This is a carte-de-visite of William Goodnow of Manhattan, Kansas.
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William Goodnow
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Opening activities at the new museum, Topeka, Kansas
These twelve photographs show a large pit being created to roast a pig as part of the opening activates for the new museum in Topeka, Kansas. The museum is located at 6425 SW 6th Ave.
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The Kansas famine call for a public meeting to aid the starving
Signatures gathered by the New York Kansas Relief Committee to "call for a public meeting to be held on the 12th day of December to consider what action shall be taken" to aid settlers in Kansas during the drought which began in June 1859. Signatories include William Cullen Bryant, Horace Greeley, Hiram Ketchum, John A. Stevens, John Earl Williams, Isaac H. Bailey, and several others.
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Adjournment from constitutional convention in Minneola, Kansas
Motion for adjourning the constitutional convention from Minneola in Franklin County to Leavenworth, Kansas. The motion states, "We have organized temporarily and are now getting ready to adjourn if possible to some other place to show our utter detestation of the Minneola Swindle." The controversy began when the Kansas Legislature passed a bill designating Minneola as the new state capital. The town existed only on paper, and the public accused the legislature and delegates attending the convention of looking for personal gain in establishing a new town. The motion to adjourn from Minneola received 60 votes in favor and 13 votes opposed. Isaac Goodnow wrote about the swindle to a friend on April 1st, 1858 (see Kansas Memory unit 3763).
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Frank Gahagan
This is a carte-de-visite of a young Frank Gahagan.
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Street car #223 used by the Topeka Railway Company in Topeka, Kansas
This is a photograph showing street car #223 used by the Topeka Railway Company in Topeka, Kansas. The man on the left is Edson McKee.
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Mrs. Charles W. Adams
This is a carte-de-visite of Mrs. Charles W. Adams, who resided in Lawrence, Kansas. During the Civil War, her husband Charles W. Adams served in the 12th Kansas Volunteer Infantry Headquarters. He was mustered in September 30, 1862; promoted to Brev. Brigadier General on February 13,1865; wounded in action at Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas, on April 30, 1864; and mustered out with the regiment on June 30, 1865.
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Isaac Tichenor Goodnow diary
Diary belonging to Isaac Goodnow, a free-state supporter and the founder of Bluemont College (predecessor to Kansas State University) in Manhattan, Kansas Territory. Although many of the entries are somewhat mundane, dealing with weather, illness, neighbors, etc., others describe political and military activities in Kansas, as well as the land speculation. Goodnow's diary makes mention of the details of his daily life and community activities, such as home maintenance and crop harvests.
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George Perine
This is a carte-de-visite of George Perine, who lived in Lawrence, Kansas.
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Juliette Lovejoy
Portrait of Mrs. Juliette Lovejoy. Juliette was the daughter of Julia Hardy Lovejoy and the wife of Dr. Samuel Whitehorn. Juliette died of typhoid fever on November 20, 1860 at Manhattan, Kansas.
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Isaac Tichenor Goodnow diary
Diary belonging to Isaac Goodnow, a free-state supporter and the founder of Bluemont College (predecessor to Kansas State University) in Manhattan, Kansas Territory. Although many of the entries are somewhat mundane, dealing with weather, illness, neighbors, etc., others describe political and military activities in Kansas, as well as the land speculation. Goodnow's diary makes mention of the details of his daily life and community activities, such as home maintenance and crop harvests.
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Julia Lovejoy
A carte-de-visite of Julia Louisa Hardy Lovejoy (1812-1882). She and her husband, Charles Lovejoy, came to the Kansas Territory in March 1855.
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Edna Corbet
Photograph of M'Edna Corbet (1885-1930) sitting at a desk. She was superintendent of Shawnee County schools.
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Edna Corbet
Portrait of M'Edna Corbet (1885-1930). She was superintendent of Shawnee County schools.
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Colonel Don Estevan Miro to the Ioway Indians
This document was presented to Antoine Burada by his uncle, George Campbell. George Campbell was the "half-breed" son of Vance Murray Campbell, a fur trader and U. S. treaty interpreter, who fathered several children by the daughter of No Heart, an Ioway chief. Their daughter Emily (sister of George) married Michael T. Barada. Their son Antoine Barada (1863-1924) of White Cloud, Kansas, was one of several by that name in the Ioway and Omaha tribes, so he is not to be confused with his first cousin Antoine Barada (1807-1885) of Barada, Nebraska, a celebrated figure in that state's folklore. This is the Antoine Barada who signed the treaty between the United States and the Kansas Nation, at St. Louis, in 1815.
The document is addressed to "de la Nacion Ayoas" - the Ioway nation - and was signed by Colonel Don Estevan Miro, who was the Spanish governor of Louisiana during the period when it was secretly deeded by the French to the Spanish. It was presented to the Iowa Nation at the Spanish Office of the Province of Louisiana, at New Orleans, March 25, 1784. This document was donated to the Kansas Historical Society circa 1905 according to the Transactions of KSHS, vol. 9 (1905-1906), p. 251, note 55. A searchable translation is forthcoming.
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Dismal River vessel
This Dismal River pottery vessel was recovered from the El Cuartelejo site in Scott County. The micaeous (mica in the clay) pot was reconstructed from many individual sherds, with the spaces filled in with plaster and stands 16 cm high. The El Cuartelejo site is the only known Plains Apache Pueblo in the Kansas and is further east than any other Pueblo.
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Smoky Hill Phase Middle Ceramic vessel
This Smoky Hill Phase vessel was found at the Minneapolis Archeological Site in Ottawa County. A cord-wrapped paddle was used to make the roughened surface treatment of this otherwise undecorated pot. The globular or round shape of the vessel was efficient for cooking and storage.
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Pratt Complex Middle Ceramic vessel
The sherds of this reconstructed vessel were found at the Seuser Archeological Site in Rush County in 1970. The vessel is from the Pratt Complex which occurred during the Middle Ceramic Period. This pottery is typically cord marked, sometimes smoothed over cord marked, with sand tempering. The decorations around the rim were made by a pointed tool and by pinching the clay. Archeologists filled in the missing pieces of the vessel with plaster.
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Central Plains tradition vessel
When the individual sherds of this vessel were reconstructed it showed it to be a typical Central Plains tradition pot. It was found in the remains of an earthlodge in an Indian village site in Ottawa County. Vessels of this sort tend to be rounded or globular in shape, have a restricted neck and grit temper. A cord-wrapped paddle was used to make the roughened surface treatment of this otherwise undecorated pot. Archeologists used plaster to fill in the missing portions of the vessel.
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Kansas City Hopewell Early Ceramic vessel
Pieces of this pottery vessel were found at the Arrowhead Island Archeological site in Coffey County. Archeologists reconstructed what was possible and then used the example of these portions to complete the vessel with plaster. Holes were drilled in the pot by its owner so that cracks could be laced to mend it. The Arrowhead Island site was a village site of the Early Ceramic Period and the Kansas City Hopewell culture.
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