Medium: StillImage
Date: August 16, 1959
This photograph shows the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad depot at Savonburg, Kansas. The one-story wooden structure was part of the Northern Division, KS. City Sub. Division at milepost 106.4. The depot no…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Septembr 01, 1956
This photograph shows the Missouri Pacific railroad depot at Moran, Kansas. The one-story wooden structure was part of the Wichita Division, Wichita Sub. Division at milepost 354.42. The depot no…
Medium: StillImage
Date: September 1, 1956
This photograph shows the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad depot at Moran, Kansas. The one-story building with batten siding and a terra cotta title roof was part of Northern Division, KS. City Sub.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: September 01, 1956
This photograph shows the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad depot at Mildred, Kansas. The one-story wooden structure was part of the Northern Division, KS. City Sub Division at milepost 87.0. The depot still…
Medium: StillImage
Date: September 20, 1954
This photograph shows the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad depot at Mildred, Kansas. The one-story wooden structure still stands and was relocated to the Pome on the Range Apple Orchard and Winery in…
Medium: StillImage
Date: September 01, 1956
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot in Iola, Kansas. The prairie-style station featured a hipped roof, a semi-hexagonal operator’s bay and matching waiting room.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1862
Revernd Samuel L. Adair and his wife, Florella Brown Adair, settled near Osawatomie, Kansas Territory. Adair was a Congregational minister and free state supporter. His wife was a half sister…
Medium: StillImage
Date:
A portrait of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the Civil War, saving the Union and ending…
Medium: StillImage
Date:
John C. Vaughn came to Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, in 1859, where he served as the editor and publisher of the “Leavenworth Times” newspaper.
Medium: StillImage
Date:
Joel Walker was involved with the Quindaro Town Company and was an active free state supporter in Kansas Territory.
Medium: StillImage
Date:
Hugh Sleight Walsh was the official Secretary of Kansas Territory from 1858 to 1860. He worked with a number of the territorial governors and served as the acting territorial governor…
Medium: StillImage
Date:
Preston B.Plumb participated in various antislavery events in Kansas Territory. He was involved with the Kansas Volunteers for the Protection of the Ballot Box and was a member of the…
Medium: StillImage
Date:
View of Reverend John Gill Pratt and his wife, Olivia Evans Pratt, at the Delaware Mission School in Wyandotte County, Kansas Territory. Reverend John Gill Pratt was a Baptist missionary…
Medium: StillImage
Date:
Reverend John Gill Pratt was a Baptist missionary to the Delaware Indians and served as superintendent of the Delaware Baptist Mission. He had some training as a doctor and worked…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1886
This is a photograph of William Tecumseh Sherman who was a partner, with his brother-in-law, Thomas Ewing, Jr, in the law firm Sherman, Ewing and McCook in Leavenworth, Kansas Territory.…
Medium: StillImage
Date:
Gerrit Smith was an ardent abolitionist from New York state. He supported the anti-slavery cause in Kansas Territory and was a supporter of abolitionist John Brown, helping to fund Brown’s…
Medium: StillImage
Date:
W. W. Updegraff was involved in Kansas Territory politics as a free state supporter. He served as the last president of the Territorial Council and as the first speaker of…
Medium: StillImage
Date:
Augustus Wattles was an abolitionist who came to Kansas Territory from Ohio in 1855. For a time, he helped George Washington Brown publish the “Herald of Freedom” in Lawrence, Kansas…
Medium: StillImage
Date:
John Otis Wattles was one of the founders of Moneka in Linn County, Kansas Territory, in 1857. He was a promoter of the town and was a member of the…
Medium: StillImage
Date:
Thomas H. Webb of Boston, Massachusetts, was secretary of the New England Emigrant Aid Company. His name appeared in publications of the Company, and he was a frequent correspondent with…
Medium: StillImage
Date:
Daniel Webster Wilder was an early Kansas resident and one of its first historians. During the territorial era, he was a resident of Leavenworth and was one of the Kansans…
Medium: StillImage
Date:
Samuel Newitt Wood was an active participant on behalf of the free state cause. He served in the Kansas Territory legislature and was a delegate to the Leavenworth Constitutional Convention.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1850s
Henry Worrall was an early Kansas artist who lived in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. An inscription on the back of the photograph reads as follows: “Prof. Henry Worrall, born Liverpool,…
Medium: StillImage
Date: May 26, 1855
A portrait of Samuel J. Reader, who was a participant in some of the free state activities in Kansas Territory. He wrote about his efforts in his diary, including descriptions…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1856 and 1860
James Redpath came to Kansas Territory as a reporter for the “New York Tribune,” but he soon became a participant in the free state cause. He was involved with abolitionist…
