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Petersen letter continues.

This is one section of text of a promotional poster encouraging German-speaking people to immigrate to Kansas and secure homesteads. This provides the end to a letter from C.A. Petersen of Boston, Massachusetts highlighting the reasons farming will be successful in Kansas. This is section 10A of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway poster titled "Die Beste Gelegenheit im Westen." The letter began in section 9B. A link to it is provided below.

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C.A. Petersen letter begins
Entire poster
Testimonial from Arkansas Valley
Testimonial from Sumner County
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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