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Personal papers of Robert L. Gilbert

 Collection
Call Number: PP 253
Overview

Robert Gilbert's collection includes a compilation of letters he wrote while in France during World War I serving as a mechanic in the Navy. It also includes his personal scrapbook of articles from WWI. Correspondence and personal items from Gilbert's professional career are included as well.

Dates: 1898 - 1987

Personal papers of Robert L. Gilmore

 Collection
Call Number: PP 524
Overview

Robert Gilmore joined the faculty of KU as a professor in 1968, and served as Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Chairman of the Department of History from 1970-1973. His area of specialty was Latin American History with an emphasis on Colombia and Mexico. The collection includes research notes, book drafts, translations, class/lecture notes, and maps related to Gilmore's career.

Dates: 1939 - 1978

Personal papers of Robert Morrow Mengel

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Call Number: PP 8
Overview Robert Mengel came to the University of Kansas in 1953 to work on a bibiliography of the Ellis Collection of Ornithological Books in the Department of Special Collections, Spencer Research Library, and completed manuscripts for three volumes of the bibliography. He was a research associate at the Museum of Natural History at KU from 1953 until he became curator of ornithology in 1967. The collection includes research, field notes, and correspondence, as well as course plans and museum...
Dates: 1929 - 1994

Personal papers of Robert N. Sudlow

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Call Number: PP 514
Overview

The collection consists of over 30 of Robert Sudlow's sketchbooks and many varied items that were laid in the sketchbooks.

Dates: 1956 - 1999

Personal papers of Robert S. Saunders

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: PP 294
Overview

Saunders taught mandolin and guitar at the University of Kansas from 1890-1893. This collection consists of his music scores.

Dates: 1890 - 1893

Personal papers of Robert Sanders

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Call Number: PP 469
Overview

Robert Sanders is a professor emeritus in the department of Molecular Biosciences at the University of Kansas. His collection of personal papers includes correspondence, teaching materials, and materials generally related to his academic career and research interests.

Dates: 1966-1990s

Personal papers of Robert Taft

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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 Robert Tague

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Call Number: PP 664
Overview This collection consists of two scrapbooks regarding Robert (Bob) Tague's basketball and track performance at Rosedale High in Kansas City, Kansas and his track carreer at the University of Kansas where he and teammates, including Ernie Shelby; Charlie Tidwell; and Billy Mills, won the 1959 N.C.A.A. championship. The scrapbooks include newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, certificates, diplomas, track meet programs, and reunion memorabilia. A folder in box 2 contains a few loose...
Dates: 1952-2021, bulk 1952-1964

Personal papers of Robert Timmons

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Call Number: PP 289
Overview Robert "Bob" Timmons was the head track coach at the University of Kansas (KU), 1965-1988. In 2002, he published the booklet The NCAA: Who Protects Student Athletes? A Proposal for a Student Athletes' Bill of Rights. This collection contains newspaper articles and periodicals regarding this subject, as well as materials regarding sports at Wichita East High School and other Wichita, Kansas area sports organizations. There are also miscellaneous...
Dates: 1930 - 2006

Personal papers of Robert W. Wilson

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Call Number: PP 596
Overview

This collection includes correspondence, research, and criticism done by paleontologist and geologist Robert W. Wilson while at the University of Kansas' Museum of Natural History and the South Dakota School of Mines and Geology's Geology Museum, among other work places. The collection also includes some compiled scrapbooks celebrating Wilson's career and some photographs of colleagues.

Dates: 1929 - 2003

Personal papers of Roger Barker

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Call Number: PP 367
Overview Roger G. Barker's papers include autobiography drafts and biographical information, as well as professional correspondence dating from the 1980s. Also in the collection are lecture notes and research materials regarding educational psychology, children and adolescents, and ecological and somatopsychology, dating from the 1930s-1960s. Much of this dates from when he was a professor at the University of Kansas, conducting research through the Midwest Psychological Field Station he had...
Dates: 1939-1966; 1980s

Personal papers of Roger L. Kaesler

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Call Number: PP 594
Overview

This collection of personal papers largely consists of correspondence covering the education and teaching career of Roger L. Kaesler, a University of Kansas Geology instructor and paleontologist specializing in Ostracoda, small fossilized crustaceans.

Dates: 1961 - 2003

Personal papers of Roger Martin

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Call Number: PP 588
Overview

This collection includes correspondence, commentaries, articles, project ideas, courses, and seminars on writing from Roger Martin's career with the University of Kansas, mostly during 1980-2005. The collection also includes some compact discs and audio cassette tapes of radio programs Martin wrote and hosted on the University of Kansas radio station KANU.

Dates: 1980-2015 (bulk 1983-2005)

Personal papers of Rosa Whitman

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: PP 147
Overview

Rosa Whitman was student at the University of Kansas during the 1870s. This collection consists of a 1878 letter from Rosa to her mother.

Dates: 1878

Personal Papers of Rose Ruth Morgan and Family

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Call Number: PP 567
Overview

This collection contains incoming and outgoing correspondence from 1816-1951, mostly in connection with Rose Ruth Morgan, her mother Eliza K. Morgan, father Walter F. Morgan, and aunt Charline P. Morgan. The collection also contains poems, photos, books, receipts, and other miscellaneous paper items.

Dates: 1816 - 1951

Personal papers of Ross E. McKinney

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: PP 580
Overview This collection contains a typed manuscript version of Ross McKinney's book, Microbiology for Sanitary Engineers, divided into four folders. He wrote this book for the purpose of teaching future sanitary engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.). The book calls for an increased knowledge on the part of sanitary engineers about the biochemical reactions brought on by microorganisms. McKinney believed this knowledge could help enable...
Dates: 1962

Personal papers of Roy D. Laird

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Call Number: PP 507
Overview

This collection includes a copy of the book To Live Long Enough about Soviet agriculturalist Naum Jansy written by Betty and Roy Laird. It also includes related correspondence, notes, and book reviews.

Dates: 1950 - 1987

Personal papers of Roy E. Gridley

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: PP 283
Overview

Gridely taught English at the University of Kansas from 1964-1997. This collection consists of a manuscript entitled, "The Brownings and France: A Chronicle and Commentary," with the original French quotations. The volume was eventually published in 1982.

Dates: [between 1964 and 1982]

Personal papers of Rud Turnbull

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Call Number: PP 511
Overview

This collection includes many of Rud and Ann Turnbull's publications, presentations, research notes, grant applications, and related materials regarding Rud and Ann's research and teaching on intellectual developmental disabilities. The collection also includes personal files on their son, Jay Turnbull (JT), who was diagnosed with many disabilities.

Dates: 1967 - 2020

Personal Papers of Russell B. Mesler

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Call Number: PP 582
Overview

This collection contains research notes and office correspondence for the late Russell Bernard Mesler, Professor Emeritus in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Kansas. Mesler also worked as a consultant for the Spencer Chemical Company and other entities. The bulk of the collection dates from his years of employment with KU, 1957-1992, though his student years at KU and the University of Michigan are also represented.

Dates: 1949 - 1992

Personal papers of Russell L. Wiley

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Call Number: PP 347
Overview

Russell L. Wiley taught in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Kansas from 1934-1974. This collection contains correspondence, biographical information, information about the Midwestern Music Camp, and materials relating to the running of the KU Band, including 3 large scrapbooks and 3 vinyl EP recordings of the band and orchestra. Boxes 1-4 each include a typed list of files that they contain.

Dates: 1930-1974, 2017

Personal papers of Rusty Leffel

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Call Number: PP 498
Overview

This collection contains student government documents from 1967-1969, records related to the Phantom Five organization from 1970-1971, newspaper clippings, campaign documents and materials from Leffel's unsuccessful 1984 political campaign, scrapbooks, t-shirts, and audio tapes from Rusty Leffel, a former University of Kansas student.

Dates: 1967 - 1984

Personal Papers of Ruth A. Wilson

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: PP 311
Overview

Wilson studied at the University of Kansas during the 1930s. This collection consists of scrapbooks on concerts and clippings during the 1930s.

Dates: 1931 - 1941

Personal papers of Ruth McNair

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Call Number: PP 663
Overview

The personal papers of Ruth McNair contain photographs of McNair; her 1964 retirement certificate from the University of Kansas, where she was an associate professor of biological science; her obituary and memorial program; and a 1922 article written by her husband, K.U. zoologist George T. McNair.

Dates: 1922 - 1986

Personal Papers of Sallie C. Thayer

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Call Number: PP 209
Overview

This collection consists of correspondence, including letters from noted artists and family, and biographical information about Thayer.

Dates: 1910 - 1984

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