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William Dickerson lithograph

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P2828(f)
Overview

1934 lithograph by Kansas regional artist William Dickerson. The lithograph features an outdoor rural winter scene and is numbered 16/30 in pencil. The work itself measures 15 x 11.5 inches and is 19 x 16" matted.

Dates: 1934

William E. Barnes collection

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Call Number: RH MS 1484
Overview

This collection contains William E. Barnes' ledgers from his plants nursery in Douglas County, Kansas, the first nursery in Kansas, and a notebook from an agriculture class taught at the Vinland, Kansas high school and used by Albert James Wood.

Dates: 1878 - 1910

William E. Connelley's certified copy of The New Gold Mines of Western Kansas, by William B. Parsons

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS D190
Overview

This is a 1926 certified copy of William E. Connelley's typewritten manuscript copy of William B. Parson's 1859 book The New Gold Mines of Western Kansas. The original book was intended to be a guide to those venturing to the gold mines in Western Kansas (now in the state of Colorado).

Dates: 1926

William E. Culver photographic collection

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Call Number: RH PH 75
Overview

William E. Culver was an amateur photographer who settled in Topeka, Kansas, where he opened a hardware store, Culver and Bailey, in 1886. This collection contains photographic prints, glass lantern slides, glass plate negatives, flexible negatives, photography paper, correspondence, architectural drawings, maps, and other materials related to Culver's personal and professional interests.

Dates: 1867-1963, bulk 1892-1919

William E. Drenner family collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 973
Overview

This collection contains correspondence, photographs, slides, photographic albums, scrapbooks, published books, exhibit panels, and reference material of William Drenner and his family. It also contains business papers and reports from Drenner's banking career.

Dates: 1920s-2000s

William E. Richards papers

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Call Number: RH MS 1105
Overview

The William E. Richards papers are those of a long time Topeka resident who served as Director of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services' Division of Social Services.

Dates: 1944 - 1998

William Elsey Connelley papers

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Call Number: RH MS 2
Overview

Correspondence, research notes, interviews, manuscript drafts, and photographs, covering the years 1883-1914, from an early Kansas historian.

Dates: 1883 - 1914

William Ewart Gladstone collection

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Call Number: MS P129
Overview

This collection consists of two letters and an autograph by British Prime Minister and politician W.E. (William Ewart) Gladstone (1809-1898), collected from various sources by Spencer Research Library staff.

Dates: 1864, undated

William F. Wu papers

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Call Number: MS 367
Overview William F. Wu is an award-nominated science fiction writer and scholar in the depiction of Asian Americans in American fiction and popular culture. This collection spans from his early education through his writing career and includes personal and professional correspondence with close associates and figures in the science fiction and fantasy community. The collection also includes papers associated with his academic work in studying the representation of Asian Americans (and particularly...
Dates: approximately 1954-2018

William Foster papers

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Call Number: RH MS 656
Overview

William Foster was the band director for Florida A & M University (FAMU) from the 1940s-2001. His papers include material regarding the FAMU Marching 100 band as well as his other professional activities.

Dates: 1940 - 2012

William Frankland journal

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS A29
Overview

Journal used by William Frankland, who trained as a lawyer and served as Attorney-general in the Isle of Man and as private secretary to the secretary of state for home affairs in England. Topics covered in the journal include Frankland's attorney-general work, both in the Isle of Man and in London; continental travels, including in Belgium, Germany, and France; and his illness while in Cheltenham and Malvern, England.

Dates: August 30, 1813 - December 6, 1815

William Frazer papers

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Call Number: MS 85
Overview

Collection regarding ancient Celtic ecclesiastical bells. Includes notebook, loose notes, sketches, letters to Frazer, offprints, etc. William Frazer was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and had antiquarian interests in archaeology, numismatics, and sigillography.

Dates: 1880s

William G. Harvey bank books

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Call Number: RH MS A11
Overview

Collection consists of bank books for accounts held at various banks by William G. Harvey, a wholesale liquor dealer at the time of his death. The books mostly note balances, deposits, and credits for each account; some volumes are barely used. Freeling Tufts became executor of the Harvey estate following his death.

Dates: 1886 - 1889

William H. Brow Papers

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Call Number: PP 563
Overview

William H. Brow served twice as the in-country Director of the University of Kansas Study Abroad program in Costa Rica. Fluent in both Spanish and Portuguese, he also worked as a literary translator. The collection contains translations of manuscripts for two books originally published in Latin America and correspondence for KU’s Study Abroad spring 1976 season.

Dates: 1975 - 1997

William H. Fant ledgers

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Call Number: RH MS E212
Overview

This collection consists of two accounting ledgers owned and used by William H. Fant, a farmer in Garden City, Finney County, Kansas. The ledgers include information regarding dates and descriptions of items, expenses and income.

Dates: 1936 - 1967

William H. H. Whitney diary

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Call Number: RH MS P780
Overview The 1865 diary of Lawrence, Kansas resident William H. H. Whitney, a twenty-five year old Civil War veteran of Vermont's 13th Infantry Regiment, chronicles his activities as a recent emigrant to Lawrence with his wife and young son. Whitney's many entries describe the weather, his work and social activities, the birth of his second son, and local events. Entries of special note include the 1865 sighting and capture of a participant in William Quantrill's Lawrence Massacre of 1863, a...
Dates: diary entries: 1865; certificate: 1911

William H. Morrison's letters from the Nebraska Territory

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Call Number: RH MS P923
Overview

This collection contains two letters from Union soldier Willam H. Morrison to his sister and father from when he was stationed at Fort Kearney in Nebraska Territory.

Dates: May 2, 1864 and October 26, 1865

William Harrington, III papers

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Call Number: RH MS P846
Overview

The William Harrington III papers are those of a long time Kansas resident and former Buffalo Soldier who served in the U.S. Army for 30 years.

Dates: 1986 and 1994

William Holman Hunt collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 208
Overview

Miscellaneous collection of letters, photographs, and other items concerning British painter William Holman Hunt, mostly compiled by University of Kansas English professor William Doremus Paden.

Dates: 1856 - 1910

William Inge collection

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Call Number: RH MS 165
Overview

This collection of William Inge's papers contains manuscripts for many of his plays, some correspondence and photographs of his sculpture work, and a number of articles written and/or published between 1950 and 1976.

Dates: 1950 - 1976

William Inge photograph

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P714
Overview

This collection contains a photograph of a sculpture of William Inge holding his Academy Award ("Oscar").

Dates: 1974

William Isaac Marshall writings

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Call Number: RH MS D72
Overview

Collection of writings about the history of the United States western territories, particularly the United States' acquisition of the Oregon Territory, by William Isaac Marshall.

Dates: 1899 - 1905

William K. Marshall papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 659
Overview

The papers of William K. Marshall are those of a native Kansan who became the first African American to represent the 58th District in the Kansas State House of Representatives.

Dates: 1974 - 1976

William L. Scheirman papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P1001
Overview The William L. Scheirman collection contains materials relating to Lawrence, Kansas German families from Russia, including photocopies and original photographic prints. There is a letter to William R. Scheirman from Gladys Blackman, whose grandparents John Adam and Cath. Elizabeth Shireman or Schuermann immigrated from Russia; photographs of Scheuermann and Shireman relatives; a photograph of Turner Hall in Lawrence; a photo of a Scheuermann family home; and a photograph of a Scheuermann...
Dates: approximately 1880s - 1930s; 1991

William L. White : Scrapbook of mounted newspaper clippings

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS E146
Overview

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings collected by staff of Watson Library regarding William Lindsay White (1900-1973) an author and journalist born in Emporia, Kansas.

Dates: 1947

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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
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Benjamin, David, 1963- 4
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Clarke, Sidney, 1831-1909 4
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Friends in Council (Lawrence, Kan.) 4
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Hoad, William C. (William Christian), 1874- 4
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Irvin, S. M. (Samuel Mcleary), 1812- 4
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