Medium: Text
Date: March 15, 1885
In this proclamation, Missouri Governor John Marmaduke asks union leaders and railroad officials to accept the demands of the workers and restore wages without prejudice. The Missouri Pacific Railway workers…
Medium: Text
Date: March 10, 1885
Kansas Governor John Martin of Topeka writes to the Kansas Board of Railroad Commissioners concerning “very serious troubles have arisen at Atchison and Parsons between the Missouri Pacific Railway company…
Medium: Text
Date: March 9, 1885
Missouri Pacific Railway workers were on strike. A mob had taken control of all operations in Atchison and Parsons, Kansas. The third vice president of the Missouri Pacific railroad, H.…
Medium: Text
Date: March 9, 1885
In this telegram, W.W. Fagan, superintendent for the Missouri Pacific Railroad at Atchison, Kansas, asks Kansas Governor John Martin of Topeka for militia support. Missouri Pacific Railway workers had been…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1870 and 1890
A colorful, large red and black poster promoting travel to the San Juan mines, Denver and the Rocky Mountains. Gold, silver, health, pleasure and resorts are among the attractions.
Medium: Text
Date: December 3, 1913
This flowchart, presently in four pieces, charts individual railroad formations, consolidations, and acquisitions between 1859 and 1907 resulting in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail Road Company Eastern Lines…
Medium: Text
Date: July 1892
This brochure is quite similar to another with slightly different graphics. It contains a map of the Arkansas Valley in Kansas showing the location of farming, grazing and irrigable lands.…
Medium: Text
Date: 1892
This brochure advertises the advantages of settling in south central and western Kansas. Included are a photograph of the Beeson farm near Dodge City, Kansas, and a full width map…
Medium: Text
Date: Unknown
This poster advertises the many commodities, products, attractions, and tourist activities available through the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. It features a drawing of a traveler looking at a…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1870 and 1890
A colorful poster advertising the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad as the only direct route to the San Juan coal mines of Colorado.
Medium: Text
Date: 1876
This poster celebrates the centennial year 1876, by urging all people to travel west via the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail Road. “When in the course of human events”…
Medium: Text
Date: March, 1892
A brochure advertising the many advantages of settling in beautiful Oklahoma. It includes information about how to acquire land under the Homestead Law. The brochure describes some of the American…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1890 and 1910
This poster advertises a “Lightning Express Train” leaving Kansas City at 11:30 a.m. daily and arriving at Pueblo, Colorado at 3 p.m. the next day; then on to Denver, arriving…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1930 and 1940
This is an advertising poster for the Santa Fe Scout and Santa Fe’s El Capitan. Round trip fares from Chicago to Los Angeles were only sixty-five dollars. Meals need not…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1890 and 1900
Populist politician William Peffer kept at least three scrapbooks of political cartoons during his six-year term as U.S. Senator from Kansas between 1891-1897. All three volumes are included here in…
Medium: Text
Date: June 21, 1961
A ticket for the musical “The Kansas Story”. This performance was written and directed by Vladimir Rosing, with music by Meredith Willson and Frank Allen Hubbell, in celebration of the…
Medium: Text
Date: 1962
This is the final report of the Kansas Centennial Commission which was submitted to Governor John Anderson, Jr. and the Legislature. The Commission was formed for the 1961 observance and…
Medium: Text
Date: Distributed 1960; produced 1960
A 1961 calendar of events celebrating the Kansas centennial. Some of the centennial highlights included Statehood Day, the spectacular “The Kansas Story,” the World Food Fair, and the Global Industrial…
Medium: Text
Date: November 26, 1876
A brochure promoting tourism and immigration along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad line from Kansas City to Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver, Colorado. One side of the brochure…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1870 and 1900
This poster advertises the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad route from Kansas to California and Mexico. A grenadier striding across the country personifies the route.
Medium: Text
Date: July 1877
This large circular published by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad lists many reasons for immigrating to the Upper Arkansas Valley in Kansas. It describes in detail the process…
Medium: Text
Date: 1911
This item shows a photograph of an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway demonstration train. The train includes a new and old steam locomotive and a number of passenger, exhibit,…
Medium: Text
Date: September 23, 1869
This time table is in two parts. The first part is the schedule for trains numbers 1 and 3 (west bound) and trains numbers 2 and 4 (east bound) between…
Medium: Text
Date: December 5, 1906
An advertisement for entertainment at the Santa Fe Reading Room in LaJunta, Colorado, on Wednesday evening, December 5, 1906. The entertainment features Gladys Carey on the violin, Gage W. Christopher…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1880 and 1910
This advertising poster by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad encourages summer travel between Kansas City and Atchison to Pueblo, Denver, Colorado Springs and Manitou on the best line…
