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Date: 1923-1924
This photograph shows students and faculty gathered for a band concert on the campus of Western University. The African Methodist Episcopal Church established Western University on the grounds of the…
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Date: Bulk 1919-1920
These photographs shows the campus of Western University in Kansas City, Kansas. Established in 1865 the school was located in the city limits of the historical town of Quindaro along…
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Date: November 20, 1880
A letter from Reverend George A. Smith of New York to Kansas Governor St. John welcoming the Governor to the Temperance Congress in New York City.
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Date: November 20, 1880
A letter to Kansas Governor St. John from R. Dobbins of Lawrence, expressing concern that the organizer of a prohibition “Temple” in Topeka may be an “interloper.”
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Date: November 19, 1880
A letter from Theodore Kanouse of the Wisconsin Temperance Lodge to Kansas Governor St. John. In the letter, Kanouse expresses concern over the effects and timing of the prohibition amendment.
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Date: November 19, 1880
A letter from attorney John Pepper of Illinois to Kansas Governor St. John expressing his pleasure at the passage of the temperance amendment.
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Date: September 24, 1880
A letter to Kansas Governor St. John inviting him to deliver a welcoming address at the October reception of the Grand Lodge of Good Templars in Topeka.
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Date: November 19, 1880
A letter from Charlotte Hardy of the Nebraska Women’s Temperance Union congratulating Kansas Governor St. John on his re-election and passage of the prohibition amendment.
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Date: November 18, 1880
A letter from Mary Gleason of Lawrence to Kansas Governor St. John thanking him for responding to her recent letter.
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Date: November 20, 1880
A letter from R. S Chavis, Editor of the Good Templars Advocate of Louisville, Kentucky, to Kansas Governor St. John, asking him to consider contributing a quarterly article for his…
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Date: December 11, 1880
A letter from G. T. Carpenter, President of Oskaloosa College, requesting that Kansas Governor St. John come speak to his community regarding the constitutional amendment being considered for Iowa.
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Date: 1923
This is a pamphlet advertising the Auto Tourist Bed, manufactured by Auto Bed Company in Savonburg, Kansas. It could be attached to the back of or on the running board…
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Date: November 17, 1880
A letter to Kansas Governor St. John from Thomas Burrows of Emporia, requesting statistics supporting the theory that “Prohibition does prohibit.”
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Date: November 18, 1880
A letter to Kansas Governor St. John from Miles Brown of Columbus. In the letter, Brown expresses concern and frustration over conflicting interpretations of the prohibition amendment by local authorities,…
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Date: June 06, 1857
This is a page from Harper’s Weekly, June 6, 1857 edition, with engravings and text describing the governor’s mansion in Lecompton, Kansas Territory and Lane’s fort on Mount Oread in…
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Date: Between 1896 and 1897
This map published by the Bureau of American Ethnology shows cessions of land by Native American tribes within the state of Kansas.
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Date: November 17, 1880
A letter from H. A. Thompson of Westerville, Ohio to Kansas Governor St. John. In the letter, Thompson asks if the Governor could visit sometime in December and deliver addresses…
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Date: November 17, 1880
A letter from Robert Ireland, President of the Baltimore Gospel Temperance League, to Kansas Governor St. John. In the letter, Ireland offers his congratulations for the Governor’s reelection and passage…
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Date: November 17, 1880
A letter written on behalf of the Grand Templars Lodge of Baltimore by Secretary John M. Hering to Kansas Governor St. John. The letter offers congratulations for adoption of the…
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Date: November 17, 1880
A letter to Kansas Governor John St. John from J. L. Witinger, a Connecticut newspaper man and temperance worker. In the letter, Witinger requests details of the prohibition amendment vote;…
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Date: November 16, 1880
A letter from J. B. Finch of Lincoln, Nebraska inviting Kansas Governor St. John to deliver the annual temperance address to the Grand Lodge in that city.
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Date: November 16, 1880
A letter from temperance worker Annie Campbell to congratulate Kansas Governor St. John.
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Date: November 16, 1880
A letter from Mary McDowell of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union offering congratulations to Kansas Governor St. John and inviting him to join an elite group of temperance supporters who…
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Date: November 15, 1880
A letter from R. Dobbins, a member of the United Order of Ancient Templars, to Kansas Governor St. John referencing their convention held in Iowa and the organization’s plans to…
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Date: November 12, 1880
A letter from C. S. Mosher of Baltimore to Kansas Governor St. John in which Mosher compliments St. John on the successful prohibition amendment in Kansas and requests a draft…
