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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The Kansas Emigrants original unpublished manuscript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.
"The Legacy of the Lawrence League for the Practice of Democracy: the Lawrence Community Nursery;" a paper
The paper is a copy of Kathleen Ryan's paper on the Lawrence (Kansas) Community Nursery.
The Menace Newspaper postcards
The Menace was a weekly newspaper that was published in Aurora, Missouri from 1911 to 1942. This collection consists of 20 postcards of the Menace Publishing Company's buildings and daily work by R.E. Hinchey created in 1915.
The Midnight Court: [a Gaelic miscellany]
"The Migrations of John B. Kelso"
"The New Work" manuscript
This collection is a single 8-page manuscript by "An American" commentating on John Brown, his activities preparatory to the raid on the armory at Harper's Ferry, and Franklin B. Sanborn's part in Brown's plans. This article does not seem to be complete.
"The Order of the Little Bears" notebook
This collection consists of a single handwritten volume with illustrations, providing a narrative accounting of the "Order of the Little Bears," a group of English women friends living during World War II.
The rise and fall of Lone Star, Kansas
A brief reconstruction of "the social and economic character of the Lone Star community" during the years that it acquired and maintained "its reasons for existence."
The Sudler Photographs
This collection contains portraits by various commercial photographers, including Parker and Tomlinson, G.G. Shellabarger, Geo. Prince, Bauer, and Losey.
"The Tall Four"
“The Tall Four” is a melodrama that takes place during post-U.S. Civil War confusion in which mistaken identities, false names, and false deaths play a role. The novel was published as “Unfortunate Entanglements” in the St. Joseph Herald as a weekly serial that ran from Sunday, May 2, 1880, through Sunday, November 21, 1880. The handwritten and the published version differ slightly in word choice, but the 35-chapter novel is essentially the same.
The Unmarked Burial Issue in Kansas materials
This collection contains six taped interviews with archaeologists, a register book and a copy of Toby Butler's undergraduate thesis on disk and on paper entitled "Unmarked Burial Issue in Kansas."
The weakness of Kansas Claims Associations: a ramification of their protectiveness
Paper presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Seminar American History 306. Includes bibliography.
The Westport branch of the Oregon Trail
The wind always blows in Kansas
This family history and memoir by Melba McAdams Mayo, born in Clyde, Kansas in 1920, contains recollections of her childhood in Clyde as well as anecdotes from the lives of her Mittelstaedt, Oelker, and McAdams family ancestors as residents of Clyde, Kansas in the 1800s and the early 1900s.
Theatre Guild Picnic production records
Theatre of Ireland treasurer's records and correspondence
Financial records and some correspondence of a theatrical organization.
Thelma B. Boswell papers
The Thelma B. Boswell papers are those of a native Kansan who was a highly active member of Allen Chapel A.M.E. (Salina, Kan.) and played piano for that congregation.
Thelma Clouse papers
The Thelma Clouse papers are those of a longtime Kansas resident whose husband, Reverend D. B. Clouse, was a Methodist minister.
Theo Cribbs papers
Theo Cribbs was a member of the Kansas State House of Representatives, representing the Sedgwick County 89th District from 1972-1991. The collection reflects his legislative activities, primarily in the form of correspondence.