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This photograph shows Governor Payne H. Ratner speaking at the Marais des Cynges Massacre site in Linn County, Kansas. The site commemorates the killing of 11 free-state men by Missouri border ruffians on May 19, 1858. In 1941, the Kansas Legislature took ownership of the site, and in 1963 the Kansas Historical Society took final control establishing a museum and maintaining the site and buildings as a State Historic Site.
Date: December 16, 1939
Item Number: 228897
Call Number: FK2.L5 .79 *22
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 228897
Built Environment - Function - Domestic - Single Dwelling
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Events and Celebrations - Commemoration
Date - 1930s - 1939
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - Ratner, Payne Harry
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Notable Kansans - Ratner, Payne, 1896-1974
Places - Historic sites - Marais des Cygnes Massacre
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Type of Material - Photographs
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