Agricultural College, Kansas State
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1865-1868 : Crawford)
Date: 1865 - 1868

Applications: Miscellaneous posts
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1865-1868 : Crawford)
Date: 1865-1867

Appointment register
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1865-1868 : Crawford)
Date: 1868 Nov. - 1869 Jan.

Autograph and State seal
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1865-1868 : Crawford)
Date: 1865-1868

B.F. Dawson to Colonel of the Second Kansas militia
Creator: Dawson, B.F.
Date: Between 1865 and 1866
This letter is from B.F. Dawson to the Colonel of the Second Kansas Militia, in Topeka, Kansas. The letter contains Dawson's recollections of the Battle of the Blue, which happened on October 22, 1864, in Jackson County, Missouri. Dawson wrote the letter in Topeka, Kansas.

Butterfield's Overland mail coach starting out from Atchison, Kansas
Creator: Harpers Weekly
Date: January 27, 1866
A drawing of a Butterfield Overland mail coach copied from Harper's Weekly, January 27, 1866.

Cheyenne County organization records
Creator: Kansas. Secretary of State
Date: April 01, 1886
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a census taker. Initially, unorganized counties were required to document that they had at least 600 inhabitants in order to be recognized as a county by the state legislature. Over time the number of residents needed to organize a county changed to 1500 and later to 2500 residents. The census was submitted to the governor who then issued a proclamation indicating that the requirements had been met, appointing county commissioners and a county clerk, and naming a county seat. Not all of these documents are available for each county. Included in this file is Governor Martin's proclamation appointing county officials and designating Bird City as the temporary county seat.

Claims
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1865-1868 : Crawford)
Date: 1865-1867

Colonel Samuel N. Wood and his son David Wood
Date: Between 1865 and 1867
This photograph of Colonel Samuel N. Wood and his son David Wood was taken shortly after the Civil War. It has been so heavily manipulated that it looks more like a hand drawing than a photograph.

Commissioners of deeds
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1865-1868 : Crawford)
Date: 1865-1867

Correspondence, General
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1865-1868 : Crawford)
Date: 1865-1868

County affairs: Allen
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1865-1868 : Crawford)
Date: 1865-1868

County affairs: Davis
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1865-1868 : Crawford)
Date: 1865-1868

Criminal matters
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1865-1868 : Crawford)
Date: 1865-1868

Daily journal of Elisabeth S. Morse, teacher at Delaware Baptist Mission
Creator: Morse, Elizabeth Stevens
Date: February 13, 1866-July 14, 1866
This item is the 1866 daily journal for Elisabeth S. Morse who taught at the Delaware Baptist Mission near Edwardsville, Kansas. While a number of entries are fairly brief, the journal contains interesting information on Morse's daily activities at the Mission.

Deaf and Dumb, Kansas Academy for the
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1865-1868 : Crawford)
Date: 1865 - 1867

Electra J. Terry
Date: 1866
Half cased ninth plate tintype portrait of Electra J. Terry, wife of Stewart Terry.

Fantasia on Lucy Long
Creator: Worrall, Henry, 1825-1902
Date: 1866
A guitar instrumental by Henry Worrall is included here within a series of solo guitar pieces published by J.L. Peters & Bro. of St. Louis, Missouri. This copy of that collection includes only the "Fantasia on Lucy Long." In the early twentieth century, Worrall's popular guitar instrumentals played a key role in the development of the guitar styles of southern rural folk musicians and country and blues musical idioms. Worrall moved to Topeka, Kansas, in 1868 where he died in 1902.

Federal government
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1865-1868 : Crawford)
Date: 1865-1868

Group of Pawnee warriors and palace cars on the Union Pacific Railroad
Creator: Carbutt, John, 1832-1905
Date: October, 1866
This is a stereograph showing a group of Pawnee warriors posed in front of palace cars on the Union Pacific Railroad in Nebraska. The photograph was taken by John Carbutt, Chicago, Illinois, under the auspices of the Union Pacific Railroad Company. The series of stereographs is titled Union Pacific Rail Road Excursion to the 100th Meridian, October 1866.

Hugh A. Cook with his wife and children
Creator: Lamon, W. H.
Date: 1866
Portrait of Mr. & Mrs. Hugh A. Cook with three children and their dog. Cook was the second Sheriff of Franklin County, Kansas. Photo taken by W. H. Lamon of Lawrence, Kansas.

Immigration
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1865-1868 : Crawford)
Date: 1865-1868

Immigration
Creator: Manhattan Independent
Date: January 6, 1866
This article advertises the many reasons that settlers should come to Kansas, including the pleasant climate and rich natural resources. The unnamed author also promises that immigrants who are willing to work hard can make a good living. The author seems convinced that Kansas will experience a population boom, as there is an abundance of "unoccupied land" ripe for the taking.

Index to official state matters
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1865-1868 : Crawford)
Date: 1865-1868

Indian battle and massacre near Fort Philip Kearney, Dacotah Territory
Creator: Harpers Weekly
Date: March 23, 1867
This illustration portrays an Indian battle taking place on December 21, 1866 at Fort Phil Kearny on the Bozeman Trail in Dakota Territory. This illustration was published in Harper's Weekly on March 23, 1867. Funds for digitization provided by Mr. Steve Peckel in memory of William Chalfant.