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"The Legacy of the Lawrence League for the Practice of Democracy: the Lawrence Community Nursery;" a paper

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P834
Overview

The paper is a copy of Kathleen Ryan's paper on the Lawrence (Kansas) Community Nursery.

Dates: undated

The Menace Newspaper postcards

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1266
Overview

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.

Dates: 1915

The Midnight Court: [a Gaelic miscellany]

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C121
Overview The Midnight Court: [a Gaelic miscellany] is a single volume collection of 18th century Irish writings by Brian Merriman and Donough MacConmara, copied out with comments and occasional translations by Timothy Keane at Clodagh, Crookstown (Ireland), during the 1880s. The volume includes a printed edition of Michael O'Shea's English translation of the The Midnight Court, a long poem on Irish marriage and celibacy, printed privately by O'Shea in Boston in...
Dates: 18th century, copied between 1880-1889

"The Migrations of John B. Kelso"

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P1004
Overview "The Migrations of John B. Kelso" is a 29-page typed transcription of Kelso's account of migrating to the American west, working, and looking for a good place to settle. He moved from Indiana to Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, and then to Oregon and Washington between 1853 and 1877. He was in territorial Kansas in the 1850s and became involved in the free state/pro-slavery violence, serving on the free state side. He also describes encountering Native Americans, including the Wade Comanche...
Dates: September 1853-October 1877 (transcribed 2003)

"The New Work" manuscript

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH VLT MS P12
Overview

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.

Dates: circa 1861

"The Order of the Little Bears" notebook

 Collection
Call Number: MS C317
Overview

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.

Dates: April 7, 1942 - May 1943

The rise and fall of Lone Star, Kansas

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P271
Overview

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."

Dates: 1975

The Sudler Photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 168
Overview

This collection contains portraits by various commercial photographers, including Parker and Tomlinson, G.G. Shellabarger, Geo. Prince, Bauer, and Losey.

Dates: approximately 1880 - 1940

"The Tall Four"

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS D305
Overview

“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.

Dates: 1861 - October 1880

The Unmarked Burial Issue in Kansas materials

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1076
Overview

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."

Dates: 1993

The weakness of Kansas Claims Associations: a ramification of their protectiveness

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P99
Overview

Paper presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Seminar American History 306. Includes bibliography.

Dates: 1959

The Westport branch of the Oregon Trail

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P181
Dates: approximately 1954

The wind always blows in Kansas

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P737
Overview

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.

Dates: 1970

Theatre Guild Picnic production records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1563
Overview This collection contains a draft copy of the Theatre Guild script for Picnic by William Inge; contracts; legal correspondence regarding the Theatre Guild production of Inge's play; music agreements; and correspondence. The collection provides insight into the legal and financial circumstances associated with producing the award-winning production, as well as some documentation regarding rights for other productions of the play and producing a movie...
Dates: March 1, 1949 - November 8, 1972 (bulk 1950s)

Theatre of Ireland treasurer's records and correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: MS 234
Overview

Financial records and some correspondence of a theatrical organization.

Dates: 1905 - 1912

Thelma B. Boswell papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P748
Overview

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.

Dates: 1921 - 1975

Thelma Clouse papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 527
Overview

The Thelma Clouse papers are those of a longtime Kansas resident whose husband, Reverend D. B. Clouse, was a Methodist minister.

Dates: 1840 - 1978

Theo Cribbs papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 648
Overview

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.

Dates: 1976 - 1981

Theodore Sturgeon's A Way Home manuscript collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 351
Overview

This collection comprises materials related to Theodore Sturgeon's third collection of short stories and novelettes, A Way Home, edited by Groff Conklin and published in 1955 by Funk & Wagnalls. Materials in the collection include corrected texts of stories and novelettes, uncorrected galley proofs, and a first edition copy of the publication.

Dates: 1946 - 1955

"These Were People of Mercy" Stoner family genealogy

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS D302
Overview

Family genealogy starting from the eight paternal grandparents of Kenneth Lee Stoner and his wife, Ruth Ann Shahan. Volume includes an introduction and eight chapters, one for each grandparent. The families immigrated to the United States from Switzerland, England, Ireland, and Denmark in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

Dates: December 2019

Thesis, Analysis and evaluation of Populist political campaign speech making in Kansas, 1890-1894

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH D9765
Overview

Thesis, Analysis and evaluation of Populist political campaign speech making in Kansas, 1890-1894

Dates: 1949

Thesis: By Culture, By Merit: Alpha Kappa Alpha and the African American Sorority Movement

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P664
Overview

The thesis is a copy of Deborah Whaley's University of California -- Santa Cruz thesis on African American sororities.

Dates: 1993

Theta Boulé, Sigma Pi Phi papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 425
Overview

The Theta Boulé papers are those of the Kansas City-area boulé, or chapter, of the Sigma Pi Phi fraternity. The records represent the workings of the Boulé, as well as providing information on the larger organization and other boulés within Sigma Pi Phi.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1874, 1937, 1944-1951, 1953-1965, 1967-1968, 1970-1971, 1973-1986, 2007-2016 [ 1944-2016]

"This is America: the 60s in Lawrence, Kansas" research notes

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 877
Overview

This collection contains subject files, research notes, card files, photocopied primary source material, and other records generated by Rusty Monhollon, at the time a University of Kansas doctoral student, related to research for and production of his monograph This is America? : The 60s in Lawrence, Kansas.

Dates: circa 2000-2002

"This Kansas Column," by Hazel Baker,and other Kansas-related clippings

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS D189
Overview

The collection contains a scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to the history of Pawnee and Stafford Counties. Most of the clippings are of, "This Kansas column," which was written by Baker. The dated articles are from the early 1940's. The collection also contains an early history of Larned State Hospital, Larned, Kansas.

Dates: 1943

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Lawrence (Kan.) -- History 67
Kansas -- History -- 1854-1861 52
Women -- Kansas -- Lawrence -- Societies and clubs 32
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 29
Douglas County (Kan.) -- History 28
Kansas -- History 28
Kansas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 26
Diaries 24
Lawrence (Kan.) 24
American poetry -- 20th century 23
Kansas -- Emigration and immigration 21
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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Lawrence (Kan.) -- History -- 19th century 13
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African Americans -- Kansas -- Topeka 12
American poetry -- Kansas 12
English literature -- 19th century 12
Kansas -- Genealogy 12
Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1951- 12
Lawrence (Kan.) -- Social life and customs 12
Family archives -- Kansas 11
Historic buildings -- Kansas -- Lawrence 11
Leavenworth (Kan.) -- History 11
World War, 1914-1918 11
African American Baptists -- Kansas 10
African American families -- Kansas -- Topeka 10
African American women -- Kansas -- Societies and clubs 10
City planning -- Kansas -- Lawrence 10
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African American legislators -- Kansas 9
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Fort Leavenworth (Kan.) 9
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African American clergy -- Kansas 8
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University of Kansas 78
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