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University of Kansas

 Organization

Found in 77 Records:

Kansas Board of Regents records

 Collection
Call Number: RG 1
Overview

This collection is comprised of the records of the Kansas Board of Regents, appointed by the Governor of Kansas, which oversees the state's seven public universities, nineteen community colleges, and six technical colleges.

Dates: 1865 - 2010

Kansas Public Housing photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 27
Overview

Photographs of conditions at a housing project in Lawrence, Kansas.

Dates: 1969

Letters from Sara Robinson

 Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH MS P141
Overview

Sara Robinson's letters to Phebe Stone, her sister-in-law, were written while her husband Charles Robinson was in California. Her letters to Frank Blackmar mention a history written about the University of Kansas, events at the University, books about Kansas, property holdings and taxes, and farm management and expenses.

Dates: 1850 - 1909

Lou Charno photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 45
Overview

This collection includes a photoprint series of University of Kansas alumni by Lou Charno, who used a dye transfer process invented in 1869 to produce the images. The photographs were published in an exhibition guide, Gallery of Outstanding Kansans, 1986. The collection also includes 4x6 black and white prints and negatives of several demolished or disintegrating properties around Lawrence, Kansas, taken in 2002.

Dates: 1986, 2002

Margaret Verhage collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P967
Overview

Collection of four books owned by Margaret Verhage or family members, related to faternal organizations and the University of Kansas.

Dates: 1892 - 1951

Martha Peterson papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 953
Overview Jamestown, Kansas native Martha Peterson (1916-2006) served as Dean of Women at the University of Kansas and the University of Wisconsin, President of Barnard College, New York, and President of Beloit College, Wisconsin. Peterson, the first woman to serve on the board of ExxonMobil, also served on many other corporate boards. This collection of her papers reflects these activities, as well as her personal and family history. The collection includes professional and personal correspondence,...
Dates: 1830-2007 (bulk 1916-2006)

Mary E. Townsend papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P597
Overview

The Papers of Mary E. Townsend are those of a native Kansan and social worker who taught at the University of Kansas, worked in the school's psychological clinic, and was director of the KU Office of Minority Affairs.

Dates: 1918 - 1940s

Miller family postcard collection

 Collection — Box 1
Call Number: PP 581
Overview

Five letterpress printed postcards addressed either to Christine or Philip Miller of Eureka, Kansas from friends in Lawrence, Kansas. The postcards show views of the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence.

Dates: 1909, 1910, [1915?]

Modern Homes and Other Scenes of Lawrence

 Collection — Reel 1
Call Number: KC AV 28
Overview

This movie, 8 minutes and 20 seconds long, includes shots of Lawrence, Kansas, including Massachusetts street, an elementary school, a church, multiple neighborhoods, and the University of Kansas campus (including dorms and Jayhawk Boulevard, the main thoroughfare through the main campus).

Dates: 1970s?

Nixon and Williamson family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1116
Overview

The Nixon and Williamson families as well as the Chapman and Cooper families had ties to Edwardsville, Wyandotte County, Kansas; to Wamego, Pottawatomie County, Kansas and to the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas. This collection of the families' papers date from 1849-1961 and consists of letters, certificates, journals and photographs.

Dates: 1849 - 1961

Papers of Charles Robinson

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 38
Overview

The collection of correspondence, documents, and addresses of Charles Robinson, housed in the Kansas Collection, is mainly from the period 1854 to 1861. Robinson was a resident agent for the New England Emigrant Aid Company and an advocate for the Free State, anti-slavery cause. There are items on the founding of the University of Kansas. There are also letters from Mrs. Robinson to F. W. Blackmar, the biographer of Governor Robinson.

Dates: 1836 - 1911

Papers of John B. McLendon

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS E198
Overview

John B. McLendon, Jr. was a record-setting African American basketball coach, who pioneered the racial integration and strategic development of the game. McLendon's papers chronicle his outstanding coaching career in amateur and professional athletics.

Dates: 1954 - 1996

Papers of the Shinn Family

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 595
Overview

The papers of the Shinn Family are those of an African American family from Topeka, Kansas. Though the papers are those of the Arthur M. Shinn family, the majority concern his son Michael G. Shinn's time as a University of Kansas athlete, an engineer, and an advocate of academic and professional opportunities for African Americans.

Dates: 1882 - 1991

Personal papers of Arthur Binion Amerson, Jr.

 Collection
Call Number: PP 605
Overview This collection includes photographic slides and a compact disc of scanned slide images between the years 1961-1962 taken by Arthur Amerson, Jr. A portion of the slides feature shots of the University of Kansas (KU) campus, Homecoming, field trips, Entomology club, and fellow classmates of Arthur Amerson, Jr. The other half of the images include shots of a 1962 Yucatan trip, featuring various villages in Mexico, Chichen Itza, and a collection of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The...
Dates: 1961 - 1962

Personal papers of Delbert M. Shankel

 Collection
Call Number: PP 417
Overview

Delbert Shankel came to the University of Kansas in 1959 as a professor of microbiology and later held a variety of administrative positions in addition to teaching duties, including serving twice as Chancellor of the university. Shankel's personal papers include correspondence, committee meeting information, speech materials, articles, and reviews.

Dates: 1959 - 1999

Personal papers of Edward Bartow

 Collection — Box 1
Call Number: PP 159
Overview

Bartow taught in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Kansas from 1897-1905. This collection consists of his personal recollections of KU.

Dates: 1897 - 1905

Personal papers of Edward Bumgardner

 Collection — Box 1
Call Number: PP 161
Overview

This collection consists of two manuscripts: "Franklin, Douglas County, Kansas" by General W.H. Sears, which Bumgardner edited, and "It's Lilac Time at KU."

Dates: 1937 - 1940

Personal papers of Edward L. Meyen

 Collection
Call Number: PP 608
Overview This collection of Edward L. Meyen's personal papers includes five series based on a larger set of series established by Meyen: Official communications, Project reports, Speeches and presentations, Teacher training and teaching materials, and Audiovisual materials. Meyen's papers are exclusively professional in nature and span almost the entirety of his career, from his time as a graduate student at the University of Iowa through the mid-1990s, when Meyen returned to a faculty position after...
Dates: 1962 - 2018

Personal papers of E.H.S. Bailey

 Collection
Call Number: PP 158
Overview E.H.S Bailey, the University of Kansas' first, and for many years, only, chemistry professor, served K.U. from 1883-1933. His personal papers primarily include record books documenting his own academic study and research, as well as the administrative duties of chemistry professorship and the Kansas State Board of Health, 1870s-1905. A 1923 scrapbook commemorates his 40 years of service to the University. The collection also includes family papers dating from throughout the 19th century,...
Dates: 1647, 1793-1973

Personal papers of Flora Boynton

 Collection — Box 1
Call Number: PP 182
Overview

Flora Boynton was the Secretary of the University of Kansas Endowment Association (KUEA) from 1943-1949 and was the unofficial housemother to the Summerfield Scholars during her tenure. After her retirement in 1949, the Scholars compiled a scrapbook of correspondence and began a scholarship fund in her name. This collection consists of the scrapbook and some loose correspondence.

Dates: 1929 - 1949

Personal papers of Flora Richardson

 Collection
Call Number: PP 443
Overview

Flora Richardson was a member of the first University of Kansas graduating class in 1873, and was the first female graduate. The collection contains family histories and photographs of both the Colman and Richardson families, as well as a pamphlet and program from a 1925 performance at the University by John Philip Sousa.

Dates: 1812 - 1962

Personal papers of Gertrude Cowley

 Collection — Box 1
Call Number: PP 62
Overview

Cowley graduated from the University of Kansas in 1898. This collection consists of a commencement program from 1898, photographs of the graduating class, and a yearbook/memoir, The University that Kansas Built: A Farewell by the Class of '98.

Dates: 1898

Personal Papers of Hal and Wilda Sandy

 Collection
Call Number: PP 506
Overview As a journalism student at the University of Kansas, Hal Sandy designed the University's "Happy" Jayhawk mascot that has been in continued use for over 60 years. This collection consists of three oversize scrapbooks dated 1950, 1981, and 1990/2000 and clippings and correspondence regarding the unveiling of the official KU logo, at which Hal Sandy was a special guest. The scrapbooks document Hal and his wife Wilda's life together, as well as Hal's business, Hal Sandy, Inc. They also contain...
Dates: 1941 - 2008

Personal papers of Harry Nicholas Rice

 Collection
Call Number: PP 647
Overview

The bulk of the collection is photocopies of the case files for Kansas Bureau of Investigation case number 1-14958 dealing with the shooting death of Harry Nicholas Rice, a student at the University of Kansas. The collection also includes newspaper clippings, the Rice family’s correspondence with federal agencies and with lawyers concerning the case they filed against the city of Lawrence for damages in the death of their son; Douglas County, Kansas district court case number 27,359.

Dates: January 22, 1970 - March 4, 2009 (bulk July 1970)

Personal papers of I. S. Blackwelder

 Collection — Box 1
Call Number: PP 152
Overview

Blackwelder attended the University of Kansas beginning in 1869. This collection consists of a reprint of an address she gave to the Alumni Association in 1888.

Dates: 1888