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Academic Papers of Debora K. Brown
2 academic papers by Debora K. Brown.
Anne E. Bingham reminiscences
Reminiscences of life on a farm near Junction City following migration west in 1869. Sixteen years on a Kansas farm, 1870-1886.
Anthony and Havens family papers
Colonel Daniel Read Anthony and Paul Egbert Havens were leading businessmen and public officials in the early history of Leavenworth, Kansas. Their families intersected through the 1897 marriage of Anthony's son, Daniel Read Anthony, Jr., and Havens' daughter Elizabeth. The Anthony family papers consists primarily of career papers of Colonel Anthony, his son, and his grandson, Daniel Read Anthony III. The Havens papers are comprised largely of personal family correspondence.
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Leavenworth, Kan.) papers
The Papers of Bethel A.M.E. Church of Leavenworth, Kansas are those of an African American church in Leavenworth, which is one of the earliest African Methodist Episcopal churches in Kansas.
Clippings regarding the early settlement of the city and county of Leavenworth and of early Kansas governors
Clippings, 1889-90, published in the Leavenworth Advertiser and Western Life, successor to the Leavenworth Advertiser.
Correspondence from Marcus Parrott to his Dayton, Ohio family members
The collection contains 34 letters written by Marcus Junius Parrott to his Dayton, Ohio family members. The letters date from April 7, 1851 to April 28, 1862, and are arranged chronologically. Also included in the collection are a brief handwritten statement by [Laurette?] Parrott [Irvin?] regarding the collection content, and an offprint of a published 1865 sermon by Phillips Brooks, delivered at the time of Abraham Lincoln's death.
Dodge and Miller family letters
This collection consists of six letters among three different generations of the Dodge family while residing in Buffalo, New York; at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; and in Emporia, Kansas. The letters mostly focus on family news, including marriage announcements and the illnesses and deaths of family members.
Ella Dewey Woart letter to her grandmother
This six-page letter was written in the spring of 1874 from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas by Ella Dewey Woart, daughter of John Woart, post chaplain at the fort. Having arrived at Fort Leavenworth with her parents the previous fall, Ella writes to her grandmother, describing the appearance of the fort, her family's quarters, her father's work, and the inhabitants at the fort and in the nearby town of Leavenworth.
Episodes in Kansas history
Episodes in Kansas history; three incidents included in The Gun and the Gospel. Lawrence? ca. 1896?
F. B. Silkman letter
First Baptist Church of Leavenworth, Kansas History
The First Baptist Church of Leavenworth, Kansas History is a typewritten history of the African American church, which was organized in 1857.
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas photographic postcards
Two real photographic postcards depicting Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The views are of officers' quarters on Pope Avenue and of Otis Hall. There are descriptive inscriptions on the back of each postcard. Fort Leavenworth, which is located north of Leavenworth, Kansas, is the oldest Army post west of the Mississippi River and is known for training Army leaders through its Command School.
G. W. Paddock diary transcript
General orders regarding Nez Perce prisoners at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,
Orders issued by Captain J. J. Coppinger detailing the personnel and duties of a guard for Nez Perce prisoners-of-war encamped near the fort. The order is signed by P. T. Brodrick, 1st Lt. and Adjutant 23rd Infantry, Post Adjutant and by 1st Lt. W. P. Manning, 23rd Infantry.
Great Western Manufacturing Company photograph collection
This collection contains photographic prints and negatives and some textual materials from the Great Western Manufacturing Company in Leavenworth, Kansas, Kansas' oldest manufacturing firm.
James Findley Harrison diaries
Two diaries handwritten by James Findley Harrison in the mid and late 1860s. They give descriptions of his travels and eventual settling in Linn County, Kansas.
James Henry Lane Papers
The collection includes correspondence, notes and source material, clippings, maps, photographs, documents, and other related items, dating primarily from 1841-1923.
Jesse T. Roberts land certificate
Land certificate deeding real property to Jesse T. Roberts from the Delaware tribe, as recorded by the register at the Land Office at Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas Territory.
Josephine Few family papers
Kansas Central Railway Company collection
This collection contains miscellaneous items related to the operations of the Kansas Central Railroad (or Railway) Company, organized in 1871. Includes articles of agreement between W.T. Yoakum of the city of Leavenworth and state of Kansas and the Washington Improvement Company and specifications and plans related to the depot at Grasshopper Falls, Kansas.
Lambert Lumber Company records
The records in this collection reflect the business transactions at the Winchester yard of the Lambert Lumber Company and are extensive in the breadth of their documentation, including so many types of business records, as well as in the chronological coverage of the company, extending from 1897 to 1958. The precise dates of the existence of the company are unknown. The records have been arranged by type of material and then chronologically within that organization.
Leavenworth, Kansas photographs
Photographs of Leavenworth Kansas.
Leavenworth Public Library photograph collection
Letter from David Sterrett (Sterrettania, Erie County, Penn.) to his son Innis
An 1856 letter from Sterrettania, Pennsylvania resident David Sterrett to his son Innis (David Brice Innis Sterrett), containing news of his other sons, including Andrew Jackson Sterrett of Leavenworth (Kansas Territory).
Letter from H. D. Mackay (Law and Collection Office of Mackay and Sears, Leavenworth, Kansas) to Lieutenant L. E. Campbell (15th U. S. Infantry, Fort Wayne, Detroit, Michigan)
Letter written October 26, 1866 by Leavenworth, Kansas businessman H. D. Mackay, denouncing the administration of U. S. President Andrew Johnson in the nation's period of post-Civil War Reconstruction. The envelope is addressed to L. E. Campbell but postmarked September 28. Mackay's letter is to Lieutenant Lafayette Campbell, who later married a niece of Johnson's successor, Ulysses S. Grant.