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Yanks Land in French Africa
Date: November 08, 1942
This front page of the Topeka Daily Capital features a number of articles related to U.S. forces landing in French Africa during World War II.
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State of Kansas vs. E. C. Walker and Lillian Harman
Date: 1887
Documents from State of Kansas vs. E. C. Walker and Lillian Harman. Moses Harman (1830-1910) was a free-thought journalist who lived in northeast Kansas from 1879 to 1896. In 1880…
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Isaac Goodnow correspondence
Date: 1826-1940
This series of the Isaac Tichenor Goodnow collection includes sent and received correspondence of Isaac T. Goodnow (1814-1894) and also the correspondence of his brother, William E. Goodnow (1807-1876). This…
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Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown and others for conspiracy
Date: 1856-1858
Materials relating to the case of the Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown, John Brown Jr., O. C. Brown, O. V. Dayton, Alexander Gardner, Richard Mendenhall, Charles A.…
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Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown, Jr.
Date: March 06, 1860-June 21, 1860
Materials relating to the case of the Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown Jr. on the charge of contempt.
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Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown for assault of Richard Henry Gillmore
Date: August 03, 1857-August 06, 1857
Materials relating to the case of the Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown, on the charge of assault. Richard Henry Gillmore accused John Brown of threatening to shoot…
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Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus Captain John Brown and others
Date: August 26, 1856
Affidavit of Forsyth H. Taff made before Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Kansas Territory, Samuel D. Lecompte. Taff accused John Brown, J. B. Abbott, Samuel Walker, and…
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Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown, Jr. for horse stealing
Date: 1856-1857
Materials relating to the case of the Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown, Jr., on the charge of grand larceny for stealing a horse from George R. Hopper…
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Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown and others for horse stealing
Date: 1856
Materials relating to the case of the Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown, Owen Brown, James Townsley, and Thomas Weiner on the charge of horse stealing. Henry Sherman…
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Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown, Nelson King, and James Cline for horse stealing
Date: October 06, 1856
Writ addressed to the sheriff of Lykins County (now Miami County) ordering the apprehension of John Brown, Nelson King, and James Cline for stealing two horses.
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Kansas Territory versus John E. Brown, James Masterson, and John Broils
Date: 1856-1858
These legal documents relate to the case of the Kansas Territory vs. John E. Brown, John Broils, and James Masterson for grand larceny. Brown, Broils, and Masterson were accused of…
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Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown, Carter, and Lenhart
Date: July 09, 1856
Warrant issued by Joseph W. Shepard, a justice of the peace for Lecompton Township in Douglas County, Kansas for the arrest of John Brown, Mr. Carter, and Charles Lenhart for…
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Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown
Date: October 24, 1857
Writ ordering the capture of John Brown for the crime of rebellion at Fort Scott in Bourbon County, Kansas. The order was served by E. S. Dennis per United States…
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Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown Sr., Owen Brown, Frederick Brown, Salmon Brown, Oliver Brown, et al.
Date: 1856
Materials relating to the murder trial following the Pottawatomie Massacre in Franklin County, Kansas on May 24, 1856. A memorandum charges that John Brown Sr. and James Townsley robbed the…
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Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus Charles Fugit
Date: 1857
Testimony given at the trial of Charles Fugit in the muder of William Hoppe on August 19, 1856 in Leavenworth County, Kansas Territory. Witnesses testified that Fugit shot and scalped…
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Gerat Henry Hollenberg collection
Date: 1860-1894
Gerat Henry Hollenberg built and operated the Hollenberg Pony Express Station in Hanover in Washington County, Kansas. He was also known as the founder of Washington County, Kansas and the…
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Courier-Nurses are back on the Santa Fe
Date: Between 1947 and 1948
This flyer published by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company promotes the return of the courier nurse to the passenger trains of the El Capitan and the Scout.…
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Towns on the Santa Fe Route in Southern California
Date: 1888
A brochure published by the Pacific Land Improvement Company promoting towns along the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company in southern California. The publication focuses on the prosperous towns…
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Clergyman’s pocket diary and visiting book belonging to Boston Corbett
Date: 1870-1877
Pocket diary belonging to Thomas P. “Boston” Corbett, the man who killed John Wilkes Booth following President Lincoln’s assassination. Before moving to Cloud County, Kansas in 1878, Corbett was pastor…
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Boston Corbett’s pension documents
Date: 1880-1886
Pension documents belonging to Thomas P. “Boston” Corbett, the man who killed John Wilkes Booth following President Lincoln’s assassination. Corbett moved to Kansas in 1878 and lived in a dugout…
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Proclamation by Pennsylvania Governor Andrew G. Curtin after President Lincoln’s assassination
Date: April 20, 1865
A proclamation issued by Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin following the death of President Abraham Lincoln. Governor Curtin addresses the rumor that John Wilkes Booth has been seen in Pennsylvania…
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Boston Corbett’s military documents
Date: 1861-1865
Military documents belonging to Thomas P. “Boston” Corbett, the man who killed John Wilkes Booth following President Lincoln’s assassination. Corbett enlisted as a Union soldier in New York during the…
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Boston Corbett’s personal documents
Date: Between 1855 and 1886
Personal documents belonging to Thomas P. “Boston” Corbett, the man who killed John Wilkes Booth following President Lincoln’s assassination. Corbett moved to Kansas in 1878 and lived in a dugout…
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Papers relating to the impersonation of Boston Corbett by John Corbit
Date: 1898-1905
Correspondence and legal documents relating to the impersonation of Boston Corbett by John Corbit. Boston Corbett was the man who killed John Wilkes Booth following President Lincoln’s assassination. Corbett moved…
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Reminiscences of Boston Corbett
Date: Between 1900 and 1972
Two reminiscences of Boston Corbett, the man who killed John Wilkes Booth after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The first was written by a fellow Union soldier, Edward Kirk,…