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Viola Lobberding papers
This collection contains a Hanover High School diploma and high school scrapbook of Viola Lobberding. She attended Hanover High School in Hanover, Kansas from 1908-1912. Also included in this collection is an autograph book of "Miss Kittie" - the majority of signatures and notes recorded were written by friends from Lawrence and Vinland, Kansas.
Virgil Thomson collection
This collection consists of two typed letters from Virgil Thomson to Wilfred Z. Thompson; two typed, signed quotations from Thomson about composers John Cage and Ned Rorem; a photographic postcard of Thomson; and a signed bookplate.
Virginia B. Docking collection
This collection of papers of Virginia B. Docking, wife of Kansas Governor George Docking and mother of Kansas Governor Robert B. Docking, includes letters received by her from U.S. Presidents Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson and their wives from 1955 to 1961. The collection also includes slides and an accompanying audio tape and script, presented March 11, 1978 by the Shawnee County Democratic Party at an event honoring Mrs. Docking.
Virginia Ricard papers
The Virginia Ricard Papers are those of a native Kansan who attended Dunbar School in Salina, Kansas and later became an educator.
"Visualizing Muscles" scrapbook
Vogel family collection
Voiage d'Italie faict en 1660 et 1661.
Book: travel-book. Late draft, with corrections. Full Title: Voiage d'Italie faict en 1660 et 1661 mesle de plusiurs traicts d'histoire, de geographie, de morale, et de poesie tires des meilleurs poetes auec la fondation des uilles, et une exacte description de tout ce quil y a de plus remarquable.
Volunteer Clearing House of Douglas County records
The Volunteer Clearing House of Douglas County (Kansas) was founded in 1973, sponsored by the Area Council of Lawrence (Kansas) Parent-Teacher Association with a grant from the Human Ecology Department of the University of Kansas Medical Center. The organization aimed to match the interests and abilities of volunteers with agency needs. This collection contains correspondence, logbooks, newsletters, publications.
Vote for liquor-by-the-drink mug collection
The Vote for liquor-by-the-drink mug collection contains a single mug listing local Lawrence businesses supporting the liquor-by-the-drink legislation in 1986. This legislation removed a food purchase requirement at restaurants in order to buy alcohol, allowing customers to instead purchase alcoholic beverages by the drink.
Voth, Unruh, and Banman families collection
This collection contains materials on German-Russian Mennonite families who immigrated to Kansas in 1874. Specifically, the Heinrich (H.) Banman, David P. Unruh, and the C. R. Voth families and their descendants Waldo O. Voth and Emma Unruh Voth are represented, as well as their ancestors, friends, siblings, and other family members. The collection includes photographs, diaries, ledgers, scrapbooks, serials, books, and papers, with a portion of the earlier material in German.
Vox populi or Newes from Spaine
Manuscript pamphlet: political/religious propaganda
Voyage dans les provinces meridionales de la France
Travel diary kept by Monsieur L'Abbe G, professor emeritus at the University of Paris, to the southern provices of France in 1758.
W. Tiesenhausen letter
Wabaunsee County (Kan.) settlement research
This collection of research regarding a late nineteenth-century African American settlement in Wabaunsee County, Kansas was conducted by Penny Clark.
Wagner family collection
The Wagner family collection consists of papers that had been laid into a 1706 German family bible donated to the Spencer Research Library by the Wagner family. The papers are housed in two folders, one containing notes on the history of the bible and the Stauth-Wagner family, and the other containing newspaper clippings about historic bibles.
Wakarusa Township records
These records of the Wakarusa Township of Douglas County, Kansas date from 1858 to 1980. They include the township's rolls of voters, ballots, and election results dating from the territorial period of Kansas, as well as tax rolls and receipts and expenditures for such purposes as road and bridge construction and fire protection.
Walker family papers
The Walker family papers are those of one of the first African American homesteading families in Stafford County, Kansas. The family for several decades owned a successful farm.
Wallace E. Pratt papers
A native of Phillipsburg, Kansas, Wallace Pratt (1885-1981) was a University of Kansas graduate who began his career in geology with the Kansas Geological Survey. Pratt went on to become a renowned petroleum geologist. This collection of his papers includes maps, photographic materials, and papers relating to geology and the American oil industry. Represented in the collection are companies such as Exxon, Standard Oil, and Conoco.
Wallace Galluzzi papers
Wallace, Kansas Photographs
This collection consists of seven scenes at Wallace, Wallace County in western Kansas. The images include cowboys, Kansas Pacific train engines and buildings. One of the buildings shown is Fred Harvey's first restaurant. All glass plate negatives have corresponding prints; there are two copies of each photographic print.
Wallace, Nebraska photographs
Two black and white photographs on cabinet cards: a street view of Wallace, Lincoln County, Nebraska in its early settlement, and one of "W.H. Weaver at Wallace," with his horses and cart near a farm.
Walt Filkin correspondence
Correspondence, a photograph, and a brochure.
"Walt Mason Rhymes"
Walt Mason was a humorist, journalist, and poet who published many of his rhymes in William Allan White's Emporia Gazette starting in 1907. This collection includes newspaper clippings of the Emporia Gazette's reprints of Mason's prose poems, 1943-1944.
Walt Whitman collection
This collection, compiled by Spencer Research Library staff from several sources, contains correspondence sent to and received by Walt Whitman, photographs of Whitman, and other items related to the 19th century American poet.
Walter Bergman, Freedom Rider collection
This volume, compiled by Laird M. Wilcox, contains copies of Federal Bureau of Investigation documents that were produced in a lawsuit filed against the FBI by civil rights advocate Walter Bergman who, as a Freedom Ride participant, was beaten by Ku Klux Klansmen in 1961 at Birmingham, Alabama. The documents relate to the FBI's knowledge of events leading up to the attack, including its interactions with the Klan and with local police.