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The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Mamadia Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: SPC Ronald Shaw Jr., USA Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital More

The powder magazine is the only structure at Fort Scott lined with brick, for the simple reason that brick is resistant to fire. Brick can withstand temperatures up to 1300 degrees without being compromised. C More

Accompanied by instructions and finger chart. Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Painted aluminum tube with plastic fipple mouthpiece.; 29.7 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: Pocket / More

Fort Leavenworth is where Henry's company is based and where his journey begins.

Some typical children's clothing of the mid-1800s that Charley would have worn.

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Pen and ink. Author information provided by Prof. Donald Jackson, 1/12/1977. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. See also: pp. 97-103 of Allen's Passage through the garden More

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Council Grove is the first stop Henry makes on his journey. He sends her a letter from there describing the town.

Visitors standing outside the Old Guardhouse in Fort Scott National Historic Siteisitors FOSC Jul 81 Old Guardhouse

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Fort Lyon is Henry's first stop in Colorado. Public domain image of 19th-century Lyon architecture, historical city building, France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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This is lining for the document box in the story that Sarah's father Henry uses to hold special documents.

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Field of Flags with an 1840s guard

Artillery consisting of two 6-pound field cannons, with carriages and equipment, were supplied to Fort Scott and used from 1845 to 1853. The evidence indicates that the cannon barrels were made of iron, and we More

Stamped on lower left: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.

Covers the Missouri River region between Fort Leavenworth and the Great Salt Lake. Relief shown by hachures. Showing cities and towns, rivers, plains, Indian tribal areas and topographical information. "The adj More

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Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 20, Folder 1.

This image has been taken from scan 000008 from "Kanzas and Nebraska; the history, geographical and physical characteristics, and political position of those territories, etc". The title and subject terms of th More

Presidential Messages to the Senate in the 35th Congress Transmitting Treaties and Other Papers Pertaining to Relations with the Pawnee Indians

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Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene More

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene More

Relief shown by hachures. Shows routes explored for Pacific railroad by Captain J.W. Gunnison and Lieutenant E.G. Beckwith; shows route for a proposed railroad to the West Coast as Governor Stevens' Route & lin More

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Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 1, no, 1 (1855 Dec. 15), p. 16.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Kansas; Sen. from Kansas; B. in Mass. 1816; D. in Mass. 1891; Mayor of Atchison, Kansas in 1859; Elected to U.S. Senate, served from 1861-73; resided in Was More

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Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 20, Folder 3.

Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 20, Folder 5.

The abolitionist Republican presidential ticket and its supporters in the press are the targets of the cartoon. Candidate Fremont, wearing an emigrant's smock and carrying a cross (an allusion to his rumored Ca More

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The artist lays on the Democrats the major blame for violence perpetrated against antislavery settlers in Kansas in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Here a bearded "freesoiler" has been bound to the "Democr More

A bitter indictment of the Democratic administration's responsibility for violence and bloodshed in Kansas in the wake of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act. (See also "Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler More

This image has been taken from scan 000010 from "The War in Kansas. A rough trip to the Border, among new homes and a strange people". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, cr More

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 established two new territories with a provision that settlers would decide whether they entered the Union as free or slave states. This legislation negated the 1820 Missouri Com More

May announces to Webb that he is sending an extensive series of pamphlets and reports. He says that Parker Pillsbury has returned home. He describes the New England Convention in Faneuil Hall and says that "Kan More

Music cover showing Indian and settler with inset scene of battle between pro- and anti-slavery forces. Composer: Jas. G. Clark. LOT subdivision subject: Pre-Civil War. Title and other information transcribed f More

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1856 July 26 , p. 105.

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 62, Folder 17.

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 20, Folder 4.

An illustrated sheet music cover for an antislavery song, dedicated to abolitionist spokesman Henry Ward Beecher. The illustration features a roundel illustration of the burning of the Free State Hotel in Lawre More

Democratic candidate James Buchanan, as a buck deer, crosses the finish line of a racecourse ahead of competitors Millard Fillmore and John C. Fremont. Spectators cheer in the stands behind. Fillmore appears a More

S. P. Leland writes William Lloyd Garrison following receipt of several copies of the Liberator, and asserts that the "people of the North" are quickly becoming prepared to "blow the sparks that are falling fro More

Men on horseback outside a log building. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 1, no. 23 (1857 June 6), p. 356.

Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1857 Apr. 25. Reference copy may be in LOT 4391 F. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Indians History 1857; Ind. tribes K More

Four designs for magic lantern slides, images 1, 5, 4 and 7 showing the clearing of the first settlement, the devil introducing slavery into the colony, the devil flying away as slaves are freed and whites sett More

Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 20, Folder 9.

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Four designs for magic lantern slides, images 2, 3, and two unnumbered showing men standing on a platform before a crowd, the flag of the United States and a devil behind them, as a man below approaches them wi More

All is quiet now; has no need for [the whistles]. Urges him to get things into operation as soon as possible. Thanks him for draft of $50. Printed in F. B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 477-78 More

All is quiet now; has no need for [the whistles]. Urges him to get things into operation as soon as possible. Thanks him for draft of $50. Printed in F. B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 477-78 More

Intends to leave at once for the neighborhood "of the late troubles." Urges him to carry out the proposed measures. Asks for a dozen whistles. Copy in Franklin Benjamin Sanborn's hand. Printed in O. G. Villard, More

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 2, no. 64 (1858 March 20), p. 192.

Detailed map showing cities and towns, county boundaries, roads, and the railroad network. 1:1,140,480 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special More

Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Gold mines are indicated in yellow and silver mines in blue. Indicates post routes, "old trail," finished and unfinished railroads, and the proposed state of "Colona." Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Relief shown by hac More

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 310. Each item includes subject's orig More

This mail interactive allows people to get an idea of how long it took to deliver mail to different parts of the country during the 1800's. The mail station at Pawnee Fork was the main reason the Army sent sol More

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Corresponding print is in LOT 4192. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information More

Presidential campaign document issued "by order of the People's City Committee of Superintendence" and dated Nov. 6, 1860.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, glass side: D.P. Lowe, 4394, 2650 [crossed out], 2412 [crossed out]. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Co More

Warns him against trusting any "secret mission" to R[ichard] J[osiah] Hinton. Signed "Mrs. Samuel C. Pomeroy." Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Our Christmas event is called a Taste of Christmas Past because we researched different kinds of food people made for the holiday in the 1860s. We then baked them using recipes from that time period. The visi More

Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 20, Folder 11.

Letters Received

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Fears his duty to his family will keep him at home; suggests a substitute. Addressed to "Rev. Theo. Brown"; signed "Henry Martin." Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Sen. Ross. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di More

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Letters Received

Photograph probably shows Modoc survivors of the Modoc War after their relocation to the Quapaw Indian Agency near Baxter Springs, Kansas. (Source: researcher M. Higgins) View no. 4.

Fears his duty to his family will keep him at home; suggests a substitute. Addressed to "Rev. Theo. Brown"; signed "Henry Martin." Courtesy of Boston Public Library

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Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 20, Folder 10.

Township map of northern Missouri and parts of Kansas and Illinois showing rivers, place names, railroads, and the land grant to the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad. Profile of the railroad is shown across botto More

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Cautions him about writing to [James] Montgomery. Wrongly dated 1856. Courtesy of Boston Public Library