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Title
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Kansas City in 1879
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Description
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Promotional booklet for Kansas City, Missouri. Item includes sections covering the development of the city's business interests, a list of buildings constructed in 1878, its history, its geographic advantages, descriptions of various businesses and public institutions, descriptions of its suburbs, and advertisements.
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Date
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1879
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Title
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Freeborn, Falsely Imprisoned
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Description
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Article tells the story of Allen Pinks, a free African-American living and working in Kansas during the late 1850s and 1860s. The author focuses upon Pinks' capture in Missouri without his freedom papers and later being held against his will in Platte County, Missouri, under charges of being an escaped slave. The author states that Pinks escaped, returned to Lawrence, and began to assist other slave hunters seeking to capture free African Americans in Kansas. It is stated that Pinks was murdered on April 29, 1869, in Leavenworth, Kansas.
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Date
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2014-03-02
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Bibliography: Jayhawker to General
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Description
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This Jim Lane Bibliography consists of a ring-bound, fifty page listing of sources relating to former United States Senator and early Jayhawker leader, James Henry (Jim) Lane. Sources are arranged by type (Books, Periodicals, Unpublished Material, Newspapers and Ephemera, Cartographic Sources, City Directories, Government Documents, Material Artifacts, Photographic Resources, Manuscript Collection, Scrapbooks, and Addresses) then alphabetically by author(s). Most entries include a short annotation that includes information of interest and/or quotes useful to the bibliography�??s author.
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Object Type
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Manuscript
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Title
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SC115 The Kents Comic Book Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection consists of a complete 12-issue comic book series, "The Kents," published by DC Comics from 1997-1998. The story follows members of the fictional Kent family (Superman's adoptive ancestors) in Kansas between 1854 and the 1870s, as they encounter significant individuals and events of the time period.
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Date
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1997-08/1998-07
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
