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Glass plate negatives taken by Charles A. Smith through a Kodak Eastman shop, previously known as Straight Arrow. The collection includes negatives of portraits, farm life, and the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois and a very small number of images from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904 in St. Louis, Missouri. Collection also contains glass plates of Smith's travels across the central United States and in the Salt Lake, Utah area.

Overview Dyche taught Natural History and Zoology at the University of Kansas from 1882-1914. He was also the Kansas Fish and Game Warden from 1910-1915. This collection contains correspondence, diaries, published materials, notes and research, a manuscript draft, photographs, and five scrapbooks documenting his professional interests and career as well as his personal life. The collection includes information from his travels, work and life in Lawrence, Kansas and at KU, and records from his time as...

Overview This material consists of papers about the development of Thomas D. Galloway’s collection of printed World’s Fair memorabilia, especially the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Thomas D. Galloway (1939-2007) was the founding chair of the graduate program in urban planning at the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Planning, where he taught from 1971 to 1980. The distinctive buildings of the 1893 World’s Fair, nicknamed the White City, remained one of his...