The extensive collections at the Library of Congress contain historic artifacts and cultural materials from across the U.S. The list below is just a sample of the many Kansas resources available for free on the Library's Web site.
The tools at the end of the page can help teachers use these in the classroom. Teachers can find even more primary sources, along with the tools to help use them in the classroom, at www.loc.gov/teachers. They can also search the Library's American Memory or Prints and Photographs collections.

Samuel R. Curtis to Abraham Lincoln, Sunday, February 28, 1864 (Report on conditions in the Indian Territory)
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Colton's Kansas and Nebraska, 1855
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“With an Even Hand” : Brown V. Board at Fifty
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Destitution in Kansas. Appeal for help ... October 30, 1860 |

Deserted / photo by Reed, c190?
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![Information for emigrants to Kansas. Office. National Kansas Committee, Chicago March 23, 1857 ... Edward Daniels, Agent Emigration Nat'nal Kansas Com. [Chicago, 1857].](images/info.jpg)
Information for emigrants to Kansas. Office. National Kansas Committee, Chicago March 23, 1857 ... Edward Daniels, Agent Emigration Nat'nal Kansas Com. [Chicago, 1857]. |

Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1900
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A Wichita (The North American Indian; v.19), c1927 |

The mayor of Prairie Dog Town, Abilene, Kansas, 447 miles west of St. Louis, Mo, 1867 |

Galbraith's railway mail service maps, Kansas, 1897 |

Hard times in Kansas / George Vinton Graham, vocals and guitar. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in San Jose, California on July 9, 1939 |

Ho for the Kansas plains / by James G. Clark, 1856 |
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