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Tragic Prelude
Title
Tragic Prelude
Description
Native Kansan John Steuart Curry's allegorical painting, "Tragic Prelude." Curry's work depicts John Brown and the clash of Free-State and proslavery forces in Bleeding Kansas along with other symbollic elements representing late 19th century Kansas.
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Image
John Brown
Title
John Brown
Description
Painting of John Brown by Ole Peter Hansen Balling, 1870.
Object Type
Image
Date
1870
David Rice Atchison
Title
David Rice Atchison
Description
Half-length daguerreotype portrait of David Rice Atchison, facing three-quarters to the left. Atchison served as Democratic Senator from Missouri from 1843-1855.
Object Type
Image
Date
1844-1860
Old Sacramento
Title
Old Sacramento
Description
Photograph of Mexican-American War cannon, nicknamed "Old Sacramento," that was captured by Free-State forces at the attack on Franklin, Kansas. On August 12, 1856, Free-Staters attacked Franklin, Kansas, and six proslavery settlers were killed. The attackers captured "Old Sacramento," the name given to a cannon used by Missourians in the Mexican-American War. The attack was a success in part because the Free-Staters managed to roll a wagon of hay up to the front of a building holding proslavery men, where they ignited the hay and threatened the building.
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Image
Date
n.d.
Quantrill's Flag
Title
Quantrill's Flag
Description
Small cotton and wool flag dropped during Quantrill's raid on Olathe on September 7, 1862. The flag resembles the Confederate First National Flag, nicknamed the "Stars and Bars," however, the canton displays either a fist or palmetto tree and "Quant" for Quantrill.
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Image
Charles Robinson, First Kansas Governor
Title
Charles Robinson, First Kansas Governor
Description
Portrait of Charles Robinson, early leader of the New England Emigrant Aid Society and the first Governor of the State of Kansas.
Object Type
Image
Date
1861
David Rice Atchison
Title
David Rice Atchison
Description
Photograph of a David Rice Atchison painting by George Caleb Bingham, located in Atchison's home in Clinton County, MO.
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Image
Date
n.d.
Charles Otis Fitch
Title
Charles Otis Fitch
Description
This black and white photograph, taken circa 1890, depicts Charles Otis Fitch, son of Edward and Sarah Fitch. He was born in Lawrence, Kansas in 1860. At the age of three, he survived Quantrill’s Raid on Lawrence, but his family’s house was burned down and his father was killed in the attack.
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Image
John Brown's Sharps Rifle
Title
John Brown's Sharps Rifle
Description
Photograph of John Brown's personal Sharps rifle, which he carried during his Kansas campaign of 1856.
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Image
Date
n.d.
Rescue of Jacob Branson, 1855
Title
Rescue of Jacob Branson, 1855
Description
Woodcut depicting the rescue of Free-Stater Jacob Branson following his arrest for threats made to Franklin Coleman. A skirmish broke out in the Wakarusa River Valley near Lawrence, Kansas, following the murder of Charles Dow, a Free-State settler who was killed by the proslavery Franklin Coleman. While the murder was not about politics, the resulting political unrest led Douglas County Sheriff Samuel J. Jones to raise a militia and place Lawrence under siege. The "war" claimed one more victim, a Free-Stater named Thomas Barber.
Object Type
Image
Date
1855
Jesse Connell
Title
Jesse Connell
Description
This undated portrait depicts Jesse Connell, a Kentuckian who moved to Leavenworth, Kansas in 1855. Connell, a slave-owner, served as a delegate to the Lecompton Constitutional Convention in 1857, and was later elected to the Senate of the first Kansas State Legislature.
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Image
Date
n.d.
First Territorial Capitol, Pawnee, Kansas
Title
First Territorial Capitol, Pawnee, Kansas
Description
An 1855 photograph of the first territorial capitol of Kansas during its construction, located in the ghost town of Pawnee, Geary County, Kansas.
Object Type
Image
Date
1855
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
The Osawatomie Battlefield
Title
The Osawatomie Battlefield
Description
Osawatomie Battlefield courtesy of Oswald Garrison Villard's John Brown 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After. On August 30, 1856, Abolitionist John Brown and 40 other Free-Staters unsuccessfully defended the town of Osawatomie, Kansas against 250-300 border ruffians under John W. Reid. The Free-Staters were routed, Osawatomie was burned, and one of Brown's sons was killed, but Brown escaped with his life and earned the nickname "Osawatomie Brown" for his spirited defense.
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Image
Date
n.d.
Edward Payson Fitch, Jr.
Title
Edward Payson Fitch, Jr.
Description
This black and white photograph, taken circa 1890, depicts Edward Payson Fitch, Jr., son of Edward and Sarah Fitch. He was born in Lawrence, Kansas in 1863. As a baby, he survived Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, but his family’s house was burned down and his father was killed in the attack.
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Image
Charles Jennison's Jayhawkers
Title
Charles Jennison's Jayhawkers
Description
Antislavery guerrillas under Charles Jennison attacking civilians in Missouri.
Object Type
Image
Date
1864
Baxter Springs Civil War Monument
Title
Baxter Springs Civil War Monument
Description
Monument commemorating the casualties of Quantrill's attack on Fort Blair in Baxter Springs, Kansas on October 6, 1863.
Object Type
Image
Date
May 31, 1886
John Brown
Title
John Brown
Description
Photograph showing three-quarter length portrait of John Brown, with beard, facing slightly right.
Object Type
Image
Date
1859
Western House, or Pro-Slavery Hotel, Fort Scott, Kansas
Title
Western House, or Pro-Slavery Hotel, Fort Scott, Kansas
Description
A crude illustration of the Western House, also known as the Pro-Slavery Hotel, that burned on December 16, 1858 during James Montgomery's raid on Fort Scott, Kansas.
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Image
Date
n.d.
Camp Saunders, Kansas Territory
Title
Camp Saunders, Kansas Territory
Description
Photograph of proslavery stronghold, Camp Saunders, located 12 miles southwest of Lawrence, Kansas Territory, 1856. Camp (Fort) Saunders, one of three proslavery "forts" in Douglas County, Kansas, came under attack from Free-Staters, led by James H. Lane and angered at the Sacking of Lawrence and the murder of Major S. D. Hoyt, who had traveled to Fort Saunders to request an end to hostilities. The proslavery men at Fort Saunders (which was really no more than a sturdy log cabin), surrendered before any fighting began. The building was burned to the ground, and the Free-Staters turned their attention to Fort Titus.
Object Type
Image
Date
1856

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