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Sumner, Kansas Territory
A lithograph depicting Sumner, Kansas Territory, in 1858. At the bottom of the lithograph is a small map of northeast Kansas and a description of Sumner. At the top there is a banner that reads "Ohio...
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Munkers Creek ceramic effigy
This ceramic head is Kansas' oldest fired clay artifact. Archeologists discovered the fired clay head in the early 1960s during excavations at the William Young archeological site in Morris County,...
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Bird's eye view of Oswego, Kansas
A bird's eye view of the city of Oswego, Kansas, the county seat of Labette County. The colored lithograph shows the location of churches, schools, railroad depots and the county courthouse. A legend...
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C.B. Schmidt to Colonel A.S. Johnson
A letter from C.B. Schmidt, foreign agent for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad to Colonel A.S. Johnson of the Land Commission. Schmidt speaks about stopping in Prussia to get information on...
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Osage Catholic Mission, Neosho County, Kansas
This map shows the townships and ranges within the Osage Catholic Mission in Neosho County, Kansas.
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Lecompton Constitutional Convention, election ballots
Examples of ballots from the special election of the Lecompton Constitutional Convention. Voters were choosing between the Constitution with slavery or without slavery. The Constitution with slavery...
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Hugh Fisher correspondence
The collection consists of incoming and some outgoing correspondence and personal recollections of Hugh Fisher, involving the military, Fisher family members, and others; as well as recollections of...
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Society of the Anniversary of the Battle of the Blue minutes and roster of...
Notebook containing the roster of the 2nd Regiment of the Kansas Militia during the Battle of the Blue, which occurred on October 22, 1864 in Jackson County, Missouri. Members of the regiment are...
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United States Office of Indian Affairs, Central Superintendency, St. Louis,...
This volume contains records of accounts of Indian agents and property returns as recorded by the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Central Superintendency, at St. Louis, Missouri. These Indian agents...
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Missouri Fur Company records. Volume 33, Ledger book
This ledger and letterbook of the Missouri Fur Company are part of the papers of William Clark, a board member of that company. The volume was discovered with the records of the U. S. Indian Affairs,...
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J.R. Detwiler to Governor John St. John
Newspaper editor J. R. Detwiler inquires of Kansas Governor St. John what year the Constitutional amendment will be submitted and what the cost will be.
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James H. Lane to Charles Foster
A note from James H. Lane to Charles Foster saying that every Free State man in Kansas is needed in Lawrence to help fight in the Wakarusa War. The "war" was averted by a treaty between Governor...
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J.M. Cavaness to Governor John St. John
J.M. Cavaness, editor of the Chetopa Advance, writes Kansas Governor St. John regarding the problem of intemperance supporters in his community "bulldozing" the town to obtain another license. He is...
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H.D. Fisher to Governor John St. John
From Omaha, H.D Fisher writes Kansas Governor St. John, offering the lecturing services of the popular Temperance advocate and lawyer from Iowa, Mrs. J. Ellen Foster. Fisher himself expresses interest...
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Kansas Territory council journal
A bound volume of the Kansas Territory council journal for 1855. Some of the subjects dealt with are the territorial capital at Lecompton, coal mining, Governor Andrew Reeder, slavery, and Indians.
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Plimy H. Fisk to Governor John St. John
From Colony, Kansas, Plimy Fisk requests Kansas Governor St. John furnish him temperance and intemperance statistics, if such are available. Fisk has been asked to deliver a speech on the subject.
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First letter of the war
A facsimile of a letter written by General James H. Lane, labeled as the first letter of the "Wakarusa War." This skirmish was between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces near and at Lawrence, Kansas....
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Nichols Memorial
This pamphlet is addressed "To the Women of Kansas" with the purpose of raising funds to include a "steel portrait" of Mrs. Clarina I. Howard Nichols in the soon to be published history of woman...
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway coal chute in Topeka, Kansas
A photograph of an ATSF Railway coal chute in Topeka, Kansas.
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Army troops marching at Fort Larned, Kansas
A photograph showing troops marching at a Kansas centennial event at Fort Larned, Kansas.
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