India Famine Relief Committee history collection, 1895-1900.

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India Famine Relief Committee history collection, 1895-1900.

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The collection consists of the records from the Kansas India Famine Relief Committee, a group appointed by Kansas Governor Edmund Morrill in 1895 to provide aid to people in India. It includes letterpress books and other copies of the Committee's outgoing correspondence; incoming correspondence; cash books, bank account book, treasurer's account book, receipts & vouchers, and similar financial records; and related materials. The records provide details about the logistics of assembling funds and corn and of shipping the corn, as well as information about who donated to the cause.

2 ft. (5 boxes)

Kansas State Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 8101609

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