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Mr. John Harris
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Carte de visite portrait of Sergeant John Harris, member of the 10th United States Cavalry Regiment. The 10th Cavalry and other black regiments (including the 9th Cavalry, the 24th Infantry, and the 25th Infantry) acquired the nickname of "Buffalo Soldiers" as a result of their exploits during the Indian Wars.
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Leander Harrison
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This carte de visite depicts Leander Harrison, who served in Company A, Fifth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. The photograph was produced ca. 1861-1865.
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Map of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad
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Map of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, which was chartered in 1847 and completed in 1859. Map depicts northern Missouri and parts of Kansas and Illinois, showing rivers, settlements, railroads, and the land grant awarded to the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad.
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Map, Image
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Col. Jas. A. Mulligan
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This black-and-white carte de viste depicts Union Col. Jas. A. Mulligan in military uniform. Mulligan served as colonel of the 23rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and commanded the Union forces at the first Battle of Lexington.
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Jefferson Davis in Prison at Fortress Monroe
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This drawing depicts Jefferson Davis in his prison cell at Fortress Monroe, Virginia after the conclusion of the Civil War. Two guards stand in Davis' cell, while the prisoner sits on his bed. Written in the lower, right hand corner: "The casemate, Fortress Monroe, Jeff Davis in prison."
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1865
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The Cradle of the G.O.P.
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Lithograph of Pittsburgh's Lafayette Hall, where the first Republic National Convention convened on February 22, 1856. The image depicts the exterior and interior of LaFayette Hall at the time of the first Republican convention.
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January 29, 1897
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Charles Bluejacket
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Photograph of Charles Bluejacket (1816-1897), Kansas member of the Shawnee Tribe. This is found in the 1906 publication of "Transactions of the Kansas Historical Society: Vol. IX.".
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n.d.
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Susan B. Anthony
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Half length portrait of Susan B. Anthony, seated, facing left.
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1890-1906
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Honorable Eli Thayer of Massachusetts
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Eli Thayer, founder of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society, later renamed to the New England Emigrant Aid Company. Thayer and other antislavery advocates charted the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society on April 26, 1854.
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Soldier, Eleventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry
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This sepia carte de visite, ca. 1861-1865, depicts an unidentified soldier who served in the Eleventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. Carte de visites were small photographs that were often used as calling cards and became very popular during the Civil War.
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Hon. Salmon P. Chase
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Black and white portrait of politician and jurist, Salmon P. Chase, who served as Senator from Ohio; Governor of Ohio; U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Lincoln; and sixth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
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John T. Wasson
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This carte de visite depicts John T. Wasson, who served in Company A, Fifth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. The photograph was produced ca. 1861-1865.
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Odon Guitar
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This sepia photograph, ca. 1860s, depicts Union Col. Odon Guitar of the 9th Cavalry, Missouri State Militia, in military uniform.
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Wyandotte Constitution
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The first page of the Wyandotte Constitution, which became the Constitution of the State of Kansas when Kansas was admitted as the 34th state of the United States of America on January 29, 1861.
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July 29, 1861
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Nancy Walker Lyon Harris
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This ca. 1860 black-and-white photograph depicts Nancy Walker Lyon Harris, who was born in 1803. Nancy’s father, William Lyon, served as clerk of the court when Cass County, Missouri (originally Van Buren County) was first established. Nancy’s husband, Fleming Harris, helped found Harrisonville, Missouri, in Cass County, and served as its first town commissioner. Nancy died in Cass County in 1864.
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Benjamin (Ben) Broomfield
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Charcoal portrait of Ben Broomfield with pullover shirt typical of the guerrillas, hat, and rifle. Ben Broomfield was with Quantrill and Bill Anderson, who "called him his own Indian." Broomfield was part Comanche. He took part in the Lawrence, Kansas, massacre on August 21, 1863. Facts don't correlate about his death. Broomfield was killed either in 1863 or 1864.
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1893
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It Went Against Us
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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.
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March 24, 1906
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Henry Clay Bruce
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Portrait of Liberated Missouri slave Henry Clay Bruce, brother of the first black U.S. Senator Blanche K. Bruce. A literate man, Henry Bruce declared famously that slaves “understood the war to be for their freedom solely, and prayed earnestly and often for the success of the Union cause.”
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