Medium: Text
Date: 1966
This brochure promotes Robert Ellsworth’s campaign for the U.S. Senate. He informs voters about his personal and professional life as well as his many accomplishments. In the November election, Ellsworth…
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Date: 1962
This campaign brochure is from James B. Pearson’s first United States Senate race. He informs Kansas voters of his political and professional accomplishments and the responsibilities he will accept if…
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Date: December 25, 1921
This newspaper clipping, from the New York Times, features a group of women marching in protest during a coal mine strike in southeast Kansas. Dubbed the “Amazon Army,” the women…
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Date: December 25, 1921
This newspaper clipping, from the New York Times, features a fourteen year old girl dubbed “The Joan of Arc of the Coal Fields.” The daughter of a coal striker in…
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Date: December 25, 1921
This newspaper clipping, from the New York Times, features a group of women gathered during a coal mine strike near Pittsburg, Kansas. Dubbed the “Amazon Army,” the women marched through…
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Date: December 25, 1921
This newspaper clipping, from the New York Times, features a group of women marching in protest during a coal mine strike in southeast Kansas. Dubbed the” Amazon Army,” the women…
Medium: Text
Date: February 03, 1920
This newspaper clipping, from the Topeka Daily Capital, features Kansas Governor Henry J. Allen and members of the newly established Industrial Court in Topeka, Kansas. The three member board was…
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Date: December 09, 1921
This illustration of Santa Claus, from the Arcadia Journal, encouraged striking miners in the southeast Kansas coal fields to return to work to purchase presents for their families during the…
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Date: 1855-1867
These three Government Land Office survey maps are for Township 11 South, Range 23 East, for portions of Wyandotte and Johnson Counties, Kansas. The first image, dated 1861 and signed…
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Date: April 13, 1858
Letter from Edmund Burke Whitman to George Stearns that details the activities of the last six months and Whitman’s take on the inhabitants of the state of Kansas. In his…
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Date: September 28, 1857
The following is a letter dated September 28, 1857, from Thomas J. Marsh to George L. Stearns that attempts to convince Stearns that the territorial judges will rule in favor…
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Date: September 26, 1857
Edmund Burke Whitman in Saint Louis, Missouri wrote to George L. Stearns regarding funds for the Free State cause. Whitman ended his letter by mentioning that if his advance of…
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Date: September 7, 1857
Thomas L. Marsh wrote this letter to George L. Stearns detailing the lack of response received from Governor Robert Walker concerning the territorial elections. He also expresses his anger over…
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Date: September 2, 1857
This letter from Thomas J. Marsh to George L. Stearns regards the ways in which Free State men will vote in the upcoming elections. Marsh claimed that the Free State…
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Date: August 27, 1857
This letter from Thomas J. Marsh to George L. Stearns regards the political delegate convention in Grasshopper Falls, Kansas which, according to Marsh, was well-attended by all portions of the…
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Date: August 15, 1854
The following is a letter from Frank Bradley in New Haven, Connecticut, to Amos Lawrence regarding a check for $150 that Bradley sent to support the organization of the Free…
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Date: August 11, 1857
In this letter Thomas J. Marsh writes to George L. Stearns regarding the departure of E.B. Whitman for the East, the upcoming elections in October and Marsh’s fear that the…
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Date: Between 1812 and 1813
This ledger and letterbook of the Missouri Fur Company are part of the papers of William Clark, a board member of that company. The volume was discovered with the records…
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Date: Between 1812 and 1814
This ledger is part of the papers of William Clark, president of the Board of Directors for the Missouri Fur Company, discovered with the records of the U. S. Indian…
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Date: 1827-1855
Series of maps and surveys of reservations from the United States Office of Indian Affairs, Central Superintendency, in St. Louis, Missouri. Partial funding for the digitization of these records was…
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Date: Between 1828 and 1837
This volume of miscellaneous papers from the United States Office of Indian Affairs, Central Superintendency, St. Louis, Missouri, includes a record of documents and correspondence relating to claims of half-breed…
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Date: Between 1807 and 1830
This volume includes claims by U.S. citizens of property theft by Indians as recorded by the United States Office of Indian Affairs, Central Superintendency, in St. Louis, Missouri. Stolen items,…
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Date: Between 1832 and 1834
This volume of correspondence and abstracts from the United States Office of Indian Affairs, Central Superintendency, St. Louis, Missouri, relates to the provisioning of emigrating Ottawas and Shawnees. Shawnee Indians…
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Date: Between 1815 and 1817
This volume includes claims for Indian depredations, licenses to traders, two lists of Indian traders, and one long, unidentified letter on Indian conditions in the upper Mississippi area. William Clark…
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Date: Between 1813 and 1825
This volume includes a few letters sent by William Clark; some from Indian agents; articles of several Indian treaties; various permits and statements in no consistent chronological order. William Clark…
