Medium: Text
Date: 1900
This pamphlet lists the purpose and objectives of the Twentieth Century Total Abstinence Union. This union wanted to build a strong sentiment for the “total destruction of the entire liquor…
Medium: Text
Date: May 7, 1876
Two timetables for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Kansas City and Denver, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Canon City and all points in Colorado. Includes a map of the…
Medium: Text
Date: 1876
This poster advertises a six and one-half hour trip west to Pueblo, Colorado, and the San Juan mines on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad. An abbreviated map indicates…
Medium: Text
Date: 1877
A Kansas Pacific Railway map of the resort destinations in the central Rockies of Colorado including the Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Boulder regions.
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1870 and 1880
This Rock Island Railroad poster announces lines in Wabaunsee County, Kansas. The poster cautions people to not believe unfavorable advertisements in the Leonardville Monitor about the Rock Island Railroad line.
Medium: Text
Date: August 28, 1882
This poster announces the fourth annual reunion sponsored by the Department of Nebraska’s Grand Army of the Republic. All old soldiers and sailors of the late war are invited to…
Medium: Text
Date: February 6, 1920
Kansas Governor Henry Allen, of Topeka, writes to the Honorable John Barrett, Director General Pan American Union, of Washington D.C., thanking him for his endorsement of the newly created Court…
Medium: Text
Date: March 12, 1920
The secretary to Governor Allen, of Topeka, writes to Orville Buckles, of Millikan University, Decatur, Illinois, on behalf of the governor. The letter is written in response to a letter…
Medium: Text
Date: March 8, 1920
Orville Buckles of Millikin University, Decatur Illinois, writes to Kansas Governor Henry Allen, of Topeka, after reading an article in the Saturday Evening Post authored by Governor Allen. In this…
Medium: Text
Date: January 1, 1920
J.C. Bell, President of the Central Labor Union, writes to Kansas Governor Henry Allen on behalf of the Central Labor Council of Fort Scott and the twenty-one local affiliated unions.…
Medium: Text
Date: January 10, 1920
In this letter Kansas Governor Henry Allen, of Topeka, writes to J.C. Bell, President of the Central Labor Union. Governor Allen seeks to win the support of the labor unions…
Medium: Text
Date: Betweem 1870 and 1890
This Union Pacific Railway poster promotes travel east from Sidney, Nebraska, on the Union Pacific Railway. It claims the Sidney and Black Hills Stage line passes over the best roads…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1870 and 1890
This poster advertises the Union Pacific Railway line through Kansas, Nebraska and eastward. The poster includes illustrations of the Mountain of the Holy Cross, the Rocky Mountain Elk, and possibly…
Medium: Text
Date: 1870s or 1880s
This poster advertises the Union Pacific Railway line through Kansas, Nebraska and beyond. The poster also includes illustrations of the Golden Gate, Mountain of the Holy Cross, and the Rocky…
Medium: Text
Date: 1908 ?
This souvenir history of Larned and Pawnee County, Kansas, includes brief historical sketches with many photos of farms, homes, and businesses.
Medium: Text
Date: March 1856
This pamphlet provides people emigrating to Kansas with practical and reliable information about soil, timber, stone, coal, water, roads, postal facilities, climate, surveys, inhabitants, towns and town sites, routes, and…
Medium: Text
Date: January 19, 1920
Dr. G.S. Battery, of the Horse Review Journal, Cawker City, Kansas, writes to Kansas Governor Henry Allen, of Topeka, to humorously describe public interest in the proposed industrial court legislation.…
Medium: Text
Date: January 9, 1920
A.P.Barrett, of Pratt, Kansas, writes to Governor Henry Allen, of Topeka, congratulating him on the “good fight” and expressing gratitude for his work in developing the industrial court. The Kansas…
Medium: Text
Date: December 31, 1919
Thomas Wagstaff, an attorney from Independence, Kansas, writes to Kansas Governor Henry Allen, of Topeka, congratulating him on his work as governor and the proposed industrial court legislation. The governor…
Medium: Text
Date: December 31, 1919
D. A. Banta, a district judge from Great Bend, writes Kansas Governor Henry Allen, of Topeka, about the proposed industrial court legislation. In the letter, Judge Santa tells the governor…
Medium: Text
Date: January 2, 1920
J. a. Baker, the secretary of the Central Labor Union in Parsons, Kansas, sends Kansas Governor Henry Allen, of Topeka, a resolution protesting the proposed industrial court legislation. Baker refers…
Medium: Text
Date: July 31, 1900
A letter sent to members of the Twentieth Century Total Abstinence Crusade that informs them how to recruit and secure new members. Accompanying the letter would be a packet of…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1890 and 1910
A pledge card distributed by the Twentieth Century Abstinence Union. The card asks the person that signs to abstain from liquor and to help spread the knowledge of the T.C.…
Medium: Text
Date: 1896
This booklet contains the constitution and by laws of the Kansas Anti-Resubmission League. The objective of this league was to secure the nomination and election of officers within the state…
Medium: Text
Date: June 9, 1899
An announcement that Clinton N. Howard, a leading temperance worker in the country, will be speaking at the Good Citizenship Temperance meeting at the First Presbyterian Church in Topeka, Kansas,…
