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Date: 1869-1872
Abstracts of title from the James Stanley Emery collection. James was born in Franklin County, Maine in 1826. Educated at Waterville College, he was admitted to the bar in New…
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Date: 1861-1875
Tax receipts from the James Stanley Emery collection. James was born in Franklin County, Maine in 1826. Educated at Waterville College, he was admitted to the bar in New York…
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Date: 1861-1866
The first document details the settlement of a court case from the Second District Court of the Territory of Kansas decided in November 1860. Emery was successful in getting a…
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Date: 1856-1887
These deeds from the James Stanely Emery collection document a real estate purchase from James S. Emery for $500. Nathaniel S. Higgins of Fair Haven, Massachusetts is purchasing half of…
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Date: 1859-1899
Mortgages from the Janes Stanley Emery collection. James Stanley Emery was born in Franklin County, Maine in 1826. Educated at Waterville College, he was admitted to the bar in New…
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Date: 1856-1863
The day book of James Stanley Emery, containing personal accounts and memoranda. James Stanley Emery was born in Franklin County, Maine in 1826. Educated at Waterville College, he was admitted…
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Date: 1855-1899
These letters are the incoming correspondence from the James Stanley Emery collection. James was born in Franklin County, Maine in 1826. Educated at Waterville College, he was admitted to the…
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Date: 1876-1897
Several addresses written and given by James Stanley Emery. He spoke to a number of audiences at Kansas universities and clubs on religion, history, and other similar topics. James Stanley…
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Date: September 14, 1858
A memorandum showing the proceedings in the grand juror’s room, September 14, 1858, from the James Stanley Emery collection. James Stanley Emery was born in Franklin County, Maine in 1826.…
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Date: 1908-1912
This is a scrapbook that belonged to Earne L. Hildebrand who attended Cimarron High School in Cimarron, Kansas from 1908 to 1912. It includes photographs, newspaper clippings, letters, programs, invitations,…
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Date: March 05, 1949-March 10, 1949
This handwritten letter from actor Olivia de Havilland Goodrich to psychiatrist William Menninger and his typed reply discuss The Snake Pit, a 1948 film starring Olivia de Havilland. Olivia de…
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Date: November 22, 1948-February 15, 1949
Correspondence between Mr. Spyros P. Skouras, President of 20th Century Fox; Charles Schlaifer, Director of Advertising, Publicity, Exploitation, and Radio; and William C. Menninger, M.D. regarding the film “The Snake…
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Date: 1895
Sara Tappan Doolittle (Lawrence) Robinson, author of “Kansas: Its Interior and Exterior Life” and wife of Governor Charles Robinson, owned this copy of Richard Cordley’s “A History of Lawrence Kansas.”…
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Date: December 08, 1925
This is a member’s pass to the United States House of Representatives’ visitor’s gallery issued to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Edison Friend of Lawrence, Kansas.
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Date: 1867
This is a drawing of the parade grounds at Fort Leavenworth drawn by Carl Julius Adolph Hunnius.
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Date: 1867
This is a sketch of the arsenal at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, drawn by Carl Julius Adolph Hunnius.
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Date: 1917-1919
This is a scrapbook compiled by Lieutenant Russell DeVere Friend, who graduated from the University of Kansas in 1918 with a B.A. degree. Russell enlisted on February 26, 1918 and…
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Date: Bulk 1853-1855
Nine muster and pay rolls of Company H, Sixth Regiment of Infantry, Army of the United States. The rosters list in alphabetical order, the names of soldiers, when and where…
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Date: 1879
This report lists the number of people killed and the location of death during the last Indian “raids” in Kansas from September 29th through October 1st of 1878. Street has…
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Date: May 17, 1893
This is an exclusive contract between Niels Bull, his wife Margarita Bull, their six year old son Morten Bull of Singsaas, Herred, Norway, and the Lapland Exhibit Company of Chicago,…
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Date: 1876-1939
Documents about the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway’s work to bring Mennonites and other immigrant groups to settle on railroad land in Kansas. Seven documents are included: (1) Reminiscences…
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Date: 1918
Around 1919, the Kansas State Historical Society and the American Legion solicited biographical information from returning veterans (primarily members of the 35th and 89th infantry divisions) and the families of…
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Date: 1778
This is a draft of a 1778 deed with corrections from George and Martha Washington to John Parke Custis for 1981 acres of land in Stratton Major Parish, King and…
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Date: February 22, 1906
This book commemorates the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Masons’ Grand Lodge of Kansas, an event held in Topeka, Kansas. The invitation text, printed on page two below a gold-foil…
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Date: August 22, 1873
This is a Governor’s Proclamation issued by Governor Thomas A. Osborn for the arrest of William Thompson who murdered C. B. Whitney, Sheriff of Ellsworth County, Kansas. A $500.00 reward…
