University of Missouri-Kansas City Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections

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Robert M. Snyder Broadside Collection, MS 63 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Scope and Content …………………………………………………………… 2

Series Notes ……………………………………………………………………. 2

Container List ……………………………………………………………………. 3

Series I: Kansas/Missouri ……………………………………………. 3

Series II: Political ……………………………………………………. 3

Series III: Miscellaneous ……………………………………………. 4

Series IV: Oversized ……………………………………………………. 4

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The Robert M. Snyder, Jr. Broadside Collection is a sub-collection of the Robert M. Snyder, Jr. Collection, the foundation collection of the Department of Special Collections. The Broadside Collection provides focused resources related to historic advertisements and announcements (i.e., broadsides), compiled from material that Snyder collected in this area.

SERIES NOTES

SERIES I: KANSAS/MISSOURI

This series is contained in Box 1, folders 1-5. This series includes broadsides from Kansas and Missouri, broken down into the following sub-series: (1) human and local conditions; (2) advertisements by Benjamin Singleton; (3) political and judicial issues; (4) reward offers; and (5) Hutchison Steam Ferry.

SERIES II: POLITICAL

This series is contained in Box 1, folder 6, and consists of broadsides with a political theme.

SERIES III: MISCELLANEOUS

This series is contained in Box 1, folder 7, and consists of miscellaneous broadsides. Included are a 127th Illinois Infantry invitation; W. Stoffregen’s Barber Shop Rules; Cholera epidemic of 1873 from Franklin, Kentucky; and Dr. John Sappington’s Anit Fever & Ague Pills.

SERIES IV: OVERSIZED

This series is contained in oversized drawer 21, and consists of oversized broadsides. Included are broadsides concerning the Missouri State Lottery; political intercourse between United States, France and Great Britain; and Women’s Suffrage.

CONTAINER LIST

SERIES I: KANSAS/MISSOURI

Box Folder Description

1 1 Human and local conditions

“Greater Distress! In Kansas”
“C.J.H. Nichols… will speak at St. Nichols Hall”
“Kansas Free Lecture by Jas. H. Lathrop”
“To the Friends of Suffering Humanity”
“The Fairyland Park Issue on Racial Discrimination Concerns YOU!”

2 Benjamin Singleton

“Peace and Harmony”; “Ho for Kansas!”
“Ho for Sunny Kansas”
“The Real Estate & Homestead Association will give a FESTIVAL at the Benevolent Hall…”

3 Political and judicial

“Rules of the Courts of the 6th Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri…”
“To the Voters of the 17th Senatorial District”
“To the People of Shawnee County”
“To the Voters of Douglas County…”
“List of Members of the Constitutional Convention, Assembled at Wyandotte, Kansas…”
“In the Senate of the United States… Resolution”

4 Reward offers

“$200 Reward” for finding a boy named Wash from Thos. Carson, [18]59
“$10,000 Reward!!” for the two armed men that robbed the 1st National Bank of Independence

5 Atchison Steam Ferry

SERIES II: POLITICAL

1 6 Political

- - - “To the People of Western Virginia…”
    - “An Act to contain in force, a part of an act respecting the compensation to the officers and mariners of the revenue cutters,” 1798
    - “An Act to amend the act entitled ‘An Act concerning the registering and recording of ships and vessels’”

SERIES III: MISCELLANEOUS

1 7 Miscellaneous

127th Illinois Infantry invitation
W. Stoffregen’s Barber Shop Rules
Cholera epidemic of 1873 from Franklin, Kentucky
Dr. John Sappington’s Anit Fever & Ague Pills
“Executor’s Sale of Work Horse” by G.W. and L.S. Seaman

SERIES IV: OVERSIZED

[Located in oversized drawer 21]

1 Missouri State Lottery

2 Political intercourse between United States, France and Great Britain

3 Women’s Suffrage/Susan B. Anthony/George Francis Train/Rev. W.A. Starrett

4 “Reply of Chas. Robinson to his Slanderers”; “Hot Shot! Governor Robinson and Hon. S.A. Riggs Address the Citizens of Lawrence”; “Funeral Honors to the Late President”; “Ex-Governor Carney’s Address”; “Some Account of some of the Bloody Deeds of Gen. Jackson”