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"Oeffentlicher Unterricht" (Public Education)

Part of a railroad poster encouraging immigrants to Kansas.

"Oeffentlicher Unterricht" is one section of text of a promotional poster encouraging German-speaking people to immigrate to Kansas and secure homesteads. It explains that schools have been organized from the elementary level to colleges. This is section 2A of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway poster titled "Die Beste Gelegenheit im Westen."

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Type: image
Project: WJHS Grant
Temporal coverage: 1870s
Spacial coverage: Kansas
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Company
Object date:1873
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