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Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War photograph

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P2823
Overview

One black and white photographic postcard of eight men in Civil War-era military garb, identified as members of the Lucas, Russell County, Kansas branch (camp 163) of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. One of the men in front is identified as W. W. Brumfield.

Dates: 1929

Sotheby Family Papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 4
Overview

This collection consists of family papers, correspondence, bound books, and various other material of the Sotheby family of Pocklington, Yorkshire, England

Dates: 1650 - 1900

South Dakota legislative bills

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1600
Overview

This collection is made up of house and senate bills and joint resolutions from the second legislative assembly of South Dakota, which took place in 1891, after the territory gained statehood in late 1889.

Dates: [1891]

South Side Reading Club records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 315
Overview

South Side Reading Club, Lawrence, Kansas, was organized in 1912. The collection consists of yearbooks and minute books.

Dates: 1912 - 1984

Southeast Lawrence Improvement Association records

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P849
Overview The Southeast Lawrence Improvement Association was organized in 1970, by residents of Southeast Lawrence. Southeast Lawrence was defined as 15th Street to Haskell University, and Massachusetts Street to Santa Fe Street. The mission of the organization was to advocate on behalf of property owners and residents for matters of taxation, traffic, zoning, and planning with the City of Lawrence. The collection consists of minutes and correspondence for the organization from its founding, in...
Dates: 1970 - 1971

Southwest Kansas Photographers Club records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 912
Overview

The Southwest Kansas Photographers Club convened to discuss the art and business of photography. The 2 volumes in this collection cover the years 1925 through 1942 and include meeting minutes, a group photograph, newspaper clippings, registration lists and financial records.

Dates: 1925 - 1942

Souvenir ribbon badge from Norton Camp 592 (Norton County, Kansas), Modern Woodmen of America

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P656
Overview

An embossed ribbon badge from the Modern Woodmen of America's Norton Camp 592 (Norton County, Kansas)

Dates: before 2006

Special Order No. 211. (Extract). By order of the Secretary of War. Washington, D. C.

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P30
Overview

Orders call for First Lieutenant Jacob W. Keller, unassigned, to report to Colonel Thomas H. Roger, 18th. U.S. Infantry, President of the Retiring Board at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Dates: August 19, 1870

Special premium on grain and grasses to be exhibited at the Western National Fair Association

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P126
Scope and Contents

Special premium by the Douglas County officers on grain and grasses to be exhibited at the Western National Fair Association to be held at Bismark Grove in September, 1886. Lawrence, Kansas, 1886.

Dates: September, 1886

Special Report of the Kansas Electric Power Company

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P333
Overview

Special report to the Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C., pursuant to a resolution by the United States Senate, February 3, 1925.

Dates: February 3, 1925

Specifications for construction of Leavenworth Sugar Company

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P91
Overview

Specification for labor to be performed and materials to be furnished in the construction of a factory building and boiler house for the Leavenworth Sugar Company ... according to plans and detail drawings made for the same, by E. T. Carr, architect. The sugar company was first organized in January 1880 with capital from Buffalo, New York and local leadership and was reorganized in 1882 under the Hamlin family of Buffalo, NY.

Dates: between 1880 and 1882

Specifications for Wyandotte High School

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 329
Overview

These construction specifications for a new Wyandotte High School building in Kansas City, Kansas were prepared in February 1935 by the Chicago architectural firm of Hamilton, Fellows & Nedved for the Kansas City, Kansas Board of Education. Specifications for the building's mechanical systems are included.

Dates: February 1, 1935

Speeches in Parliament, 1627-1628 [new style 1628-1629], created for Sir William Brereton (1604-1661)

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C311
Overview

Donated to the library as part of the Eliot S. Berkley collection, this 505-page manuscript volume titled Speeches in Parliament, 1627-1628 [new style 1628-1629] contains (according to the enclosed letter written in 1732 by Henry Richardson, who then owned the manuscript): “Speeches, Arguments & Debates in Parliament, chiefly relating to the famous Petition of Right, by some of the most eminent Men of that Time, Sir Edward Coke, Mr. Selden & many others.”

Dates: 1628-1629 or later

Spelman-Macro miscellany

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS E107
Overview

Compiled volume of separately written pieces bound together, including historical notes, 17th century poems, petitions, etc.

Dates: compiled 17-18th centuries

Spencer Chemical Company photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 570
Overview

This collection contains 8x10" black and white photographs of the Spencer Chemical Company chemical plant, railcars, and workers. There is also an obituary for James McCrea Jordan, a former marketing manager for the company.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1940s-1950s; 2012

Spinsters Books and Webbery, Inc. records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 704
Overview

Spinsters Books and Webbery, Inc. was a non-profit women and children's bookstore and women's center collectively operated by lesbians in downtown Lawrence, Kansas during the 1980s. They also published a lesbian and feminist newsletter entitled Monthly Cycle. This collection includes this publication as well as a collection of women's newsletters from around the country, newspaper clippings, volunteer log books, correspondence and business records.

Dates: 1970 - 1994

Spottiswoode & Robertson collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 186
Overview

This collection consists of a partial archives of the London firm of Spottiswoode & Robertson: solicitors, conveyancers, Scottish law agents, and Parliamentary agents.

Dates: 1726-1862 (bulk 1812-1832)

Spottsville family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 437
Overview

The Papers of the Spottsville Family are those of two generations of a family living in and around Anderson County, Kansas during the last half of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.

Dates: 1867 - 1961

Sprague family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 860
Overview

The Sprague family papers are those of Kansas residents Donald and Lois Sprague. While Donald Sprague was a Baptist minister, Lois Sprague was the long time executive director of Leavenworth's Neighborhood House.

Dates: 1967 - 1988

Spring Estate annuitants book of receipts and related material

 Collection
Call Number: MS P561
Overview

This collection consists of a financial volume and related loose sheets, regarding the annuity payments made by "the Estate of the late Montague James, deceased, called Spring Estate" to those who had invested in the Estate. The estate was located in Hanover Parish, Jamaica as well as in London, England.

Dates: 1799 - 1817

St. Francis Boys' Homes records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 779
Overview The Rev. Robert H. Mize established and ministered to a number of small missions in western Kansas. In doing so, he frequently came upon runaway boys or those who were in trouble with the law. His general interest in youth ministry became focused in the special needs for the boy in trouble, which resulted ultimately in his establishment of St. Francis Boys' Homes in 1945. The collection contains reports from the White House Conference on Children and Youth, clippings, leaflets, and a number...
Dates: 1949 - 1960

St. John A.M.E. Church of Topeka, Kansas records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 481
Overview

The Records of St. John A.M.E. Church of Topeka, Kansas are those of an African American church in Topeka that is one of the oldest African Methodist Episcopal churches in Kansas.

Dates: 1877 - 1993

St. Mark A.M.E. Church of Topeka, Kansas records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P840
Overview

The St. Mark A.M.E. Church of Topeka, Kansas records are those of a Topeka African American church.

Dates: 1944 - 1987

St. Paul's United Church of Christ records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 709
Overview

This collection contains papers and books from St. Paul's United Church of Christ, Eudora, Kansas, founded in 1869. Records of the church include meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence, hymnals, religious texts, and certificates. Also included is a congregational register, dated 1923-1945, for the Evangelical St. Paul's Church of Lawrence, Kansas.

Dates: 1869 - 1996

St. Peter Claver Parish records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 465
Overview

The St. Peter Claver Parish records document the activities and history of the Wichita, Kansas Catholic parish.

Dates: 1931-1974, 2019

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Lawrence (Kan.) -- History 67
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Kansas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 26
Diaries 24
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American poetry -- 20th century 23
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World War, 1914-1918 11
African American Baptists -- Kansas 10
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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