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Final address to Populists
Date: 1896
This pamphlet issued by the Populist Party’s state central committee for Kansas includes a political address outlining key issues leading up to the 1896 election. The subtitle reads “The Scheme…
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Homes in Garden City
Date: 1909
Residental street scene Garden City, Kansas.
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Crossing the Plains, the journal of Harriett Bidwell Shaw
Date: 1851
Harriett Bidwell Shaw started a journal in September 18,1851, when she and her husband, Reverend James Milton Shaw traveled in a wagon train via the Santa Fe Trail to New…
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$5,000 Reward, Dead or Alive!
Date: Between 1898 and 1902
View of “$5,000 Reward, Dead or Alive!” drawing by Frederic Remington.
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A Christmas carol
Date: Between 1898 and 1902
View of “A Christmas Carol” drawing by Frederic Remington.
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Ford County Court House
Date: 1887
A view of the Ford County Court House in Dodge City, Kansas.
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Campaign songs, as sung by the National Quartette
Date: Between 1893 and 1894
This volume of campaign songs includes four pieces that vividly express the major beliefs of the Populist Party. The first song, “For Trampling on the Grass,” criticizes the businessmen and…
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Alliance songster
Date: Between 1890 and 1897
This Farmer’s Alliance pamphlet includes populist political songs used to organize the farm community behind its political banner.
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Industrial army songs, as sung by “the Mowhawks,” of Second California Regiment, U.S. Industrial Army
Date: 1894
These People’s Party political songs are aimed at galvanizing the organizational efforts to unionize the farm community.
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The alliance and labor songster
Date: 1890
This collection of labor and comic songs was produced for the use of the grange, alliance, and debating clubs. These People’s Party political rally and theme songs were to be…
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Bryan and Leedy Free Silver Flambeau Club song
Date: 1890s
This People’s Party campaign song rallies the party for an upcoming political election. Song No. 4, composed by Maj. H.B. Van Voorhis.
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A petition on Negro suffrage
Date: 1867
This petition by an unknown group of Kansas residents asks the state legislature to support suffrage for black males. The petitioners support removing the word “white” from articles five and…
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Concurrent resolution amending the constitution of the state of Kansas
Date: February 18, 1867
This resolution by the Kansas state legislature calls for an election on an amendment to the state constitution supporting black male suffrage. If approved by the white male voters, the…
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Indian Scouts in General Lane’s camp
Date: November 23, 1861
Harper’s Weekly illustration of Indian scouts in the camp of General James Lane. The illustration concerns a civil war conflict near Humansville, Missouri.
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House Concurrent Resolution No 48. Proposing amendment to the constitution
Date: February 13, 1867-February 14, 1867
Adopted by the House and approved by the Senate of the Kansas Legislature at Topeka, this resolution proposed to strike the word “Male” from section one, article five of the…
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Bryan and Leedy Free Silver Flambeau Club song
Date: 1890s
This People’s Party campaign song rallies the party for an upcoming political election. Song No. 2, composed by Maj. H.B. Van Voorhis.
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Citizens Alliance No. 41
Date: 1890s
A People’s Party Citizens Alliance publication enumerating their political platform, resolution and by-laws.
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John Kagey (Kagi) and lady friend
Date: Distributed 1840; produced 1859
John Kagey a member of Company B, Second Regiment of Kansas Volunteers. He was also one of John Brown’s men and was present at the raid on Harpers Ferry.
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People’s Party of Kansas, state platform, 1900
Date: July 25, 1900
The Kansas People’s Party political platform adopted at the state convention in Ft. Scott, Kansas, on July 25, 1900. The platform crusades the individual’s rights over those of special interests…
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Discharge papers, 1856
Date: October 1, 1856
Discharge papers issued for Lieutenant John Henry Kagi (Kagey) of Company B, 2nd Reg’t, Kansas Volunteers from the Kansas Free State Army.
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People’s Party national platform
Date: July 4, 1904
This circular outlines the People’s Party national platform which addresses issues such as money and banks, labor, referendum vote, land inheritance, human rights, and trusts and monopolies. The party adopted…
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Campaign songs, ancedotes and speeches
Date: 1892
This People’s Party songster including campaign songs, anecdotes and speeches used at political rallies.
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Willianna Hickman
Date: August 29, 1937
This is a photograph of Mrs. Willianna Hickman, who came to Graham County, Kansas, in 1878, from Scott County , Kentucky, and settled near the town of Nicodemus, Kansas. She…
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Children from Nicodemus, Kansas
Date: August 21, 1960
These children are from Nicodemus, Graham County. Nicodemus was settled in 1877 by African Americans from the South. Today Nicodemus is a historic site administered by the National Parks Service.
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Church leaders of Nicodemus, Kansas
Date: August 21, 1960
These are church leaders of Nicodemus, Kansas, (L to R): Jerry Scruggs, Mrs. Homer White & Rev. J.D. Wilson.