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Good Roads Constitutional Amendment
Date: 1919
This small pamphlet was published by the Kansas Good Roads Association urging Kansas voters to pass Amendment no.3 to improve roads of all kinds.
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National Old Trails Road project : arguments for its construction and maintenance by the United States government
Date: between 1912 and 1915
No Description Provided
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The good roads problem
Date: Between 1894 and 1914
No summary available
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Kansas Link of National Road Along Famous Old Trails of the Continent
Date: Unknown
This postcard shows the Kansas Link of National Road along famous old trails of the continent, specifically the Old Santa Fe Trail. The postcard is from Council Grove.
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Immigrants’ guide to the most fertile lands of Kansas
Date: Around 1880
This Union Pacific Railway Company promotional advertisement claims that Kansas is the best place in the west to buy a grain farm, buy a stock farm, buy a sheep ranch,…
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Free sleeping cars for emigrants carried on express trains, and leaving Kansas City both morning and evening on the Santa Fe route
Date: 1884
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company printed this promotional advertisement to encourage emigrant settlers to travel by their trains on the way to new land holdings.
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A farm out west. Emigration folder of the great Rock Island route
Date: 1897
This Chicago & Rock Island railroad pamphlet promotes agricultural production and settlement in the southwestern states of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
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The Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad is the short line to the Republican and Solomon Valleys
Date: 1878
This land promotion pamphlet by the Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad encourages settlement in the Republican and Solomon Valleys of north central Kansas.
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Dr. Charles Robinson account book
Date: January 1858 - June 1859
This cloth bound journal, identified as “Account Book of Gov. Charles Robinson, January 1, 1858 to June 15, 1872,” began with an “Inventory of Property belonging to C. Robinson,” land…
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Dr. Charles Robinson account book
Date: August - September 1858
Robinson’s August and September 1858 “Account Book” entries included several for the “Quindaro Company,” which was being actively promoted and developed at this time. Specific items included reference to the…
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Dr. Charles Robinson account book
Date: March 1858
Charles Robinson’s March 1858 “Account Book” entries included land deals involving James Blood and another with Alfred Gray of Quindaro.
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Charles Robinson account book
Date: December 1856 - April 1857
This cloth bound journal is identified as “Dr. Charles Robinson Account Book, 1856-1866.” It contains only territorial entries for the years of 1856 and 1857. These entries include the following:…
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Lands in Kansas
Date: 1893
This Union Pacific Railway Company pamphlet advertises cheap and affordable land in Kansas for purchase.
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Leavenworth Constitutional Convention journal
Date: March 26, 1858
Kansas’s third constitutional convention, convened at Minneola, Franklin County, on March 23, 1858, elected officers (including Samuel F. Tappan, secretary), and then adjourned to reconvene at Leavenworth on March 25.…
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Pay Roll of the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention
Date: July 5, 1859 - October 3, 1859
This expense account documents those costs incurred by the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention, including per diem for delegates (individuals listed by name), payments for printing, and some post-convention canvassing costs.
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Champion Vaughan to S.O.Thacher and others
Date: July 7, 1859
Vaughan, editor of the Leavenworth Times, wrote this letter soon after the convention convened to introduce and lend his support to three “Delegates elect from Southern Nebraska to the Kansas…
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Reinzi to James M. Winchell
Date: July 22, 1859
In the midst of the convention, a “Rienzi” of Wyandotte wrote to convention president James M. Winchell concerning a potential threat to Winchell’s life. The ill-will toward Winchell had been…
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John A. Martin to J. M. Winchell
Date: September 7, 1859
In the weeks following the close of the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention, John A. Martin, the convention’s secretary, and James M. Winchell, president of the convention, were occupied with the campaign…
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Address of the Constitutional Convention to American Public
Date: April 3, 1858
A committee made up of John M. Walden, James Fletcher, Thomas Ewing, Jr., Isaac T. Goodnow, Henry J. Adams, T. Dwight Thacher, and Addison Danford prepared this eleven-page manuscript “address…
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Leavenworth Constitutional Convention journal
Date: April 3, 1858
At the final session, Saturday afternoon, April 3, 1858, all the delegates signed the convention’s proposed constitution, but several took the opportunity to make one last protest of the inclusion…
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Emigrants’ guide to the Kansas Pacific Railway lands : best and cheapest farming and grazing lands in America
Date: 1871
Promotional advertisement pamphlet by the Kansas Pacific Railway Company offering 6,000,00 acres of land for sale in Kansas.
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A handbook of useful information for immigrants and settlers
Date: 1880-1889
Published by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, this pamphlet encouraged agricultural settlement on railroad lands in Kansas by glorifying the state’s natural resources including water, soil, mineral deposits…
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Leavenworth Constitutional Convention journal
Date: April 2, 1858
When the convention considered Article 7, Education, near the end of the afternoon session on Friday, April 2, James Davis of Leavenworth moved to insert “white” before “child,” but Sam…
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Leavenworth Constitutional Convention journal
Date: April 2, 1858
At the beginning of the afternoon session, on Friday, April 2, 1858, suffrage was briefly discussed, with Samuel N. Wood moving to strike “male” wherever it occurred in the instrument…
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Leavenworth Constitutional Convention journal
Date: April 2, 1858
After considering a few other issues, such as the selection of Topeka as “the temporary seat of Government,” the convention took up the motion from the previous day on the…