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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."
The Kansas Christian Missionary Society is born
Typescript of play depicting the organization of the Kansas Christian Missionary Society in 1858. "It was presented on Sunday evening, Sept. 21, 1958, at the Centennial Convention of the Kansas Christian Churches at Emporia, Kansas."
The Kansas Emigrants original unpublished manuscript
Attached to a leaf in this titled bound volume is John Greenleaf Whittier's poem, "The Kansas Emigrants," handwritten and signed by Whittier, together with his signed note of April 26 to the poem's unnamed recipient, addressed as "My Dear Friend." Included in the volume are typed transcriptions of the handwritten originals.
"The Kansas March"
This 13-page working draft of an article titled "The Kansas March" by Francis W. Schruben provides a history of the official state marches of Kansas which were approved by the State Legislature from 1835 ("The Kansas March") to 1992 ("Here's Kansas"). Included are Schruben's descriptions of the various state march contenders, song reconstructions, and related debates during this period.
"The Kansas Primer"
Single volume of photographs pasted onto wooden board "pages" with captions, often rhyming couplets, created by Kansas-based farmer, diarist, painter, and photographer Samuel James Reader.
The Kansas War and other matters [poem]
Poem about border wars in Lawrence, slavery and the Civil War, written by a soldier near Hardeeville, S. C. Location and date written in cryptogram. Typed transcript is available in the accession file.
"The Kloran," Ku Klux Klan handbook
The collection consists of a copy of "The Kloran," a handbook for the Klu Klux Klan. Includes the following sections: the officers' titles, opening and closing ceremonies, the "naturalization" ceremony, and titles and explanations.
The Lawrence Observer records
The Lawrence Observer was a newspaper owned and operated by a local jouralist and resident, Janet Majure. The paper ran for 6 months in 1989 reaching some 11,000 readers in the area before its demise. The paper lives on in the Lawrence Observer collection, a collection containing papers and photos documenting the brief life of the paper.