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Stovall family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 673
Overview

The Stovall family were residents of Leavenworth, Kansas from the 1940s-1990s. The collection is comprised of material assembled by Gertrude Stovall and related to church organizations in Kansas and Washington state, as well as collected documents regarding family members, published material from the family library, and photographs.

Dates: 1950 - 1999; 1950 - 1999

Street parade photograph

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P2815
Overview

Black and white silver gelatin photographic print of a street parade in an unknown town ("Shawnee, Kansas" has been written on the back of the photograph, but this is not a positive identification). The photograph was taken from the top of a building looking down at the parade; two African American boys are watching from the same height as the photographer.

Dates: between 1890-1910

Strong Family Photographs and Papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P922
Overview

The collection consists of family photographs and portraits from the late 19th and early 20th century, along with a small collection of family papers.

Dates: 1888-1930s

Stuart de Rothesay collection of Spanish peace-treaties, diplomatic reports, etc.

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C106
Overview

Printed pamphlets and newsletters, etc., bound together with manuscript items, regarding Spanish political relations with other European countries. Places covered by the volume include Seville, Madrid, Rome, Brussels, Vienna, London, Brixen, and Konigsgraz.

Dates: compiled approximately 1782?

Stuart Oliver Henry collection of French literary autographs

 Collection
Call Number: MS 144
Overview

A collection of letters and autographs of French literary figures, along with a scrapbook of notices and reviews regarding publications by Stuart Oliver Henry particularly related to his works on Paris, France and famous Parisians.

Dates: 1892 - 1944

Student and racial disturbances at the University of Kansas

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 189
Overview

Sound recordings and photographic negatives of racial and student disturbances in Lawrence, Kansas, March, 1970 - May, 1970 recorded by Dennis Embry and Brian W. Miller.

Dates: 1970

"Student Articles on [Native American] Personalities"

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1559
Overview

The Thelma Haverty collection includes student essays about Native American personalities, written in March 1964. Thelma Haverty was a business instructor at Haskell Indian Nations University, then still the Haskell Institute, and compiled this collection from her 1964 second year Business English students. Terms and language used is representative when the texts were created and has not been replicated in this finding aid.

Dates: March 1-23, 1964

Student handbook of Lawrence, Kansas, with address and memoranda

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS A22
Overview

Printed book, with handwritten notes, and map.

Dates: approximately 1906-1911

Student's Geography Copy Book and Eighth-year Certificates of Examination

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C289
Overview

Copy book containing 5 geographical essays written by Jennette Black, dating from 1872-1873, on Genoa, Holland, Siberia, Cuba, and Washington. The volume includes two loose inserts, eighth-year Certificates of Examination for the Detroit Public Schools, dated 1871 and 1872.

Dates: 1871 - 1873

Students of the American Republic correspondence

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P767
Overview

This collection contains letters to and from members of the Students of the American Republic, Hillsboro, Kansas.

Dates: 1960s

Study of the Middle Pennsylvanian Flora Found in Kansas Coal Balls

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1259
Overview Dr. David Arthur Otto’s Ph.D. dissertation for the University of Missouri is a study of the Middle Pennsylvanian coal ball petrifactions found in Cherokee County, Kansas. The study examines three hundred coal balls, revealing 26 genera of plants. The flora examined by Dr. Otto reveal that the site of his study was a swamp during the Middle Pennsylvanian Period. This Ph.D. dissertation identifies a number of previously unidentified Kansas coal ball flora as well as compares Middle...
Dates: 1967

Study of the Middle Pennsylvanian Flora Found in the Buildex Quarry, Franklin County, Kansas

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1258
Overview David A. Otto's Master of Science in Biology dissertation focuses on the Middle Pennsylvanian flora in the Kansas coal fields. His research lists and describes the fossilized species found in the Buildex Quarry of Franklin County, Kansas, determines the numbers and types of Middle Pennsylvanian flora in Kansas, and makes the information usable for classrooms. The pages of his dissertation contain documentation of his research and findings, as well as maps and photographs taken of the...
Dates: 1957

Subject files on Kansas topics

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 977
Overview

This collection includes files on Lawrence, Kansas, and general Kansas subjects. It was compiled and maintained at the Lawrence Public Library Osma (Local History) Room.

Dates: approximately 1960-2000

Subject files regarding social issues in Lawrence and Northeast Kansas

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 985
Overview

Subject files concerning environmental, energy, development, war protest in Lawrence, Douglas County, and Northeast Kansas, compiled by Clark Coan.

Dates: 1960s-1980s

Subscription list for a speech by William H. English on the resolution reported by the Committee on Elections in the Kansas Contested-Election Case. Washington, D. C.

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P24
Overview

Subscription list includes Jesse D. Bright (1812-1875), Democratic senator from Indiana, who was expelled from the Senate for having, in a letter to Jefferson Davis, recognized him as "President of the Confederate States". William Hayden English (1822-1896) served in U.S. Congress 1853-1861, as Representative from Indiana.

Dates: 1858

Suhler family genealogical research

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1338
Overview

The collection consists of e-mail correspondence between John Suhler and genealogical researchers and reports pertaining to genealogical research conducted by private firms on Suhler family history.

Dates: 1997 - 2001

Sumerian cuneiform tablets

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: MS Q4
Overview

Cuneiform tablets from the ancient Sumerian civilization of Mesopotamia, including receipts, records of legal matters, and other inscriptions.

Dates: approximately 2112-529 BCE

Summary of final public policy discussion regarding Kansas Festivals '76

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P323
Overview

Kansas Festivals '76 ; a project sponsored by the Kansas Committee for the Humanities and the Mervin Fund of the Kansas University Endowment.... ; together with Roots or riches: the pivotal role of Kansas community festivals in structuring public values; summary of final public policy discussion, Peabody [Kan.]. December 3, 1976. J. M. Janzen, project director, moderator.

Dates: December 3, 1976

Summons to appear before Richard W. Evans

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P225
Overview

Summons to appear before the county attorney, Ford County, Kansas, February 11, 1914.

Dates: February 11, 1914.

Sumner High School records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1137
Overview

The Sumner High School records are those of the historically African American high school in Kansas City, Kansas. The records reflect both the school and the school's alumni.

Dates: 1900 - 2015

Sunflower Girls State Photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 175
Overview

This collection contains photographs of girls participating in activities at Sunflower Girls State. Also included is one photograph from Boys State.

Dates: 1962 - 1974

Superior ledger, White Cloud (Kan.)

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS H14
Overview

Superior is the name of the store owned by the Nuzum family.

Dates: 1891 - 1892

Supplementum [ad bavarium Piam eius]

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS E33, item 2
Overview

Supplement to his Bavaria Pia. containing Anna, daughter of Maria of Bavaria; Renata Pia, wife of William V; Maria Bavara mother of Caesar Ferdinand; Margarita daughter of Maria Bavara; Maria Anna Bavara wife of Ferdinand Caesar; Eleanora Austria daughter of Maria Bavara and sister of Caesar Ferdinand; Maria Christierna Austria sister Eleanora; William V Duke of Baravia.

Dates: approximately 1628-1634

Surgeon Numan N. Horton letter

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P973
Overview Letter from Surgeon Numan N. Horton of Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas to his former captain, regarding life in Fort Scott and Bourbon County. Horton's topics include the weather, updates about fellow soldiers, selling of land in the area and expectations about an influx of settlers in the spring, and other related topics. The letter is written on a promotional or booster sheet regarding Fort Scott and Bourbon County, describing facilities available in Fort Scott (including mills,...
Dates: March 11, 1867

Survey of Haskell Alumni Employment

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: RH MS 997
Overview A survey study, prepared by Louise L. Baker, conducted between 1970 and 1975 regarding employment for alumni from Haskell Indian Junior College of Lawrence, Kansas. The collection consists of typed newsletters sent from 1970-1975 with updates regarding individual alumni (typically noting individual's class year and major as well as where they were now located and what they were doing), as well as a few pages about the overall project. There is one page of compiled statistical information,...
Dates: 1970 - 1975

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Lawrence (Kan.) -- History 67
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Kansas -- History 28
Kansas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 26
Diaries 24
Lawrence (Kan.) 24
American poetry -- 20th century 23
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Lawrence Massacre, Lawrence, Kan., 1863 21
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 21
Kansas -- Politics and government 18
Science fiction 17
African Americans -- Kansas 15
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas 14
Kansas -- Photographs 14
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American 14
African American families -- Kansas 13
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African Americans -- Kansas -- Topeka 12
American poetry -- Kansas 12
English literature -- 19th century 12
Kansas -- Genealogy 12
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Lawrence (Kan.) -- Social life and customs 12
Family archives -- Kansas 11
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Leavenworth (Kan.) -- History 11
World War, 1914-1918 11
African American Baptists -- Kansas 10
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African American clergy -- Kansas 8
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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