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University of Kansas

 Organization

Found in 77 Records:

Personal papers of James B. Kennedy

 Collection — Box 1
Call Number: PP 111
Overview

James B. Kennedy attended the University of Kansas from 1924-1930. This collection consists of photographs, biographical information, manuscripts, a 1928 commencement program, and miscellaneous materials.

Dates: 1930 - 1969

Personal papers of Kristine McCusker

 Collection
Call Number: PP 604
Overview

This collection contains Kristine McCusker's research completed for her thesis entitled "The Forgotten Years' of America's Civil Rights Movement." The research mostly consists of photocopied articles, letters, and papers; also in the collection are letters to and from McCusker and photographs with their negatives.

Dates: 1990s

Personal papers of M. Wilson Sterling

 Collection — Box 1
Call Number: PP 138
Overview

This collection consists of a 1944 letter from Francis H.C. Stevens to Hermione Archer regarding the death of Archer's father, Wilson Sterling, who was the editor of Quarter-centennial history of the University of Kansas, 1866-1891: With portraits of chancellors.

Dates: 1944

Personal papers of Margaret Anderson

 Collection
Call Number: PP 602
Overview

This collection includes outgoing letters from Margaret Anderson to Gene and Marjorie Courtney. Topics typically discussed include mututal acquaintances and personal events. Letters addressed to Gene Courtney date from 1963-1970 and are organized chronologically by year. The 1966 folder includes newspaper clippings about Margaret Anderson's retirement from the University of Kansas. The folder with letters addressed to Marjorie S. Courtney contain two letters and one postcard.

Dates: 1963 - 1972

Personal papers of Margaret Penny

 Collection
Call Number: PP 444
Overview

This collection primarily consists of Margaret Penny's research papers and essays on multiple subjects, several of which are related to World War II, as well as a dance card, commencement booklet, and two student identification cards from her time as a student at the Univeristy of Kansas.

Dates: approximately 1930-1949

Personal papers of Miller A. McCreary

 Collection — Box 1
Call Number: PP 381
Overview

Miller McCreary was a student at the University of Kansas from 1904-1906. This collection consists of papers about McCreary's student activities.

Dates: 1904 - 1906

Personal papers of Olin Templin

 Collection
Call Number: PP 501
Overview

The collection includes essays and personal and professional letters written by Olin Templin, ethics professor, dean, and head of the University of Kansas Endowment Association; as well as letters written to him and memorials after his death.

Dates: 1880 - 1990

Personal papers of Richard Dyer MacCann

 Collection
Call Number: PP 601
Overview

This collection contains three manuscripts from Richard Dyer MacCann, describing MacCann's thoughts on the decline in the American motion picture industry, his proposals on the values and essential aspects of film, and his life at the University of Kansas as a student.

Dates: May 1999

Personal papers of Robert A. Watt

 Collection — Box 1
Call Number: PP 149
Overview

Robert Watt graduated from the University of Kansas in 1893. This collection consists of a 1963 letter and poem about Old Fraser Hall, which was to be used in a publication celebrating the history of the building before it was razed in 1965.

Dates: 1963

Personal papers of Robert Taft

 Collection
Call Number: PP 188
Overview

Taft taught Chemistry at the University of Kansas from 1922-1955, but he spent his leisure time writing histories of KU and publishing books on other subjects, including photography and American artists. This collection consists of materials related to the publishing of one of Taft's KU histories, Across the Years on Mt Oread and its later revision.

Dates: 1941 - 1955

Personal papers of the Shuey Family

 Collection — Box 1
Call Number: PP 304
Overview

Ralph Shuey graduated from the University of Kansas in 1907. This collection consists of Shuey's 1908 Acacia Lodge apron and his 50-year K-Club pin, as well as D.B. Shuey's (Ralph's father) 1895 Santa Fe Route Eating House permit.

Dates: 1895 - 1908

Personal papers of William P. Smith

 Collection — Box 1-2
Call Number: PP 353
Overview

William P. Smith taught electrical engineering at the University of Kansas from 1950-1981. This collection contains information about the Campus Energy Program that ran from 1975-1984.

Dates: 1975 - 1984

Philip Olmstead Company business papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 956
Overview

P.D. Olmstead owned and operated a contracting business in Lawrence, Kansas from 1925-1968. He built several buildings on the University of Kansas campus. This collection encompasses his business records, predominantly client and vendor account files filed by individual or business name, as well as architectural drawings and plans related building projects and personal family photographs.

Dates: 1890-1975 (bulk 1920s-1966)

Photographic Collection of Portraits, Landscapes, Buildings and Structures, Interiors, etc.

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 11
Overview The locations and individuals in many of the black and white photographic prints in this collection have not been indentified. The unidentified photographs are grouped under the following headings: buildings and structures, landscapes, portraits, exteriors, and interiors. Most of the landscapes are of a mountainous area. The portraits include pictures of individuals and groups of all ages, taken both indoors and outdoors, in both posed and candid shots. Most of the buildings and structures...
Dates: approximately 1910-1950

Records from the University of Kansas Office of Analytics, Institutional Research, and Effectiveness

 Record Group
Call Number: RG 4
Overview This record group is comprised of the records of the Office of Institutional Research and Planning (OIRP) at the University of Kansas, now called Analytics, Institutional Research, and Effectiveness (AIRE). The office reports to the provost/executive vice chancellor, and is dedicated to meeting the data, information, analytical, and planning needs of KU's Lawrence and Edwards campuses and the central administration of the University of Kansas. Much of this record group consists of studies...
Dates: 1957 - 2019

Records regarding Faculty and Staff at the University of Kansas

 Record Group
Call Number: RG 41
Overview

This record group consists of records, photographs, and scrapbooks compiled by University of Kansas Libraries and University Archives staff regarding the faculty and staff at the University of Kansas.

Dates: 1880s-2020 (bulk 1930s-2000s)

Scrapbook of Kansas news items

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS C90
Overview

Margaret Thompson Henderson was born in Parsons, Kansas and graduated from the University of Kansas at Lawrence in 1905. Her 91-page scrapbook of news clippings from the early 1900s chronicles notable people, places and events in the history of Kansas, the Lawrence community, and the University of Kansas. Included are published poems, biographies, and obituaries of famous Kansans.

Dates: approximately 1908-1924

Scrapbooks

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS E77
Scope and Contents

The scrapbooks treat the history of Lawrence and the University of Kansas in general. Some of the clippings are obituaries of local residents, or local current events, e.g, the demonstrations by the Lawrence chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1963.

Dates: 1949-1965

Stanley Learned Collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 831
Overview

The Stanley Learned Collection includes twenty-six scrapbooks, dating from 1951 to 1968, of photographs, clippings, and other memorabilia which document Learned's leadership and service activities as an executive of the Phillips Petroleum Company of Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The collection also contains several works authored by Learned, including his student theses from the University of Kansas, certificates of honors awarded him by the University, and two souvenir medallions.

Dates: 1924 - 1975

Surveys of University of Kansas sorority and fraternity houses

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P736
Overview

Historic and architectural surveys of five University of Kansas fraternity and sorority houses, conducted by Lonnie Clark in February 1996 for the Lawrence Kansas Historic Resources Survey.

Dates: February 27, 1996

"Toward Education Per Aspera"

 Collection — Volume 1
Call Number: RH MS 121
Overview

Brought to Kansas in his early childhood, Clarence Birch became a teacher in Kansas rural schools, Haskell Institute, and the Lawrence public schools. He served as superintendent of the Lawrence Public School System from 1931 to 1939. He later wrote "Toward Education Per Aspera, A Manuscript Autobiography of a Kansas Educator" in 1966.

Dates: 1966

University of Kansas Archives: a guide

 Collection — Volume 1
Call Number: RH MS D186
Overview

A guide to the University Archives at the University of Kansas compiled by Patricia Michaelis.

Dates: 1975

University of Kansas InterX records

 Collection
Call Number: RG 7
Overview This collection consists of the records of InterX Corporation, which was started by Professor Takeru Higuchi in 1972 as a drug delivery company and subsequently was sold to Merck in 1981. The transfer of technology arising from government-funded research by assigning ownership of the intellectual property to the institution helped to facilitate the implementation of pharmaceutical and drug delivery concepts, serving as a link between academia and the drug industry. KU owned the...
Dates: 1972 - 1981

University of Kansas Publications Photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 176
Overview This collection contains photoprints and slides made to accompany articles published in various University of Kansas campus publications, including the University Daily Kansan, Oread, Jayhawker Yearbook, and the Alumni Magazine. This collection is also comprised of photographs of non-campus activities in the surrounding Douglas County and Lawrence areas, including current events, landscapes, festivals, geographic locations,...
Dates: 1970 - 1990

Wilburn family collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1592
Overview

The Wilburn family collection includes Vicki Wilburn's school yearbooks and papers, work materials, art, and correspondence; as well as some papers from her parents, George and Birdie Mae Wilburn, some famly history papers, and a 1924 photograph of African American Masons in Topeka, Kansas.

Dates: 1960 - 2023