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Legal status of women in Kansas
Date: 1931
This pamphlet was published by the Kansas League of Women Voters. It includes questions and answers to forty-four questions about the legal status of women in a number of areas…
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Kansas Voters’ Manual
Date: May 9, 1913
The purpose of this booklet was to assist “the women of Kansas in discharging the duties of citizenship.” The pamphlet describes who should vote, where to register, where to vote,…
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George Harrouff account book
Date: January 1879 - July 1887
A McPherson County farmer, George Harrouff of Lone Tree Township near King City (now Elyria), records his cash received and paid out in a ledger book. The entries include the…
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Elam Bartholomew diary
Date: From January, 1877 to December, 1878
Elam Bartholomew was a resident of Rooks County and Hays, Kansas. He was a horticulturalist, internationally known for his work with fungi. His diary reflects his active participation in Republican…
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The Matfield Green project
Date: April 23, 1997
Wes Jackson, farmer, geneticist, and director of the Land Institute at Salina (Saline County), Kansas, presents an outline of a project at Matfield Green (Chase County) to his student interns.…
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Dairy, swine and poultry special
Date: March 13, 1922
This is the itinerary for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad farm demonstration train on dairy, swine, and poultry. The list includes descriptions of railroad cars and equipment, program…
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Cow, sow and hen train
Date: May 13, 1922
This circular, distributed by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, announces the arrival of the “Cow, Sow & Hen” demonstration train at Osage City. The flyer identifies the speakers…
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Kansas demonstration train. “Cow, Sow & Hen”
Date: May 1, 1922-May 13, 1922
These field notes document the activities of the “Cow, Sow & Hen Special,” a farm demonstration train operated by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad and the extension office…
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Edna Heim to Clarice Snoddy
Date: August 31, 1938
Tenant farmers Bill and Edna Heim of Kensington, Kansas, wrote this letter to farm owner Clarice Snoddy of Topeka regarding drought conditions and government soil conservation programs on the farm.…
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Edna Heim to Miss Clarice Snoddy
Date: July 4, 1938
Tenant farmers Bill and Edna Heim of Kensington, Kansas, wrote to the farm owner, Clarice Snoddy of Topeka, regarding a hail storm that destroyed most of their crop. The letter…
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Lone Tree Farmers’ Alliance minute book
Date: September 4, 1890
The Lone Tree suballiance of the Kansas Farmers’ Alliance of Dentonia, Jewell County, met in September of 1890 and recorded the minutes of that meeting. In addition to local appointments…
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Patrons of Chase County
Date: January 1, 1875-March 12, 1875
S. N. Wood, Relief Agent for Chase County, and master of the Falls Grange subordinate chapter of the Patrons of Husbandry (Kansas State Grange), composed this circular for distribution to…
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Official witnesses authorized for the execution of Perry Edward Smith
Date: April 14, 1965
A list of authorized witnesses to the execution of Perry Smith created by the Kansas State Penitentiary. This item is part of Smith’s inmate case file, no. 14747. Smith and…
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Perry Edward Smith inmate case file
Date: 1959 - 1965
The Kansas State Penitentiary case file on Perry Edward Smith, inmate number 14747. Smith and his accomplice, Richard Hickock, were convicted of first degree murder for the brutal 1959 killings…
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Richard Eugene Hickock inmate case file
Date: 1959 - 1965
The Kansas State Penitentiary case file on Richard Hickock, inmate number 14746. Hickock and his accomplice, Perry Smith, were convicted of first degree murder for the brutal 1959 killings of…
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Killer, 21, spared as governor acts
Date: April 12, 1960
A Topeka State Journal article reports on Governor George Docking’s opposition to capital punishment. Docking commuted the death sentence of Bobby Joe Spencer to life in prison. Spencer was sentenced…
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Isabella Barnes to Governor Edward Hoch
Date: March 17, 1906
Mrs. Isabella Barnes of Liberal, Kansas, writes Governor Edward Hoch of Topeka concerning her wish to wear men’s clothing. Mrs. Barnes states that she would like to wear men’s clothing…
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A lesson of to-day and a questions of to-morrow
Date: October 01, 1892
This speech was delivered by Col. Percy Daniels, candidate of the People’s and Democratic Parties for Kansas Lieutent Governor, at Girard, Kansas.
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Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway the Sedalia route…
Date: Between 1874 and 1876
Nineteenth century railroad broadside advertising the Sedalia, Missouri, route of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company. The route traveled between Hannibal and St. Louis, Missouri, and the Indian territory.…
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An act relating to kidnaping in the first degree
Date: 1955
In 1955, the Kansas Legislature expanded the state’s capital punishment law with Senate Bill 80 to include the crime of kidnapping. Since the death penalty was reinstated in Kansas in…
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State has hanged 13 killers since ’35
Date: June 22, 1965
This newspaper article on the history of the death penalty in Kansas appeared in the Topeka Capital on the day George York and James Latham were executed at the Kansas…
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A hanging in Kansas
Date: February 18, 1916
This newspaper article published in the Topeka State Journal illustrates the confusion surrounding the history of state death penalty laws in Kansas. The article concerns the possible execution, under federal…
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William L. White to Governor Andrew F. Schoeppel
Date: February 11, 1944
William Lindsay White, publisher of the Emporia Gazette, sends Governor Andrew F. Schoeppel, of Topeka, a copy of a letter he wrote to Milton F. Amrine, warden of the Kansas…
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Warden Amrine’s statement upon resignation from the Kansas State Penitentiary
Date: February 08, 1944
Milton F. Amrine, Warden of the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing, Kansas, presents Governor Andrew F. Schoeppel’s office, of Topeka, with his statement of resignation. Amrine resigned due to his…
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An act relating to crimes punishable by death
Date: 1935
With the capital punishment law repealed in 1907, the Kansas Legislature made several unsuccessful attempts at reinstatement in 1927, 1931, and 1933. In 1935, the legislature succeeded in reinstating the…