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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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Scapegoat? Colonel Edwin V. Sumner and the Topeka Dispersal
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Description
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On July 4, 1856, Colonel Edwin V. Sumner dispersed the free-state legislature while it convened in Topeka, Kansas Territory. Sumner's operation intensified the debate over federal policy and the legality of Sumner's actions.
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Date
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2010
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Object Type
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Magazine 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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The Noble Wife of the Late Champion of Freedom
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Description
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Mary Brown, widow of abolitionist John Brown, was the guest of honor at a reception held at the statehouse in Topeka, Kansas on November 15, 1882. The article provides a biography of Mary Brown's life and discusses how she was portrayed and linked with her husband's legacy after his death in 1859. The author argues that Kansas officials used the reception as a means to promote their own interpretations of John Brown and Kansas history, honoring Mary Brown as a symbol of the state's struggle for freedom.
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Date
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2012
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Josiah Miller, an Antislavery Southerner
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Description
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Article on Josiah Miller, an antislavery newspaper man from South Carolina who settled in Lawrence, Kansas in 1854. Shortly after arriving, he left the newspaper business and became involved in local politics, serving as a probate judge and a state senator for Douglas County. Between 1854 and 1858, Miller kept an "active" correspondence with his parents, chronicling the early settlement of Lawrence and Bleeding Kansas period. The article reprints 11 of Miller's letters to his parents and includes information on an encounter his siblings had with Missouri guerrilla leader William Quantrill.
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Date
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2013
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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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
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Title
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Samuel J. Kookogey in Bleeding Kansas
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Description
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A historical profile on Samuel J. Kookogey, delegate to the proslavery government of territorial Kansas from Leavenworth County. Originally from Columbus, Georgia, Kookogey took part in a plan to overthrow the Spanish government in Cuba before making his way to Kansas. He settled in Easton in 1855, shortly before violence broke out in the town between free-state and proslavery supporters. Kookogey was elected to the Lecompton Constitutional Convention in 1857 and died in 1862.
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Date
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2012
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
