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E. B. Porter to Honorable J. M. Brown
Date: April 25, 1881
Letter written to Honorable J. M. Brown from E. B. Porter, Indianapolis, April 25, 1881, offering to lease his land in Wabaunsee County to establish an Exoduster colony. E. B.…
Medium: Text
John Bruere and Lydia Miller letters
Date: Between 1887 and 1888
Courtship letters between John Bruere, Lablanche, Sherman County, Kansas, and Lydia Miller, Frederic, Monroe County, Iowa, dated 1887-1888. The collection begins with a letter to Lydia Miller from a family…
Medium: Text
Ida M. Walker papers
Date: 1902-1968
This series of papers of Ida M. Walker, wife of C.B. Walker, from Norton County, Kansas, includes certificates, newspaper clippings and correspondence about her work during World War I with…
Medium: Text
Percival Greene Lowe collection
Date: 1884-1903
This small collection includes letters and recollections from Percival Greene Lowe, who served as a dragoon at Fort Kearney, Nebraska in the 1850s. Lowe describes a successful attempt by the…
Medium: Text
Kansas State Temperance Union expense journals
Date: 1898-1911
This collection consists of 7 volumes of records from the Kansas State Temperance Union. The first volume lists the members and the dues they paid by local organization. The index…
Medium: Text
Kansas State Board of Agriculture history collection
Date: 1945 - 1947
Assembled collection of correspondence from the State Board of Agriculture after they solicited information relating to pioneer families who have owned and occupied the same Kansas farms for seventy-five years…
Medium: Text
Stephen Marshall Crockett
Date: January 08, 1906
Stephen Marshall Crockett, Richland, Kansas, wrote this letter to George W. Martin, secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society. Crockett’s daughter, Gertrude Wells, gave a membership in the historical society…
Medium: Text
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Second Kansas District
Date: 1900 - 1916
This collection consists of records of the Second District (eastern Kansas, including Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Douglas, Franklin, Johnson, Linn, Miami and Wyandotte Counties) of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. It…
Medium: Text
Woman Suffrage history collection
Date: 1867-1911
The manuscripts in this collection originally came from a variety of different sources and were brought together into one collection because of their subject matter. For any researcher or scholar…
Medium: Text
Union League of America history collection
Date: 1862 - 1865
Materials from and about the Union League of America, for the Kansas state office and for some of the local councils. It includes letters, a list of rejected candidates for…
Medium: Text
Kansas Farmer Seed Wheat Club history collection
Date: 1913 - 1915
This collection consists of records from the Kansas Farmer Seed Wheat Club. It includes correspondence, index cards by county noting how much was deposited in each bank, what was outstanding…
Medium: Text
E. A. Park collection
Date: 1871 - 1882
This collection consists of a single volume of handwritten notes taken by Reverend Myron Oscar Harrington. The notes were taken while Harrington was a student attending seminary school, in all…
Medium: Text
Lewis Bodwell papers
Date: 1856 - 1889 (bulk 1856 - 1866)
This collection consists of letters of recommendation and correspondence to and from Lewis Bodwell, the first resident pastor of the First Congregational Church in Topeka. The collection also includes Bodwell’s…
Medium: Text
Norton family diaries
Date: before 1982
These diaries, written by the John Talcott Norton family from 1876 to 1895, provide accounts of life in early Pawnee County, Kansas. Included are many references to the fort and…
Medium: Text
Julia McKee papers
Date: 1907-1951 (bulk 1932, 1944)
This small collection consists primarily of correspondence between Julia McKee and her parents, Mr. & Mrs. W. T. McKee; letters to her father from her brother Ralph; and correspondence with…
Medium: Text
Eula Gentzler papers
Date: 1942-1957 (bulk 1943-1945)
This collection consists of letters written by Eula Gentzler to her parents in Topeka, Kansas, and official military correspondence as a U.S. Army nurse. Miss Gentzler referred to hospital ship…
Medium: Text
American War Mothers, Topeka Chapter, records
Date: 1927-1976
The records of the Topeka Chapter of the American War Mothers includes a complete set of minutes, membership rolls, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous material. This collection documents the activities of the…
Medium: Text
George W. Scott papers
Date: 1889-1899
Business correspondence, arranged chronologically, of George W. Scott, one of the first residents of Edgerton, Kansas. A large portion of the collection is correspondence between Scott and Frank S. Hammond,…
Medium: Text
Charles H. French correspondence
Date: 1917-1919
Letters written by Charles H. French to his parents, sisters, and maternal grandparents in rural Shawnee County, Kansas, near Silver Lake. The letters discuss French’s experiences serving in the army…
Medium: Text
Walker School, Johnson County, Kansas
Date: 1949
A photograph of Walker School, Johnson County, Kansas, used by the plaintiffs in Webb v USD 90. The photograph was removed from KS Appellate Court Case file 37,427.
Medium: Text
Outdoor toilets at Walker School in Johnson County, Kansas
Date: 1949
This is a photograph of the outdoor toilets and their proximity to Walker School in Johnson County, Kan. The photograph was used by the plaintiffs in Webb v USD 90.…
Medium: Text
Interior of outdoor toilet at Walker School, Johnson County, Kansas
Date: 1949
A photograph showing the interior of the outdoor toilet at Walker School, Johnson County, Kan. The photograph was used in the plaintiff’s exhibit in Webb v USD 90. It was…
Medium: Text
Combination classroom and auditorium at Walker School in Johnson County, Kansas
Date: 1949
This is a photograph showing the combination classroom and auditorium at Walker School in Johnson County, Kansas. The photograph was used in the plaintiff’s exhibit in Webb v USD 90.…
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad poster for lands in southwest Kansas
Date: 1870s
A circular of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad promotes land sales and settlement in southwest Kansas. The advertisement states the climate of southwest Kansas is ideal for farming…
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Speech written by John J. Ingalls
Date: 1859
A partial copy of an Ingalls speech on behalf of the Wyandotte Constitution in presumably the fall of 1859, although it is not dated or signed. It appears to be…