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Title
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Postcard Mailman
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Description
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Postcard picturing a 1907 U.S. mail carrier with a take-out folder of 12 postcard views of Kansas City.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Greetings from Kansas City, Mo.
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Description
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Postcard showing a letter carrier with a U.S. Mail bag slung over his shoulder.
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Date
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1907
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Man Delivering Items to Office
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Description
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Unidentified man and woman in office with postal employee delivering mail.
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Date
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1910
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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History of Johnson County, Kansas
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Description
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Item describing the stagecoach and mail delivery business ventures of Jared Sanderson and Patrick Murphy. The author notes that Sanderson established a stage line from Kansas City, Missouri to Fort Scott, Kansas in 1863-64 to carry mail, also operating a line from kansas City to Santa Fe.
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Date
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1915
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Memoirs of Jared L. Sanderson, ''Stagecoach King,'' Part I
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Description
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First installment of the memoirs of Jared L. Sanderson, describing his earliest journeys on the Santa Fe Trail and the development of Kansas City in the 1860's. Sanderson, born in St. Albans, Vermont in 1820, became involved with numerous stage coach and mail contracts along the Santa Fe Trail and throughout the western United States during the second half of the 19th century.
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Date
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2005-11
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Pony Express: Orphans Preferred
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Description
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Article describes the history of the Pony Express, citing its lifespan as April 3, 1860 to October 26, 1861.
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Date
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2003-04
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
