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Colonel Don Estevan Miro to the Ioway Indians

Date: March 15, 1784

This document was presented to Antoine Burada by his uncle, George Campbell. George Campbell was the “half-breed” son of Vance Murray Campbell, a fur trader and U. S. treaty interpreter,…

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Isaac T. Goodnow personal records

Date: 1856-1892

Personal mementos and ephemera belonging to Isaac Tichenor Goodnow, including passes, invitations, certificates, recipes, weather records, and travel notes. Goodnow was an early resident of Manhattan, Kansas, and was a…

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Louis Palenske to Kirke Mechem

Date: December 07, 1937-December 16, 1937

Correspondence between Louis Palenske, a photographer from Alma, Kansas, and Kirke Mechem, secretary of the Kansas Historical Society in Topeka, Kansas. The two men discuss Palenske’s recollection of a trip…

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Walter Handley diary

Date: March 07, 1866-April 12, 1866

A diary kept by Walter Scott Handley (1838-1903) following his discharge from the Union army in Austin, Texas, as he traveled north to Chillicothe, Missouri. In 1867, Handley moved his…

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Town Shares history collection

Date: 1854-1859

Collection of town share certificates assembled from various sources. Such shares were purchased by individuals who wished to own property in towns being developed in Kansas Territory. Many of the…

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Township 11 South, Range 15 East, plat maps

Date: January 06, 1866

The U.S. Surveyor General began surveying Kansas after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Plat maps were created at that time to document the surveys. The plats show…

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The devil’s cook kitchen

Date: October 05, 1906

This newspaper advertisement from the Topeka Plaindealer, is promoting Reverend H. Charles Pope’s moving and stereopticon pictures titled “The Devil’s Cook Kitchen or Death in the Pot.” The exhibition also…

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John Brown to Joshua Giddings

Date: July 04, 1848

This is a letter written by John Brown to Joshua Giddings, a Brown family friend, American attorney, politician and a prominent opponent of slavery. Giddings represented Ohio in the U.S.…