Medium: Text
Date: February 12, 1865
This letter, written by T. Moonlight, Colonel of the 11th Kansas Cavalry, states that the purpose of this military investigation, among other things, was to ascertain if Colonel John Chivington,…
Medium: Text
Date: 1851-1852
This day book/ledger records the sales in the post general store. In 1844, Hiero T. Wilson partnered with John A. Bugg as the post sutlers. Bugg had been named sutler…
Medium: Text
Date: 1844-1845
This day book/ledger records the sales in the post general store. In 1844, Hiero T. Wilson partnered with John A. Bugg as the post sutlers. Bugg had been named sutler…
Medium: Text
Date: November 11, 1872-November 11, 1873
This diary of Henry Hubert Raymond (1848-1936) contains daily entries for one year during his trip from Calinville, Illinois to Kansas from November 11, 1872 to November 11, 1873. The…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1920 and 1940
A mechanical drawing of Passenger Locomotive, Mountain (4-8-2) and a numerical listing of it’s principal parts.
Medium: Text
Date: April 1928
This directory primarily deals with African Americans living in Topeka, Kansas, but it also contains listing for Alma, Burlingame, Council Grove, Dunlap, Eskridge, Osage City, Oskaloosa, Paxico, Perry and rural…
Medium: Text
Date: 1934; copyright 1934
This “Colored Directory” is similar to other city directories. It lists African American churches, organizations, businesses and professionals. The bulk of the directory lists the names of African Americans and…
Medium: Text
Date: Between January 01, 1920 and December 31, 1939
A mechanical drawing from The Baldwin Locomotive Works, showing the Walschaerts valve motion and the Stephenson valve motion. Parts for the valve motions are listed in numerical order beside the…
Medium: Text
Date: 1960
This is a 1960 campaign pamphlet promoting Attorney General John Anderson, Jr. as the Republican candidate for Kansas Governor. Only the cover of the pamphlet is included here.
Medium: Text
Date: September 2, 1931
A newspaper article written by Kansas Senator Arthur Capper published in the New York Herald Tribune on September 27, 1931. The column focuses on the recent wave of infantile paralysis…
Medium: Text
Date: 1935
In this magazine article, Mary McKinney relates her experiences during the drought of the 1930s. Her reminiscence includes details about how farm families conserved water and kept cool during the…
Medium: Text
Date: February 23, 1908
In this reminiscence, Martha Valentine relates her experiences as a Kansas housewife during the early years of white settlement in Kansas. Valentine and her husband Daniel first came to Kansas…
Medium: Text
Date: August 1, 1874
This brief, unsigned article published in the Junction City Union presents the hardships Kansans faced during times of drought. Settlers looked to the skies for rain but were disappointed. According…
Medium: Text
Date: 1950
In this reminiscence, Pauline Winkler Grey of Meade County recounts the raging dust storm that hit western Kansas on April 14, 1935. Her retelling includes information about how she prepared…
Medium: Text
Date: 1894
This speech on the financial crisis (or “panic”) of 1893 was written by C. W. Trickett of the Wyandotte National Bank of Kansas City, Kansas. It was published in the…
Medium: Text
Date: July 25, 1877
W. J. Buchan of Wyandotte, Kansas, writes Governor George Anthony of Topeka, regarding a railroad strike in Wyandotte County. Buchan states that striking workers were not causing trouble, but a…
Medium: Text
Date: March 1892-October 1910
Regular, special, board, and annual meeting minutes of the Lake View [Lakeview] Shooting and Fishing Association. The volume includes the First Annual Report (March 14, 1893) and Second Annual Report…
Medium: Text
Date: January 30, 1946
A telegram from Clem Blangers, Salina, Kansas, to Kansas Senator Arthur Capper of Topeka. Blangers, Secretary of the Salina Building Trades Council, requested something be done for the returning war…
Medium: Text
Date: April 20, 1945
This is a telegram from Earl M. Smith, Concordia, Kansas, to Kansas Senator Arthur Capper, Washington D.C. With World War II taking much of the male labor force overseas, prisoners…
Medium: Text
Date: August 20, 1943
A letter from A.R. Sleeper of Iola, Kansas, to Kansas Senator Arthur Capper in Topeka. Sleeper, a member of the Allen County Selective Service Board, asks that the operation of…
Medium: Text
Date: July 1, 1939
A letter from Hjalmar Winblad, Lindsborg, Kansas, to Kansas Senator Arthur Capper, Washington, D.C., addressing the issue of chain stores and their effect on independent businessmen of Kansas.
Medium: Text
Date: 1916
The subtitle of this publication is “A History of the Newspapers and Magazines Published in Kansas From the Organization of Kansas Territory, 1854, to January 1, 1916.” This history includes…
Medium: Text
Date: August 1936
Josephine Strode, a social worker in western Kansas, wrote this brief account of how Kansans coped during the 1930s Dust Bowl. She expresses the concerns of social workers who believe…
Medium: Text
Date: 1934
This collection of poems, written during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, provides insight into the hardships of daily life in drought-stricken Kansas. The poets’ subjects range from harsh despair…
Medium: Text
Date: 1872
This advertisement promotes the sale of 100,000 acres of land along the line of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad. According to the ad, these lands have fertile soil…
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