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W.B.G. Letter

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P881
Overview This collection consists of a letter from W.B.G. of Elwood, Kansas Territory to his brother dated September 2 and 3 1860. The letter implies that W.B.G.'s family lives in the east and his brother is currently visiting New York. The letter discusses daily events including the effect of weather and drought on the crops in Kansas and Missouri. He also details the cost of vegetables and fruits in Kansas and suggests cultivating fruit in Missouri. W.B.G. clarifies a conversation in previous...
Dates: September 2-3, 1860

"We All Die" treatise by Les Hannon

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P756
Overview This collection contains a single typed spiral-bound manuscript entitled, "A Treatise on We All Die Have we Plans Made for When it Happens? How Can we Cope? What Can We Do to Help Those Left Behind? What is the Value of How Much Effort We should Put into Making Plans? Think and Be Prepared." The treatise includes information about Hannon's own family, including the accidental death of his teenage son and medical issues the family has survived or from which members have died. In addition, the...
Dates: January 5, 2014

Weatherby family collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1466
Overview This collection consists of correspondence from Edmond and Katherine Weatherby, dating from 1896 to 1905, as well as drawings by students they taught; books pertaining to Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas; certificates from the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), of which Delia L. Weatherby was a member; and other materials from two generations of the Weatherby family. The bulk of the collection is correspondence from when Edmond and Katherine taught at the Fort Yates Indian...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1896-1976 ( 1904-1905)

Weekes Family Letters

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P913
Overview

Joseph and Cornelia Weekes lived in Kansas, and were visited by their relatives from Illinois, the Edwards. This collection consists of 10 letters from 1880 to 1907, which includes correspondence from the Edwards to their children in Illinois, concerning their visit to Kansas and the Capital building in Topeka. The collection also includes letters about daily life from Cornelia Weekes to John Edwards, her brother.

Dates: 1880 - 1907

Welcome Club of Lawrence (Kansas) Records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1118
Overview

The Welcome Club of Lawrence, Kansas, formerly known as the Lawrence Newcomers Club (1966-1985) and the Welcome Wagon Club of Lawrence (1985-1996), was a social community group founded to bring together new Lawrence residents in order to help them become acquainted with the city and other residents. This collection includes various records of the club, such as board meeting documents, financial records, newsletters, membership directories, and photographs.

Dates: 1966 - 2013

Wendell J. Stuteley papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P793
Overview

The Wendell J. Stuteley papers are those of a longtime Kansas resident; they include items related to various family members, including an uncle and Stuteley's wife, Ernestine.

Dates: 1865 - 1989

West Hills Homes Association records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 794
Overview

This collection consists of records of the West Hills Homes Association of Lawrence, Kansas, including administrative and financial records, as well as files related to specific issues affecting the West Hills area.

Dates: 1925 - 2011

West of the Borderline manuscript

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 400
Overview

This collection contains a collection of stories told by former slaves and slave owners to Brazelton during his childhood in Wathena and Elwood, Kansas. These fictional accounts were published in 1986 by Trojan Graphics in Troy, Kansas.

Dates: approximately 1980-1985

West Side Study Club records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 296
Overview

The collection of the West Side Study Club consists of program booklets (1901-1978), historian's reports (1902-1962), secretary's books (1905-1962), an account book (1915-1966), yearbook of Federation of Clubs (1921-1924), and remembrances by members.

Dates: 1902 - 1978

Western Bakery partial account book

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P179
Overview

Partial account book of the Western Bakery in Lawrence, Kansas.

Dates: 1861 - 1863

W.G. Vincent papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 933
Overview

This collection includes correspondence, personal records, typescript and mimeograph copies of published material, predominantly of plays and poetry.

Dates: approximately 1900-1946

W.H. Martin photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 156
Overview

W.H. Martin, Ottawa, Kansas, created these photographic images of exaggerated farm produce and hunting scenes.

Dates: approximately 1908-1910

W.H. Mulch collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 117
Overview

This collection contains black and white and color photographic prints of W.H. Mulch's family; a coyote hunt in Munden, Kansas; and the Auto Race in North Platte, Nebraska, among other images. Also in the collection are two audio cassettes of interviews with W.H. Mulch. The Mulch family lived in Munden, Republic County, Kansas.

Dates: approximately 1908-1982

What we've found about the Archibalds

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS P193
Overview

Includes biography of John Christie Archibald who was among the first party of settlers to arrive in Lawrence.

Dates: 1968

Whayne family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 905
Overview

The Whayne Family Papers are those of long time Missouri residents Thaddeus A. (Jr.) and Alyce Whayne and their family, especially documenting Thaddeus A. Whayne Jr.'s service during World War II and his family life afterward.

Dates: 1905 - 2008

White Cloud Grain Company records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS G56
Overview

Financial records, meeting minutes, and stock certificates from the White Cloud Grain Company of White Cloud, Kansas.

Dates: 1903 - 1919

White Cloud Rolling Mill financial records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS G57
Overview

Five ledgers from the White Cloud Rolling Mill Company in White Cloud, Doniphan County, Kansas. The mill may have been owned at various points in time by the Nuzum family, the Kelley family, and J. K. Carolus.

Dates: 1887 - 1893

White Swan Laundry photographs

 Collection — Folder: 1-2
Call Number: RH PH P146
Overview

This collection contains two photographs of the White Swan Laundry in Lyons, Kansas, an interior and an exterior shot. One includes workers standing in front of the White Swan Laundry building and the other includes workers inside the laundry.

Dates: approximately 1920s

Whittier Club records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS E185
Overview

This collection includes meeting minutes, financial information, membership information, photographs, and other documentation regarding the Whittier Club of Leavenworth, Kansas, a women's club dedicated to providing educational opportunities to its membership.

Dates: 1888 - 1986

Whomper, Inc. records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1053
Overview

Whomper, Inc. was a non-profit recycling center which operated in Lawrence, Kansas during the 1970s; the organization was dissolved in December of 1976. This collection contains financial records, meeting minutes, by-laws, newspaper clippings and advertizing materials.

Dates: 1971 - 1976

Wichita Phyllis Wheatley Childrens Home news item

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P563
Overview

Photocopy of news item about a New Year's celebration given by members of the Board of the Phyllis Wheatley Childrens Hone in honor of their founder and president, Mrs. F.O. (Elsie M.) Miller. Includes a brief sketch of Mrs. Miller and a brief history of the home, which was founded in 1920 for African American children of the Wichita, Kansas area.

Dates: 1947

Wilbur D. Hess collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1526
Overview Wilbur Hess worked as a photographer both commercially and as a photojournalist in Salina and Lawrence, Kansas. This collection contains his journalistic photographs, aerial photographs, studio portraits of individuals and weddings, commercial images for businesses, personal photographs of his family and trips, and other photographic images in prints, negatives, slides, and other photographic medium. The collection also includes Hess' personal and business correspondence and papers, as...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1880-1999, 1940-1985

Wilburn family collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1592
Overview

The Wilburn family collection includes Vicki Wilburn's school yearbooks and papers, work materials, art, and correspondence; as well as some papers from her parents, George and Birdie Mae Wilburn, some famly history papers, and a 1924 photograph of African American Masons in Topeka, Kansas.

Dates: 1960 - 2023

Wilder Brothers bill

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P407
Overview

This collection consists of a single bill from June 18, 1880 addressed to L.L. Jester from Wilder Brothers, a clothing manufacturer in Lawrence, Kansas.

Dates: June 18, 1880

Willard G. Ransom photographs collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 54
Overview

Most of the collection is glass negatives, though some prints have been made from some of the negatives. The collection consists of images of locations in Kansas, New Mexico, Mexico, and Central and South America and were taken by the donor's grandfather, an engineer who worked with the Westinghouse power machinery manufacturing company.

Dates: approximately 1900-1940

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White, William Allen, 1868-1944 21
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 13
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University of Kansas. Libraries 12
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Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 10
Reid, Albert Turner, 1873-1955 10
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Sumner High School (Kansas City, Kan.) 9
University of Kansas. Department of English 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
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Lawrence, Amos Adams, 1814-1886 7
Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894 7
Wood, Frank 7
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Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 6
Kansas. Supreme Court 6
Kenneth Spencer Research Library 6
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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
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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
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
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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