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Personal papers of William C. McNown

 Collection
Call Number: PP 5
Overview

William C. McNown was a professor of civil and highway engineering at the University of Kansas from 1913 to 1950. He was a Learned distinguished professor of engineering. His papers include correspondence, course papers, and research into soil-cement blocks and cement.

Dates: 1913 - 1951

Personal papers of William C. Stevens

 Collection
Call Number: PP 95
Overview

William C. Stevens was associated with the University of Kansas and its Department of Botany for most of his career. His papers include correspondence, notes, essays, papers, booklets, book reviews, newspaper clippings, newsletters, magazines, photographs, poetry, artwork, anniversary/birthday pamphlets, maps, and a 50-year anniversary pin.

Dates: 1889 - 1955

Personal papers of William Cape

 Collection
Call Number: PP 127
Overview

Cape taught Political Science at the University of Kansas from 1949-1952, 1957-1958, and 1961-1973. This collection contains correspondence, subject files, and articles.

Dates: 1949 - 1973

Personal papers of William D. Paden

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: PP 169
Overview

William Doremus Paden received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in 1921, 1925, and 1935 from Yale University. He taught English at the University of Kansas from 1935-1973, receiving full professor status in 1951. This collection consists of congratulatory letters about his retirement in 1973.

Dates: 1935 - 1973

Personal Papers of William E. Hoffmann

 Collection
Call Number: PP 336
Overview This collection consists of scrapbooks and photograph albums, personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, published items, maps, research, and other related materials regarding William Hoffmann's involvement with Lingnan University and his and his wife's time and experiences in China. Topics include university administration, China under the Revolution and at war with Japan, Chinese flora and insect life, life in Japanese internment camps during World War II, family life, etc. ...
Dates: 1910 - 1949

Personal papers of William Fogle

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: PP 67
Overview

This collection consists of correspondence from 1889-1894.

Dates: 1889 - 1894

Personal Papers of William H. Brown

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: PP 425
Overview Brown graduated from the University of Kansas in 1888. He married Martha Snow, daughter of KU chancellor Francis Snow and they spent many years living in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. This collection consists of a photograph album from Rhodesia, a notebook, clippings about Brown and Snow, a scrapbook of Rhodesia containing photographs and articles written by Snow, and correspondence from family and friends including Chancellors Snow and Joshua A. Lippincott, and scientists Lewis L. Dyche and...
Dates: 1880 - 1971

Personal papers of William H. Carruth

 Collection
Call Number: PP 60
Overview

Carruth taught German and English at the University of Kansas from 1879-1913. This collection contains research materials, correspondence, photographs, and an unfinished manuscript entitled The German Novel.

Dates: 1879 - 1913

Personal papers of William J. Baumgartner

 Collection
Call Number: PP 219
Overview

This collection consists of field notes and glass plates from the papers of University of Kansas zoology professor William Jacob Baumgartner. Glass plate negatives involve subjects of science, steel production and mining, penal institutions, pharmacy, and botany. Entomology field survey notes are from several different staff and faculty at the University of Kansas and its Museum of Natural History, including R.H. Beamer.

Dates: 1946 - 1954

Personal Papers of William J. Griffith

 Collection
Call Number: PP 422
Overview Dr. Griffith joined the faculty at the University of Kansas as the Director of the Center of Latin American Studies from 1970 to 1975 and retired in 1977. Throughout his career and travels, Dr. Griffith collected publications and primary research material regarding Central America with a particular focus on Guatemala. Griffith died in 2003. The William J. Griffith Personal Papers Collection contains correspondence from 1950-1995, research notes and notecards, class notes and lectures,...
Dates: 1939 - 2002

Personal papers of William M. Tuttle, Jr.

 Collection
Call Number: PP 478
Overview

William Tuttle taught in the Department of History at the University of Kansas from 1967 until retirement from the Department of American Studies in 2008. This collection consists of correspondence, notes, research, essays, fellowship materials, oral histories, and a research grant application, as well as travel and employment documents related to Tuttle's career and research interests.

Dates: 1962 - 2020

Personal papers of William Max Lucas

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Call Number: PP 396
Overview

This collection contains assorted papers of architect and Kansas University professor William Max Lucas. It includes personal and Kansas University correspondence; architecture class outlines, notes, syllabi, tests and their keys, hand typed/written by Lucas; and project proposals, research done for said projects, and related papers.

Dates: 1962 - 1997

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

Personal Papers of William S. Johnson

 Collection
Call Number: PP 74
Overview

Johnson taught English Literature at the University of Kansas from 1908-1942. This collection contains correspondence, notes, diaries, and a manuscript.

Dates: 1908 - 1942

Personal papers of William S. Smith

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: PP 323
Overview

William Smith attended the University of Kansas from 1889-1892. This collection consists of photographs, a Structural Botany notebook, and a scrapbook.

Dates: 1889 - 1892

Personal papers of William Staples

 Collection
Call Number: PP 638
Overview

The William Staples collection contains correspondence regarding Staples' employment at the University of Kansas, correspondence and publication agreements with Polity Press, and various records tied to his work as a professor at the University of Kansas.

Dates: April 7, 1980 - September 7, 2019

Personal Papers of Wilmer A. Linkugel

 Collection
Call Number: PP 549
Overview

Wilmer Linkugel taught Speech and Communications at the University of Kansas from 1956-1999. This collection includes his correspondence, both professional ("divisional") and personal, for most of his years at KU.

Dates: 1958 - 1995

Personal papers of Wilt Chamberlain

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Call Number: PP 499
Overview

This collection of basketball player Wilton "Wilt" Chamberlain materials includes letters from fans, University of Kansas alumni, and coaches. The collection also includes newspaper clippings and cartoons regarding Wilt Chamberlain's performance as a college basketball player.

Dates: 1955 - 1999

Personal papers of Winnie D. Lowrance

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: PP 163
Overview

Winnie Lowrance received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Southwestern University in 1909 and 1911 before receiving her doctorate from the University of California in 1929. She taught Latin at the University of Kansas from 1929-1960. This collection consists of a 1966 letter from Anna W. Murray.

Dates: 1966

Personal papers William W. Hambleton

 Collection
Call Number: PP 550
Overview

William Hambleton was a distinguished geologist in the state of Kansas, both with the Kansas Geological Survey and as a professor at the University of Kansas. The collection includes Hambleton's vita, articles written in appreciation of Hambleton, Kansas Geological Survey documents and publications, and the many awards presented to Hambleton in the form of certificates and plaques.

Dates: 1953 - 2010

Perthshire Memoranda

 Collection
Call Number: MS A47
Overview

This collection consists of a printed almanac for Scotland from the year 1766, with handwritten notes about estate business (Castle Meggernie?) and visits in Perthshire, Scotland, by an unknown author.

Dates: 1766

Peter Argersinger papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1502
Overview

This collection contains photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence and essays by historian Peter Argersinger, whose research interests have included the Populist movement, rural and agricultural history, and institutions surrounding U.S. politics and elections. It also contains correspondence and minutes from SHGAPE (Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era), of which Argersinger was a founding member and president from 2006-2008.

Dates: 1965 - 2018

Peter K. Curran letter

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P207
Overview

Letter to J. W. Newsom dated Lawrence, Kan., December 20, 1971. Letter concerns a proposed housing development adjoining the Country Club. Enclosure is an outline of objections to the development by residents of the neighborhood.

Dates: December 20, 1971

Peter Pindar papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 128
Overview

Literary drafts of Peter Pindar, the nom-de-plume of satirist and poet John Wolcot (1738-1819). The collection consists of rough drafts of poems on scraps of paper, mostly amorous-pastoral poems, as well as some excerpts from plays, songs without music, a patriotic ballad, and a satire.

Dates: 1786 - 1811

Peter Stansky's William Inge collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1249
Overview

This collection of William Inge's papers contains the manuscripts for his later plays and novels written in the late 1960's and early 1970's prior to his death in 1973.

Dates: 1968 - 1972

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 13
Republican Party (Kan.) 13
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Lane, James Henry (James Henry), 1814-1866 12
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University of Kansas. Libraries 12
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Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 10
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Sumner High School (Kansas City, Kan.) 9
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University of Kansas. Museum of Natural History 9
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Connelley, William Elsey, 1855-1930 8
Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900 8
O'Hegarty, P. S. (Patrick Sarsfield), 1879-1955 8
Ellis, Ralph N. (Ralph Nicholson), 1908-1945 7
Inge, William 7
Lawrence, Amos Adams, 1814-1886 7
Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894 7
Wood, Frank 7
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Douglass Hospital (Kansas City, Kan.) 6
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Kansas. Supreme Court 6
Kenneth Spencer Research Library 6
Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987 6
Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission 6
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Pennell, Joseph Judd, 1866-1922 6
Sturgeon, Theodore 6
Trinity Episcopal Church (Lawrence, Kan.) 6
University of Kansas. Department of History 6
University of Kansas. Libraries. University Archives 6
University of Kansas. School of Architecture and Urban Design 6
University of Kansas. School of Fine Arts 6
University of Kansas. School of Law 6
White, William Lindsay, 1900-1973 6
Bowersock, Justin DeWitt, 1842-1922 5
Clark family 5
Docking, Robert Blackwell, 1925-1983 5
Douglas County Historical Society (Douglas County, Kan.) 5
Eigner , Larry, 1927-1996 5
Freemasons. Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Kansas 5
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 5
Haskell Indian Junior College 5
Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art 5
Johnson, Ronald, 1935-1998 5
Kansas Association of Colored Women and Girls’ Clubs 5
Kansas Committee for the Humanities 5
Kansas. Legislature 5
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Katzman, David M. 5
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
Populist Party (Kan.) 5
Robinson, Sara T. L. (Sara Tappan Lawrence), 1827-1911 5
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
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity 4
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
Coan, Clark 4
Democratic Party (Kan.) 4
Domer, Dennis, 1944- 4
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 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
Grauerholz, James 4
Guttridge, G. H. (George Herbert), 1898- 4
Hoad, William C. (William Christian), 1874- 4
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 4