Medium: Text
Date: Between May 1, 1888 and September 30, 1888
This tourist folder shows time tables and site information for six routes of the Union Pacific Rail Road Company and the Kansas Pacific Rail Road Company to various tourist destinations…
Medium: Text
Date: 1873
A partial map of the Southwestern United States showing the Central Pacific, Union Pacific, Denver Pacific and Kansas Pacific Railroads. This map was possibly taken from an article/book by Robert…
Medium: Text
Date: January 1880
This brochure encourages the purchase of land twenty miles either side of the Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad. The Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad lies primarily from Atchison to Concordia…
Medium: Text
Date: Between May 31, 1900 and January 31, 1902
This offer to sell shares is to help finance the construction of a railway from Kansas City to Port Stilwell (Topolobampo), Mexico, approximately 1,100 miles. The offer is for shares…
Medium: Text
Date: April 2, 1879
This document is notice of the sale of the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company and of the Kansas City, Santa Fe Railroad and Telegraph Company under decree of the…
Medium: Text
Date: August 21, 1875
This is a general order from E. C. Devereux of the St. Louis, Lawrence and Western Railroad announcing the appointment of W. H. Bancroft as the Assistant Superintendent.
Medium: Text
Date: 1991
A collection of papers presented at the116th Annual Meeting of the Kansas State Historical Society on October 4 and 5, 1991. The essays cover four general themes: the law and…
Medium: Text
Date: June 29, 1894
A letter written to Kansas Governor Lorenzo Dow Lewelling of Topeka by Susan Orcutt of Mendota, Kansas, telling him about their depressed situation in Trego County. Orcutt tells Lewelling that…
Medium: Text
Date: January 13, 1923
A 1923 resolution to retain the present anti-cigarette law by the Kansas branch of the National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teachers Association. The anti-cigarette law was passed in 1889 prohibiting…
Medium: Text
Date: December 22, 1919
In this letter, grocer A. H. Gufler writes the governor about the dangers of “anti-profiteering.” The governor has called for a special legislative session to address labor disputes and had…
Medium: Text
Date: December 3, 1919
Wyandotte County, Kansas, assessor Wm. Bird writes to Kansas Governor Henry Allen supporting his decision to seek legislation to end labor disputes. Bird warns Governor Allen that it would be…
Medium: Text
Date: December 9, 1919
In his letter to Kansas Governor Henry Allen, Herbert Drake, attorney, Camden, New Jersey, quotes from an article on labor disputes. Governor Allen has proposed the need for an industrial…
Medium: Text
Date: December 11, 1919
Attorney A.A. Graham writes Governor Henry Allen with a model for the proposed industrial court that expands the authority of the Public Utilities Commission. The governor has called a special…
Medium: Text
Date: June 9, 1913
These images show pages of the rules and regulations recorded in the minutes of the Kansas State Board of Pharmacy. The regulations cover such topics as the sale of habit-forming…
Medium: Text
Date: September 4, 1889-March 5, 1902
These images show pages of the Kansas State Board of Pharmacy’s examination questions for obtaining a license as a pharmacist. The three sections of the examinations are labeled Materia Medica,…
Medium: Text
Date: March 30, 1887
George W. Espey, an agent of the Palace Drug Store in Ashland, Kansas, writes to Governor John A. Martin in Topeka asking whether he must quit selling alcohol because the…
Medium: Text
Date: December 8, 1885
W. E. Hall, an owner of a hardware store in Burlington, writes to Governor John A. Martin in Topeka about a petition for pardoning two Burlington druggists by the names…
Medium: Text
Date: July 10, 1885
H. Butterfield of Salem, Jewell County, Kansas, writes to Governor John A. Martin in Topeka with a list of questions about the recently amended alcohol prohibition law regulating the sale…
Medium: Text
Date: March 12, 1885
L. V. D. Tosh, a druggist in Osage City, writes to Governor John A. Martin in Topeka asking for a clarification of the alcohol prohibition law as recently amended. Tosh…
Medium: Text
Date: August 29, 1884
Dr. I. W. Day of McPherson writes to Governor George W. Glick expressing support for pardoning Dr. J. B. Curtis of Lindsborg, who was prosecuted for violating Kansas’ prohibition law…
Medium: Text
Date: 1876
This pencil sketch of Caldwell, Kansas is taken from the Ado Hunnius dirary and depicts the Caldwell House Hotel from the north east end of the street.
Medium: Text
Date: February 6, 1972
These images show news clippings of the article titled “Druggist James O’Brien one of ‘the good guys,’ ” published in the Hays Daily News of Hays, Kansas, and collected in…
Medium: Text
Date: June 24, 1902
These images show the essay titled “Dangers of Self-Drugging With Proprietary Medicines,” by Edward Bumgardner of Lawrence, Kansas. The essay was part of a prize contest on topics for the…
Medium: Text
Date: 1903
These images show the booklet titled Seelye’s Almanac, Health Guide, and Cook Book, published by A. B. Seelye Medical Company in Abilene, Kansas. The approximately 50-page booklet contains advertisements and…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1901 and 1920
This image shows a brochure advertising The O’B– Special patent medicine sold by D. S. O’Brien, M. D., of Beloit, Kansas.
