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Boys' Hotel and summer camp (Kansas City, Missouri) photograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 136
Overview

Photographs of facilities, residents, and activities of the Boys' Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri and the Boys' Hotel summer camp on the Big Blue River. The photographer is Anderson of Kansas City or unknown, unless otherwise noted.

Dates: 1921 - 1932

Bradley-Fifield farm photograph album

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 154(f)
Overview

Views and activites on Iowa farm, possibly near Kanawha or Dubuque. Album created by Charles R. Pollock in 1905.

Dates: 1904 - 1905

Brenna Buchanan's research on La Yarda

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1431
Overview

La Yarda was a neighborhood of housing owned by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and used to house its workers, primarily those that immigrated from Mexico. This collection contains research about La Yarda and the role it played in the establishment of the Mexican-American community in Lawrence, Kansas, conducted by Brenna Buchanan for a project when a University of Kansas architecture student.

Dates: 1999 - 2009

Brent Campney research on racist violence against African Americans

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1492
Overview The Brent Campney collection focuses on Dr. Campney's work in researching racist violence, especially towards African Americans in the Great Plains region of the United States. The collection contains newspaper clippings from the mid-1800s through the 20th century, with topics including the Exodusters, racist violence during the Reconstruction period, and violence in both general (Kansas) and specific (Salina, Atchison County, etc.) places. A large subset of materials relates to the 1949...
Dates: 1863-2001 (bulk 1863-1920s)

Brian Wilson Aldiss papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 214
Overview

Brain Wilson Aldiss is a British author best known for his science fiction novels and criticism. This collection includes letters, drafts, and other papers representing all stages of preparation for his Helliconia trilogy. The collection is organized to show how the Helliconia project evolved, from early planning and research to publication and reception.

Dates: 1978 - 1984

Brief for McDonald v. McGuire

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P663
Overview

This legal brief is a brief for the appellant in 1849 McDonald v. McGuire suit over slave ownership.

Dates: 1849

Brief history of businesses in Lawrence, Kansas operating in 1883

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P199
Overview

The leading industries of Lawrence, Kansas. A review of the manufacturing, commercial, real estate, and other important interests, together with a historical sketch. A valuable guide to the industries of the historic city of Kansas. Lawrence, Commercial and Manufacturing Publishing Co., 1883.

Dates: 1883

Brigham family papers

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Call Number: RH MS 1017
Overview

The papers of the Brigham Family includes a short history of Sarah Brigham's life, an 1865 letter from Illinois Governor Richard Ogleshy to Col. J. M. Shuts, and a US service discharge document for Jackson M. Sheels. It also includes newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1800-1947, bulk 1860-1910

Brinton Webb Woodward records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS D129
Overview

This collection consists of diaries, some of Woodward's writings, and clippings and greeting cards collected by the Woodward family, who moved to Lawrence, Kansas during the territorial era.

Dates: 1841 - 1921

Brittendall family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1120
Overview

Clarence Brittendall (b. 1872) wrote from Okeene, Oklahoma Territory to Rilla Stone (1876-1954), Brookville, Saline County, Kansas, as he made improvements on his homestead claim from the Cherokee Strip land run in September 1893. The two exchanged letters until their marriage in November 1894. This collection consists of their correspondence as well as family history notes by Caroline Dean and Bessie Dutton. Most of the letters are accompanied by photocopied transcripts.

Dates: 1893 - 1994

Brown County, Kan. Records

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Call Number: RH MS 67
Overview

Various records including delinquient property taxes, railroad taxes, reports of the record clerk, and school reports.

Dates: 1871-1876; 1872-1896

Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence, and Research records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 876
Overview

The records in this collection are those of the Topeka, Kansas-based Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence, and Research, established in 1988 as a tribute to the 1954 Brown v. Topeka Board of Education case and its plaintiffs and participants. These records include general information on the foundation and related subjects and events.

Dates: 1970 - 2023

Bryan K. Whitehead papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 548
Overview Bryan Kendall Whitehead (1925-2008) was a legislative representative (effectively a lobbyist) for the Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees (BRAC). This collection of his papers reflect his work as a representative for BRAC in the Kansas Legislature, as a member of numerous special committees, and his interest in the performing arts. The collection includes professional correspondence, reports, bulletins, newspaper clippings,...
Dates: 1940 - 1994

Brydie R. Alsbrook papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1132
Overview

The Brydie R. Alsbrook papers are those of a native Kansas City, Kansan who worked as an educator for many years and was active in the community, especially at Church of the Ascension.

Dates: 1920 - 1988

Budget messages of Kansas Governor Fred Hall

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Call Number: RH MS P729
Overview

These two budget messages were delivered to the Kansas Legislature by Kansas Governor Fred Hall on February 1, 1955 and January 11, 1956.

Dates: February 1, 1955 and January 11, 1956

Buffalo Town Association share and photographs

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Call Number: RH MS P339
Overview This collection contains one share, No. 141. Nebraska Advertiser Print, Brownsville, Nebraska Territory, 1857. This printed form is illustrated and completed by hand. Text reads: ONE SHARE, Buffalo City. This entitles Charles Blakely To One Share, being the undivided one-hundred-and fiftieth portion of land known as BUFFALO CITY, Doniphan Co., K.T. [Doniphan County, Kansas Territory] Signed G.B. Chadduck, Sec'y. B.B. Fraser, Pres't. The collection also includes four small black and white...
Dates: 1857, 1907, 1922-1924

Buggy Tracks by Bess Harrison

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P355
Overview

Buggy Tracks; A personal narrative of life in a small western Kansas town in the early 1900's, together with family photographs. Ft. Morgan, Colorado? 197-

Dates: Between 1970 and 1978

Building surveys for the Lawrence Downtown Historic Building Survey

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 898
Overview

This collection consists of survey forms which contain a history and architectural decription for each of 229 historic buildings in downtown Lawrence, Kansas. The survey content was compiled in 1993 by Deon Wolfenbarger (Three Gables Preservation) for the Lawrence Downtown Historic Building Survey, a project for which she was commissioned by the City of Lawrence and the Lawrence Historic Resources Commission.

Dates: August 16, 1993

Bullene family bible

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: RH MS 1546
Overview

This collection consists of a family bible belonging to the Bullene family, an early family in Lawrence, Kansas. The bible contains a family record with genealogical details about members in the Bullene and Ferris families from 1825-1926. The volume includes some loose items tipped in.

Dates: [bible printed in 1833, includes information dating up to 1926]

Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company freight received record

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS G17
Overview

An itemized description of articles received as freight with notations of weight, rate, and total charges. Consignor and consignee are identified, as are the towns from which the freight was shipped.

Dates: 1886

Bushong Marionettes collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 254
Overview

The collection contains scrapbooks and a bound manuscript containing correspondence, marionette plays, photographs, theatre programs, and instructions for making marionettes.

Dates: approximately 1935-1978

Business and personal papers of Benjamin Walker and his family and business associates

 Collection
Call Number: MS P651
Overview

The business and personal papers in the Benjamin Walker collection primarily record the business and social activities of Benjamin Walker in connection with relatives, business associates, and acquaintances, all residing in the towns of Taunton and Dighton in Bristol County, Massachusetts.

Dates: 1793-1877 (bulk 1808-1824)

Business and Professional Women's Club of Baldwin City, Kansas records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 336
Overview

This collection consists of the by-laws and various records of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Baldwin City, Kansas from the years 1959-1979. Club records include meeting minutes and attendance records, as well as financial records.

Dates: 1959 - 1979

Business cards, Lawrence, Kansas

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P479
Overview

This collection consists of business cards, most of which are from Lawrence, Kansas, businesses in the 1880s.

Dates: 1880's

Business Records of William Hinckle Smith

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P921
Overview

William Hinckle Smith (1861-1943) was a wealthy Philadelphia capitalist who directed and operated the shares of many companies across Pennsylvania, New York, North Dakota, Colorado, and Nevada. This collection contains business and personal ledgers from Smith's corporations and estate.

Dates: 1881 - 1945

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 13
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Sumner High School (Kansas City, Kan.) 9
University of Kansas. Department of English 9
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Connelley, William Elsey, 1855-1930 8
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O'Hegarty, P. S. (Patrick Sarsfield), 1879-1955 8
Ellis, Ralph N. (Ralph Nicholson), 1908-1945 7
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Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894 7
Wood, Frank 7
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Pennell, Joseph Judd, 1866-1922 6
Sturgeon, Theodore 6
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White, William Lindsay, 1900-1973 6
Bowersock, Justin DeWitt, 1842-1922 5
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 5
Clark family 5
Docking, Robert Blackwell, 1925-1983 5
Eigner , Larry, 1927-1996 5
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Haskell Indian Junior College 5
Johnson, Ronald, 1935-1998 5
Kansas Association of Colored Women and Girls’ Clubs 5
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Lawrence (Kan.). City Commission 5
League of Women Voters of Kansas 5
Miller, Timothy, 1944- 5
Mrs. Hudson's Fine Books & Paper 5
New England Emigrant Aid Company 5
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Spencer, Kenneth Aldred, 1902-1960 5
Topeka School District (Topeka, Kan.) 5
United States. Congress. House 5
University of Kansas. Department of Music 5
University of Kansas. William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information 5
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Apfelbaum, Charles 4
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company 4
Bailey, E. H. S. (Edgar Henry Summerfield), 1848-1933 4
Beal, George Malcolm, 1897- 4
Benjamin, David, 1963- 4
Besinger, Curtis 4
Calvary Baptist Church (Wichita, Kan.) 4
Capper, Arthur, 1865-1951 4
Carney, Thomas, 1824-1888 4
Clarke, Sidney, 1831-1909 4
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Democratic Party (Kan.) 4
Domer, Dennis, 1944- 4
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 4
Douglas County Historical Society (Douglas County, Kan.) 4
Eldridge House (Lawrence, Kan.) 4
Enslinger, Dennis 4
Friends in Council (Lawrence, Kan.) 4
Funston, Frederick, 1865-1917 4
Gould, John, 1804-1881 4
Guttridge, G. H. (George Herbert), 1898- 4
Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art 4
Hoad, William C. (William Christian), 1874- 4
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 4
Irvin, S. M. (Samuel Mcleary), 1812- 4
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