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Compagnia del Gonfalone de Roma manuscript

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS E69
Overview

Roll or listing of the dead benefactors of the theatrical gild, arranged by church-yard in Rome, Italy, from the 16th century CE. Includes appropriate prayers. "Facto et ordenato per li nobili hoi Misser francesco pogio Scriptori aplico: el Magnifico misser Gabriele delli rosci Conte palatino...et misser Julio matheo Guardiani: et miss[er] Cola Jacouello...et Antonio inferieri Camerlingo della dicta Compagnia."

Dates: 1505 and later

Compilation of articles regarding Wilder Stevens Metcalf and Frederick Funston

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS D238
Overview The volume is a compilation of articles and cartoons taken from local newspapers about the careers of Wilder Stevens Metcalf and Frederick Funston during the Spanish-American war, Also included are clippings about Mrs. Frederick Funston and the Kansas Roll of Honor for the Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-second Kansas regiments.Bound into the volume is an original Albert T. Reid cartoon depicting Metcalf as a U.S. pension agent and an original photograph of Wilder S. Metcalf...
Dates: 1898 - 1900

Confederate States of America bank notes

 Collection — Folder: 1, envelope: A-J
Call Number: MS P79
Overview This collection includes several samples of bank notes from the Confederate States of America, printed during the Civil War. It includes 17 - 50¢ notes; 10 - $1 notes; 13 - $2 notes; 17 - $5 notes; 31 - $10 notes; 18 - $20 notes; 10 - $50 notes; 4 - $100 notes; and 1 - $1 Virginia Treasury Note; these are grouped together in envelopes by type of currency, and the envelopes are labeled A-I. There are three additional bills for $20, $50, and $100 in envelope J. Some of the items are very worn...
Dates: 1862 - 1864

Conforti et ajuti per li condannati à morte manuscript

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C89
Overview

Sermon in five parts to bring comfort to those condemned to death. Possibly a copy of a printed book, probably written in Italy. The end of the volume states "Protesta da farsi dal Condannato prima che si invova per andare alla morte."

Dates: 17th or 18th Century?

Confucian Culture in Korea: Woodblocks for printing books

 Collection
Call Number: MS Q70
Overview

The two woodblocks in this collection reflect the strong tradition of Confucianism in Korea during the reign of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897). Both books are collections of Confucian writings and consist of Chinese texts rendered in Korean. Images of folio book pages printed from these woodblocks, downloaded from websites where the entire printed books can be viewed, have been printed out and are shelved with the collection.

Dates: 1867, circa 1910

Congregational Church of Linwood, Kansas records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS E103
Overview

Records from the Congregational Church of Linwood, Leavenworth County, Kansas. Includes a record book of church membership, transactions, and overall business of the church. There are also miscellaneous receipts, correspondence, and a history of the church.

Dates: 1872-1940, 1891-1955

Congressman Dennis Moore papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1389
Overview

These papers were created in the course of Dennis Moore's duties as the U.S Congressman for the Kansas 3rd Congressional District, primarily representing the work done in his Overland Park, Kansas office. The records include staff files, several boxes of audio-visual materials including VHS and mini audio cassettes, press clippings, and campaign materials.

Dates: 1998 - 2012

Conrad G. Creitz papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P265
Overview

Conrad Creitz was a University of Kansas student in the middle and late 1960s. The collection consists of scattered notes on SDS [Students for a Democratic Society] activities in the spring of 1966; a list of right-wing organizations in Houston, Texas; an SDS membership card; May 2nd movement membership cards; and a clipping from SDS New Left Notes.

Dates: 1966

Conrad Vandervelde papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 721
Overview

Conrad Vandervelde (1879-1969) served as dean of the College of Emporia, 1916-1941, and served as pastor of the Sardis Congregational Church, Emporia, Kansas from 1943-1957. This collection contains sermons, records related to funerals, marriages, and other services performed during his pastoral career.

Dates: 1928 - 1964

Consumer Affairs Association records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 820
Overview The Consumer Affairs Association was founded as a University of Kansas student organization in 1972. The organization acted as a Better Business Bureau for the Douglas County, Kansas area, working to resolve consumer-business and business-business disputes. The campus office of the Association closed in 1978, and by 1982 the organization was run independently of the University. The Association disbanded in 1991 due to funding shortages. The collection includes financial records,...
Dates: 1972 - 1991

Contours of Religion in Douglas County project

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1108
Overview

Timothy Miller, University of Kansas professor of religion, conducted a documentation project in 2003, "Contours of Religion in Douglas County (Kansas)," with his students. This collection contains materials on religious groups active at the time in Douglas County, which were collected for the project, as well as some research notes.

Dates: 2003

Conwell Studio photographs of Altus, Oklahoma area

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 111
Overview

This collection includes images of Altus, the county seat of Jackson County, Oklahoma, taken by Conwell Studio. Includes images of athletic teams, shop interiors, a bridge and a dam, and other images of the surrounding communities.

Dates: 1925 - 1934

Cooper-Sheppard-Cox family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 576
Overview

The Cooper-Sheppard-Cox Family Papers are those of an African American family whose members resided in Topeka, Kansas from the late 1800s to the 1970s. The papers document the family line of W. D. (William Damascus) and Mary M. (Overton) Brinkley Cooper, and include papers of Sheppard and Cox family members who married descendants of W. D. and Mary Cooper.

Dates: 1878 - 2004

Coordinating Committee of the Black Community scrapbook

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS DK11
Overview

The Coordinating Committee of the Black Community scrapbook chronicles the Topeka, Kansas based organization's meetings and activities.

Dates: 1968 - 1974

Copies of treaties, letters, decrees, ambassador’s reports, etc, concerning the succession of the throne of Spain

 Collection
Call Number: MS E236
Overview

Collection of contemporary texts concerning Spanish politics, both manuscript and printed: 811 items bound in 1 volume.

Dates: approximately 1700-1715

Copies or drafts of letters, primarily from Sevright as Agent and Postmaster for H.M. Packets at Ostend to his superior in the General Post Office, Francis Freeling

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS E94
Overview

Copybooks (either copies or drafts) of correspondence concerning official matters. Much of this is from Sevright to his superior in the General Post Office, Francis Freeling. Some to other recipients or to Sevright.

Dates: 1816 - 1819

“Coquetry” typescript poem, with letter from H.L. Mencken to William Griffith

 Collection
Call Number: MS P136
Overview

This letter from H.L. Mencken to William Griffith, October 4, 1930, gently rejecting and returning the enclosed typescript of Griffith's poem, "Coquetry", was found laid in Griffith’s copy of Mencken’s book, Treatise of the Gods (1930).

Dates: October 4, 1930

Cora Parker collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1464
Overview

This collection includes pictures, letters and a postcard written from Cora Parker, a written note from the daughter of Cora Parker's close friend Marion Barnes LeSuer Fincham, a family photograph album of what is assumed to be the Aenchbacher family, two newspaper clippings of socialite Anna Gould, and a painting of someone who is assumed to be Anna Gould.

Dates: approximately 1860-1940

Cordell Meeks, Sr. family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1150
Overview

The Cordell Meeks, Sr. family papers are those of a native Kansas family, the head of which, Cordell D. Meeks, Sr., was Kansas' first African American District Court judge. His son, Cordell D. Meeks, Jr., also became a judge and he and his wife, Mary Ann, were active in their community and local politics.

Dates: 1935 - 2010

Cordwainer Smith papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 196
Overview

The Cordwainer Smith collection contains drafts, fair copies, bound manuscripts, journals, typescripts, clippings, and correspondence, representing the major part of the surviving science fiction manuscripts of influential science fiction writer Cordwainer Smith. Also present are some of Linebarger's non-speculative fiction literary work and some papers from his governmental and academic careers, as well as some works by other writers.

Dates: 1928 - 1979

Corinne N. Patterson papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1490
Overview

The collection contains a trove of information regarding Corinne Patterson's lineage and research into her genealogy. Some correspondence materials are also in the collection, as are some booklets and photographs.

Dates: 1866 - 2015

Cornish Studio papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1342
Overview Cornish Studio was owned and operated by George B. Cornish from 1905 until his death in 1946. The collection includes register cards, register books, and order books from 1915-1971 with miscellaneous items from families photographed at Cornish Studio. The majority of the collection consists of prints, flexible negatives, and glass plate negatives of various people and landscapes in the Arkansas City (Ark City) area and surrounding region with a particular focus on individual and family...
Dates: 1897-1996 (bulk 1920s-1960s)

Corporate Papers of the Robert Mills Literary Agency

 Collection
Call Number: MS 307
Overview

In 1959, Robert Park Mills founded the Robert Mills Literary Agency. Mills worked full time as an agent, representing a wide variety of science fiction writers, as well as other genres. In 1984, Robert Mills retired and sold the agency to Richard Curtis Associates. This collection contains correspondence, book agreements, and royalty contracts between the Robert Mills Literary Agency and authors.

Dates: 1948 - 1989

Corporate Records of the Arkansas River Coalition

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1268
Overview

The Arkansas River Coalition is an organization based in Wichita, Kansas with a mission to protect the Arkansas River Watershed. This collection contains newsletters, newspaper articles, brochures, and miscellanous program materials documenting the coalition's efforts.

Dates: 1997 - 2011

Corporate Records of the Coalition on Homeless Concerns

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1139
Overview

The Coalition on Homeless Concerns is a Lawrence, Kansas area advocacy group for the homeless, established in November 1991. The mission of the organization is to address issues of people who are homeless in Lawrence and Douglas County. This collection consists of chronological and project files related to homeless advocacy activities from 1991-2005.

Dates: 1991 - 2005

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 13
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University of Kansas. Libraries 12
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 11
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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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
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University of Kansas. School of Architecture and Urban Design 6
University of Kansas. School of Fine Arts 6
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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
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Kansas. Legislature 5
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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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