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Williamson Franklin Boyakin
Date: 1889
This is an engraving of Dr. Williamson Franklin Boyakin who settled in Marysville, Marshall County, Kansas, in 1868 and opened a medical practice. In 1874, he was elected coroner of…
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Frank H. Belton letter to Governor John Martin
Date: March 12, 1886
Frank Belton, railroad commissioner, writes to Governor Martin informing him of his visit to the Knights of Labor union meeting. Governor Martin had received several telegrams from local authorities claiming…
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General order no. 3. R. H. 2
Date: January 3, 1869
Colonel Samuel Crawford of Fort Cobb, Indian Territory, issued this general order to discourage the seizure of Indian ponies by members of the 19th Cavalry.
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A great town meeting
Date: October 28, 1910
A poster announcing a town meeting for the citizens of Topeka, Kansas, at the Auditorium on October 28, 1910. The meeting was a public protest against the recent remarks by…
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Law and order! Mass meeting of the citizens of Topeka
Date: July 20, 1881
A poster announcing a mass meeting at the Quincy Methodist Church, in Topeka, Kansas, on July 20th. Invited are citizens of Topeka who believe in the enforcement of law and…
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An appeal to the conscience and manhood of every Topeka and Shawnee County, Kansas, voter
Date: Between 1890 and 1910
A leaflet appealing to Shawnee County, Kansas, citizens on the November 4th election to vote for prohibition. The leaflet also tells the story of Jake Kilroy indictment. Kilroy, who was…
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Colonel P. M. Hoisington to the Adjutant General of Kansas
Date: December 8, 1919
In this letter, Colonel Hoisington, of the 4th Infantry, Kansas National Guard, informs the Kansas Adjutant General of supplies and cost related to the use of volunteers during the 1919…
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Governor Henry Allen to C. D. Sample
Date: November 27, 1919
In this letter Kansas Governor Henry Allen of Topeka informs C. D. Sample of Fort Scott that he is proceeding with the take over of the coal fields in south…
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Governor Henry Allen to Charles I. Martin
Date: November 27, 1919
Kansas Governor Henry Allen of Topeka writes Adjutant General Charles Martin to instruct him to take whatever means are necessary to operate the coal mines in southeast Kansas with voluntary…
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Thomas McCarroll telegram to Governor John Martin
Date: April 4, 1886
Thomas McCarroll of Parsons, Kansas, telegrams Governor John Martin of Topeka after investigating riot conditions in Parsons following the railroad strike of 1885. Although the strike had been settled, problems…
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Dr. D. C. Milner, President of the Kansas State Temperance Union
Date: April 03, 1893
Poster announcing Dr. D.C. Milner’s address at the Opera House in Junction City, Kansas on April 3, 1893.
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Law enforcement subscription
Date: Around 1900
This subscription obligated the subscribed person to pay a fee to aid the prohibition of liquor in Shawnee County. The fee appears to have been assessed for violations of the…
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Prohibition in Kansas. The result of twenty months of its operation
Date: Between 1881 and 1883
The results of twenty months of prohibition in Kansas, written by James A. Troutman, Topeka, Secretary of the Kansas State Temperance Union.
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J.C. Ruppenthal to Henry W. Oshant and others
Date: December 14, 1908
This letter from J. C. Ruppenthal to Henry W. Oehant and others in Hays, Kansas, concerns paroled offenders of the prohibition laws.
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Prohibition in the State of Kansas
Date: February 1912
Translation of a clipping from a Silesian newspaper sent to Kansas Governor Walter Stubbs about prohibition in Kansas.
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Paul E. Wilson to T. Justin Moore
Date: June 10, 1953
In this letter, assistant attorney general Paul Wilson responded to T. Justin Moore’s query about the desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Wilson writes that he is…
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Harold Fatzer to Chief Justice Earl Warren
Date: May 20, 1954
Harold Fatzer, attorney general of Kansas, wrote this letter to the chief justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, Earl Warren, three days after Warren handed down his decision in…
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J. W. Cummings to Harold Fatzer
Date: November 27, 1953
In this letter J. W. Cummings, a resident of Kansas City, Kansas, appeals to state attorney general Harold Fatzer to not desegregate public schools. According to Cummings, integration would lead…
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Harold R. Fatzer to J. Lindsay Almond Jr.
Date: July 13, 1951
In this letter, Attorney General of Kansas Harold Fatzer responds to a letter by J. Lindsay Almond, Attorney General of Virginia. Almond had inquired about a school segregation suit against…
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Drought report to Governor Landon
Date: August 28, 1936
This report by Ogden Jones, a geologist for the State Board of Agriculture, includes detailed information about the effects of the drought that struck Kansas during the 1930s and spawned…
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Map showing locations of lakes and ponds in Kansas
Date: 1936
This map of Kansas, created by geologist Ogden Jones for the State Board of Agriculture, Division of Water Resources, depicts the lakes and farm ponds in each county. At the…
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National spotlight again on Topeka as Brown case reopens
Date: October 5, 1986
According to this article, the American Civil Liberties Union alleged that Topeka USD501 had not fully complied with the Supreme Court ruling in the Brown v. Board of Education case…
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Discrimination persists, Smith says
Date: October 15, 1986
This article in the Topeka Capital-Journal focuses on Linda Brown Smith who, along with her father Oliver Brown, were plaintiffs in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of…
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Major problem in Kansas–negro teachers hit by desegregation
Date: January 29, 1956
This article describes how the desegregation of schools in the wake of the Brown v. Board of Education case would affect black schoolteachers across Kansas. The author gives the example…
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Five of state’s first-class cities end school segregation
Date: December 4, 1955
This article describes how Kansas schools had begun—and in some cases completed—the process of desegregation after the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board declared that segregated educational facilities were unconstitutional.…