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Thankful Sophia Mayo journal
This journal of Thankful Sophia Mayo describes her 1855 emigration from Massachusetts to Kansas Territory with her husband, Elisha Frank Mayo, and their experiences in 1855 and 1856 as homesteaders south of Lawrence in Douglas County.
Thatcher Family papers
The Thatcher Family Papers are those of a Kansas City, Kansas family who, beginning in 1912, owned and operated the Thatcher Funeral Home.
The 926 Indiana house, Lawrence, Kan.
Paper by Michael Owen Jones written for an American art history course at the University of Kansas, giving the history of the property and house at 926 Indiana Street in Lawrence, Kan. Includes a photograph of the house shelved at RH MS-P P336.
The 1971-1972 welfare crisis and the Emergency Service Council
This typescript paper relates citizen reaction to the reduction in welfare grants and the formation of the Emergency Service Council in Lawrence, Kansas during the early 1970s. It includes information regarding subsequent efforts of that organization to meet physical needs of welfare recipients, to bring the crisis to the attention of the public, and to influence legislation and funding on a more comprehensive basis. Includes appendix.
The Agora Records
Correspondence, subscriptions, and business records, 1895-1897 of The Agora, a monthly periodical published in Abilene, Kansas, originating in 1890.
The Amazon River : a student essay
This handwritten student essay on "The Amazon River," by Hugo Orlopp, was found in an April 20, 1888 edition of the Midland College (Atchison, Kansas) Messachorean . The Orlopp family resided in Atchison, Kansas in the 1880s, where Hugo's father, Oscar Orlopp, was a teacher.
The Arc of Douglas County records
The Beginning ; a lithograph
The 30" x 27" lithograph entitled, The Beginning, depicts a young Rosa Parks seated on a bus. It is signed and numbered by the artist. The original painting hangs in the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. It illustrates the beginning of the American Civil Rights movement.
The black entrepreneur in Lawrence, Kansas.
Bachelor of arts honors thesis, University of Kansas, 1975.
The Booke of Burschen
Book: comic pseudo-mediaeval account of founding of sham society. Dialogues between St. Patrick, Ritter von Otto, Buische Kavin, King O'Toole, and Barney, interspersed with comic verse: “Ye Burschen ye liked goode thinges galore... Der Pabst lebt herrlich in d' Welt...Songe of ye Blessed St Kavin. Farewell to those dayes full of glee...
The Child of Hale or the farmer’s daughter, a poetical romance founded on a Lancashire legend of the fifteenth century
A poetical romance.
The coldest I have ever been ; an essay
An essay written by Winifred Moses Hurley describing her experiences as a student in a rural Kansas school in 1926.
The Dodge City Business and Professional Women's Club Yearbook
The Business and Professional Women's Club yearbook contains a list of members, newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence and programs of club activities, etc., pasted into a scrapbook for the years 1932-1933.
The Dr. David A. Otto, Special Envoy for the Missouri State Teachers Association during the time of the 1971 Paris Peace Talks, collection
The Dubliner records
Correspondence involving editor Bruce Arnold, manuscripts, and proofs concerning the literary magazine The Dubliner, specifically related to volume 1, numbers 1-6 and volume 2 numbers 1-2 (November 1961-Summer 1963). The magazine was published by Bruce Arnold and Douglas Sealy of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
the First Book Club, a sketch.
History of the First Book Club (1913-1955).
"The First Settlement of Civilized People in Kansas" typescript
Typescript of "The First Settlement of Civilized People in Kansas," an address delivered by Edward Bumgardner III before the Shawnee Mission Historical Society on September 24, 1951.
The Frank P. MacLennan building photograph
Photograph of a building that was located on the corner of 8th and Kansas Streets in Topeka, Kansas, known as "The Frank P. MacLennan Building." The building was designed by the architectural firm of J. C. Holland and Son, Topeka, Kansas. The building was often referred to as the "Journal Building" because it housed the offices of the Topeka State Journal newspaper. The Kansas Power and Light Service purchased the building in 1940.
The granite markers of historic spots in Lawrence and the events they commemorate.
Carbon copy of a paper read before the Daughters of the American Revolution, February 17, 1933, by Hannah P. Oliver, Associate Professor of Latin, 1890, at the University of Kansas.
The content includes discussions of early Lawrence history and the following markers identified by location and description (see Container List).
"The Great Invasion of Britain" by Samuel Waddell
This story was put together by Samuel Waddell (1878-1967) and N. Mercier to rent to their schoolmates for 2d per vol per week. It describes land and sea battles with the English (including the school regiment) and the Germans pitted against the Russians and French. Also included is a note written by P. S. O'Hegarty describing Waddell's remembrance of the story.
The hand loved best of all.
The hand loved best of all: Cantata for tenor solo, chorus, small orchestra (or piano) / Text [by] Langston Hughes ; music [by] Irving Mopper.
The Histories and Cultural Roles of Black Churches in Lawrence, Kansas
The history of our ancestors; a record of the Riggs, Baldridge and Agnew families
The history of our ancestors. Being a record of the Riggs, Baldridge, and Agnew families together with fragmentary data as to other cognate families. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1915.
The Illustrated Detective Magazine "50 Famous Crimes" series
The Jones Store Company newspaper clippings
Includes a supplement and newspapers clippings from the Kansas City Star's September 27, 1981 issue about the 94th anniversary of The Jones Store Company. Features stories titled, "The Jones Store Co. Celebrates its 94th Anniversary," "Historical Sketch of This Store and its Future," "What Makes The Jones Store Co. Special," "The Many Faces of The Jones Store Co.," and "Indomitable J. Logan Jones."