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Date: November 22, 1930
W. B. Storey, president, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad (AT&SF) of Chicago writes Governor Reed of Topeka, Kansas, concerning the AT&SFs use of foreign labor, particularly Mexicans. He is…
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Date: November 20, 1930
Governor Clyde Reed of Topeka, Kansas, writes to executives of railroad companies operating in Kansas to discourage them from using foreign labor, especially Mexicans, during a period of high unemployment.…
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Date: March 23, 1932
Governor Harry Woodring of Topeka, Kansas, replies to a letter from the mayor of Lincoln (Lincoln County), F. J. Aufdemberge. The mayor’s letter posses a solution to the high number…
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Date: March 10, 1932
The mayor of Lincoln Center (Lincoln County), F. J. Aufdemberge, writes Governor Harry Woodring of Topeka, Kansas, with a plan to help reduce the high number of unemployed men in…
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Date: June 17, 1933
F. A. Winfrey, Director of the Red Cross office in St. Louis, Missouri, responds to a request by Governor Alfred Landon of Topeka, Kansas, for assistance with drought conditions in…
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Date: June 17, 1933
Governor Alfred Landon of Topeka, Kansas, appeals to the Red Cross office in St. Louis, Missouri, for drought relief assistance. A survey of drought conditions in Southwest Kansas had revealed…
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Date: April 23, 1937
Secretary of the Emergency Dust Bowl Committee H. A. Kinney of Liberal (Seward County) sends Governor Walter Huxman of Topeka (Shawnee County) a copy of a telegram the committee sent…
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Date: January 18, 1916
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Date: June 8, 1918
Ottawa County Attorney, Lee Jackson, writes Governor Arthur Capper of Topeka (Shawnee County) requesting that he ask Phil Crab an Ada (Ottawa County) resident to donate to the Red Cross.…
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Date: July 9, 1917
United States District Attorney Fred Robertson of Kansas City (Wyandotte County) writes to Charles H. Sessions, secretary to Governor Arthur Capper, of Topeka (Shawnee County). The letter regards Session’s request…
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Date: April 3, 1858
The Leavenworth Constitution was the most radical of the four constitutions drafted for Kansas Territory. The Bill of Rights refers to “all men” and prohibited slavery from the state. The…
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Date: November 7,1857
The Lecompton Constitution, the second constitution drafted for Kansas Territory, was written by proslavery supporters. The document permitted slavery (Article VII), excluded free blacks from living in Kansas, and allowed…
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Date: April 17, 1917
Fred Robertson of the United State Attorney’s Office, Kansas City, writes the secretary to Governor Arthur Capper, Charles H. Sessions in response to a letter he received. The letter acknowledges…
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Date: Between 1890 and 1900
An advertising pamphlet promoting Mary Elizabeth Lease as a popular lecturer. The advertisement contains excerpts from several newspapers touting her oratorical abilities, and a list of Lease’s lecture titles divided…
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Date: February 16, 1944
E. J. Brosa, a farmer living near Valley Falls (Jefferson County) writes to Governor Andrew F. Schoeppel of Topeka (Shawnee County) requesting an Italian prisoner be sent to his farm…
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Date: May 18, 1943
Governor Andrew F. Schoeppel of Topeka, Kansas, announces that Axis prisoners of war held at the “Camp Phillips Internment Camp” are available as laborers for farm or construction work. Interested…
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Date: October 12-30, 1864
This autobiography is based on entries from Samuel Reader’s 1864 diary. The diary entries and personal recollections of the Battle of the Big Blue, Price’s Raid, and the Battle of…
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Date: May 26, 1888
A poster titled “Insane Man Escaped” announces the escape of Boston Corbett from the Insane Asylum at Topeka, Kansas. Corbett, a former Union soldier, is famous for killing John Wilkes…
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Date: 1867
This pamphlet contains excerpts from and/or newspaper accounts of thirty speeches that George Francis Train, a supporter of women’s rights, gave in Kansas over a two week period in October…
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Date: 1888
This pamphlet includes information on women’s suffrage from Kansas newspapers in over fifty counties. A brief history of the women’s voting movement in Kansas and statistics concerning the women’s vote…
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Date: May 1897
Susan B. Anthony, in this article published in The Arena, reflects on the efforts to change the status of women over the last 50 years since the Seneca Falls convention…
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Date: July 3, 1913--March 20, 1914
Senator Joseph L. Bristow, Kansas, presented these comments in the Senate of the United States, July 31,1913; March 2, 19, and 20, 1914. The July remarks were presented as “petitions…
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Date: Unknown
The title listed is Kansas Valentine but the first page is titled The Root of Evil. This item is a poem about the why women are not allowed the vote.…
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Date: February 18, 1914
Speech of Hon. Joseph L. Bristow of Kansas in the Senate of the United States. In this speech, Senator Bristow criticizes President Wilson for not supporting suffrage for women. He…
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Date: 1883
Mrs. Packard of Chicago, Illinois, was asking the legislatures of Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado for their support for two laws–one to end censorship of the correspondence of inmates of insane…
