A publication of the Lawrence Preservation Alliance's Hobbs Park Memorial Fund (Lawrence, Kansas) enlisting support for preserving and relocating to Hobbs Park the city's historic Murphy-Bromelsick house. Content describes the life of early editor and publisher John Speer, whose homesite is near the proposed Hobbs Park location.

This collection includes minutes, notes, and correspondence from the Puerto Rican American Women's League, dating from the late 1970s and early 1980s. The League was based in Washington, D.C.

This anthology, containing Braj Hindi translations of portions of the Sanskrit Mahabharata by Krisan Lal and of the Sanskrit Jaiminibharata by Tahkan Chopra, was copied and illustrated in Punjab, circa 1820-1840. The manuscript is most likely the second volume of a complete two-volume copy of Krisan Lal's translation of the Mahabharata.

Booklet of Quaker testimonies concerning Mary Griffin (1710-1810) of Connecticut and New York. Written in Ireland, after 1836.

Research photocopies and text related to William C. Quantrill's destruction of Brooklyn, Kansas, after leaving Lawrence on August 21, 1863. There is also information regarding Mitchell family survivors of the raid and their descendants.

This is the reminiscence of R.H. Miller about Quantrill's raid, involving his house at 1101 E. 19th Street in Lawrence, Kansas. It was written by William Miller in 1913.

Six photocopied sheets stapled together explaining a community event held near the sesquicentennial of Quantrill's Raid of 1863: a flashlight tour of the Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence, Kansas with re-enactors in select roles. The cemetery was established in 1865 to commemorate those individuals lost in the raid.

Quentin James Eklund operated his photography studio beginning in 1940 in Ellsworth, Kansas. This collection consists of negatives and photographs of the local scenes and peoples of Ellsworth, as well as images of landscapes from greater Kansas.

Sarah Richardson founded the Quivira Club in 1895 in Lawrence, Kansas with an aim for mutual improvement and study. This collection consists of meeting minutes, reports and records, photographs, copies of written presentations given at the club, and newspaper clippings relating to the women's club.

R.E. "Tuck" Duncan was a member of the Unified School District (USD) 501 School Board (Topeka, Kansas) from 1985-1989. This collection consists of records reflecting his activity on the Board. Papers from Duncan's time as the chair of the Topeka, Kansas Housing Authority in the 1990s-2000s can also be found in the collection.

A letter, dated 31 October 1832, from R. P. Beauchamp, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to his son, John Arthur Beauchamp in St. Louis, Missouri. Besides sharing family news, R. P. Beauchamp urges his son to take special care because of the cholera epidemic developing in St. Louis.

Fair copy of a collection of short biographies and historical texts. From the main title-page: "Raccolta d'istorie della nobile, e real famiglia de Medici the regnarono in Toscana. Tutte manoscritte. Divise in tre toms, con altro tomo contenente otto fatti tragici seguiti in tempo di governo."

The Rachel Crown papers contain photocopied genealogical charts, family group lists, and photographs of Rachel Crown's Armistead family and Crown family ancestors, who were among the early settlers of Smith County, Kansas. Included also are several photocopies of Rachel Crown's writings, as well as a letter written to her from William Allen White in 1937.

This 93-page report to the United States Commission on Civil Rights by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith describes the activities of racist organizations within the United States, focusing primarily on activities of the Ku Klux Klan from 1978 to 1981. With the report, which is stamped "draft" and "confidential," are copies of correspondence, notes, and memoranda between the Commission and the Anti-Defamation League, obtained from the Commission by Laird Wilcox in 1983.

Radioactive Free Kansas, later known as Sunflower Alliance, was a conservation group against the use of nuclear energy and weapons. This collection includes correspondence, newspaper articles, and literature distributed by the organization.

This collection consists of five railroad passes issued to various passengers for travel with railway companies mostly centered in central parts of the United States, including the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company; Kansas City Southern Railway Company; Union Pacific System; Kansas City, Kaw Valley, and Western Railroad Company; Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company and Wichita Valley Railway Company.

Palm-leaf manuscript created sometime in the 1600s possibly in or near Tirupati, now part of southern India, containing a 13th century Telugu translation written by Bhaskara of the first five books of the Ramayana.

Ray Morgan, a Kansas native, was a professional journalist in Topeka, Kansas. He was also active in professional organizations and the Topeka community. This collection includes subject files Morgan compiled regarding Kansas towns and state institutions, political events and personalities, and crime, criminals and social issues. Also included are scrapbooks of collected material regarding the Topeka tornado of 1966 and the flood of 1951, as well as scrapbooks of personal material.

Stephen Douglas Bonney (Doug Bonney), a career labor lawyer, conducted oral history interviews of University of Kansas School of Law faculty, alumni and former colleagues of KU Law School professor and labor arbitrator Raymond Goetz. He conducted these interviews over the Zoom virtual conferencing application during the early months of 2022, and this collection consists of audio and video recordings of those meetings, as well as textual materials related to the interviewees.

The Raymond family papers contain personal papers of Joseph Murray and Hila (Bennitt) Raymond, as well as two generations of their descendants, including six diaries kept by Jospeh Murray Raymond concerning his Civil War service and materials related to Robert Scott Raymond, Jr.'s account of his service with the Royal Air Force during World War II.

The collection contains a photocopy of a typed transcription of Ms. Balster's oral account of the events leading up to the battle at Sand Creek and the subsequent investigations by the government. Included are photocopies of pictures of Bent's Fort, William Bent, a "100 Day Volunteer" recruiting poster, Col. John M. Chivington, an oil painting, "The Battle of Sand Creek," by Robert Lindneux, a Cheyenne brave and a map of The Plains, 1850-1860.

This letter, dated December 27, 1924, is from the Rea-Patterson Milling Company at Coffeyville, Kansas, a large flour milling company in Southern Kansas, established in 1894. The letter, written on the milling company's distinctive letterhead, confirms the company's purchase of fifty sacks of cotton seed meal for Phillips & Pinkerton of Bartlesville, Oklahoma.