COLLECTION OF
EARLY KANSAS DRAWINGS
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COLLECTION OF
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| Box 1 | FF 1 | Collection of sketches entitled "Scenes from my window" including these named scenes among others: woman milking, cow drinking, bringing home the new carpet, coming from hills, a Kansas cowpen, a Kansas baby wagon, Father and Mother coming home. Dated March 1866 and May 1866, Baldwin City, Kansas. Collection of sketches including these named scenes among others: going to plough, a hungry cow trespassing in her neighbor's corn crib, emigrants encamping for the night, a Kansas funeral. Dated May 1866, Baldwin City, Kansas. Collection of sketches including these named scenes among others: the man in buckskin, milking time, beginning of a city, a scene of horror, coming from school, a sleighing we go. Dated November 1866 and December 1866, Humboldt, Kansas, and January 1867, Baldwin City, Kansas. Collection of sketches including these named scenes among others: branch of chittim (chittimwood) gathered in December (1866), great feet of Aunt Chloe, butcher boy, note from Em on various topics including description of Kansas. Dated 10 March 1867, Baldwin. Collection of sketches entitled "Scenes from my window" including these named scenes among others: coming from a hunt, boiling soap, a Mexican calvacade, drawing with thoughts on hairstyling. Date not legible, location not specified. |
| Box 1 | FF 2 | Essay entitled "Kansas Seen Through Green Spectacles." This satirical essay includes illustrations to support text which includes thoughts from the author on Eastern biases, the beginnings of towns in Kansas, and reflections on early Kansas life. |
| Box 1 | FF 3 | Collection of sketches including these named scenes among others: wash stand, prairie life makes strange bedfellows, the way we light our cabin, buffalo gun. Also included are notes about staff at an unspecified school. Not dated, location not specified. |
| Box 1 | FF 4 | Sketch of the laying of the cornerstone at Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas. Dated 27 June 1866, Baldwin City, Kansas. |
| Box 1 | FF 5 | Collection of sketches including these named scenes: The Ravine, Monday morning, Baldwin City, Kan., Emma (dated 30 April 1866); Rocky Ford or the Falls, Captains Creek, Johnson Co. Kan., Near Lanesfield (dated 13 July 1867). Also includes sketch of barn or shed, dated 1870, Humboldt, Kansas. |
| Box 1 | FF 6 | Collection of sketches of these named scenes among others: Marion County toll gate; Captain Hall's House, Kansas, A. A. Brewster; boy fishing in a stream near mill, undated. Also included are a sketch of a farm scene, dated 1861; sketch entitled "Sketched from my window," Ottawa, Kansas, not dated; and two watercolors of waterfall scene, not dated. Location not specified on most sketches. |
| Box 1 | FF 7 | Collection of sketches of the Modesto Mine, dated 1881. |
| Box 1 | FF 8 | Collection of sketches of life in Indiana including these named scenes among others: Indianapolis, 1877, Indiana homestead; In the Sugar Camp, dated 19 March 1877. Also included are two undated drawings of boiling maple sugar in Indiana. |