To order images and/or obtain permission to use them commercially, please contact the KSHS Reference Desk at KSHS.reference@ks.gov or 785-272-8681, ext. 117.
For more information see the Copyright and Permission FAQ.
Terrestrial globe on brass stand, used to instruct American Indian pupils at the Delaware Baptist Mission. The mission opened in present-day Wyandotte County around 1836 with the purpose of educating Delaware children and converting them to Christianity. It operated under the leadership of Rev. John Gill Pratt beginning in 1847, and closed when the Delaware tribe was removed to Indian Territory in the late 1860s. The only Kansas town noted on the globe is Lecompton, Kansas' territorial capital from 1855 to 1861.
Creator: Holbrook School Apparatus Company
Date: between 1855 and 1860
Item Number: 209862
Call Number: 1908.30.3
KSHS Identifier: 1908.30.3
Business and Industry
Collections - Museum
Community Life - Religion - Christianity - Baptist
Community Life - Religion - Missionaries
Date - 1840s
Date - 1854-1860
Education
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Globe
People - American Indians - Indian lands
People - American Indians - Tribes - Delaware
People - Notable Kansans - Pratt, J. G. (John Gill), 1814-1900
Places - Counties - Wyandotte
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/209862