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Santa Fe R.R. locomotive shops, Topeka, Kansas

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A US Army (USA) Soldier (left) from the 2nd Battalion (BN), 70th Armor...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Mamadia Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: SPC Ronald Shaw Jr., USA Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital ... More

Powder Magazine, Fort Scott national historic site

The powder magazine is the only structure at Fort Scott lined with brick, for the simple reason that brick is resistant to fire. Brick can withstand temperatures up to 1300 degrees without being compromised. C... More

DCM 1668: Two's Company Music Vertical Whistle Flute

Accompanied by instructions and finger chart. Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Painted aluminum tube with plastic fipple mouthpiece.; 29.7 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: Pocket /... More

Fort Larned national historic site - Fort Leavenworth

Fort Leavenworth is where Henry's company is based and where his journey begins.

Prescription Stick, arts of africa oceania and the americas

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Prescription Stick, 18th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Fort Larned national historic site - Charley's Clothes

Some typical children's clothing of the mid-1800s that Charley would have worn.

[Lewis and Clark map, with annotations in brown ink by Meriwether Lewi...

Pen and ink. Author information provided by Prof. Donald Jackson, 1/12/1977. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. See also: pp. 97-103 of Allen's Passage through the garden... More

National parks: Mr - public domain image

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Cheyenne Village Tragedy - National Parks Gallery

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Mud House in Santa Fe - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

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Fort Larned national historic site - Fort Lyon

Fort Lyon is Henry's first stop in Colorado. Public domain image of 19th-century Lyon architecture, historical city building, France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Larned national historic site - Fort Union

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Indian Village Burning - National Parks Gallery

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Hancock Indian Expedition - National Parks Gallery

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Life of an Indian - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

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Red Arm Creek - National Parks Gallery

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1831 Newspaper - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

This is lining for the document box in the story that Sarah's father Henry uses to hold special documents.

Shoulder bag, arts of africa oceania and the americas

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Guarding the Field of Flags - Public Domain image, National Parks Gall...

Field of Flags with an 1840s guard

Gun Shed, Fort Scott national historic site

Artillery consisting of two 6-pound field cannons, with carriages and equipment, were supplied to Fort Scott and used from 1845 to 1853. The evidence indicates that the cannon barrels were made of iron, and we... More

Kansas. Fort Leavenworth. U.S. Military Prison

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[Lampshade design with six views: "Kansas", "Jefferson City", "Erie R....

Stamped on lower left: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.

Map of a Reconnoissance between Fort Leavenworth on the Missouri River...

Covers the Missouri River region between Fort Leavenworth and the Great Salt Lake. Relief shown by hachures. Showing cities and towns, rivers, plains, Indian tribal areas and topographical information. "The adj... More

Log cabin, Kansas, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Ch[auncy] Street, [Boston], to Debor...

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Depot, Leavenworth, Kansas, 309 miles west of St. Louis, Mo.

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Kno-Shr, Kansas Chief - Daguerreotype, Public domain

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Kansas. To those who desire that Kansas should be free ... Worcester, ...

Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 20, Folder 1.

Kansas from "Kanzas and Nebraska; the history, geographical and physic...

This image has been taken from scan 000008 from "Kanzas and Nebraska; the history, geographical and physical characteristics, and political position of those territories, etc". The title and subject terms of th... More

Map of Nebraska and Kansas Territories, showing the location of the In...

Presidential Messages to the Senate in the 35th Congress Transmitting Treaties and Other Papers Pertaining to Relations with the Pawnee Indians

Constitutional Convention, Topeka, Kansas Territory [Topeka]

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 1, no, 1 (1855 Dec. 15), p. 16.

Honorable M.P. Norton of Kansas, Glass negative photograph, American C...

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Nebraska and Kanzas Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown by hachures. Shows routes explored for Pacific railroad by Captain J.W. Gunnison and Lieutenant E.G. Beckwith; shows route for a proposed railroad to the West Coast as Governor Stevens' Route & lin... More

Honorable M.P. Norton of Kansas, Glass negative photograph, American C...

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Honorable Samuel C. Pomeroy. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Kansas; Sen. from Kansas; B. in Mass. 1816; D. in Mass. 1891; Mayor of Atchison, Kansas in 1859; Elected to U.S. Senate, served from 1861-73; resided in Was... More

Honorable Samuel C. [?] Pomeroy of Kansas

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Honorable Samuel Clarke Pomeroy, Kansas. Mathew Brady photograph of Am...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene... More

Honorable Samuel Clarke Pomeroy, Kansas, Glass negative photograph, Am...

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To the public. The Committee appointed at a public meeting at Faneuil ...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 62, Folder 17.

Who are the ruffians, murderers, and robbers in Kansas? [1856?]

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 20, Folder 3.

Kansas affairs. To the friends of free Kansas. National Kansas Committ...

Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 20, Folder 5.

Liberty, the fair maid of Kansas--in the hands of the "border ruffians...

A bitter indictment of the Democratic administration's responsibility for violence and bloodshed in Kansas in the wake of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act. (See also "Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler... More

portrait from "The War in Kansas. A rough trip to the Border, among ne...

This image has been taken from scan 000010 from "The War in Kansas. A rough trip to the Border, among new homes and a strange people". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, cr... More

Map of Eastern Kansas - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 established two new territories with a provision that settlers would decide whether they entered the Union as free or slave states. This legislation negated the 1820 Missouri Com... More

Letter from Samuel May, Leicester, Mass., to Richard Davis Webb, June ...

May announces to Webb that he is sending an extensive series of pamphlets and reports. He says that Parker Pillsbury has returned home. He describes the New England Convention in Faneuil Hall and says that "Kan... More

Ho! For the Kansas Plains during American Civil War

Music cover showing Indian and settler with inset scene of battle between pro- and anti-slavery forces. Composer: Jas. G. Clark. LOT subdivision subject: Pre-Civil War. Title and other information transcribed f... More

To the members of the National Kansas Committee. [1856].

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 20, Folder 4.

Ho! For the Kansas plains - Public domain engraving

An illustrated sheet music cover for an antislavery song, dedicated to abolitionist spokesman Henry Ward Beecher. The illustration features a roundel illustration of the burning of the Free State Hotel in Lawre... More

The buck chase of 1856 - Political cartoon, public domain image

Democratic candidate James Buchanan, as a buck deer, crosses the finish line of a racecourse ahead of competitors Millard Fillmore and John C. Fremont. Spectators cheer in the stands behind. Fillmore appears a... More

Forcing slavery down the throat of a freesoiler

The artist lays on the Democrats the major blame for violence perpetrated against antislavery settlers in Kansas in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Here a bearded "freesoiler" has been bound to the "Democr... More

The "mustang" team - A cartoon of a horse pulling a cart with people o...

The abolitionist Republican presidential ticket and its supporters in the press are the targets of the cartoon. Candidate Fremont, wearing an emigrant's smock and carrying a cross (an allusion to his rumored Ca... More

Liberty. The fair maid of Kansas in the hands of the "border ruffians"...

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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Samuel Joseph ...

Kansas - Col. Sumner arriving at Constitution Hall. Col. Sumner dispe...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1856 July 26 , p. 105.

To the people of Leavenworth County [Regarding the coming election for...

To the people of Kansas [Regarding the distribution of relief clothing...

Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 20, Folder 9.

Letter from Elizabeth A. Livermore, Milford, [Mass.], to Maria Weston ...

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Sketches of Lecomptonism [no. 2]

Four designs for magic lantern slides, images 2, 3, and two unnumbered showing men standing on a platform before a crowd, the flag of the United States and a devil behind them, as a man below approaches them wi... More

Letter from S.P. Leland, Windsor, Ohio, to William Lloyd Garrison, Sep...

S. P. Leland writes William Lloyd Garrison following receipt of several copies of the Liberator, and asserts that the "people of the North" are quickly becoming prepared to "blow the sparks that are falling fro... More

The governor's mansion, Lecompton, Kansas Territory

Men on horseback outside a log building. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 1, no. 23 (1857 June 6), p. 356.

Original air line and United States mail route! 1857. Spring arrangeme...

Conference of Kaw Indians (Kansas) with the United States Commission o...

Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1857 Apr. 25. Reference copy may be in LOT 4391 F. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Indians History 1857; Ind. tribes K... More

Sketches of Lecomptonism [no. 1], engraving, Library of Congress

Four designs for magic lantern slides, images 1, 5, 4 and 7 showing the clearing of the first settlement, the devil introducing slavery into the colony, the devil flying away as slaves are freed and whites sett... More

John Brown autograph letter to "Dear Friend and Other Friends", Osawat...

All is quiet now; has no need for [the whistles]. Urges him to get things into operation as soon as possible. Thanks him for draft of $50. Printed in F. B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 477-78... More

Colton's Kansas and Nebraska. - Public domain old map

Detailed map showing cities and towns, county boundaries, roads, and the railroad network. 1:1,140,480 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

John Brown autograph letter to "Dear Friend and Other Friends", Osawat...

All is quiet now; has no need for [the whistles]. Urges him to get things into operation as soon as possible. Thanks him for draft of $50. Printed in F. B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 477-78... More

John Brown letter (copy) to Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Lawrence, Kansa...

Intends to leave at once for the neighborhood "of the late troubles." Urges him to carry out the proposed measures. Asks for a dozen whistles. Copy in Franklin Benjamin Sanborn's hand. Printed in O. G. Villard,... More

Kansas sketches - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 2, no. 64 (1858 March 20), p. 192.

Mail Interactive - National Parks Gallery

This mail interactive allows people to get an idea of how long it took to deliver mail to different parts of the country during the 1800's. The mail station at Pawnee Fork was the main reason the Army sent sol... More

Map of the route to the Kansas gold mines : prepared from government a...

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

General map of the United States & their territory between the Mississ...

Gold mines are indicated in yellow and silver mines in blue. Indicates post routes, "old trail," finished and unfinished railroads, and the proposed state of "Colona." Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Relief shown by hac... More

Mitchell's sectional map of Kansas /

Map of the recently discovered gold regions in Western Kansas & Nebras...

Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

[M.J. Parrott, Representative from Kansas, Thirty-fifth Congress, half...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 310. Each item includes subject's orig... More

J.J. Ingalls - Sen. Kansas, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negat...

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[Blank], [Blank] - State: Kansas - Year: 1860 - File Number: I3

Letters Received

Albert C. Lee, Colonel 7th Kansas Cavalry

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Corresponding print is in LOT 4192. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information... More

1860s Christmas Foods - National Parks Gallery

Our Christmas event is called a Taste of Christmas Past because we researched different kinds of food people made for the holiday in the 1860s. We then baked them using recipes from that time period. The visi... More

Destitution in Kansas. Appeal for help ... October 30, 1860.

Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 20, Folder 11.

[Blank], [Blank] - State: Kansas - Year: 1860 - File Number: I40

Letters Received

Honorable Samuel Clark Pomeroy of Kansas

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James Montgomery autograph letter signed to [Thomas Wentworth Higginso...

Fears his duty to his family will keep him at home; suggests a substitute. Addressed to "Rev. Theo. Brown"; signed "Henry Martin." Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Modoc Indians in their new home. View through camp photographed by McC...

Photograph probably shows Modoc survivors of the Modoc War after their relocation to the Quapaw Indian Agency near Baxter Springs, Kansas. (Source: researcher M. Higgins) View no. 4.

James Montgomery autograph letter signed to [Thomas Wentworth Higginso...

Fears his duty to his family will keep him at home; suggests a substitute. Addressed to "Rev. Theo. Brown"; signed "Henry Martin." Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Honorable E.G. Ross of Kansas - Public domain portrait print

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Appeal for Kansas sufferers! ... Daniel Foster, General agent of the N...

Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 20, Folder 10.

Map of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad and its connections publishe...

Township map of northern Missouri and parts of Kansas and Illinois showing rivers, place names, railroads, and the land grant to the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad. Profile of the railroad is shown across botto... More

G. F. Warren autograph letter signed to [Thomas Wentworth Higginson], ...

Cautions him about writing to [James] Montgomery. Wrongly dated 1856. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

James Montgomery telegram to [Thomas Wentworth Higginson], Leavenworth...

Is leaving St. Joseph [Mo.] with eight men. Signed "Henry Martin." On the same sheet is an answer ordering him to send the men back, written by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and signed T[heodore] B[rown]. Printed ... More

Albert C. Lee, Colonel 7th Kansas Cavalry

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched on emulsion: Gen. A L Lee. Corresponding print is in LOT 4192. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of... More

G. F. Warren autograph letter signed to [Thomas Wentworth Higginson], ...

Cautions him about writing to [James] Montgomery. Wrongly dated 1856. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Old John Brown's career illustrated

Print shows five vignettes from the violent life of abolitionist John Brown, three related to "doing his Kansas work" and the fourth "commencing his Virginia work"; the fifth vignette, at center, labeled "The t... More

Lowe, Honorable David Perly of Kansas

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Lowe, Honorable David Perly of Kansas

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, glass side: D.P. Lowe, 4394, 2650 [crossed out], 2412 [crossed out]. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Co... More

Lucy Gaylord Pomeroy autograph letter signed to Thomas Wentworth Higgi...

Warns him against trusting any "secret mission" to R[ichard] J[osiah] Hinton. Signed "Mrs. Samuel C. Pomeroy." Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Honorable E.G. Ross of Kansas - Public domain portrait photograph

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Sen. Ross. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

Honorable E.G. Ross of Kansas - Public domain portrait photograph

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Strong's dime caricatures. No. 2, Little Bo-Peep and her foolish sheep

The second in a series of caricatures criticizing the secession of several Southern states from the Union during the last months of the Buchanan administration. Here the young nursery-rhyme shepherdess Bo-Peep ... More