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Democratic convention papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 101
Overview

The collection contains material concerning the activities of the delegation in Minnesota, and at the convention along with correspondence to Wright before the convention. Also included is material from the McCarthy, Humphrey, and McGovern campaigns, and miscellaneous publications, etc. from the New Democratic Coalition and Universities Anti-War Fund.

Dates: 1968 - 1970

Denise Low papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 334
Overview Denise Low was the Poet Laureate of Kansas from 2007-2009 and served on the faculty of Haskell Indian Nations University for over 25 years, during which time she founded the creative writing program. Low has published over 20 volumes of poetry, essays, edited collections, and other writings and is co-publisher of Mammoth Publications. This collection includes drafts, manuscripts, published materials, personal and professional papers, correspondence, and journals from throughout her career...
Dates: 1967 - 2020

Dennis Enslinger papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1576
Overview

The Dennis Enslinger papers are mostly photocopies from his research into churches in Western Kansas, the Pendergast political machine in Kansas City, Missouri, and artist and building designer, William A. Griffith. There are also materials related to historical survey projects Enslinger performed in Old West Lawrence, Kansas and Saint Joseph, Missouri, including maps, photographs and negatives.

Dates: 1924-1996 (bulk 1980-1996)

Dennis K. Helm papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1000
Overview

This collection from a University of Kansas graduate and artist best known for his landscapes and portraits, contain letters that Dennis K. Helm received from many other Kansas artists, including Elizabeth Layton and his mentor, Robert Sudlow. Also in the collection are Helm's outgoing letters concerning other Kansas artists, manuscripts of his articles and essays regarding artists Robert Sudlow and Albert Bloch, and a posthumous sampler of Helm's writings, compiled in 1993 by Don Helm.

Dates: 1968 - 1993

"Depiction of the Nine Phases" scroll

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: MS Roll 16
Overview

Taniguchi Gessō (1774-1865), a Japanese artist during the Edo period, was born in Mie prefecture, Japan. He studied painting under Tanke Gessen (丹家月僊). He depicted landscapes, portraits, and flowers and birds (Kachō-ga) in his paintings. This scroll, the Depiction of the Nine Phases, which has a Buddhist theme, shows the nine stages of decomposition of the human body after death.

Dates: approximately 1800-1865

Devil's Front Porch, with editorial proof markings

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 131
Overview

The Devil's Front Porch, with editorial proof markings and photographs.

Dates: 1934 - 1970

D.H. Cross family photographs

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P33
Overview

This collection includes a photograph of a horse-drawn plow near Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas and a photograph of a horse-drawn threshing machine taken around Cimarron, Gray County, Kansas with the D.H. Cross family.

Dates: approximately 1890s-1910

Diane Di Prima collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 71
Overview

The journal is the author's archives, presumably from when she was located in New York City: collection of carbons and drafts of letters, notes, journals, editorial work, etc. Includes much personal material. The two reel to reel tapes are recordings of Di Prima's poetry, and the "absurd" play was written in the round during the fall or winter of 1959 in pencil in several hands (bookseller indicates the play was by "Diane Di Prima, Freddie Herko, and James Waring").

Dates: 1953-1961, 1964?

Diaria

 Collection — Volume: 1-2
Call Number: MS D60
Overview

Diariorum Francisci Mucantij Ceremoniarum Magistri Tom. Primus [-Secundo] 1572 – 1580.

Dates: 1572 - 1580

Diaries

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS D132
Scope and Contents

These diaries were written by Hudson detailing his activities and those of his family and acquaintances. He consistently notes weather conditions, chores he performs, and other activities of a business and social nature. Hudson's diaries are unusually complete, but he discontinued writing in 1905.

Volumes are handwritten in pencil and ink.

Dates: 1902 - 1904

Diaries of Anna Johnson

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1421
Overview

This collection consists of the diaries of farmer's wife Anna L. Johnson, who lived most of her life in Columbus, Cherokee County, Kansas. The diaries follow most of her adult life. Also in the collection are some birthday books, address books, and diaries Johnson specifically kept for trips she made.

Dates: 1910, 1920-1924, 1928-1950, 1956-1970, 1986, 1988

Diaries of Elizabeth Duncan

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS A26
Overview

Three diaries kept by Elizabeth Duncan in the mid 1860s, both while she lived in Lawrence, Kansas and while she traveled overland from Lawrence to San Jose, California in 1867. Typical entries may include discussion of the weather, Duncan's daily activities, information about her family and friends or acquaintances who came to visit or wrote, and her own spiritual and emotional states.

Dates: 1864 - 1868

Diaries of John H. Eibest

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1343
Overview

John Henry Eibest was a farmer in Grant Township in Douglas County, near Lawrence, Kansas. This collection contains 51 diaries and associated documents pertaining to the farm, property, and life of John Eibest.

Dates: 1880 - 1939

Diaries of Margaret C. Merriweather

 Collection
Call Number: MS E271
Overview Margaret C. Merriweather, daughter of William and Sophia (Miller) Merriweather, was born February 28, 1883 at Reesville (Clinton County), Ohio. These three volumes of her diaries, which date from January 1, 1901 to April 29, 1903, describe her activities from approximately age 18 to age 20, while living with her parents and her younger sister Allie on a farm near Sabina in Clinton County. Her daily diary entries, recorded on 351 pages, describe her household chores, school and church...
Dates: 1901 - 1903

Diarium,1504-1506; 1513-1521. Paride Grassi, Bishop of Pesaro. Italy, copied 15--? or 16--?

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Call Number: MS E53
Overview Book: official diary kept by the Pope's master of ceremonies. Chronological account of ceremonies attended by the Pope, both liturgical and political: includes minutes of consistories and conclaves, and of audiences with foreign and clerical dignitaries; texts of documents; liturgical texts; lists of qualified persons, duties, etc. Also contains notes of interesting events, deaths, etc., anecdotes, and some of Grassi's personal opinions. Dates Covered: May 26, 1504-August 26, 1506 (part of...
Dates: 15--? or 16--?

Diary for 1860, commenced on a passage from Sydney, New South Wales, to Bombay, East Indies [i.e. India, and thence to England], by Mrs. John H. Wilson

 Collection
Call Number: MS C55
Overview Diary kept aboard a ship (not named in the diary) on a commercial voyage from London (departed April 5, 1859) to Sydney, Australia and via Bombay, India back to England (arriving Hull, July 27, 1860) by Mrs. John H. Wilson, wife of the ship's captain. The diary records the second part of the voyage, beginning sometime after leaving Sydney with the approach to Malabar Coast on January 1, 1860, and going on to describe the stay at Bombay (January 15-March 1, 1860), the voyage from there to St....
Dates: January 1-July 27, 1860

Diary of a Month's Tour in Belgium

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C286
Overview

This manuscript "Diary of a Month's Tour in Belgium Sep: 1840" may have been written by Henry Green, whose engraved armorial bookplate present at the front of the volume appears to be 19th-century, as does the binding. The anonymous writer, who mentions his home being within an hour's travel from London Bridge in London, England, recounts a 28-day journey (29 August - 25 September, 1840) made from London to Belgium and back with his companion, Robert S. Hays.

Dates: August-September 1840

Diary of a tour through the Pyrenees and Spain

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C213
Overview The unnamed keeper of this travel diary is a young woman, Louisa Herring, who has come from England with her companion, Mrs. Hanson, to join Jane Griffin (1792-1875) and her father, Mr. Griffin, a wealthy silk merchant, on a tour through the Pyrenees and Spain during the autumn of 1826. The diary, marked as a continuation (Spencer does not have the first volume if it existed), records their itinerary and sightseeing activities during the second half of the journey (October 1-November 12,...
Dates: October 1-November 12, 1826

Diary of an overland journey from Hermann, Missouri to California

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH VLT MS B8
Overview

H.A. (Hugh Alexander) Skinner's diary begins with his departure from Hermann, Missouri, in the company of about 300 emigrants going from Missouri to California. His narrative is thorough and descriptive as he travels by boat and wagon train. Note: To read the last 12 pages of the diary, reverse and invert.

Dates: May 14, 1849 to January 10, 1850

Diary of an unknown young man

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P938
Overview

Daily accounting of the year 1864 by an unknown young man from the area around Albany County, New York, who traveled west and eventually settled with his parents in Monona, Iowa.

Dates: January 1, 1864-December 31, 1864

Diary of daily life in Kansas during World War II

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P929
Overview

Daily history of home life during World War II, kept for the year of 1945 by Bruce Griffith, heavily detailed and closely written. At the bottom of most pages Griffith documents his personal life, describing activities with the American Legion and associated activities as a retired military officer.

Dates: 1945

"Diary of daily life, Lawrence, Kansas: Elizabeth Duncan in 1864"

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P753
Overview This 34-page typescript contains the text of an article by Katie H. Armitage, entitled "Elizabeth 'Bettie' Duncan: Diary of Daily Life, 1864," which was published in the Winter 1987/1988 edition (pages 275-289) of Kansas History, a journal of the Kansas State Historical Society. The manuscript describes and includes excerpts from the 1864 diary of Lawrence, Kansas pioneer Elizabeth "Bettie" Duncan. The collection also includes a...
Dates: January 1987

Diary of Della Knowles, 1892

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS AK2
Overview

This collection contains the diary of Della Knowles as a teenager in 1892 and reveals the social life and customs of the times. The addition includes the Knowles family genealogy and photographs on a compact disc.

Dates: 1892

Diary of Maude Egbert

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS B77
Overview Five-year diary kept by Maude (Mrs. C.J.) Egbert of Clyde, Cloud County, Kansas. The diary provides a regular accounting of her life as a farm wife during World War II. Activities or events she notes typically include sewing, entertaining and visiting friends and family, cooking, house cleaning, canning, personal health, some farm activities (like threshing), acquiring a swarm of bees, creek and river flooding, and the weather. Throughout the diary she calls her husband "Dad." Later...
Dates: 1943 - 1948

Diary of Medical Officer, W. Wilson attached to the Ulster Division of the British Army

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C252
Overview The author of this diary has been tentatively identified as William James Wilson (1879-1954), who later became Professor of Public Health at Queen's University, Belfast. Diary contains information about Wilson's daily life: conversations, entertainments, scenery. Little on medical matters. Literary and emotional reflections. Local battlefront news: tanks, flying. Irish and general political and war-news. Last entry: "Hun offensive started...Had lunch at Camiers...There will be few more...
Dates: November 1917-March 1918

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 13
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Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900 8
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Ellis, Ralph N. (Ralph Nicholson), 1908-1945 7
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Lawrence, Amos Adams, 1814-1886 7
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Wood, Frank 7
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Kansas. Supreme Court 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
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Bowersock, Justin DeWitt, 1842-1922 5
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 5
Clark family 5
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Douglas County Historical Society (Douglas County, Kan.) 5
Eigner , Larry, 1927-1996 5
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Mrs. Hudson's Fine Books & Paper 5
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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
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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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