KanColl: The Kansas Historical Quarterlies


Cover of the Autumn 1974 issue

     
Autumn 1974


Joseph W. Snell, "Kansas and the 1876 United States Centennial," p. 337.

Rita Napier, "Economic Democracy in Kansas: Speculation and Townsite Preemption in Kickapoo," p. 349.

Martin Dunn, "From Sodom to the Promised Land: E. P. McCabe and the Movement for Oklahoma Colonization," p. 370.

Fred R. Belk, "The Final Refuge: Kansas and Nebraska Migration of Mennonites from Central Asia After 1884," p. 379.

Charles William Sloan, Jr., "Kansas Battles the Invisible Empire: The Legal Ouster of the KKK from Kansas," p. 393.

Gambone, Joseph G., ed., "The Forgotten Feminist: The Papers of Clarina I. H. Nichols, 1864-1855 (In Eight Installments -- Part Seven, 1873-1880)," p. 410.

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From the Cover: "Reproduction of a Henry Worral painting depicting a portion of the interior of the Kansas-Colorado Building erected at Philadephia in 1876 to help celebrate the centennial of the founding of the United sStates.
     "The building (see photo [below]) was closed briefly in the late summer of 1876 to install new exhibits freshened with products from the current harvest in Kansas. This national capitol replica was the highlight of the second opening."

The Kansas and Colorado Building at the 1876 Centennial celebration

THE KANSAS AND COLORADO BUILDING ERECTED AT PHILADELPHIA IN 1876
TO HELP COMMEMORATE THE FIRST 100 YEARS OF THE UNION OF THE STATES.


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