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Date: October 1922
The Kansas Womans Journal, vol. 1, no. 11, October, 1922, containing the following articles: “To The Women Voters Of Kansas”, “Equal Citizenship Bill Passes Congress”, “Some Ku-Klux Klan History”, and…
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Date: Between 1880 and 1900
Broadside of the Kansas Pacific Railway advertising the Golden Belt Route through central Kansas to Colorado Rocky Mountain resorts.
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Date: Between January 1890 and March 1896
Augusta Bruchmiller recorded income and expenditures for the family farm from 1890 through 1896 in this ledger book. Otto (husband) and Carl (son) may also have made entries. Expenditures are…
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Date: September 15, 1946
This newspaper article discusses how irrigation helped reverse the effects of the severe drought and Dust Bowl of the 1930s. The author tells the story of A. J. “Bunny” Worm,…
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Date: February 27, 1944
This brief article discusses how farmers in southwestern Kansas were reseeding sod on land that had formerly been planted with wheat. This reseeding effort, which aimed to stabilize soil, was…
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Date: December 4, 1932
This brief article discusses the importance of decreasing water erosion, which has washed away approximately ninety percent of the productive soil in eastern Kansas. Two remedies which are suggested are…
Medium: Text
Date: 1939
This published report contains statistics compiled by the State Board of Agriculture pertaining to population, crop conditions, livestock, and other farm products in western Kansas during the Dust Bowl years…
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Date: 1937
This published report contains statistics compiled by the State Board of Agriculture pertaining to crop conditions, livestock, and other farm products for all Kansas counties. It was copied from the…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1920 and 1939
“A Dream That Has Come True”, Brinkley Hospitals from Dr. Brinkley’s Doctor Book.
Medium: Text
Date: 1935
This section of “Statistics by Counties, Showing Population, Acreage, Production, and Livestock” is from the Twenty-ninth Biennial Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, to the Legislature of the…
Medium: Text
Date: December 1936
This report was created by the Great Plains Committee, which had been called by the President to investigate the effects of drought and wind erosion in the southwestern United States.…
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Date: Between 1930 and 1934
Dr. John R. Brinkley, a physician from Milford famous for his goat gland transplants, ran as an independent write-in candidate in the Kansas gubernatorial elections of 1930, 1932, and 1934.
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1920 and 1930
This pamphlet was published by the [Dr. John] Brinkley Hospital and Sanitarium, Milford, Geary County, Kansas. The subtitle of the pamphlet is “Dedicated To The Prostate Man.” The pamphlet uses…
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Date: Between 1920 and 1930
This pamphlet was published by the Brinkley Hospital, Milford, Kansas. Dr. John Brinkley established the hospital in 1917. The cover of the pamphlet indicates that the hospital also operated a…
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Date: June 8, 1880 through June 23, 1880
This census schedule provides details–including the name, age, race, and occupation–of both white and black settlers in Nicodemus Township in Graham County, Kansas. This township had been settled by African…
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Date: June 11, 1880
This excerpt of a census schedule provides details–including the name, age, race, and occupation–of settlers in Rock Creek Township in Wabaunsee County, Kansas. The county included a black population (B=Black)…
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Date: June 1, 1880 through June 2, 1880
This excerpt of a census schedule provides details–including the name, age, race, and occupation–of settlers in Farmer Township in Wabaunsee County, Kansas. The county included a black population (B=Black) who…
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Date: October 9, 1879
This article provides a first-hand account of Cheyenne history in the words of Wild Hog, a Cheyenne who along with about 350 other members of his tribe fled his reservation…
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Date: December 1936
This report was created by the Great Plains Committee, which had been called by the President to investigate the effects of drought and wind erosion in the southwestern United States.…
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Date: December, 1936
This report was created by the Great Plains Committee, which had been called by President Roosevelt to investigate the effects of drought and wind erosion in the southwestern United States.…
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Date: December 13, 1864
This short article published in the Manhattan Independent discusses the Sand Creek massacre, which took place in Colorado Territory on November 29, 1864. During this massacre the Cheyenne people, led…
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Date: 1875
This document is Captain Lewis Hanback’s final report of an 1875 investigation into a conflict between Captain Ricker’s company of state militia and a band of Osage Indians that occurred…
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Date: August 15, 1861
This letter of safeguard was presented to To-sa-wi, a chief of the Comanche Indians, by Albert Pike, Indian Commissioner of the Confederate States of America. The document ensures that To-sa-wi…
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Date: September 26, 1868
This confidential letter was written by General Philip Henry Sheridan, a Civil War veteran who led a series of campaigns against Native Americans on the western frontier. In this letter…
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Date: December 14, 1867
This drawing, from the December 14, 1867 edition of Harper’s Weekly, is an artist’s depiction of travelers shooting buffalo from a Kansas Pacific Railroad train.
