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Samuel Walker correspondence
This collection consists of a photocopy of a single letter from Samuel Walker to his mother, dated August 20, 1856. The letter includes details about Walker's involvement in and injuries sustained at the Battle of Fort Titus on August 16, 1856.
Sanford Tousey literary archive
Sarah Augusta Shoner papers
Poem, "My New Trees", written in 1971, and a Kansas Wild Flowers Contest entry from 1978. The contest entry consists of three essays written in 1959, a list of the families, genera, and species of the wild flowers mentioned in the essays, and drawings of wild flowers.
Sarah Goss Clark papers
The Sarah Goss Clark papers include diaries, notebooks, and family correspondence, including correspondence with her brother, Nathaniel Goss, an ornithologist who became one of the first settlers of Neosho Falls, Kansas, in 1857.
Sarah Lakin Cooper photograph
Includes a photograph of Sarah Lakin Cooper, great-aunt of the donor, and another unidentified woman, circa 1890-1900. Photographed by A. Coates in Benton, Michigan; the inscription on the back of the photograph indicates the family lived in Morganville, Clay County, Kansas, and the donor notes that her grandfather, Erasmus Farley, was related to Cooper and served in the 5th Kansas Cavalry during the Civil War.
Saturday Club records
The Saturday Club, a women's literary organization, was founded in 1881 in Leavenworth (Leavenworth County), Kansas. This collection of their records contains bound volumes of the club minutes.
Sauer's Gouldiana Research about John Gould and other papers
Savage-Alford families photograph collection
This collection contains photographs of the Savage and Alford families of Lawrence, Kansas, as well as photographs of individuals from the Gilett, Cady, and Hauscomb families. Many of the images are portraits taken at Lawrence-based studios, but there are also more informal shots and images of the Savage family home in Douglas County. Most of the photographs are undated.
Save Our Invaluable Land records
Save Our Invaluable Land (SOIL), originally known as Citizens for Realistic Water Resource Management, at Hillsdale, Kansas, was incorporated in 1974. The organization filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to stop the building of the dam in the Hillsdale (Miami County), Kansas area. This collection includes the group's legal records.
Save Our Neighborhood Schools (SONS) records
Save Our Neighborhood Schools (SONS) was an organization in Lawrence, Kansas created to fight against the proposed closures of elementary schools in Unified School District (USD) 497. The collection includes art, flyers, press releases, newspaper articles, and photographs related to efforts by parents and other community members to save the schools, dating primarily from 2009-2010.
Save the Tallgrass Prairie records
Schubert, Funk, Cooper-Warren Mortuaries records
This collection is made up of funeral records from the Schubert Mortuary and the Funk Mortuary, which eventually combined with the Cooper-Warren Mortuary in Eudora and Lawrence, Kansas. It also includes an abstract of the C.W. Smith Mortuary records from 1890 to 1907.
Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) records
This collection includes materials and records created by the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA), a professional organization interested in the scholarly study of science fiction and speculative fiction. These materials cover meeting records, membership information, treasurer’s reports and records, correspondence, information regarding various conferences the SFRA was involved with, and audiovisual materials.
Scrapbook concerning the assumption of Presidency of Paraguay by Andrés Rodríguez
Scrapbook, with additional loosely inserted materials, concerning the assumption of the Paraguayan presidency by Andrés Rodríguez in 1989, replacing longtime President Alfredo Stroessner. Consists of newspapers from Asunción, Paraguay; Brazil; and eleven periodical photocopies from the United States of America.
Scrapbook of Kansas news items
Margaret Thompson Henderson was born in Parsons, Kansas and graduated from the University of Kansas at Lawrence in 1905. Her 91-page scrapbook of news clippings from the early 1900s chronicles notable people, places and events in the history of Kansas, the Lawrence community, and the University of Kansas. Included are published poems, biographies, and obituaries of famous Kansans.
Scrapbook of letters and other materials relating to the Crimean War service (Royal Navy) of Surgeon Hugh O'Hagan and Captain Hyde Parker
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings in the series, "Trials of Our Pioneers" published in the Jeffersonian Gazette
Story of the early settlement of Douglas County, with anecdotes from the settlers of that period. Compiled by the Jeffersonian Gazette, August 3, 1899 to March 13, 1902. Lawrence, Kansas, Watson Library, University of Kansas, 1943.
Scrapbook of Robert F. Ellsworth congressional campaign
This scrapbook documents his campaign for the nomination and his election to the U. S. House of Representatives.
Clippings, dating from December, 1959, to December, 1960, are from newspapers in the Second Congressional District.
Scrapbooks
The scrapbooks treat the history of Lawrence and the University of Kansas in general. Some of the clippings are obituaries of local residents, or local current events, e.g, the demonstrations by the Lawrence chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1963.
Scrapbooks
Scrapbooks containing mounted clippings from area newspapers. Each volume is individually indexed and dated.
Scrapbooks, Kansas Crop and Weather Reports
Scrapbooks containing typed diary-type accounts, letters, and newspaper clippings pertaining to crop and weather conditions in Kansas and the southwest region during the early 1900s.
Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings regarding Lawrence, Kansas
This is a collection of scrapbooks of newspaper clippings about the city of Lawrence, Kansas, from 1977-1992. Most of the clippings originated from the Lawrence Journal World newspaper.
S.D. Jeffers letter
S.D. [?] Jeffers was a Colorado miner who wrote about his life in Central City, Colorado in the 1860s. This letter, addressed to Mr. James Jeffers in Fairfield, Iowa, details some of his mining operations and experiences in the mountains.
Sean O'Casey proofs and playbooks
Two author's press proof volumes and two playbooks heavily annotated and used by production staff for one of O'Casey's plays. The plays include The Plough and the Stars: A Tragedy in Four Acts; Juno and the Paycock; The Shadow of a Gunman; and Within the Gates: A Play of Four Scenes in a London Park.
Second Missionary Baptist Church records
The Second Missionary Baptist Church records document the history, membership, and activities of a long time Junction City, Kansas church.