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This advertisement promotes the sale of 100,000 acres of land along the line of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad. According to the ad, these lands have fertile soil and "considerable timber," and are in such high demand that white immigrants are flooding the area.
Creator: Railway Directory and Advertiser
Date: 1872
This is an excellent example of an advertisement promoting land sales. It can be used in the classroom to demonstrate how white settlement was encroaching on Indian lands.
KS:7th:3.1:Federal Government and Indian Lands (2005)
Item Number: 210984
Call Number: 910.3 E159
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 210984
Business and Industry - Railroad - Advertising
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Collections - Library
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1860s to 1870s (Benchmark 3) - Fed. Gov. and Indian lands (Indicator 1) - Encroachment on Indian lands
Date - 1870s - 1872
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Advertising Medium - Ad, Newspaper
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Railroads - Advertising
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Type of Material - Printed materials - Advertisements
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