelt at Osawatomie, Kansas
Date: August 30, 1910
This is a postcard showing President Theodore Roosevelt addressing a crowd from a train car at the John Brown monument dedication, Osawatomie, Kansas.
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Grasshopper Relief proclamation
Date: 1874
This proclamation was issued by Governor Thomas Osborn in response to the grasshopper plague that hit the state of Kansas in 1874. The grasshoppers had destroyed most of the farmers’…
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St. Fidelis Church, Victoria, Kansas
Date: Unknown
This is a photograph of St. Fidelis Church in Victoria, Kansas. The church was built to serve the predominantly Catholic Volga-German community that began settling the area about 1875. Construction…