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Shaggy buffalo cow
Date: Between A.D. 1540 and A.D. 1549
This is a drawing of a shaggy buffalo cow similar to that seen by Francisco Vasquez de Coronado during his military expedition to Kansas in search of gold.
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Victory Wright to Dr. Price
Date: November 11, 1942
Victory Wright, the corresponding secretary for the Kansas Association of Colored Women, wrote this letter to Dr. Price asking to be paid for services she provided for the Republican Party…
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Governor Fred Hall to Earl Reynolds
Date: February 28, 1955
Governor Fred Hall responded to a letter he had received from Earl Reynolds regarding black representation in and by the Republican Party in Kansas. Reynolds felt black representation was lacking,…
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Earl Thomas Reynolds to Governor Fred Hall
Date: February 11, 1955
This letter was written by Earl Thomas Reynolds, a lawyer in Coffeyville, Kansas, to Governor Fred Hall. Reynolds was concerned that black people in Kansas were not receiving adequate patronage…
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Ku Klux Klan bill
Date: 1925
Kansas state senator Douglas Johnson introduced Senate Bill No. 269 which was known as the Ku Klux Klan bill. By amending sections 17-501 and 17-503 of a 1923 revised Kansas…
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to Governor Ben Paulen
Date: March 13, 1925
The Kansas branch of the NAACP in Kansas City wrote this letter to Kansas Governor Ben S. Paulen in Topeka. The NAACP thanked Governor Paulen for not passing Senate Bill…
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Citizens of Wellington, Kansas, to Governor George Hodges
Date: January 11, 1913
This letter was submitted by Jesse Brower on behalf of the citizens of Wellington, Kansas, to Kansas Governor George Hodges concerning the possible passage of a Jim Crow law in…
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Charles W. Waddell to Governor George Hodges
Date: June 28, 1914
This letter from Charles W. Waddell was sent to Governor George Hodges to express his thoughts on the possible passage of a Jim Crow law in Kansas. Waddell, a Wisconsin…
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G.W. Lowry to Governor George Hodges
Date: January 18, 1913
This letter was written by G.W. Lowry to Governor George Hodges. Lowry thanked Governor Hodges for a speech he had recently made to the Kansas House of Representatives discouraging the…
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to Governor Henry Allen
Date: July 21, 1919
This letter was written by the NAACP to Kansas Governor Henry Allen concerning the cost of the Anti Lynching conference that had taken place in New York in May of…
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Charles Langston to Samuel Wood
Date: April 7, 1867
Charles Langston, Leavenworth, Kansas, wrote this letter to Samuel Wood, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, in response to a letter Wood had written him on April 4, 1867, concerning a suffrage convention…
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Norman Bartlett video interview on experiences in World War II (transcript)
Date: October 10, 2007
Norman Bartlett enlisted in the Navy in 1943 and served until 1946. Bartlett was born in Colorado on July 26, 1924. He attended school in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. He joined the…
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Ivan Wiggins video interview on experiences in World War II (transcript)
Date: September 11, 2007
Ivan Wiggins was inducted into the Army (Infantry) in 1944 and served until 1946 in the Fortieth Infantry Division, 185th Infantry Headquarters. He was trained at Camp Robinson, Arkansas. He…
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Cecil Stecher video interview on experiences in World War II (transcript)
Date: June 12, 2007
Cecil Stecher enlisted in the Navy in 1943 and served until 1946. He was a Navy Air cadet and trained as a torpedo bomber. He was born June 14, 1925,…
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William Pendleton video interview on experiences in World War II (transcript)
Date: March 3, 2006
William Pendleton was inducted into the United States Army in 1942 and served until 1946. He was an engineer boat and shore officer, serving in New Guinea, Borneo, and the…
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Arthur Lamb video interview on experiences in World War II (transcript)
Date: September 27, 2007
Arthur Lamb enlisted in the Navy in 1942 and served until 1946 in the Amphibians. Interviewed by Pattie Johnston on September 27, 2007, Lamb talked about military experiences in the…
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Dale F. Hunter video interview on experiences in World War II (transcript)
Date: February 16, 2007
Dale F. Hunter was inducted into the Army (Air Force) in 1942 and served until 1945 in the 329th Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group. Interviewed by Brian Grubbs on February 16,…
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Esther Means to Governor Fred Hall
Date: February 15, 1956
Esther Means of Charleston, South Carolina, writes to Kansas Governor Fred Hall of Topeka arguing that the U. S. African American population should be distributed equally across all of the…
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Charles Langston to Samuel Wood
Date: June 20, 1867
This letter was written to Samuel Wood from Charles Langston, the leader of the black male suffrage movement in Kansas. Langston addressed two issues; removing the word white from the…
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Governor George Hodges speech
Date: January 15, 1913
Governor Hodges gave this speech to the Kansas House of Representatives discouraging the possible passage of a Jim Crow law. Many black Kansans were afraid these laws were going to…
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Governor Walter Stubbs to President William H. Taft
Date: January 13, 1910
Kansas Governor Walter Stubbs drafts a letter to U. S. President William H. Taft regarding the collection of federal tax revenues from purveyors of illegal liquor in Kansas. This draft…
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R. L. Cabell to Governor Walter Stubbs
Date: January 6, 1910
A commissioner from the office of internal revenue, R. L. Cabell, United States Treasury Department, writes Kansas Governor Walter Stubbs to clarify his concern over the issuing of federal revenue…
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Governor Jonathan Davis to Paul Sifton
Date: February 8, 1923
Paul Sifton with the United News of Kansas City, Missouri, contacts Kansas Governor Jonathan Davis of Topeka, Kansas, requesting a five hundred word statement on problems with the Kansas Court…
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T.A. Noftzger to Governor Jonathan Davis, Court of Industrial Relation
Date: November 24, 1922
Attorney T.A. Noftzger writes to Governor Davis, who has just been elected Governor of the state of Kansas on a campaign promise that he will abolish the Court of Industrial…
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Petition to Governor Jonathan Davis from residents of Newton, Kansas
Date: February 9, 1923
Citizens of Newton, Kansas write to Governor Davis seeking repeal of the Court of Industrial Relations Law. In this petition, citizens of Newton, referring to the Industrial Court Law state,…