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Date: 1917-1926
This ledger from the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women provides information but is not limited to the inmate’s name, number, race, crime and length of sentence. Arranged in chronological…
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Date: 1917-1926
This ledger from the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women provides information but is not limited to the inmate’s name, number, race, crime, date and county of arrest. Arranged in…
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Date: Between 1981 and 1994
These photographs and notes from the Kansas Historical Society Museum Director’s Files illustrate conservation, restoration, and use of the Potawatomi Baptist Mission at the Kansas Historical Society Museum and Historical…
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Date: Between 1929 and 1932
Individual declarations of intent to become United States citizens. Forms give individual’s name, former country of residence, mate’s and children’s information, when immigrated, when married, and vessel or ship name…
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Date: March 3, 1857
Once again, from Topeka, Kagi wrote his father that his long planned trip to Nebraska City had to be delayed, this time because of high water on the “Kaw river”…
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Date: February 13, 1857
On February 13, 1857, Kagi informed his sister in Bristol, Ohio, that he wouldn’t be able to make the expected spring trip home afterall. He did plan to travel to…
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Date: January 30, 1857
Writing from the “Kansas Tribune” office in Topeka, Kansas Territory, Kagi wrote his father on January 30, 1857, that he planned to leave for Ohio via Nebraska City (the safest…
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Date: January 26, 1857
Kagi writes his father, who was still in Nebraska, regarding his continuing problems with proslavery officials in Lecompton, Kansas Territory. Kagi was arrested again (and quickly made bail). He was…
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Date: January 4, 185[7]
From Topeka, Kansas Territory, shortly after the end of his imprisonment at Lecompton, John Kagi writes his sister in Bristol, Ohio, a mostly personal letter to say he is eager…
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Date: September 4, 1856
From Topeka, Kansas Territory, Kagi writes his father about his (Kagi’s) personal situation and more generally about the civil war in Kansas Territory. Several thousand “armed Missourians” had been committing…
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Date: August 11, 1856
Copied by R. J. Hinton from his journal in preparation for one of his publications on the Bleeding Kansas, the first letter is Jim Lane’s offer to rescue the Lecompton…
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Date: December 1, 1856
This item is a hand written copy and a newspaper version of the poem “Don’t Go Back!” It is attributed to John E. Cook on the front of the document,…
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Date: December 20, 1856
Released after three months from “prison” in Kansas Territory, John H. Kagi writes his father (who still resided in their native Ohio, but was then in Nebraska City, Nebraska) from…
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Date: November 9, 1856
From Nebraska Territory on November 4, 1856, William Leeman writes writes his mother that he had just left Kansas Territory because, after driving the “Border Ruffians” out, the governor and…
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Date: May 21, 1856
This hand written copy of a speech by David Atchison, according to a note on the top of page one, made by R. J. Hinton, “was made for me [Hinton]…
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Date: November 20, 1856
John Henry Kagi, sometimes known as Brown’s “Secretary of War,” is “in prison at Lecompton,” Kansas Territory, when he writes this letter to his sister on November 20, 1856. Kagi,…
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Date: July 15, 1856
William H. Leeman, a follower of John Brown in Kansas Territory,and an eventual casualty of the raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, writes this letter to his mother while “traveling across…
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Date: 1856
These two, incomplete, excerpts of letters written by Thaddeus Hyatt, president of the National Kansas Committee, describe the early workings of this committee and its efforts for the free state…
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Date: November 7, 1857
This is the text of the Lecompton Constitution, as printed in Daniel W. Wilder’s “Annals of Kansas” (1868). The Lecompton Constitution was the second constitution drafted for Kansas Territory and…
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Date: April 3, 1858
This is the text of the Leavenworth Constitution as published in Daniel W. Wilder’s “The Annals of Kansas” (1886). The Leavenworth Constitution was the most radical of the four constitutions…
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Date: January 23, 1857
Reverend William Russell was from Memphis, Michigan. He had been a classmate of Adair’s at Oberlin College, and writes to the Adair family to keep in touch with them. Russell…
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Date: June 23, 1870 through September 29, 1870
Originally published as an almost weekly column in the “Western Home Journal,” Lawrence, Kansas, beginning June 23, 1870, “Recollections of 1854” were written by Joseph Savage. Savage was born in…
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Date: November 16, 1854
William A. Hammond, secretary of the Pawnee Town Association, writes: “Received Fort Leavenworth K. T. November 16th of A. H. Reeder one hundred dollars ($100.00) in full of a payment…
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Date: January 19, 1861
Charles Robinson, writing to his wife, Sara Robinson, in Lawrence, Kansas Territory, on January 19, 1861, is confident that things still looked good from him in Washington, D.C. Robinson mentions…
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Date: December 19, 1860
On December 19, 1860, Charles Robinson writes to his wife from Washington, D.C., where he is lobbying members of Congress and other officials on behalf of Kansas and himself. Numerous…
