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Walker family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 587
Overview

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.

Dates: 1880 - 1999

Wallace E. Pratt papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 870
Overview

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.

Dates: 1907 - 1985

Wallace Galluzzi papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 807
Overview Wallace Galluzzi (1926-1984) was president of Haskell Indian Junior College (later Haskell Indian Nations University, previously Haskell Institute) in Lawrence, Kansas from 1969 to 1981 and United Fund Drive (United Way) chairman in 1983. This collection consists of photographs, newsletters and yearbooks, and various pamphlets and other publications concerning Haskell. Most of the materials in the collection are from the years between 1955 and 1984. Also included in this collection are...
Dates: 1900 - 1984

Wallace, Kansas Photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 60
Overview

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.

Dates: approximately 1873

Wallace, Nebraska photographs

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P2807
Overview

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.

Dates: circa 1890s-1900s

Walt Filkin correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P208
Overview

Correspondence, a photograph, and a brochure.

Dates: 1928 - 1956

"Walt Mason Rhymes"

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS D304
Overview

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.

Dates: 1943 - 1944

Walt Whitman collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS P346
Overview

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.

Dates: approximately 1860-1892

Walter Bergman, Freedom Rider collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH WL MS 6
Overview

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.

Dates: 1984

Walter Berkowitz correspondence with Streeter Blair

 Collection — Box: 1, Object: 1-4
Call Number: RH MS 652
Overview

Walter Berkowitz of Kansas City, Missouri corresponded with primitive painter and native Kansan Streeter Blair. This collection includes correspondence, exhibition and promotional material regarding Blair's work, and some photographs.

Dates: 1956 - 1965

Walter J. and Virginia H. Meserve family photographs

 Collection
Call Number: PP 660
Overview

Walter J. and Virginia H. Meserve family photographs are mostly of their first child, Gayle Meserve. Her parents are occasionally pictured in various locations on the University of Kansas campus, including Sunnyside Apartments, where they lived 1951-1955. Walter Meserve was a University of Kansas English, theater, and drama professor.

Dates: 1951 - 1953

Walter Johnson's key to microfilm letters to or from William Allen White

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS D217
Overview

Key to microfilm letters to or from William Allen White in the possession of Walter Johnson, 1899 through July 1939 / Walter Johnson.

Dates: 1899 -July 1939

Walter Thomas Bezzi papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1552
Overview

This collection consists of several journals owned by Walter Thomas Bezzi, late 20th century author and magazine editor who lived in Wichita, Kansas and California. The collection also includes correspondence, manuscript drafts of many of his works, and some personal papers.

Dates: 1971 - 1995

Wamego, Kansas women's club records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 919
Overview

These women's club records, which date from 1917 to 1940, consist primarily of yearbooks of the Portia Club of Wamego, Kansas and the women's guild of Wamego's St. Luke's Episcopal Church. Also included are a yearbook of the Wamego Study Club and an annual meeting program for District Six of the Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs.

Dates: 1917 - 1940

Wanda Gág's collection of two drawings

 Collection
Call Number: MS P605
Overview

2 cards, each with pen-and-ink drawing.

Dates: Between 1900 and 1940

War comes to the U.S.: The First 30 Hours as Reported to the Time-Life-Fortune News Bureau from the U.S. and Abroad

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS C32
Overview This mimeograph copy is comprised of reports and dispatches from correspondents to Time-Life-Fortune News Bureau chief David Hulbard in New York during the first thirty hours following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The reports total 222 pages. In instances where relative military strengths, the extent of damage to Pearl Harbor, or military and naval strategy were reported, such information was deleted. Officials who made "not for attribution" statements had their names obliterated...
Dates: December 7, 1941

Warner-Johnson Photographic Studio collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1440
Overview The Warner-Johnson Studio was a photography studio that operated in Hutchinson, Kansas between the 1930s and the mid-1980s. It was owned by Grace and Carl Johnson, who were both involved in the Kansas Professional Photographers Association. This collection includes personal correspondence, materials from Kansas Professional Photographers Association conventions, materials from other Kansas studios, and historic photographs of Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Missouri. It does not include...
Dates: 1893 - 1987

Warranty deeds and other miscellaneous deeds

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P110
Overview

This collection contains warranty deeds and other miscellaneous deeds of Franklin County, Kansas.

Dates: 1863 - 1872

Warren Corman architectural drawings

 Collection
Call Number: PP 592
Overview

This collection contains drawings and blueprints done by Warren Corman during his time in private practice, working at the Office of Warren Corman, the Office of Williamson and Corman, and the Office of Howells-Hale-Corman, all located in Topeka, Kansas. The collection consists of drawings of local residences and houses, as well as records related to the research and design of White Memorial Camp for the United Church of Christ in Council Grove, KS.

Dates: Bulk 1950s-1960s

Warren Knaus correspondence on entomology

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1394
Overview

Warren Knaus, or Kraus, lived in McPherson, Kansas and was interested in the study of entomology. This collection contains 33 letters dated 1896-1935, written by entomologists in Canada to W. Knaus. The letters delve into the study of insects.

Dates: 1896 - 1935

Warren Zimmerman letters from Wint Smith and Alf M. Landon

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P816
Overview These letters to Warren Zimmerman of Lawrence, Kansas in spring 1960 include two from Wint Smith, U.S. Representative from the Kansas Sixth District, and one from former Kansas Governor Alfred M. Landon. The writers address pressing issues of the time: communism, U.S.-Soviet relations, and the nuclear arms race. Landon describes his recent speaking appearance at a large New York City peace rally sponsored by the National and Greater New York Committees for a Sane Nuclear Policy, held May...
Dates: 1960

Washington Hadley correspondence

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P379
Overview

Three pieces of correspondence from Washington Hadley dated December 29, 1865, January 29, 1866, and December 9, 1877. Washington Hadley was the first president of National Bank of Lawrence and a member of the Society of Friends.

Dates: 1865 - 1877

Washington-Kemp Family Papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P561
Overview

The Washington-Kemp Family Papers are those of a longtime Kansas family. They focus mainly on the Mayhew and the Bassett family branches located in Southeast Kansas.

Dates: 1887-1933, 1983

Wasserbaue im Königreich Galizien

 Collection
Call Number: MS 113
Overview This collection consists of maps with accompanying information regarding the improvement of waterworks for the province of Galicia, Poland. (Galicia is presently divided among Poland, the Ukraine, and Romania; in 1822, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.) There are 147 items, each in a folder. Most consist of a colored map of a couple of miles of waterway, indicating proposed channels, embankments, canals, etc., and a thin sheet of paper which formerly wrapped the map, giving brief...
Dates: 1804-1823; bulk 1818-1822

Watson family correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 988
Overview

Sidney O. Watson lived variously in Baldwin, Ottawa and Syracuse, Kansas. He was a veteran of the Spanish American War. This collection includes letters written to him from various family members, 1913-1930. Many of the letters are transcribed by Mary Ritter, donor of the collection.

Dates: 1913 - 1930

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University of Kansas 77
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White, William Allen, 1868-1944 21
United States. Army 20
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 13
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 12
University of Kansas. Libraries 12
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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
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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
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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
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 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
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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
Guttridge, G. H. (George Herbert), 1898- 4
Hoad, William C. (William Christian), 1874- 4
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 4
Irvin, S. M. (Samuel Mcleary), 1812- 4
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