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Atlas of Douglas County, Kansas
Date: 1873
Atlas of Douglas County, Kansas, from recent and actual surveys and records under the superintendence of F.W. Beers. Published by F.W. Beers and Co., New York.
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Plat book and complete survey of Douglas County, Kansas
Date: 1909
Atlas and complete survey of Douglas County Kansas, including township and town maps with land owners.
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Constitution and by-laws of the People’s Party Club
Date: 1892
This pamphlet outlines the organization of units of the People’s Party at either the ward level or in groups of four townships or country precincts in rural areas. It is…
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Points for Populists as to organizing the House of Representatives
Date: 1893
This pamphlet was apparently written during the 1893 legislative war between the Republicans and the Populists. It presents the Populist view of how the House of Representatives should be organized.…
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The Legislative conspiracy in Kansas. Court vs. Constitution. Who are the anarchists?
Date: August 1893
This pamphlet presents the Populist version of the 1893 legislative war between the Populists and the Republicans. It was written by Ed. S. Waterbury, a lawyer from Emporia, who served…
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A message and plan for county candidates
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
This pamphlet was prepared by the chairmen and secretaries of the People’s Party and the Democrats. They were working on a “fusion” or merged ticket that would be supported by…
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Populism
Date: 1896
This pamphlet was written by the “Middle-Of-The-Road Populist State Committee.” J. F. Willits was chairman and Abe Steinberger was the secretary of this committee. They contend that they are the…
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Dwight David Eisenhower to Joseph Little Bristow, United States Senator
Date: March 25, 1911
This letter was written by Dwight David Eisenhower, 1890-1969, to Joseph Little Bristow, 1861-1944, United States Senator, thanking him for the West Point appointment. Eisenhower mentions that he passed the…
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Dwight David Eisenhower to Joseph Little Bristow, United States Senator
Date: October 25, 1910
This letter was written by Dwight David Eisenhower, 1890-1969, to United States Senator Joseph Little Bristow, 1861-1944, thanking him for the appointment to West Point Military Academy. The complete set…
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Joseph Little Bristow, United States Senator, to Dwight David Eisenhower
Date: October 24, 1910
This letter from Joseph Little Bristow, 1861-1944, United States Senator, to Dwight David Eisenhower, 1890-1969, informs him of his nomination to West Point Military Academy. The complete set of correspondence…
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E. T. Fairchild to United States Senator Joseph Little Bristow
Date: October 22, 1910
This letter was written by Edward Thomson Fairchild, 1854-1917, to United States Senator Joseph Little Bristow, 1861-1944. Accompanying the letter are scores from a competitive examination held in the office…
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Dwight David Eisenhower to Joseph Little Bristow, United States Senator
Date: September 03, 1910
This letter was written by Dwight David Eisenhower, 1890-1969, to Joseph Little Bristow, 1861-1944, United States Senator, inquiring about an appointment to either the Naval Academy or West Point. Eisenhower…
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Correspondence between Dwight David Eisenhower and U.S. Senator Joseph L. Bristow concerning Eisenhower’s appointment to a military academy
Date: August 1910 -- March 1911
This is a series of letters concerning Dwight D. Eisenhower’s request for an appointment to a military academy–either West Point or Anapolis. Four of the letters are from Eisenhower to…
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F. W. Frasius to The Hon. State Central Committee
Date: April 20, 1898
Frasius wrote to the People’s Party state central committee to encourage them to keep working for reform and specifically to try and attract the votes of immigrants from Germany. To…
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Petition to and action of Kansas legislature for submission of a proposition to amend the constitution of the United States as to permit the taxing of inordinate wealth as equity demands
Date: April 1897
The Kansas Legislature passed a bill that encouraged other state legislatures to pass laws that supported amending the U.S. Constitution to provide for taxing those with “inordinate wealth.” The Constitution…
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Proposition for an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Date: Between 1880 and 1893
W. A. Tilton, a resident of Oxford, Kansas, proposed this amendment that called for voters in the United States to vote on all bills passed by the U. S. House…
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Republican Election Methods in Kansas
Date: 1893
This pamphlet presents the Populist perspective on the 1892 elections in Kansas. The results of the election were contested between the Republicans and the Populists and resulted in the “legislative”…
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Governmental injunctions, as an excuse for putting down strikes by the use of the army
Date: October, 1894
This pamphlet, written by Nathan Cree, an attorney and Democrat in Kansas City, Kansas, examines issues related to the Pullman strike in Chicago, Illinois, that began in July, 1894. Cree…
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A Plan to Place the Business of Farming Upon a Paying Basis
Date: 1891
At its meeting in Junction City on December 17, 1890, the Geary County Farmer’s Alliance and Industrial Union appointed a committee of John Hay, J. L. Hulse and Jas. H.…
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The Producer Consumed. Showing the Unfair and Unequal Distribution of Wealth Created in the United States
Date: 1898
This pamphlet was published by S. S. King for the People’s Party State Central Committee of Kansas. The title describes the contents and the item includes a number of statistics…
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John L. Minck to the Kansas Board of Education
Date: August 24, 1999
John L. Minck of Palo Alto, California, writes the Kansas Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, concerning the Board’s decision to remove the teaching of evolution from the state’s science…
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Alysia Kysar to Governor Joan Finney
Date: March 19, 1991
Alysia Kysar of Liberal, Kansas, writes Governor Joan Finney of Topeka concerning a water rights conflict at Cheyenne Bottoms wetlands in Barton County, Kansas. Kysar is eleven years old. She…
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Elaine Fisher to Governor Mike Hayden
Date: January 3, 1989
Elaine Fisher of Wichita, Kansas, writes Governor Mike Hayden of Topeka concerning late-term abortions. Fisher expresses her disapproval of late-term abortions and her support for state legislation outlawing such procedures.…
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Pierre Menard to William Clark
Date: October 8, 1830
Pierre Menard wrote this letter to William Clark, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, regarding the cost of relocating Indian tribes in new lands to the west. This letter describes the actual…
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Amelia Josephine Labedia to James W. Denver
Date: March 8, 1857
Amelia Labedia, a Native American from one of the New York Indian tribes, wrote this letter of complaint to James W. Denver, Commissioner of Indian Affairs and Kansas Territorial Governor.…