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Date: November 24, 1924
A Slovene Progressive Benefit Society (Slovenska Suobodomiselna Podporna Zueza) charter issued to Lodge no. 14 in Yale, Kansas. The Society merged with the Slovene National Benefit Society (Slovenska Narodna Podporna…
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Date: August 01, 1908
A Slovene National Benefit Society (Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota) lodge charter issued to Bratstvo Naprej (translates to Fraternity Upward), Yale, Kansas. The Society founded in 1904, offered affordable life insurance…
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Date: August 1, 1907
A Slovene National Benefit Society (Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota) lodge charter issued to Bratstvo Naprej (translates to Fraternity Upward), Yale, Kansas. The Society founded in 1904, offered affordable life insurance…
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Date: November 1, 1982
A Slovene National Benefit Society (Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota) lodge charter issued to Camp 50, Girard, Kansas. The Society founded in 1904, offered affordable life insurance to Slovenian immigrants. In…
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Date: 1874
Map of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad lands showing connections with three million acres of land for sale on eleven years credit and seven percent interest. Removed from the…
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Date: January 17, 1918
To help save coal and therefore help win the war in Europe, Topeka churches discuss shortening the length of church services along with uniting their Sunday services with other congregations.
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Date: January 18, 1918
A newspaper article focusing on statements made by Emerson Carey, state fuel administrator from Hutchinson, Kansas. Carey states that Kansas will exhaust her mines in ten years and will soon…
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Date: 1882
Prohibition in Kansas speeches by Kansas Governor John P. St. John and Georgia Governor A.H. Colquitt, at the Brooklyn Tabernacle, on January 22,1882. This is essentially the same edition as…
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Date: 1880
An anti-prohibition leaflet that was circulated in Topeka, Kansas, the day before the November 2, 1880, general election.
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Date: 1880
A proposed constitutional amendment by J.R. Detwiler, for the prohibition of the liquor traffic, considered from a moral, legal, and financial standpoint. It was published by Temperance Banner Print, Osage…
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Date: February 28, 1905
This paper appears to be a 1905 “news release” by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System. The paper begins with, “To the railroad editor: Below is another installment…
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Date: July 11, 1883
This brochure encourages travel from the Missouri River to the Pacific Coast by three routes of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Time tables and rates of fare are…
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Date: 1880s
This brochure appears to describe the route of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway through Kansas to Colorado as an appeal to attract foreign immigrants. The brochure is written…
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Date: 1884
This brochure gives an overview of California with its history, physical description, farming, orchards, vineyards, stock raising, mining and principle cities. There is a large map of California. There is…
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Date: 1874
This advertising circular and map published by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad is written in French. It promotes immigration and land development in the Arkansas River Valley in…
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Date: 1884
This brochure advertises the “Fertile Rio Grande Valley” of New Mexico. Rich in gold, silver, copper, lead, iron and coal along with forests, farms, orchards, vineyards, meadows and flocks and…
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Date: 1882
This brochure encourages travel and immigration to Arizona via the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad. Arizona’s history, its various mines, crops, cities, livestock and lumber are detailed. There is…
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Date: Between 1870 and 1900
This map of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway system shows the company’s lines from northeast Kansas to eastern Colorado, including Kansas City, Atchison and Leavenworth, Kansas, to Pueblo…
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Date: June 1892
This brochure advertises travel between St. Louis/Chicago and Los Angeles/San Francisco via the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Included is a description and picture of the Pullman tourist sleepers,…
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Date: 1966
A 1966 campaign brochure that promotes the re-election of Republican Governor William Avery. Avery stands behind the slogan “he did what had to be done… and he did it well”.…
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Date: 1880
This broadside promotes an express passenger route from Atchison and Kansas City, Kansas, to Leadville, Colorado, by way of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, and the Denver &…
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Date: 1892
This small pamphlet contains information compiled from state and county officials, United States land office officials, bankers, and others, showing the condition, progress, and prospects of the Wheat Belt, the…
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Date: 1890
This small booklet contains descriptions of the geography, geology, climate, soil, and agriculture of the state of Kansas. Also listed for the state are its various routes and prices of…
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Date: 1890
A small pamphlet that gives the history of Kansas. It also lists the state’s natural resources, such as salt, timber, coal, gas, etc., as well as its manufacturing and railroad…
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Date: 1968
A 1968 campaign brochure that promotes Rick Harman as the Republican candidate for governor of Kansas. The brochure argues that Harman is the candidate who will provide positive solutions to…
