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Diary of Thomas C. Key, musician, 357th Infantry Band, American Expeditionary Forces

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS B75
Overview

This World War I diary of Thomas Clarke Key documents his military service from 1917 to 1919 as a musician in the 357th Infantry Band of the American Expeditionary Forces, including his tour of duty from 1918 to 1919 in France and Germany. Included are Key's notes of his subsequent civilian employment in Kansas from June 1919 to 1949, and notes of his Key family history.

Dates: 1917-1919, with additions to 1949

Diary of Thomas J. Allen

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS C84
Overview

Thomas J. Allen recorded his daily life, personal reflections, and some references to his occupation as a printer in this diary kept from 1854-1858. During this period, Allen lived in southern Wisconsin, Kansas Territory, and Ohio. Included in this diary is Allen's description of his travel to Kansas Territory via the Missouri River, beginning in St. Louis, through Kansas City, and ending in Wyandot (Wyandotte).

Dates: 1854-1858

Diary of trip across Idaho

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS C25

Diary of William Millar; Dublin

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C222
Overview

Journal primarily reflects daily social life in his class in Dublin, in the suburbs, and in his family's country place in Mosstown.

Dates: 1865-1869

Dick Williams papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 6
Overview

This collection highlights the personal life of Dick Williams, a Concordia, Kansas native and a long-time resident of Lawrence, Kansas. This collection includes personal correspondence and some financial and business records and correspondence from some of Williams' business ventures.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1918-1957 ( 1928-1952)

Dine-A-Mite Inn and Borgen family collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 567
Overview The Dine-A-Mite Inn and Borgen family slides are mostly personal slides belonging to Roy and Chuck Borgen, along with a few boxes of slides and some papers relating to the Dine-A-Mite Inn operated by the Borgen family from 1939-1962 in Lawrence, Kansas. The personal slides include candid family pictures, both in the home and out socializing, aerial shots of the Lawrence, Kansas area taken by Chuck Borgen, sports and vacation pictures, as well as the art slides of LaVancha Marshall Stalmok,...
Dates: 1943-2007 (bulk 1950-1991)

Diploma, Kansas City Kansas Public High School

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS R276
Overview

The diploma is Lolabelle Shelton's high school diploma.

Dates: 1925

Diploma of Gustav Willmann

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS R304
Overview

This collection consists of a Doctor of Optics diploma from the South-western Optical College in Kansas City, Missouri awarded to Gustav Willmann in July 1909. Willmann may have been a resident and business owner in Lawrence, Kansas during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Dates: 1909

Diploma of Katharine Gertrude Eberh

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: RH MS Q342
Overview

This high school diploma is from the Salina Public Schools, May 1920.

Dates: May 1920

Diplomatic report in form of a letter to Charles Viscount Townshend, Ambassador to the Netherlands

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P556
Overview Letter providing a diplomatic report to Charles Viscount Townshend, Ambassador to the Netherlands in the early 18th century from the Earl of Stair, John Dalrymple. Summary of pages 1-2: The deputy from Danzig, the Dutch envoy (de Cranenbourg), and I have decided to pretend indifference to fate of Danzig for fear of Polish jealousy; Count Fleming's liberal attitude. Poland pleased with Swedish neutrality; but Russia may be required to send men to Denmark. Polish army and Council politics....
Dates: February 27, 1710

Directory of property owners in Lawrence, Kansas

 File — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P437
Overview

A photocopy of a directory of property owners in Lawrence, Kansas Territory, arranged by street and lot number. The directory also includes an index of the names in the directory that was compiled at a later date.

Dates: approximately 1859

Dirk Shears - Klocke family correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1566
Overview

The collection consists of a handmade copy of Dirk Shears’s only book of poetry, letters from Shears to his friends Laura (Rempel) Klocke and Richard Klocke, a few photographs of Dirk Shears along with photographs of his art, and a two-page timeline of the city of Chicago with illustrations and quotes. The letters range widely in subject from art, architecture, literature, philosophy, science and politics to personal items, mental health, addiction and employment after incarceration.

Dates: June 1975- March 30, 2008

Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary Jayhawk Chapter no. 22 records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 644
Overview

The Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary (DAVA), Jayhawk Chapter 22 was formed in 1950 and first met in 1951. This collection includes history scrapbooks and minute record books from 1950 through 2001.

Dates: 1950 - 2001

"Discussions by Thomas Ewing 1829-1896"

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS C94
Overview This collection consists of a single volume containing various newspaper clippings and pamphlets recounting the speeches of Thomas Ewing, Junior, supporting the Greenback movement. He encourages the federal government to continue printing the greenback currency that it created during the Civil War, rather than returning to specie currency backed by the nation’s variable gold supply. He argues that the gold standard favors the concentration of wealth with those who own capital, the...
Dates: August 11, 1871 - October 31, 1887

Dissertation on the best means of maintaining and employing the poor in parish work-houses

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C13
Overview "Dissertation on the best means of maintaining and employing the poor in parish work houses," from the Guilford Street Foundling Hospital in London, England. The collection consists of the manuscript version of the dissertation and, tipped in ahead of the title page, a letter from Good to a Mr. Moore, presenting the manuscript to the Society for Promoting Arts and Commerce and apologizing for its illegibility, promising a clear copy if the printer needs it. This is the printer's copy with...
Dates: 1798?

Division of University Extension.

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P290
Overview

Notes on a district meeting in Lawrence to discuss watershed development. 1952?

Dates: 1952?

Documents concerning the city of Sabbioneta (Italy)

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS E9
Overview 172 documents (and similar papers) bound in 1 volume: architectural, urban planning, government, history. Proclamations, financial accounts, letters, contracts, narratives, and official documents issued by or concerning this planned city. Most are from the reign of Vespasiano Gonzaga, Sabbioneta's duke (1531-1591) who turned a village 12 miles SW of Mantua into a model city, and most are concerned with the construction of public buildings, especially the Porta Vittoria, the Porta Imperiale,...
Dates: 1537 - 1778

Documents of Abbey Dore

 Collection
Call Number: MS Q80
Overview

Documents concerning land conveyed to Abbey Dore, Herefordshire, England, mostly dating to the 13th century. Relates primarily to the Abbey's granges called Lincoyt and Lanveyr located near Grosmont and the forest of Severenny, Upper Gwent (present-day Monmouthshire). Land was issued by Hubert de Burgh; Edmund, earl of Lancaster; and private persons.

Dates: approximately 1215-approximately 1300

Documents of Walter Savage Landor, collected by John Forster

 Collection
Call Number: MS 111
Overview A collection of letters, poems, printed portraits, photographs, etc. Most of the collection formerly belonged to John Forster, whose definitive biography of Walter Savage Landor was published in 1869. The collection largely consists of letters addressed to Forster after the publication of the book, concerning Landor's character. Also in the collection are some other letters addressed to Forster; some original Landor material; and portraits and other materials concerned with the publication...
Dates: approximately 1830-1876 (bulk 1869)

Dodge and Miller family letters

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P974
Overview

This collection consists of six letters among three different generations of the Dodge family while residing in Buffalo, New York; at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; and in Emporia, Kansas. The letters mostly focus on family news, including marriage announcements and the illnesses and deaths of family members.

Dates: 1832 - 1884

D'Olier family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 246
Overview

This collection of manuscripts and published sources concerns the life and ancestry of Richard D'Olier of Dublin, Ireland, a leader in 18th century Dublin Methodism whose Huguenot ancestors emigrated from France to Ireland. Included is a memoir recounting the 1793 to 1794 imprisonment of the Richard D'Olier family members who were residing at Montauban in the south of France when the Reign of Terror commenced.

Dates: approximately 1884-1909

Domenico Fischietti libretto

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS K5
Overview

Libretto by Carlo Goldoni and full score by D. Fischietti for the opera "Il mercato di Malmantile" ("The Malmantile Market"). Includes all 3 acts. The opera was first performed in London 10 November 1761; it was originally written in 1757.

Dates: after 1757

Don Ehrlich Collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P933
Overview

An essay by Don Ehrlich for the class GE 502 Seminar in Cultural Geography: Settlement Geography at the Kansas State Teachers College (now Emporia State University). The essay describes the town of Dunlap, Morris County, Kansas, based on interviews, county records, and books, including the founding and eventual failure of the town.

Dates: 1972

Don Imus photograph

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH WL PH 6
Overview

This collection consists of a single color photograph of a closeup of Don Imus' face.

Dates: 2004

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University of Kansas 77
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United States. Army 20
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 13
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 12
University of Kansas. Libraries 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
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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
Inge, William 7
Lawrence, Amos Adams, 1814-1886 7
Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894 7
Wood, Frank 7
African Methodist Episcopal Church 6
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 6
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
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
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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