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This Union Pacific Railway Company promotional advertisement claims that Kansas is the best place in the west to buy a grain farm, buy a stock farm, buy a sheep ranch, open a store, or practice a profession.
Creator: Union Pacific Railway Company
Date: Around 1880
Item Number: 1445
Call Number: K 917.81 mss #2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 1445
Agriculture - Crops - Wheat
Agriculture - Family farming
Agriculture - Livestock
Agriculture - Ranching
Business and Industry - Railroad - Advertising
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Union Pacific
Business and Industry - Railroad - Immigration promotion
Business and Industry - Railroad - Land sales
Collections - Library
Community Life - Community services - Airports and Railroads
Community Life - Community services - Economic development
Date - 1880s - 1880
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Advertising Medium - Pamphlet
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Pamphlet
Places - Regions - Central Kansas
Places - Regions - Eastern Kansas
Places - Regions - Northwest Kansas
Places - Regions - Smoky Hills
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Printed materials - Pamphlets
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/1445
