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Topeka, Kansas Territory
Date: December 25, 1858
A panoramic view of Topeka, Kansas Territory, December 25, 1858, copied from the December 25, 1858, issue of Leslie’s Weekly.
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Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1860s
A view of the east side of Kansas Avenue from slightly north of Sixth Street in Topeka, Kansas, sometime during the early 1860s. Many of the buildings shown in the…
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Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1860s
A view of Kansas Avenue in Topeka, Kansas, around 1860. Many of the buildings were built during Kansas’ time as a territory. The photograph was taken by J. Lee Knight,…
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Fourth Street and Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1860's
This photograph shows a view of the corner of Fourth Street and Kansas Avenue in Topeka, Kansas, sometime during the early 1860s. The buildings were located north of the Gordon…
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Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1860's
A view of Kansas Avenue in Topeka, Kansas, sometime during the early 1860s. Many of the buildings shown in the photograph were built during the Kansas territorial period. The photograph…
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First Congregational Church, Topeka, Kansas
Date: c. 1860
The First Congregational Church of Topeka, Kansas, as it appeared in the 1860s. The photograph was taken by W. P. Bliss, Photographic Car.
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Methodist Church, Topeka, Kansas
Date: c. 1860
The Methodist Church at 523 Quincy Street in Topeka, Kansas Territory. The photograph was taken by W. P. Bliss, Photographic Car, around 1860.
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Gale block, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1863 and 1865
This is a photograph of the Gale block on the east side of Kansas Avenue, between 6th and 7th Streets, in Topeka, Kansas. The Gale block was used by the…
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Saw Mill, Linn County, Kansas Territory
Date: 1857
A photograph of a saw mill built by Joseph Trego and the Smiths on Little Sugar Creek in Linn County, Kansas Territory.
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Stone house built by Augustus Wattles
Date: c. 1940
Ruins of a stone house built by Augustus Wattles, Linn County, Kansas Territory, between 1857 and 1859. John Brown wrote his “Parallels” in this house. The photograph was taken around…
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Peoria Street by the town square, Paola, Kansas
Date: Between 1860 and 1869
This is a view of Peoria Street on the north side of the town square in Paola, Kansas, during the early 1860s. The photograph was taken by Brown’s Photographic Gallery…
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John Doy and rescue party
Date: 1859
On January 25, 1859, free state activists Dr. John Doy and his son, Charles, left Lawrence, Kansas Territory, for Nebraska with 13 slaves. They were captured when only twelve miles…
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Neosho Valley Register, Burlington, Kansas Territory
Date: 1859
An 1859 view of the Neosho Valley Register office in Burlington, Kansas Territory.
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Austin G. Carpenter
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Austin G. Carpenter was an early resident of Allen County, Kansas Territory. He was part of a committee that reported on conditions related to the drought in 1860, and later…
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Charles Chadwick
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Charles Chadwick was a freestatesman active in Kansas Territory politics. He was a resident of Quindaro, in Wyandotte County.
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Salmon P. Chase
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Salmon P. Chase was the Governor of Ohio from 1855 to 1860. As an attorney, he defended fugitive slaves and was active in the antislavery and free soil movements. He…
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Addison Danford
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Addison Danford was a free state supporter, and served as a delegate to the Leavenworth Constitutional Convention. At the time, he lived in Linn County, Kansas Territory. Danford moved to…
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James W. Denver
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James W. Denver served as the acting Territorial Governor of Kansas from December 21, 1857, through May 12, 1858, before he was named as the seventh Territorial Governor of Kansas,…
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James W. Denver
Date: Circa 1857
James W. Denver served as acting Territorial Governor of Kansas from December 21, 1857, through May 12, 1858, before becoming the seventh Territorial Governor of Kansas, serving from May 12…
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Lucian Eastin
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Lucian Eastin was a proslavery supporter. He was the head of the proslavery militia, and the editor, for a period of time, of the “Herald” in Leavenworth, Kansas Territory. This…
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George Washington Deitzler
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George W. Deitzler was a free state supporter and resident of Lawrence, Kansas Territory. He was active in social activities in Lawrence, and was an officer in the Kansas Volunteers…
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Alfred Gray
Date: 1882
Alfred Gray was an attorney, secretary of the State Board of Agriculture from “187_ to 1880,” and a resident of Quindaro, Kansas Territory. Gray was involved in a number of…
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Ellen Denison Goodnow
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Ellen Denison Goodnow was the wife of Isaac Goodnow. They settled near Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas Territory. They were free state supporters, and she is mentioned frequently in his diaries.
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Joel Kishler Goodin
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Joel Kishler Goodin was a active participant in the Topeka Movement. He served as clerk of the House of Representatives that met in Topeka, Kansas Territory, and also as secretary…
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Fry W. Giles
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Fry W. Giles was a free state supporter who settled in Topeka, Kansas Territory. He was one of the promoters of the Topeka Movement.