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Candle box found in a wood pile at Lecompton, Kansas. It contained election returns for 1857 and 1858 settling the Free-State or Pro-Slavery issue.
Creator: Kansas State Historical Society
Date: Between 1925 and 1935
Item Number: 291
Call Number: FK2.D4 Le.93 *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 291
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1920s
Date - 1930s
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Elections
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Lecompton
Places - Counties - Douglas
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Photographs
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/291