Medium: Text
Date: 1845
This map, included in the Report of the Secretary of War, illustrates the route taken by Stephen Watts Kearny and the 1st Dragoons in an 1845 expedition. This expedition began…
Medium: Text
Date: December 13, 1825
Thomas McKenney, the current Superintendent of Indian Affairs, wrote this letter to James Barbour, Secretary of War, explaining the perceived success of the government’s attempts to “civilize” Indian tribes. As…
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Date: 1838-1839
This chart outlining Indian land cessions is composed of three columns containing the year of cession, acres acquired, and the amounts to be paid for these lands. According to the…
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Date: 1868
This balance sheet outlines the articles of clothing issued to Company 9 of the 19th Kansas Cavalry as well as their prices. Although the sheet is titled “Price List of…
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Date: 1869
This table lists the equipment issued to soldiers of the 19th Kansas Cavalry, Company D, from Douglas County, Kansas. It includes the soldier’s name, their firearms, and their cavalry supplies…
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Date: Between 1861 and 1876
This undated table lists the distances, in both miles and yards, between key stations on the route from Fort Harker, Kansas, to Denver, Colorado Territory. Fort Harker was located in…
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Date: July 17, 1867
This order for the 18th Kansas Cavalry, located at Fort Harker, regulates the maintenance of cavalry horses. Fort Harker was established to provide protection for the Kansas Stage Line and…
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Date: October 29, 1868
This order establishes the 19th Kansas Cavalry at Camp Crawford, which was located outside Topeka, Kansas. This camp had been named after Samuel Crawford, the former governor of Kansas who…
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Date: January 2, 1869
This order established the daily routine that must be observed by the cavalry forces located near Fort Cobb. This includes reveille (5:45am), calls for meals, and finally taps (8:25pm).
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Date: May 8, 1827
In this letter Henry Leavenworth, founder of Cantonment Leavenworth (later Ft. Leavenworth) described the location he had chosen as the site of this military outpost. Leavenworth also mentioned that, because…
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Date: 1932
An illustration copied from a pamphlet titled Three Modern Evils. The illustration claims a modernist preacher says that the Bible is not supernaturally inspired. Genesis is a lie. Evolution is…
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Date: July 5, 1925
We Do Not Fear Mr. Gray’s Hell say Modernists : pastor elect of Unitarian Church answers arguments of Fundamentalist.
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Date: July 05, 1925
View of a headline in the Wichita Eagle, Wichita, Kansas, on a local pastor critical of evolution.
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Date: July 21, 1925
This headline appeared in the Topeka Daily Capital and highlights Clarence Darrow’s quizzing of William Jennings Bryan during cross examinations in the Scopes “monkey” trial. This image presents the headline…
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Date: July 22, 1925
This headline appeared in the Topeka Daily Capital and shows local reaction to the Scopes “monkey” trial on the teaching of evolution in schools. This image highlights the headlines only.
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Date: February 28, 1929
This newspaper advertisement illustrates Hope Hampton star of the opera, stage, and screen promoting the benefits of smoking Lucky Strike cigarettes.
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Date: December 4, 1926
This newspaper advertisement appeared in the El Dorado Times for a Chrysler ’50’ sedan by Hastie Motor Company in El Dorado, Kansas.
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Date: November 22, 1926
This advertisement for Shredded Wheat appeared in the El Dorado Times.
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Date: December 28, 1845
This treaty allowed the U. S. government to create a road connecting the western portion of Missouri to New Mexico (which was still in the hands of Mexico at this…
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Date: July 20, 1867
This balance sheet lists the number of effective and non-effective officers of the 18th Kansas Cavalry stationed at Camp Crawford, outside Topeka, Kansas. It is signed by Captain George B.…
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Date: Between 1920 and 1921
A formal portrait of the members of the 1920-1921 Topeka High School Orchestra that brought home five silver cups from the State Musical Contest in Emporia, Kansas. Famed jazz tenor…
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Date: 1921
A formal portrait of the members of the 1920-1921 Topeka High School Orchestra that brought home five silver cups from the State Musical Contest in Emporia, Kansas. Famed jazz tenor…
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Date: February 23, 1917
This newspaper article from the “Hugoton Hermes” reports the death of Floyd Cunningham, 1903-1917, older brother of miler Glenn Cunningham, 1909-1988. The brothers were severely burned in a fire at…
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Date: February 16, 1917
This is a newspaper article in the “Hugoton Hermes” describing the Stevens County, Kansas, schoolhouse fire that destroyed the school and severely burned brothers Floyd and Glenn Cunningham. Thirteen year…
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Date: April 1879 - October 1882
Kansas Governor John P. St. John (1879-1883) received these letters from persons concerned with the migration of southern blacks to Kansas, commonly known as the Exodus or Exoduster movement. The…
