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Martha Farnsworth diary
Date: Between 1882 and 1889
Martha Van Orsdol Shaw Farnsworth kept a personal diary from 1882 through 1922 with only a few gaps. The diary starts when she is a teenager. The entries in this…
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Martha Farnsworth diary
Date: January 1--December 31, 1896
Martha Van Orsdol Shaw Farnsworth kept a personal diary from 1882 through 1922 with only a few gaps. The diary starts when she is a teenager. It describes her daily…
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Martha Farnsworth diary
Date: January 1, 1894-December 31, 1895
Martha Van Orsdol Shaw Farnsworth kept a personal diary from 1882 through 1922 with only a few gaps. The diary starts when she is a teenager. It describes her daily…
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Martha Farnsworth diary
Date: January 1, 1890-December 31, 1893
Martha Van Orsdol Shaw Farnsworth kept a personal diary from 1882 through 1922 with only a few gaps. The diary starts when she is a teenager. It describes her daily…
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Unknown to H. M. Hoxie
Date: March 19, 1886
This letter may have been drafted by Kansas Governor John Martin of Topeka or his secretary. The letter informs H.M. Hoxie, Missouri Pacific Railway Company vice president, of a meeting…
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A.B. Campbell to Governor John Martin
Date: April 9, 1886
Adjutant General Colonel A. B. Campbell of Parsons, Kansas, writes Kansas Governor John Martin of Topeka. He informs the governor that citizens are putting together a force of fifty special…
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Governor John Martin to Colonel A.B. Campbell
Date: April 5, 1886
Kansas Governor John A. Martin of Topeka telegrams Adjutant General Colonel A. B. Campbell of Parsons about conditions in Parsons during the 1886 Missouri Pacific Railway Strike. Colonel Campbell has…
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Business men, property owners to Governor John Martin
Date: March 26, 1886
In this telegram, business men and property owners from several Kansas communities plead with the governor to issue a proclamation to resume traffic on all rail lines operated by the…
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Governor John Carlin: terms of achievement
Date: January 11, 1987
This excerpt from Midway, the Sunday magazine section of the Topeka Daily Capital, highlights the political achievements of John Carlin at the end of his second term as the governor…
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Kassebaum, Bennett win for GOP
Date: November 8, 1978
The Topeka Daily Capital printed an early projection of the Kansas governor’s race between Republican incumbent Robert Bennett and Democratic hopeful John Carlin, who was Speaker of the Kansas House…
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The Santa Fe limited, Topeka, Kansas
Date: January 30, 1925
A four page newspaper published by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. This issue contains many short articles about various editors and newspapers in the state of Kansas on…
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A new home in an old settlement!
Date: May 1, 1880
A large brochure distributed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad to encourage land settlement in the Pottawattomie Reserve in eastern Kansas. Included in the brochure are a large…
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What can be done with $1,000 by an industrious, energetic farmer in the Arkansas Valley
Date: Between 1878 and 1885
A small brochure distributed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad describing what a man could acquire with as little as $1000 in south central and southwest Kansas. He…
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The A. T. & S. F. R. R. celebration . . . Emporia
Date: August 31, 1870
Invitation: “The Mayor, Common Council and Citzens of Emporia cordially invite you to unite with them in celebrating the completion of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad to that…
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John Carlin for Governor
Date: 1978
This political campaign brochure shows John Carlin as the Democratic candidate for Kansas Governor. The brochure includes images of Carlin as a candidate with brief political retorts against Governor Robert…
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We have to put Kansas government on a diet
Date: 1978
A 1978 political poster from Governor John Carlin’s first gubernatorial race against Governor Robert Bennett. The poster depicts an overweight gentleman with the slogan “WE HAVE TO PUT KANSAS GOVERNMENT…
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Help!
Date: 1978
This political poster shows Governor John Carlin’s first gubernatorial race against Governor Robert Bennett. The poster depicts a Kansas taxpayer who needs “Help” from soaring state expenditures. The solution offered…
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Kansas Smaller High Schools Association Booster
Date: January 31, 1955
This publication of the Kansas Smaller High Schools Association includes minutes of the first meeting, minutes of the executive council, the constitution, and a list of participating schools. The association…
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Re-elect Governor Bennett
Date: 1978
This political campaign brochure promotes the re-election of Governor Robert Bennett and candidate for Lieutenant Governor Larry Montgomery. Governor Bennett reminds voters through his political slogan, “doing what Kansans want…
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Sam Hardage
Date: 1982
This 1982 political campaign brochure advocates Sam Hardage as the Republican candidate for Kansas Governor. The brochure argues that Hardage used his leadership abilities to succeed in business and when…
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The local executive committee of working men to Governor John Martin
Date: May 16, 1885
In this memo, the members of the local executive committee of working men of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company at Parsons, Kansas, inform Kansas Governor John A. Martin, at Topeka,…
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J.B. Van Dyne to H.M. Hoxie
Date: May 18, 1885
J.B. Van Dyne of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, Sedalia, Missouri, responds to of the Missouri Pacific Railway vice president H.M. Hoxie of St. Louis, Missouri, regarding the treatment of…
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H.M. Hoxie to J.B. Van Dyne
Date: May 18, 1885
In this telegram, Missouri Pacific Railway Company vice president H. M. Hoxie of St. Louis, Missouri, asks J.B. Van Dyne, of Sedalia, Missouri, if he has discharged any men for…
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Report of the case of Doolittle and Schanbacher railroad strike 1885
Date: March 25, 1885
John Brown, general solicitor of the Texas and Pacific Railway Company, sends Governor John Martin a copy of the report and federal court opinion for the case of Doolittle and…
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Hall of Irish American Protections Club to Governor John Martin
Date: March 17, 1885
In this resolution, the Irish American Protections Club in Atchison, Kansas, thanks Kansas Governor John Martin for his effort in ending a railroad strike. The resolution notes that “It is…