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Potawatomi Medicine
This volume is a Xerox copy of the original manuscript Potawatomi Medicine, with corrections. The research was sponsored by a grant of the Anthropology Department, Columbia University (1935-36) and a grant-in-aid from the National Social Science Research Council, 1957.
Powrie V. Doctor papers
Map of the Scotch Plains settlement in Republic County, Kansas, family tree showing the descendents of A. C. Doctor, and an obituary (photocopy) of Powrie Doctor's father, Alexander Chalmers Doctor.
[Poyer's journal of travels on the European continent]
Prairie National Park Natural History Association papers
The Prairie National Park Natural History Association was one of the organizations that helped to create the Tallgrass Prairie National Park. The collection contains correspondence, convention and conference materials, newspaper clippings and newsletters.
Prairie Print Makers collection
Correspondence and related materials, mostly from H. Alfred Fowler of Kansas City, Mo. to J.J. Lankes, artist. Collection also includes some records and materials related to the Prairie Print Makers.
Pratt County Medical Society records
This collection includes volumes and loose papers documenting some of the history of the Pratt County Medical Society of Pratt County, Kansas.
Pre-emptions in Douglas County, Kansas
A record of land claims made in Douglas County, Kansas, prior to May 1854 when the county was removed from Shawnee Native American territory and opened for settlement by Anglo-Americans. The record is arranged by township/range and includes an appended index to the names.
Precedents of Scotland's Court of Session
Book: legal. Brief legal precedents established in decisions from 1622 to 1639, and in a few later ones. Arranged alphabetically by subject.
"Preliminary Report on the Geology and Oil Potential of the Snyder Lease, Linn County, Kansas"
Preliminary sketch of "Le tarsier podje"
This collection contains a single preliminary sketch, labelled “Le tarsier podje [tarsie Duett?] vol 13 des Iles moluques,” done by Jean Baptiste Audebert for his book Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis (1800). The final illustration appears in the book identified as “Le Tarsier / Tarsius Daubentonii.” This sketch was executed largely in watercolor with some body color and ink details.
President Obama's Kansas Heritage Oral History Project
This collection contains interviews, video clips, and a digital set of transcripts, all on DVD, from oral history interviews conducted with former U.S. President Barack Obama family members and individuals who knew Obama's maternal grandparents and other relatives residing in the El Dorado, Kansas area. Also in the collection are paper copies of the transcripts, backstory, and finding aid to the collection.
Pride Week of Lawrence, KS collection
A signed photograph of gay actor Jason Stuart and a mayoral proclamation declaring Pride Week in Lawrence, Kansas in April 2002, as sponsored by the LesBiGayTrans Services of Kansas, which was originally founded in 1969 as the Gay Liberation Front at the University of Kansas.
Priestly family papers
William Priestly and his wife, Ellen, settled in Lawrence, Kansas area in the early 1870s; together they had nine children. This collection contains family correspondence from 1890-1920, and some personal records, including Civil War quartermaster reports filed by William Priestly.
Prince Hall Masonic Body photograph
The photograph is an image of the Topeka Prince Hall Masonic Body in front of Washington School.
Princeton, Kansas schoolhouse photograph
Includes a reproduction of an original photograph of the second schoolhouse built in Princeton, Kansas from 1878. Princeton was established in 1869 with the introduction of the railroad to Franklin County, Kansas.
Priscilla Knighten Correspondence
Correspondence, May, 1875-Oct., 1875, with James Lorain.
"Private John Rex Kay letters home, 1943-1945; the conclusion of World War II in Europe," collected and transcribed by Mary Fort Hamill and Nancy Fort Dahl
Proceedings of the Committee in the Province of the Leinster for redressing the Distresses of the Poor
Proceedings of the Committee in the Provice of Leinster for redressing the Distresses of the Poor, from the Leinster Province Meeting of the Society of Friends. Notebook on plans to improve wages, rents, food, education, with recipes using potatoes and maize and with diagrams of recommended chimneys and fireplaces.
Progressive Reading Club records
This collection consists of the records of the Progressive Reading Club of Lawrence, Kansas from its founding in 1911 until 1992. Included in this collection are the minutes of each of the Club's monthly meetings, its annual programs, receipts for donations made by the Club, and other items relating to the members or interests of the Club (obituaries and other newspaper clippings, etc.).
"Promotion of National Park Site, Fort Scott [Kansas]" manuscript
Manuscript and photographs from work promoting Fort Scott, Kansas by Harry W. Fisher, written approximately 1958.
Proposed zoning ordinance of the City of Lawrence, Kansas
This undated "Proposed zoning ordinance of the City of Lawrence, Kansas" is a copy of a 38-page typescript prepared by the Lawrence Board of Commissioners. The proposal recommends use districts to be designated within the city, as well as regulations to be imposed for each district.
Proven ancestry of John Edwin Darby and Charlotte Amelia Bremerman
Proven ancestory of John Edwin Darby and Charlotte Amelia Bremerman. A supplement to John Edwin Darby, his descendants, and known ancestors. Manhattan, Kansas, 1967.
Public auction announcements (Northeast Kansas)
This collection contains posters advertising public auctions in Lawrence, Kansas, as well as other towns in Douglas County (Baldwin, Eudora), and northeast Kansas including DeSoto, Tonganoxie, and Wellsville. The auctioneer or co-auctioneer for all of these auctions was George Criss.
Public Works Plans for Douglas County, Kansas
A June 1935 report of public works plans for Douglas County, Kansas, prepared by a subcommittee of the Lawrence, Kansas Chamber of Commerce at the request of the Kansas State Planning Board. The report also describes progress toward objectives set forth in the 1930 report titled "A City Plan for Lawrence, Kansas," prepared by the firm of Hare and Hare.
Publication about Coronation of George IV in London and items relating to Moravian Church, Germany and England.
A book used primarily as a scrapbook for items relating to Moravian synods of 1856-1859.