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Date: December 30, 1951
This newspaper article describes the strange entertainment activities that accompanied the sales of medical remedies at medicine shows, particularly the show of “Dr. Corn.” The article describes Dr. Corn’s downfall…
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Date: June 7, 1863
An illustration from Harper’s Weekly, July 4, 1863, depicting the Battle of Milliken’s Bend where African-American soldiers of the 8th, 9th, 11th, and 13th Louisiana Infantry Regiments and 1st Mississippi…
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Date: April 9, 1931
This trade letter is one example of those distributed by the Snowden-Mize Drug Company in Atchison, Kansas. It appears to be a wholesale price list for retail drug stores to…
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Date: Between 1898 and 1900
These images show small handwritten prescription slips from various doctors in the region of Spring Hill, Kansas, pasted into a prescription register belonging to Henry Adams, a registered prescription druggist…
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Date: December 23, 1913
Lawrence–Today and Yesterday was published by the Lawrence Daily Journal-World as a magazine and souvenir edition commemorating the semi-centennial memorial of the Lawrence Massacre. It contains articles and photographs about…
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Date: 1937
This page from the Kansas Pharmaceutical News shows photographs of the only four charter members of the Kansas Pharmaceutical Association still living in 1937. The association was founded in 1880.…
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Date: Between 1887 and 1889
This pamphlet titled The Neosho County Advertiser was published by Dr. H. C. Perdue, M. D., in Erie, Kansas. It contains approximately 50 pages of descriptions of medical cures and…
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Date: Between 1990 and 1997
This letter from the Medical Arts Pharmacy of Stormont-Vail Health Care announces its move to a new location in Topeka, Kansas. The new location is the former Blaylock Drug building…
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Date: Between 1826 and 1831
William Clark kept this diary during his tenure as the Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St. Louis, Missouri. The diary consists primarily of meteorological data, steamboat arrivals, arrivals and departures…
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Date: September 24, 1876
This advertisement for the Missouri Pacific Railroad features condensed time tables of the Kansas City, Leavenworth and Atchison stations with the ending destination being St.Louis. Each time table shows connecting…
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Date: November 1, 1880
This large chart shows the rate of fare from one station to another on the Missouri Pacific Railway line. A separate chart is included for figuring round trip rates. Children…
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Date: Between 1869 and 1876
This leaflet advertises 1,000,000 acres of land in the Neosho Valley of Kansas for sale by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway. On one side are two large illustrations of…
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Date: 1876
This large 1876 advertisement from the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway promotes their lands for sale along the Neosho River. The paper lists their land agents in 18 Kansas counties;…
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Date: 1877
This brochure has a large, sectional map of the Neosho Valley in Kansas on one side. The 500,000 acres of land for sale by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway…
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Date: 1871
This map indicates land grant lands available from the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway, in an area from Junction City, Kansas, to Preston, Texas. It is also a map of…
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Date: April 1, 1874
This is a brochure advertising one million acres of land for sale by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway. The land is primarily in the beautiful Neosho Valley of Kansas.…
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Date: 1871
A large, sectional map of the central United States showing the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway with its land grants plus the connecting railroads. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad…
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Date: October 20, 1944
This letter, dated October 20, 1944, was sent to Governor Andrew Schoeppel by William M. Bashaw, Outside Production Manager of the Beech Aircraft Corporation. In the letter, Bashaw praises the…
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Date: February 9, 1945
This letter details the Boeing Airplane Companies completion of the 1,000th B-29 Superfortress and the 10,346th Kaydet primary training airplane. In the letter, Boeing Vice President J. Earl Schaefer asks…
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Date: January 15, 1945
This letter, dated January 15, 1945, was sent to Governor Andrew Schoeppel by Boeing Vice President J. Earl Schaefer. In the letter, Schaeffer details the recent successes of Boeing’s Wichita…
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Date: January 2, 1945
This news release from the Boeing Airplane Company details the absence percentage for workers at the company’s manufacturing plant in Wichita, Kansas.
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Date: November 17, 1942
In this letter Boeing Vice President J. Earl Schaefer writes to Kansas Governor Andrew Schoeppel requesting a meeting to discuss labor issues effecting the Boeing manufacturing plant in Wichita, Kansas.
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Date: March 27, 1944
This letter, from Boeing Vice President J. Earl Schaefer to Major W.E. Treadway of the Selective Service, details the Boeing Airplane Company’s complaints with the way personnel were selected for…
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Date: April 20, 1943
In this letter Kansas Governor Andrew F. Schoeppel informs James E. Boyack that he can not provide detailed information concerning Kansas’ contributions to the war effort that Boyack wanted, for…
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Date: October 25, 1942
This article, published in the Wichita Beacon, addresses the farm work-related backgrounds of many Boeing employees in Wichita, Kansas.
