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- Collection: Kansas History and Life
Soldier of the Republic: The Civil War Years of W.H.H. McCall
Tags: CivilWar, FortHacker, HaysCity, IndianWars, WHHMcCall
The People’s Game: Uncovering Diversity in Baseball, Pottawatomie County and Humboldt, Kansas, 1911-1924
Bootleggers Beware! The Untold Story of Ordinances and Their Effect on Bootleggers and Local Law Enforcement in Kansas from 1915-1925
What We See and Why We Stay: Place Studies Through Windshield Surveys of Scott County, Kansas
Feast with the People of the South Wind: An Ethnobotanical Approach to Kanza Subsistence Patterns, 1724-1873
Tags: American Indians, ethnobotany, Etienne Veniard la Sieur de Bourgmont, fauna, flora, George C. Sibley, hunting, Indain Territory, Indigenous People, John D. Hunter, Kansa, Kansa Indians, Kansa People, Kanza, Kanza Indians, Kanza People, Kaw, Kaw Indians, Kaw People, Native, Native Americans, natural resources, Pierre Jean de Smet, reconstructive ethnobotany, resource, resource use, Robert Blasing, Stephen H. Long, Zebulon Pike
Give Justice to the Weak and the Fatherless; Maintain the Right of the Afflicted: A look into the inception of the foster care system in late 19th, early 20th century Kansas and its predecessors
Tags: almshouse, almshouses, Charles Loring Brace, child welfare, Children's Aid Society, Christian Service League, Concordia, foster, foster care, foster children, indenture, Kansas Children’s Home Society, Kansas Children’s Service League, Kansas Department for Children and Families, Keaton-Owen Act, Mariadahl, orphan, Orphan Train, orphanage, poor farm, poor farms, reform school, Sisters of Charity, welfare
The Peace and Plenty Coverlet, the Great Chicago Fire, and a Handmade Loom: A Material Culture Exhibit of Artifacts from the Ancestors of Barbara Booth
Tags: Assumption Illinois, Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, Barbara Booth, Bentwood, Bob Tail School, Bone Gap Illinois, Brandon Williams, C.S. Rude, Conestoga Wagon, Council Grove, Coverlets, Delevan, Diamond Creek, Diamond Springs, Diamond Springs Congregational Church, French Creek, George Morehouse, Henry Drayer, Henry Kingman, Jacquard Beiderwand, Jacquard Loom, Jason Loomis, John Symes, Josiah Drayer, Lenora Rude Drayer, Lester Drayer, Loomisville, Marion County, Middle Creek, Morris County, New England Presbyterians, Rachel Hein, Santa Fe Trail, Scrap blanket quilt
Publicity Stunt: The Importance of Seymour Rogers and Free Water in the Creation and Survival of Liberal, Kansas, 1885-1888
Small Town, Big-Time Doctor: Dr. Thomas Dechairo, Westmoreland, Kansas, 1936-1986
Anna Austin Ingleman, A Convergence of Passion and Career: Dramatics in Independence, Kansas (1900s-1930s)
Tags: Anna Ingleman, Dee-Dee Club, drama, dramatics club, elocution, I Love Lucy, Independence, Independence Community Theatre, Independence High School, Independence Junior College, Little Theatre Guild, Margaret Goheen, Molly Black, Montgomery County, Montgomery County High School, Progressive Education movement, public speaking, theatre, Vivian Jones Vance, William Inge, William Inge Center for the Arts, William Inge Festival
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Small Town, Big-Time Doctor: Dr. Thomas Dechairo, Westmoreland, Kansas, 1936-1986

This study focuses on the impact that Dr. Dechairo’s Hospital had on the town of Westmoreland Kansas. The hospital was very advanced for its time and…