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William E. Culver photographic collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 75
Overview

William E. Culver was an amateur photographer who settled in Topeka, Kansas, where he opened a hardware store, Culver and Bailey, in 1886. This collection contains photographic prints, glass lantern slides, glass plate negatives, flexible negatives, photography paper, correspondence, architectural drawings, maps, and other materials related to Culver's personal and professional interests.

Dates: 1867-1963, bulk 1892-1919

William E. Drenner family collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 973
Overview

This collection contains correspondence, photographs, slides, photographic albums, scrapbooks, published books, exhibit panels, and reference material of William Drenner and his family. It also contains business papers and reports from Drenner's banking career.

Dates: 1920s-2000s

William E. Richards papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1105
Overview

The William E. Richards papers are those of a long time Topeka resident who served as Director of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services' Division of Social Services.

Dates: 1944 - 1998

William Elsey Connelley papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 2
Overview

Correspondence, research notes, interviews, manuscript drafts, and photographs, covering the years 1883-1914, from an early Kansas historian.

Dates: 1883 - 1914

William Ewart Gladstone collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS P129
Overview

This collection consists of two letters and an autograph by British Prime Minister and politician W.E. (William Ewart) Gladstone (1809-1898), collected from various sources by Spencer Research Library staff.

Dates: 1864, undated

William F. Wu papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 367
Overview William F. Wu is an award-nominated science fiction writer and scholar in the depiction of Asian Americans in American fiction and popular culture. This collection spans from his early education through his writing career and includes personal and professional correspondence with close associates and figures in the science fiction and fantasy community. The collection also includes papers associated with his academic work in studying the representation of Asian Americans (and particularly...
Dates: approximately 1954-2018

William Foster papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 656
Overview

William Foster was the band director for Florida A & M University (FAMU) from the 1940s-2001. His papers include material regarding the FAMU Marching 100 band as well as his other professional activities.

Dates: 1940 - 2012

William Frankland journal

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS A29
Overview

Journal used by William Frankland, who trained as a lawyer and served as Attorney-general in the Isle of Man and as private secretary to the secretary of state for home affairs in England. Topics covered in the journal include Frankland's attorney-general work, both in the Isle of Man and in London; continental travels, including in Belgium, Germany, and France; and his illness while in Cheltenham and Malvern, England.

Dates: August 30, 1813 - December 6, 1815

William Frazer papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 85
Overview

Collection regarding ancient Celtic ecclesiastical bells. Includes notebook, loose notes, sketches, letters to Frazer, offprints, etc. William Frazer was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and had antiquarian interests in archaeology, numismatics, and sigillography.

Dates: 1880s

William G. Harvey bank books

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Call Number: RH MS A11
Overview

Collection consists of bank books for accounts held at various banks by William G. Harvey, a wholesale liquor dealer at the time of his death. The books mostly note balances, deposits, and credits for each account; some volumes are barely used. Freeling Tufts became executor of the Harvey estate following his death.

Dates: 1886 - 1889

William H. Brow Papers

 Collection
Call Number: PP 563
Overview

William H. Brow served twice as the in-country Director of the University of Kansas Study Abroad program in Costa Rica. Fluent in both Spanish and Portuguese, he also worked as a literary translator. The collection contains translations of manuscripts for two books originally published in Latin America and correspondence for KU’s Study Abroad spring 1976 season.

Dates: 1975 - 1997

William H. Fant ledgers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS E212
Overview

This collection consists of two accounting ledgers owned and used by William H. Fant, a farmer in Garden City, Finney County, Kansas. The ledgers include information regarding dates and descriptions of items, expenses and income.

Dates: 1936 - 1967

William H. H. Whitney diary

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P780
Overview The 1865 diary of Lawrence, Kansas resident William H. H. Whitney, a twenty-five year old Civil War veteran of Vermont's 13th Infantry Regiment, chronicles his activities as a recent emigrant to Lawrence with his wife and young son. Whitney's many entries describe the weather, his work and social activities, the birth of his second son, and local events. Entries of special note include the 1865 sighting and capture of a participant in William Quantrill's Lawrence Massacre of 1863, a...
Dates: diary entries: 1865; certificate: 1911

William H. Morrison's letters from the Nebraska Territory

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P923
Overview

This collection contains two letters from Union soldier Willam H. Morrison to his sister and father from when he was stationed at Fort Kearney in Nebraska Territory.

Dates: May 2, 1864 and October 26, 1865

William H. Taft liber amicorum

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS J8:3
Overview

A liber amicorum presented to William H. Taft as ex-governor of the Philippines. The volume cover reads "Exc’mo viro … Guillelmo H. Taft: Rector, doctores … universitatis Manil. hoc obsequium … offerunt, 1905."

Dates: August 30, 1905

William Harrington, III papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P846
Overview

The William Harrington III papers are those of a long time Kansas resident and former Buffalo Soldier who served in the U.S. Army for 30 years.

Dates: 1986 and 1994

William Holman Hunt collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 208
Overview

Miscellaneous collection of letters, photographs, and other items concerning British painter William Holman Hunt, mostly compiled by University of Kansas English professor William Doremus Paden.

Dates: 1856 - 1910

William Inge collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 165
Overview

This collection of William Inge's papers contains manuscripts for many of his plays, some correspondence and photographs of his sculpture work, and a number of articles written and/or published between 1950 and 1976.

Dates: 1950 - 1976

William Inge photograph

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P714
Overview

This collection contains a photograph of a sculpture of William Inge holding his Academy Award ("Oscar").

Dates: 1974

William Isaac Marshall writings

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS D72
Overview

Collection of writings about the history of the United States western territories, particularly the United States' acquisition of the Oregon Territory, by William Isaac Marshall.

Dates: 1899 - 1905

William K. Marshall papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 659
Overview

The papers of William K. Marshall are those of a native Kansan who became the first African American to represent the 58th District in the Kansas State House of Representatives.

Dates: 1974 - 1976

William L. Scheirman papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P1001
Overview The William L. Scheirman collection contains materials relating to Lawrence, Kansas German families from Russia, including photocopies and original photographic prints. There is a letter to William R. Scheirman from Gladys Blackman, whose grandparents John Adam and Cath. Elizabeth Shireman or Schuermann immigrated from Russia; photographs of Scheuermann and Shireman relatives; a photograph of Turner Hall in Lawrence; a photo of a Scheuermann family home; and a photograph of a Scheuermann...
Dates: approximately 1880s - 1930s; 1991

William L. White : Scrapbook of mounted newspaper clippings

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS E146
Overview

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings collected by staff of Watson Library regarding William Lindsay White (1900-1973) an author and journalist born in Emporia, Kansas.

Dates: 1947

William Lawrence letter

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P87
Overview

Letter addressed to "my dear Appleton", dated Milton, Massachusetts, October 15, 1940. The letter discusses the founding of Lawrence, and the naming of the town.

Dates: October 15, 1940

William Lindsay White collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 608
Overview

The William Lindsay White Collection contains career correspondence and manuscripts of author and journalist William Lindsay White and his father, Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and author William Allen White. Included also are papers of William Lindsay White's mother Sallie Lindsay White and of his grandparents, Dr. Allen White and Mary Ann Hatten White.

Dates: 1815 - 1983

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University of Kansas 76
Quantrill, William Clarke, 1837-1865 21
White, William Allen, 1868-1944 21
United States. Army 20
Brown, John, 1800-1859 14
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Between the Covers Rare Books 13
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 13
Republican Party (Kan.) 13
Armitage, Katie 12
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 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
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
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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
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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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