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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.
Walter Berkowitz correspondence with Streeter Blair
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.
Walter J. and Virginia H. Meserve family photographs
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.
Walter Johnson's key to microfilm letters to or from William Allen White
Key to microfilm letters to or from William Allen White in the possession of Walter Johnson, 1899 through July 1939 / Walter Johnson.
Walter Thomas Bezzi papers
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.
Wamego, Kansas women's club records
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.
Wanda Gág's collection of two drawings
2 cards, each with pen-and-ink drawing.
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
Warner-Johnson Photographic Studio collection
Warranty deeds and other miscellaneous deeds
This collection contains warranty deeds and other miscellaneous deeds of Franklin County, Kansas.