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Peterson family reminiscences

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P473
Overview

Typewritten copies of speeches given by members of the Peterson family concerning life in the 1870s in Brantford (Washington County), Kansas, a Swedish community in the north central region of the state.

Dates: June 24, 1919, November 2, 1941

Petition for charter for the city of Lawrence, Kansas

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH VLT MS E5
Overview

Petition for [charter for] the city of Lawrence, February 12th, 1857, to the Legislative assembly for the territory of Kansas ... Lawrence, Kansas.

Dates: February 12th, 1857

Petition for the establishment of a new territorial government to be called Dakota

 Collection — item: 1-2
Call Number: RH VLT Misc. 1
Overview

A memorial, "To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States", by the citizens of the Territory of Iowa, north of the 42nd parallel calling for the establishment of a new territorial government to be called Dakota, ca. May, 1846.

Dates: approximately May, 1846

Petition to Kansas State Legistlature regarding constructing a dam on the Kansas River

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P85
Overview

Petition to "the Honorable Members of the Legislature of the State of Kansas", Lawrence, February 15, 1869. Signed by "citizens and property holders of Douglas County, Kansas". Petition for an act of the legislature to allow the Douglas County Commissioners to build a dam across the Kansas River at Lawrence.

Dates: February 15, 1869

Ph.D. thesis Charles Sumner Gleed: a Western Business Leader, 1856-1920

 Collection — Volume: 1 - 2
Call Number: RH MS D101
Overview

This thesis is a biography of Charles Sumner Gleed, particularly the last two decades of his life, and his diverse business activities.

Dates: 1973

Ph.D. thesis The Quest for Equilibrium in an Established Sect; a Study of Social Change in the General Conference Mennonite Church

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS D93
Overview

Bound Ph.D. thesis written by Leland David Harder: The Quest for Equilibrium in an Established Sect; a study of social change in the General Conference Mennonite Church, written in 1962 in Evanston, Illinois for Northwestern University.

Dates: 1962

Phebe Atkins letter

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P3
Overview

Letter to "Dear friends," probably Mr. and Mrs. E. Lakin Brown of Schoolcraft, Michigan.

Dates: January 3, 1861

Philip James Bailey correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: MS 204
Overview Collection of letters written to poet Philip James Bailey (1816-1902) largely by important or minor figures in the literary world: authors (professional and amateur), journalists, editors of periodicals, publishers, dramatists, artists, patrons. Some letters include poems and sketches as parts of letters; there are also 5 copied quotations in the collection. The collection includes some letters from politicians, landowners, philosophers, geologists, members of the Scottish universities; some...
Dates: 1833-1898 (bulk 1840-1869)

Philip Olmstead Company business papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 956
Overview

P.D. Olmstead owned and operated a contracting business in Lawrence, Kansas from 1925-1968. He built several buildings on the University of Kansas campus. This collection encompasses his business records, predominantly client and vendor account files filed by individual or business name, as well as architectural drawings and plans related building projects and personal family photographs.

Dates: 1890-1975 (bulk 1920s-1966)

Philippine-American War diary by a U.S. officer

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS C93
Overview

This collection consists of a single diary with a handful of entries for the spring of 1900, cataloging the movements of the 20th Kansas Volunteer Infantry Division during the Philippine-American War. The collection also includes one photograph of some men from the division.

Dates: March 25-April 6, 1900

"Philippine Views" albums, world map, newspaper clippings, etc.

 Collection
Call Number: MS 314
Overview

The bulk of this collection consists of 427 photographic "Philippine Views" in the form of sepia prints mounted in two albums and listed in an accompanying booklet by the publisher, the Photo Supply Company of Manila.

Dates: 1912 - 1914

Philomethian Society treasurer's book

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH VLT MS B4 Philomethian
Overview

Includes entries from 1873-76 for the Literary Society of Lane University and for the Archimedian Society, 1865.

Dates: 1865 - 1876

Philosophia seu cursus philosophicus: logica

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS B47
Overview

This collection consists of a Book: textbook on logic.

Dates: 1757 - 1758

Philosophie morale

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS A27
Overview

French manuscript composed between 1643 and 1661 on moral pPhilosophy

Dates: 1643 - 1661

Photocopy of Experiences of My Youth and Later Life

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P464
Overview

This item is a photocopy titled Experiences of My Youth and Later Life which is Heinrich Ratzlaff's reminiscence's of his family's immigration from Russia to near Fairbury, Nebraska. The paper describes travel conditions by way of Canada; and in Nebraska, the environment, crop prices, and living conditions. The Ratzlaff family were Russian Mennonites.

Dates: 1941

Photocopy of Federal Trade Commission report regarding Power and Gas investigation

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P383
Overview Photocopy of a Power and Gas Investigation report concerning Dr. John R. Brinkley's attempt to establish a telephone line from Milford, Kan. across the Mexican border so he could continue radio broadcasting. The report, by A.M. McDermott, contains a photocopy of a sample contract between Brinkley and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company for construction of the line.Original report located in the records of the Federal Trade Commission (RG122. Power and Gas Investigation....
Dates: 1934

Photograph album of the funeral of Bernardo Soto Alfaro

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS K35
Overview

An album of photographs documenting the funeral of former Costa Rican President Bernardo Soto Alfaro, which took place on January 31, 1931 at the Catedral Metropolitana in San José. The album originates from the Manuel Gómez Miralles Studio in San José, Costa Rica.

Dates: January 31, 1931

Photograph collection of Lawrence, Kansas residents

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 87
Overview

Portraits of citizens of Lawrence, Kansas during the time of Quantrill's raid.

Dates: 1860 - 1870

Photograph of citizens from Lawrence Kansas

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P2792
Overview

An 8x10 photograph of a group of Lawrence, Kansas citizens from 1970. Includes: Dick Stanwix, Ethan Smith, Wayne Bly, Dennis Kallsen, Ron Short, Fritz Sanders, Vernell Sturns, John Postelwaite, Mitt Allen, Gilbert Smith, Linda Trotter, Vera Mercer, Mary Jo Lee, and George Williams.

Dates: 1970

Photograph of President Warren G. Harding in Kansas

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P557
Overview

Photograph of U.S. President Warren G. Harding at a wheat farm, located 1.5 miles west of Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas. He worked in the wheat field for about an hour. The grain he harvested was presented to President Calvin Coolidge in 1925 by Vada Watson, the "Kansas Wheat Girl." Coolidge completed Harding's term as president after Harding's death in 1923.

Dates: 1923

Photographic Collection of Portraits, Landscapes, Buildings and Structures, Interiors, etc.

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 11
Overview The locations and individuals in many of the black and white photographic prints in this collection have not been indentified. The unidentified photographs are grouped under the following headings: buildings and structures, landscapes, portraits, exteriors, and interiors. Most of the landscapes are of a mountainous area. The portraits include pictures of individuals and groups of all ages, taken both indoors and outdoors, in both posed and candid shots. Most of the buildings and structures...
Dates: approximately 1910-1950

Photographs from Central Kansas

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 179
Overview

This collection contains photographs of mostly unidentified groups and individuals taken in or near Kanona, Newton, and Belle Plaine Kansas.

Dates: approximately 1890 - 1906

Photographs from the Indian Territory

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 7
Overview This collection contains black and white photographic print portraits of Native Americans and views of building exteriors in several Native American agency areas, including the Sac and Fox agency. Most of the individuals and buildings were located in Indian Territory (I.T.), later the state of Oklahoma. Terms and language used on the photographs to identify the images is representative of when the images were created and has not been replicated in this finding aid, unless directly quoting...
Dates: approximately 1878-1927

Photographs of African Americans from Ottawa, Kansas

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 70
Overview

Collection of tintypes, cabinet cards, memorial cards, and other mounted photographs of African Americans from Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas. Many photographs are unidentified or tentatively identified, and very few are dated, but they probably all date from the last half of the 19th century. Photographers are noted in the finding aid when known.

Dates: approximately 1870s-1900

Photographs of Flo Menninger

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P28
Overview

Three photographs of Flora Knisely Menninger (1863-1945), creator of the Menninger Bible Study course, sometimes with other teachers from Campbell University in Holton, Kansas. Also in the collection is a photocopied news article about Campbell College, later Campbell University.

Dates: 1886-1888, undated

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University of Kansas 78
Quantrill, William Clarke, 1837-1865 21
White, William Allen, 1868-1944 21
United States. Army 20
Brown, John, 1800-1859 14
Between the Covers Rare Books 13
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 13
Republican Party (Kan.) 13
Armitage, Katie 12
Lane, James Henry (James Henry), 1814-1866 12
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 12
University of Kansas. Libraries 12
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 11
Haskell Institute 10
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 10
Reid, Albert Turner, 1873-1955 10
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 9
Sumner High School (Kansas City, Kan.) 9
University of Kansas. Department of English 9
University of Kansas. Museum of Natural History 9
University of Kansas. School of Engineering 9
Wilcox, Laird M. 9
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
African Methodist Episcopal Church 6
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 6
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 6
Douglass Hospital (Kansas City, Kan.) 6
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 6
Kansas. Supreme Court 6
Kenneth Spencer Research Library 6
Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987 6
Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission 6
Otto, David Arthur, 1934- 6
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
Kansas. Militia 5
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