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Charles Stores Adair
Date: 1862
Charles Stores Adair was the son of Samuel Lyle and Florella Brown Adair. They lived near Osawatomie in Lykins County, Kansas Territory.
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Florella Brown Adair
Date: 1862
Florella Brown Adair was the wife of Samuel Lyle Adair and the half-sister of abolitionist, John Brown. She settled near Osawatomie, Kansas Territory, with her husband, who was a Congregational…
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William Frederick Milton Arny
Date: 1856
W. F. M. Arny was active in numerous territorial Kansas activities, serving as an agent for the National Kansas Committee and as a delegate to the Leavenworth Constitutional Convention. He…
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David Rice Atchison
Date: 1850
Half plate daguerreotype portrait of David R. Atchison by Jessie H. Whitehurst, probably made in St. Louis, Missouri. David Rice Atchison was a pro-slavery leader from Missouri. He represented Missouri…
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William H. R. Lykins house, Lawrence, Kansas Territory
Date: 1854
A view of people standing before the William H. R. Lykins house in Lawrence, Kansas Territory. This probably is the second house built by Lykins on the future site of…
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John Doy and rescue party
Date: 1859
This ambrotype shows John Doy and his rescue party. On January 25, 1859, Dr. John Doy and his son, Charles, left Lawrence, Kansas Territory, for Nebraska with thirteen slaves. They…
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Lawrence, Kansas Territory
Date: 1855
A photograph of an 1855 sketch by J. E. Rice depicting part of Lawrence, Kansas Territory. The sketch was photographed by H. T. Martin, of 237 Kansas Avenue, in Topeka,…
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Congregational Church, Osawatomie, Kansas Territory
Date: c. 1860
Exterior view of the Congregational Church in Osawatomie, Kansas Territory. This is the oldest known photograph of the stone church, which was built by Reverend Samuel Adair around 1860.
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Courthouse, Calhoun County, Kansas Territory
Date: c. 1855
An exterior view of the former Calhoun County Courthouse, which had been built around 1855. Calhoun County had included part of what is now northern Shawnee County and all of…
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Constitution Hall, Topeka, Kansas Territory
Date: 1856
An exterior view of Constitution Hall in Topeka, Kansas Territory, in 1856. The Constitutional Convention met here in 1855, and the Topeka Legislature was expelled from the building by Col.…
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U. S. Land Office, Lecompton, Kansas
Date: 1861
An exterior view of the U. S. Land Office building in Lecompton, Kansas, in 1861.
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Governor’s Mansion, Lecompton, Kansas Territory
Date: 1857
This illustration shows the Governor’s Mansion in Lecompton, Kansas Territory, in 1856. This was copied from the June 6, 1857, issue of “Harper’s Weekly.”
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Free-State emigrants’ battery
Date: 1856
This daguerreotype shows one of the cannons brought by a company to Topeka, Kansas Territory, in 1856. During 1856, the pro-slavery people of Missouri virtually cut off free-state emigration to…
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Lecompton, Kansas Territory
Date: 1858
A view of the city of Lecompton when it was the capital of Kansas Territory. This is a copy of an illustration from the December 25, 1858 issue of “Frank…
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Sketch of James Lane at Lecompton
Date: 1857
A view of James Henry Lane “shouting defiance into the convention’s ears and the battery’s muzzles at Constitution Hall” in Lecompton, Kansas Territory. The illustration is copied from “Life of…
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Topeka Constitutional Convention
Date: 1855
A view of a session of the 1855 Topeka Constitutional Convention in Topeka, Kansas Territory. This is a copy of a illustration from the December, 15, 1855, issue of “Frank…
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Colonel Sumner arriving at Constitution Hall in Topeka, Kansas Territory
Date: 1856
Exterior view of Constitution Hall with Col. Edwin Vose Sumner dispersing the Free-State Legislature in Topeka, Kansas Territory, on July 4, 1856. This is a copy of an illustration from…
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Pioneers near Lawrence, Kansas Territory
Date: 1856
This is a photograph showing a group of unidentified pioneers near Lawrence, Kansas Territory.
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Camp Saunders, Kansas Territory
Date: 1856
A view of Camp Saunders, a Pro-Slavery stronghold, located twelve miles southwest of Lawrence, Kansas Territory. It was destroyed by Free-State settlers in 1856.
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R. L. Williams house
Date: 1890
A view, taken sometime around 1890, of a stone house built by R. L. Williams in the summer of 1857 in Franklin, Kansas Territory.
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Edward Payson Fitch
Date: Between 1853 and 1863
Cased ninth plate daguerreotype portrait of Edward Payson Fitch, a native of Massachusetts, who arrived in Kansas Territory in 1854 as a member of the third group of settlers sponsored…
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Atchison, Kansas Territory
Date: Between 1858 and 1862
A view, taken sometime around 1860, of businesses and houses in Atchison, Kansas Territory. The photograph was taken by C. H. Masters, who had a business on the corner of…
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Atchison, Kansas Territory
Date: Between 1858 and 1862
A view, taken sometime around 1860, of a residential area between 29th and 30th Streets, north of Commercial Street, in Atchison, Kansas Territory. The photograph was taken by C. H.…
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Atchison, Kansas Territory
Date: Between 1858 and 1862
A view, taken sometime around 1860, of Commercial Street in Atchison, Kansas Territory. The photograph was taken by C. H. Masters, who had a business at the corner of 4th…
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Atchison, Kansas Territory
Date: Between 1858 and 1862
A view, taken sometime around 1860, of Kansas Avenue at Fourth Street, looking North, in Atchison, Kansas Territory. The photograph was taken by C. H. Masters, who had a business…