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Marais des Cygnes Massacre
Title
Marais des Cygnes Massacre
Description
Illustration of the Marais des Cygnes Massacre by John R. Chapin copied from "Beyond the Mississippi" by Albert D. Richardson, 1867.
Object Type
Image
Soldiers, Sixth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry
Title
Soldiers, Sixth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry
Description
This portrait, taken ca. 1861-1865, depicts fifteen members of the Sixth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, Company B. The photograph was taken in Pleasanton, Linn County, Kansas. On the back of the photograph is a list of the soldiers' names and hometowns.
Object Type
Image
It Went Against Us
Title
It Went Against Us
Description
Samuel J. Reader painting of the Battle of Mine Creek (or "Little Osage"), Kansas, which occurred October 25, 1864. Reader was a Union prisoner of war captured by the Confederate army; he escaped capture shortly after this battle. Over forty years later in 1906, Reader produced this painting.
Object Type
Image
Date
March 24, 1906
Augustus Wattles
Title
Augustus Wattles
Description
A photograph of Augustus Wattles, abolitionist and founder of the Free-State town of Moneka, in Linn County, Kansas.
Object Type
Image
John Otis Wattles
Title
John Otis Wattles
Description
A photograph of John Otis Wattles, abolitionist and founder of the Free-State town of Moneka, in Linn County, Kansas.
Object Type
Image
New Sectional Map of Kansas
Title
New Sectional Map of Kansas
Description
This color map, drafted in 1859 by Robert L. Ream, was published by Stevenson and Morris of St. Louis, and printed by A. Janicke and Co. of St. Louis. The map is entitled “New Sectional Map of Kansas,” and was compiled from the field notes in the Surveyor General’s office.
Object Type
Map
Date
1859
Kansas and Nebraska 1856
Title
Kansas and Nebraska 1856
Description
This color map, entitled “Kansas and Nebraska 1856,” was printed by J.G. Wells in New York.
Object Type
Map
Date
1856