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Holliday (Cyrus Kurtz) Papers
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Cyrus Kurtz Holliday papers

Box 1, Folder 1

Atchison & Topeka Railroad Co. 1860 September 15 and 17

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Copies of minutes of incorporators' meeting, first stockholders' meeting, and first directors' meeting.
Box 1, Folder 2

Cyrus Kurtz Holliday correspondence 1854-1875

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Copies of typescripts of letters.

Existence and Location of Originals

Copies of originals in the Kansas State Historical Society.
Box 1, Folder 3

Cyrus Kurtz Holliday correspondence 1861-1875

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Letters to Mary Dillon Holliday and children.
Box 1, Folder 4

Cyrus Kurtz Holliday's A sketch: Why the townsite of Topeka was selected, by whom it was selected..., etc. 1883 November 26

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An article on the founding of Topeka; copy by made Holliday's son Charles King Holliday.
Box 1, Folder 5

Photographs 1854-1899

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24 items.
Box 1, Folder 6

Printed material and Scrapbook 1927-1949

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Includes booklet "Cyrus K. Holliday" and scrapbook kept by Lillie Holliday Kellam regarding Cyrus Kurtz Holliday and Topeka, Kansas.