Medium: Text
Date: June 21, 1880
This is a letter from Jennie Beecher, who is concerned the prohibition amendment might include the making, selling and drinking of sweet cider. This would influence the votes of her…
Medium: Text
Date: July 30, 1880
In this letter, Clyde, Kansas, newspaper publisher Wm. V. Beatty, expressed his disappointment that Kansas Governor St. John did not show up for a speaking engagement. He wrote that the…
Medium: Text
Date: July 28, 1880
In this letter, publisher Albin, of the Butler County Republican, requests Kansas Governor St. John give consideration to allow his paper to publish copies of the proposed constitutional amendment. The…
Medium: Text
Date: 1878
These are Indian raid claim files containing letters and affidavits of raid descriptions, claims filed, death identifications, and amounts paid to plaintiffs in Barber, Comanche, Decatur, Ford, Meade, Ness, Rawlins,…
Medium: Text
Date: March 3, 1831-May 24, 1831
Three letters from John H. Linn to Lewis Allen Alderson. Alderson later moved to Atchison, Kansas, in 1858 and was a prominent Baptist minister. He died in Atchison in 1881.
Medium: Text
Date: November 26, 1834
This letter was written by Reverend Robert Lilly to Lewis Allen Alderson. Lilly was a long-time pastor at Lyles Baptist Church in Fluvanna County, Virginia. The letter focuses on the…
Medium: Text
Date: February 24, 1831
This is a letter addressed to Lewis Allen Alderson, a student in Athens, Ohio, from John Abney North in Lewisburg, (West) Virginia. North is seeking repayment for debts accrued by…
Medium: Text
Date: December 3, 1834
A letter written by prominent Baptist preacher James Remly to Lewis Allen Alderson. Alderson later moved to Atchison, Kansas, in 1858 and was a prominent Baptist minister. He died in…
Medium: Text
Date: July 09, 1880
In this letter, Kansas Governor St. John, is invited by an old friend and proprietor of the Cottage Hotel in Ellsworth, J. M. Anderson, to stay and dine with him…
Medium: Text
Date: July 21, 1880
A letter from U. A. Albins inviting Kansas Governor St. John to help dedicate the new Opera House being built in Augusta.
Medium: Text
Date: June 20, 1834
A letter written by Hezekiah Chilton to his colleague Lewis Allen Alderson. Chilton was writing from the salt region of West Virginia known as the Kanawha Salines to his friend…
Medium: Text
Date: August 1, 1829
A letter written to Lewis Allen Alderson from his friend J. W. McClung. Alderson was studying at the University of Ohio in Athens at the time, and McClung wrote seeking…
Medium: Text
Date: October 23, 1831
A letter addressed to Lewis Allen Alderson from Virginia congressman Hugh Caperton, who thanks Alderson for the hospitality shown by his father. Both Alderson and Caperton were from Greenbrier County,…
Medium: Text
Date: 1907
This black and white photograph shows a group of men in front of the court house in Independence, Kansas, destroying barrels and crates of liquor estimated to be worth $3,000…
Medium: Text
Date: July 19, 1860
This is a drawing by William Jacob Hays depicting Fort Randall located in South Dakota on the Missouri River.
Medium: Text
Date: June 02, 2012
Barbara Rondelli Perry was born October 19, 1939 in Chicopee, Kansas. She graduated from Chicopee Grade School (1944-1952), Cherokee High School (1952-1956), and Kansas State Teachers College in Pittsburg with…
Medium: Text
Date: 1909-1977
This series of the Rolla Clymer collection includes sent and received correspondence arranged chronologically beginning in 1909. With few exceptions, the correspondence provides a continuous and very complete view of…
Medium: Text
Date: June 26, 1867
This is an illustration showing a battle between the Cheyenne and Company G Seventh U. S. Cavalry near Fort Wallace. The illustration appears in Harpers Weekly.
Medium: Text
Date: 1925-1926
A book illustration showing the boys’ battalion at Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas.
Medium: Text
Date: 1869
This is an illustration showing workers laying track on the Pacific Railroad. It was copied from Our New West by Samuel Bowles.
Medium: Text
Date: October 9, 1893
This is a letter written by Alexander Warner, Baxter Springs, Kansas to G. Norton Galloway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The letter is written on The House of 1893 stationery and members of…
Medium: Text
Date: February 12, 1898-October 13, 1964
These materials pertaining to Homer Martin Limbird’s service in Company L, 20th Kansas Volunteer Infantry, during the Philippine American War (1899-1902). The bulk of the collection consists of letters written…
Medium: Text
Date: 1857
Election returns from the first vote held on the Lecompton Constitution on December 21, 1857. Counties include Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Breckinridge (defunct), Brown, Calhoun (defunct), Coffey, Davis, Doniphan, Dorn (defunct),…
Medium: Text
Date: 1895
The first issue of a monthly newsletter that published the interests of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic. A sketch inside the front cover shows Elma B.…
Medium: Text
Date: Between May 07, 1907 and May 09, 1907
This photograph shows Nellie Rhodes McMillan as the Department President for the Twenty-First Annual Convention of the Kansas Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic held in Topeka, Kansas.
