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Title: The Mountain Meadows Massacre
Description: Mountain Meadows Massacre courtesy of T.B.H. Stenhouse's The Rocky Mountain Saints: a Full and Complete History of the Mormons, from the First Vision of Joseph Smith to the Last Courtship of Brigham Young. The Mountain Meadows Massacre, which occurred September 7-11, 1857, was one notable event in the turbulent period known as the Mormon or Utah War.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1873

Title: A Negro Regiment in Action
Description: This is a print of a Thomas Nast wood engraving, originally published in Harper’s Weekly on March 14, 1863. It depicts the Battle of Island Mound, the first Civil War battle to include African-American troops. In that battle, the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteers triumphed over a band of pro-Confederate guerrillas in Bates County, Missouri on October 29, 1862.
Object Type: Image
Date: March 14, 1863

Title: Clarina Irene Howard Nichols
Description: Engraving of Clarina I.H. Nichols, prominent activist and journalist, from an 1887 publication of the "History of Woman Suffrage".
Object Type: Image
Date: 1887

Title: First Territorial Capitol, Pawnee, Kansas
Description: An 1855 photograph of the first territorial capitol of Kansas during its construction, located in the ghost town of Pawnee, Geary County, Kansas.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1855

Title: William T. Anderson
Description: A photograph of William "Bloody Bill" T. Anderson that appears in the 1914 publication of "Three years with Quantrell; a true story".
Object Type: Image
Date: 1864

Title: Western University, Quindaro, Kansas
Description: A photograph of Ward Hall and Industrial Building, Western University, once located in the now abandoned town of Quindaro, Wyandotte County, Kansas. This image is included in the 1911 publication of "History of Wyandotte County, Kansas, and its people". Western University opened in 1865 as an exclusively African American college.
Object Type: Image

Title: Charles Robinson
Description: An artist's rendering of Free-State activist Charles Robinson speaking to the Lecompton Territorial Legislature. On October 6, 1856, Free-Staters boycotted the territorial elections that resulted in the second territorial legislature at Lecompton, Kansas. The Free-Staters complained that the options given on the referendum asked voters to choose between making Kansas a slave state or merely banning the new importation of slaves. The latter option would have sanctioned slavery for slaves who were already in Kansas, and its restrictions on new importations of slaves were likely unenforceable.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1856

Title: Office of the Freedmen's Bureau, Memphis, Tennessee
Description: Harper's Weekly illustration of the Freedmen's Bureau Office in Memphis, Tennessee. The Freedmen's Bureau provided support for African Americans’ transition from slavery to freedom.
Object Type: Image
Date: June 2, 1866

Title: First Battle of Lexington
Description: The charge of the Irish Regiment (Colonel Mulligan) over the breastworks at Lexington, Missouri.
Object Type: Image
Date: October 12, 1861

Title: A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
Description: This is a copy of Abraham Lincoln's speech, "A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand", delivered on June 16, 1858 at the Republican State Convention in Springfield, Illinois. This speech is preserved here in its entirety with original italics as part of a 1936 publication that includes an introduction by Douglas C. McMurtrie.
Object Type: Speech
Date: June 16, 1858

Title: Western House, or Pro-Slavery Hotel, Fort Scott, Kansas
Description: A crude illustration of the Western House, also known as the Pro-Slavery Hotel, that burned on December 16, 1858 during James Montgomery's raid on Fort Scott, Kansas.
Object Type: Image
Date: n.d.

Title: William Quantrill
Description: This illustration of Missouri Bushwhacker William Clarke Quantrill is included in the 1914 publication of "Three years with Quantrell; a true story".
Object Type: Image
Date: n.d.

Title: Jefferson City, Missouri
Description: This sketch by St. Louis resident Orlando C. Richardson, originally published in Harper’s Weekly on July 6, 1861, depicts Jefferson City, Missouri on the banks of the Missouri River.
Object Type: Image
Date: July 6, 1861

Title: Sacking of Lawrence
Description: Depiction of the ruins of Free State Hotel following the Sacking of Lawrence on May 21, 1856. Douglas County's own sheriff, Samuel J. Jones, led a posse of 800 proslavery settlers in the sacking of the town of Lawrence, Kansas. The Free-State Hotel and two newspaper print shops were destroyed, and one of the attackers was killed by falling masonry.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1856

Title: The Capture of Colonel Titus
Description: An illustration of Colonel Henry T. Titus and his Pro-Slavery men being captured by Free-Staters led by Samuel Walker during the Destruction of Fort Titus (background) on August 16, 1856. This image is included in the 1867 publication of "Beyond the Mississippi: From the Great River to the Great Ocean" by Albert D. Richardson.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1867

Title: Charles Bluejacket
Description: Photograph of Charles Bluejacket (1816-1897), Kansas member of the Shawnee Tribe. This is found in the 1906 publication of "Transactions of the Kansas Historical Society: Vol. IX.".
Object Type: Image
Date: n.d.

Title: Presidents Buchanan and Lincoln Entering the Senate Chamber Before the Inauguration
Description: Harper's Weekly illustration of Abraham Lincoln and James Buchanan prior to Lincoln's inauguration as President.
Object Type: Image
Date: March 16, 1861

Title: The Battle of Lexington, Missouri
Description: This image depicting the Battle of Lexington appeared in the October 12, 1861 issue of Harper's Weekly.
Object Type: Image
Date: October 12, 1861

Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865