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- Tags: Clay County
Cameras in the Streets: The Use and Evolution of Photography in Kansas, 1839-1950
Tags: Alexander Gardner, Alta Vista, Brandon G. Williams, Civil War, Clay County, Clifton, Col. John C. Fremont, Daguerreotype, Frederick Winslow Taylor, G.E. McColm, George Eastman, Glass plate photography, H.G. Zimmerman & Co., J. Bowers Postcard Co., J.J. Pennell, John W. Luebs, Junction City, Luebs Camera Collection, M.L. Zercher Book and Stationary Co., Mather Brady, Merrill J. Barnhard, Otto Kratzer, Photography, S.N. Carvalho, Viola McColm, Washington County
Animals for Profit: The Ecological and Economic Causes of the War on Coyotes in Kansas from 1890 to 1899
The Library Ladies of Clay Center: Clay County, Kansas, 1898
Tags: Camp Funston, Carnegie Library, Clay Center, Clay Center Library Club, Clay County, General Federation of Women's Club, Great War, Literary Clubs, Mallory Harrell, Manhattan, March of Dimes, Matfield Green, Mrs. Dr. John Scott, Mrs. F.B. Fullington, Mrs. Helene Peckham, Mrs. L.G. Nichols, Mrs. M.M. Miller, Mrs. W.L. Jennings, Self-Improvment, Sue Harkness, World War II
The End of an Old Enemy: Smallpox in Clay County, Kansas, 1900-1925
Tags: Bauman family, Benjamin Franklin Morgan, Bessie Steph, Burke family, C. M. Burke, Clay Center, Clay Center Hospital, Clay County, Clay County Museum, Emerson Burke, epidemic, Faidley family, Glidden Family, Idana, Indian John, John Dringer, Mack family, Melanchthon Cameron Porter, Oakhill, P. J. Kauhler, Perry Family, Porter-Morgan Hospital, quarantine, Rock Island Railroad, Shannon Nolan, Shaples family, smallpox, The Clay Center Times, World War I
Generations of Achievement: The Family and Early Life of Orchid Ramsey Jordan in Clay Center, Kansas, 1910–1928
Tags: African American history, African Americans, assassination, Celestine Ramsey, Charles Addisin Eyre, civil rights movement, Civil War, Clay County, female politicans, Harvey Ramsey, interracial marriage, Kansas City, Leon Jordan, Liberia, Maud Eyre, Merriman Ramsey, Missouri House of Representatives, Orchid Jordan, Orchid Ramsey, racial integration, racial segregation, Susan Eyre, Wakefield, Wilberforce University
African-American Life in Clay County
Comparative Study of Contagious Diseases in Clay County
vs. Riley County: Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, Smallpox,
Typhoid Fever, 1907-1917
early twentieth century Kansas. Rail lines are suspected disease vectors. The…
Braving the Storm: Suicide in Clay County, 1893 – 1905
harsh, and filled with economic loss. He examines the unusually high suicide rate among young farmers who lost their land in the Panic of 1893. This study…
Cheyenne Dog Soldier Depredations on Settlers in the Northern Kansas Frontier; From 1864 to 1869
Tags: "The Plains War", A.J. Kelley, Arapaho Indians, Arkansas Overland Mail Route, Benjamin White, buffalo, Captain Isaac M. Schooly, Cheyenne Dog Soldiers, Cheyenne Indians, Chief Little Robe, Clay Center, Clay County, Cloud County, Dull Knife, Jewell County, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Little Blue River, Medicine Lodge Treaty, Mitchell County, Ottawa County, Republic County, Republican River Valley, Scandia, Sioux Indians, Solomon River, The Massacre Along Medicine Road, Thomas Murphy, Treaty of Fort Wise, W.H. Fletcher, Washington County, White Rock Creek
African American Landowners: Clay County, Kansas, 1880-1910
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Perpetual Persistence: The African American Community of Manhattan Bottoms, 1880-1920

Using the case study of Jeremiah "Jerry" Mitchell, this study documents the early history of Manhattan Bottoms and the African American community…