Catherine B. Dart to Lewis Allen Alderson
Date: 1832-1833
Several letters written by Catherine B. Dart to Lewis Allen Alderson and his wife, Lucy. Lucy died in February 1833. Lewis Allen Alderson later moved to Atchison, Kansas, in 1858 and was a prominent Baptist minister. He died in Atchison in 1881.

Colonel Don Estevan Miro to the Ioway Indians
Date: March 15, 1784
This document was presented to Antoine Burada by his uncle, George Campbell. George Campbell was the "half-breed" son of Vance Murray Campbell, a fur trader and U. S. treaty interpreter, who fathered several children by the daughter of No Heart, an Ioway chief. Their daughter Emily (sister of George) married Michael T. Barada. Their son Antoine Barada (1863-1924) of White Cloud, Kansas, was one of several by that name in the Ioway and Omaha tribes, so he is not to be confused with his first cousin Antoine Barada (1807-1885) of Barada, Nebraska, a celebrated figure in that state's folklore. This is the Antoine Barada who signed the treaty between the United States and the Kansas Nation, at St. Louis, in 1815. The document is addressed to "de la Nacion Ayoas" - the Ioway nation - and was signed by Colonel Don Estevan Miro, who was the Spanish governor of Louisiana during the period when it was secretly deeded by the French to the Spanish. It was presented to the Iowa Nation at the Spanish Office of the Province of Louisiana, at New Orleans, March 15, 1784. This document was donated to the Kansas Historical Society circa 1905 according to the Transactions of KSHS, vol. 9 (1905-1906), p. 251, note 55.

Dishes from the Jotham Meeker Farmstead, 14FR308
Date: 1845-1865
These dish fragments were recovered from the Jotham Meeker farmstead site in Franklin County. They are decorated in red floral and scenic patterns by transfer printing, a process by which a design is transferred from an engraved metal plate onto the pottery, creating a ware called transferware. The partial maker's mark on the back of the sherds names Henderson and Gaines of New Orleans, agents for the Davenport Pottery in Staffordshire, England from 1836 to 1866. The site was excavated in 1985 at a Kansas Archeology Training Program field school. Jotham Meeker served as a Baptist missionary among the Ottawa on their reservation.

Expositions
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1879-1883: Glick)
Date: 1883-1885
These letters are from various individuals regarding the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans. The letters cover the regulations of the exposition, requesting visits, appointing/endorsing commissioners for the exposition, and exposition matters (i.e.- available space for Kansas exhibition, budget, and exhibit material). The exposition was a World's Fair held in New Orleans from December 16, 1884 until June 1, 1885. At that time, one third of the world's cotton passed through New Orleans hence the chosen location.

Expositions, Centennials, Conventions; Association for improvement of Western Water Ways
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1885-1889 : Martin)
Date: 1885-1889
These letters, spanning 1887, are from the Association for the Improvement of Western Water-Ways regarding their meeting to Kansas Governor John Martin. Some of the letters request the appointment of delegates to the meeting along with an invitation for the governor to join. An official letter from the association discusses the previous meeting held in New Orleans, Louisiana in April 1885 and the request of another meeting in Memphis, Tennessee in October 1887. The association's headquarters was in Memphis, Tennessee.

Expositions, Centennials, Conventions; National Cotton Planter's Association
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1885-1889 : Martin)
Date: 1885
These letters, spanning February 1885, are from individuals regarding the National Cotton Planter's Association convention to Kansas Governor John Martin. The letters discuss the appointment of delegates to the convention as well as the acceptance of the appointment as delegate. Martin appointed C. W. Keifer, James W. Gaw, and J. H. Fullenwider as delegates. The National Cotton Planter's Association convention was held in New Orleans, Louisiana on February 10th, 1885.

Expositions, Centennials, Conventions; North Central and South American Exposition, New Orleans
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1885-1889 : Martin)
Date: 1885-1886
These letters, spanning 1885 to 1886, are from the offices of the North Central and South American Exposition and other individuals regarding the North Central and South American Exposition to Kansas Governor John Martin. The offices wrote explaining the exposition and asking for the inclusion of the state of Kansas in it as well as inviting the governor to the opening. Many letters ask for the appointment of commissioner. Martin appointed George Y. Johnson and George W. Ashby. A list of expenditures for Kansas' participation is also among the letters. The North Central and South American Exposition opened in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 1, 1886.

Expositions, Centennials, Conventions; Southern Exposition, Louisville
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1885-1889 : Martin)
Date: 1887
These two letters, dated March 20th, 1887 and June 18th, 1887, are from J. M. Wright, the General Manager and President of the Southern Exposition, regarding the Southern Exposition to Kansas Governor John Martin. One letter confirms the removal of the Kansas exhibit from the New Orleans' World's Exposition to Louisville. The other letter invites Martin to the Southern Exposition in Louisville, Kentucky from August 27th to October 22nd, 1887.

Expositions, Centennials, Conventions; Worlds Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, New Orleans
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1885-1889 : Martin)
Date: 1885
These letters, spanning 1885, are from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the governor of the state of Louisiana, and other individuals regarding the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition to Kansas Governor John Martin. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the governor of the state of Louisiana invite Martin and his commissioners to the exposition as well as explain it and discuss the Kansas exhibit in it. The other letters discuss the appointment of commissioners. Commissioner reports detailing the events from the previous year are among the letters. The World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition was held in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 13th, 1885.

Expositions, Centennials, Expositions; American Agricultural Association, New Orleans, 1885
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1885-1889 : Martin)
Date: 1885-1889
These letters, spanning 1885, are from the American Agriculture Association and other individuals regarding the American Agriculture Association convention to Kansas Governor John Martin. The American Agriculture Association wrote to invite Martin and his delegates to the convention. Other letters discuss the appointment of delegates. Notary slips, among the letters, list the delegates named for the convention. The American Agriculture Association convention was held in New Orleans, Louisiana from July 20th to the 23rd of 1885.

Henry Worrall watercolor
Creator: Worrall, Henry
Date: 1884
This promotional watercolor of Kansas scenes was painted by artist Henry Worrall for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). It is believed that Worrall painted the poster for the Kansas chapter of the WCTU to use at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition held in New Orleans in 1884. The poster depicts Topeka and various types of Kansas iconography.

Kansas Exhibit, New Orleans Cotton Centennial
Creator: Centennial Phoographic Co. International Exhibition, Edward L. Wilson & W Irving Adams
Date: Between 1884 and 1885
This is a photograph of the Kansas wheat and corn exhibit at the New Orleans Cotton Centennial in New Orleans, Louisiana. Most of the exhibit is constructed of natural materials such a wheat stalks, etc. The detail is fairly elaborate.

Mitchell's Travellers Guide through the United States
Creator: Mitchell, Samuel Augustus
Date: 1834
Map of the United States showing roads, distances, steam boat and canal routes. The vicinities of major cities are inset, including Cincinnati, Albany, New Orleans, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, and Washington, D. C. Towns are indexed on the back of the map. This map is provided through a co-operative project between the Lecompton Historical Society and the Kansas Historical Society. Partial funding was provided by the Ross and Margaret Wulfkuhle Charitable Trust and the Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area.

New England Emigrant Aid Company Texan Committee, Report
Creator: New England Emigrant Aid Company. Texan Committee
Date: March 8, 1860
Samuel Cabot submitted a report of the Texan Committee to the New England Emigrant Aid Company Executive Committee. The committee recommended that the Company take action to settle portions of Texas northwest of San Antonio with antislavery advocates as part of the effort to halt the westward advance of slavery. Cabot expressed the committee's view that the only peaceful solution to the slavery issue required demonstrating to slaveholders the superiority of free labor over slave labor; the committee believed West Texas a logical place for this demonstration to occur.

Part 12: Exodusters, in first annual report of the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics
Creator: Kansas Bureau of Labor
Date: 1886
This excerpt of the Kansas Bureau of Labor report includes only Part 12, the portion of the report focusing on the Exodusters in Wyandotte, Kansas. The report includes transcribed testimonies of Exodusters as well as a detailed table showing statistics compiled from seventeen families, including their location, ages, health, and occupations. The report also includes a few references to Exodusters in Topeka.

William J. Carter
Creator: Prince, L. I.
Date: Between 1861 and 1865
This is a carte de visite of Sergeant William J. Carter from Moline, Illinois, who served in Company I of the 8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry. The carte de visite was originally in an album belonging to Lt. Charles H. Slawson, who served in Company I of the 8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry. The photographer was L. I. Prince in New Orleans, Louisiana.