Territory of Kansas Collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: WHC-M-757

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

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Documents regarding territorial and early statehood-era Kansas, including land settlement brochures, U.S. Centennial Celebration programs (1876), and government proclamations and patriotic programs (1863-1873). Also a leaflet (1879) regarding the settlement of former slaves in Kansas, and a leaflet (1888) published by the Plainsville School Board denying that it was ordering history texts sympathetic to the Confederate cause.

Dates

1856-1880

Restrictions on Access

Open for public research.

Extent

.20 ft. (.20 ft.)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Ownership and Custodial History

Transferred from the Boomer Literature Collection.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Printed materials: Source of acquisition--Boomer Literature Collection. Method of acquisition--Transfer; Date of acquisition--1966.

Subjects

African Americans -- Colonization -- Kansas Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
American Settlement Company
Bonds -- Kansas Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Brochures Subject Source: Ftamc
Carney, Thomas, 1824-1888
Coffeyville (Kan.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Iola (Kan.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Kansas -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Kansas -- Politics and government Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Land settlement -- Kansas Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Lawrence (Kan.) Subject Source: Naf
Manhattan (Kan.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Montgomery County (Kan.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Proclamations Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Proclamations -- Kansas Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Topeka (Kan.) Subject Source: Naf
United States -- Centennial celebrations, etc. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Whitewater, Willie
Wyandotte (Kan.) -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings