Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 51 - 75 of 3963

Acacia Lodge No. 9 (Lawrence, Kansas) miscellaneous records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P654
Overview

Miscellaneous records of the Fraternal Order of Freemasons at Lawrence, Kansas (Acacia Lodge No. 9), including by-laws, rolls of members, and programs for installation of officers. Records date from 1938 to 1973.

Dates: 1938, 1957, 1968, 1971-1973

Academic Papers of Debora K. Brown

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P395
Overview

2 academic papers by Debora K. Brown.

Dates: 1980

Accipetres, from G. R. Gray’s Genera of Birds

 Collection
Call Number: MS G40
Overview This collection consists of a single volume containing notes for an ornithological work, as well as loose material removed from the volume. The section Accipitres from G. R. Gray's Genera of Birds, 1849 (42 printed pages) has been placed into this volume and is heavily annotated, interleaved with many sheets of lined blue paper containing extensive annotations on and additions to the text. The additions are largely citations of dated nomenclature up to 1875;...
Dates: 1875?

Account and letterpress books.

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS E97
Scope and Contents

The account books in the collection contain Gray's farm records of produce and livestock sold in the area. Also included in the collection are letterpress correspondence volumes dating from the time that he served as secretary of the State Board of Agriculture.

Dates: 1857-1879

Account book and Application of Membership for the Associated Union of Steam Shovelmen

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS E86
Overview

An account book and application of membership for the Associated Union of Steam Shovelmen, 1912-1916.

Dates: 1912; 1913-1916

Account Book of Henry J. de Coster

 Collection
Call Number: MS B8
Overview

This account book written in Flemish and French by Henry J. de Coster from 1790-1802 tracks his lumber trade financial dealings as he begins his business. "In coop boek, begonst met het jaar 1790" is written on the first free flyleaf. A number of leaves, which are notes on accounts often written on the versos of letters, etc., were removed from the book and are housed separately.

Dates: 1790 - 1802

Account Book of Isaac L. Cowen

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C291
Overview

Account book of income and expenses kept by Isaac Luce Cowen [or Cowing, or Covin], of New Bedford, Massachusetts, from 1843-1854.

Dates: 1843 - 1854

Account-book of the estate of Reverend Richard Greene

 Collection
Call Number: MS B125
Overview

An account book containing legal documents that records the history of the estate, household accounts, etc., kept by estate administrator William Webb for the estate of Reverend Richard Greene of England. The account-book runs from the death of Greene of Greatham to Richard I. Greene's death and the final settlement with Maria Greene (Richard I. Greene's sister) in 1794. Although the family is genteel and has income from investments and land, the income is very small.

Dates: April 8, 1786-September 11, 1794

Account Books of Hill Top Farm, etc.

 Collection
Call Number: MS C296
Overview The collection consists of 3 farm account books, mainly for Hill Top Farm, Midhurst, Sussex but also including accounts for property at nearby Heyshott and Cranmore and for various persons. The accounts record payments made and received for taxes, rents, wages, animals, supplies, etc. Hill Top Farm was apparently purchased by William Fisher in 1809 with the assistance of his father, Richard Fisher of Mill End, Hambledon, Buckinghamshire, who died in 1813. The first account book opens with...
Dates: 1823 - 1872

Account of Cherokee Nation affairs in Oklahoma during the past generation

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P242
Overview

Account of the history of Cherokee Nation affairs in Oklahoma during the past generation, together with correspondence regarding the account. Tahlequah, Oklahoma, 1966.

Dates: 1966

Account of killing of Larkin Milton Skaggs, a Quantrill raider

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P118
Overview

Account of eye witness J. M. Henry of Lawrence who saw the killing of Skaggs; gives circumstantial account of capture and execution of Quantrill sic] raider.

Dates: 1915

Account of the 1860 Revolution in Colombia

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS P77
Overview

First-person account--possibly fictional--of Revolution of 1860 in Colombia, South America. Account may be incomplete; includes parts 1-7.

Dates: After 1880 (foot note pages 33: 20 años mas tarde)

Accounting, Correspondence, and Financial Records for the Bank of White Cloud, Kansas

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS E124
Overview

Accounting, correspondence, and financial records.

Dates: 1881 - 1905

Accounts and memoranda concerning the United Irishman and Galway American newspaper

 Collection
Call Number: MS P327
Overview

Accounts and memoranda concerning the United Irishman and Galway American newspaper, initially published in Galway and then later in Dublin, Ireland. Includes notes by C.G. [Charles Guilfoyle] Doran, who was the secretary of the governing council for the National Brotherhood of St. Patrick, the publisher of the newspaper.

Dates: 1863

Accounts of the Trustees of the Poor's Ground

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS B124
Overview Account book for a charity issuing bread and a yearly coat for each poor person (presumably of the parish). Recipients are named (in 1685 there are 8; in the 1760's there are about 40; after 1784 they are no longer named). Trustees are named: they usually sign the account yearly. The charity is not named or located; after 1725 the yearly heading is "The Accounts of the Trustees of the Poores Land Devisd by, Richard Hill Gent. Decd." The money is derived from rents from land in Cradley and in...
Dates: 1685-1805[?]

Ackenhausen Saddlery Co. invoice

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P893
Overview

This handwritten invoice receipt in postcard form is from Cha[rle]s Ackenhausen to Mess. Terhune Bros., Mound City, Mo., March 14, 1906.

Dates: 1906

ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) Lawrence records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 858
Overview

The national American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) organization was founded in 1920 to protect individual rights guaranteed in the constitution. This collection contains files of the Lawrence (Kansas) chapter of the ACLU including correspondence, newsletters, case files and miscellaneous materials about the ACLU Lawrence branch.

Dates: 1963 - 1974

Adah Clarke's Max Reinhardt Workshop material

 Collection
Call Number: MS 10
Overview

Collection of memorabilia collected by Adah Clarke (later Adah C. Hagan?) while a student in the Max Reinhardt Workshop at Los Angeles, California, circa 1939. Largely mimeographed and otherwise copied, the collection also includes some manuscripts, sketches, photos, etc. Includes class notes, annotated scripts, prop lists, and other related materials. Many individual items incomplete. Almost all items include typed explanations by Adah Clarke.

Dates: approximately 1939 [compiled in 1950s?]

Adair family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 996
Overview

This collection includes the papers of Asa and Emma Adair of Ellis, Ellis County, and Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, their children and extended families from 1848-1985. Composed primarily of correspondence, there are also photographs, legal documents, University of Kansas and Bowersock Theatre programs, and other printed material.

Dates: 1848 - 1985

Adna G. Clarke letters

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1520
Overview

This collection contains letters written by Captain Adna G. Clarke of Company H of the 20th Kansas Volunteers to his wife and other family members while serving in the Spanish-American War in the Philippines. Also in the collection are some ephemera from Clarke's time in the war and some news articles by and about Clarke from later in his life after he moved to Hawaii.

Dates: 1898-1953 (bulk 1898-1899)

Adversaria. The Common-Place-Book, by Robert Courthope Sims

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS B40
Overview

Commonplace book, or a volume created to compile knowledge, kept by Robert Courthope Sims of Essex, England.

Dates: approximately 1755-1769 or later

African American history clippings

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1183
Overview

The African American history clippings collection covers a range of topics related to African American history, with some of the material relating specifically to Kansas and the Kansas City area.

Dates: 1960 - 1996

African American photograph album

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: RH PH 531
Overview

This collection consists of photographic prints and tintypes of African Americans, taken in eastern Kansas in the latter half of the 19th century. The posed and informal portraits had been compiled into an album that has been disbound due to severe deterioration. Images include individuals and groups of babies, children, and adults; most of the photographs were taken in studios and are posed in exterior or interior settings.

Dates: [between 1880-1900]

African American World War II oral history collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1439
Overview This collection consists of audio recordings and transcripts of oral history interviews of African American World War II veterans located in Kansas, from a project conducted by staff and students at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas with sponsorship from the Sandra Gautt KU Endowment. Also in the collection are some photographs and photocopies of photographic prints, original military-related documents and copies of documents, reference material, and other materials...
Dates: 1940s, 2010-2013

Afrikan Culture Society records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 881
Overview

The Afrikan Culture Society records are those of a Leavenworth Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas based group attempting to raise awareness of African American history and cultural, social, and political problems.

Dates: 1987 - 1988

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Lawrence (Kan.) -- History 67
Kansas -- History -- 1854-1861 52
Women -- Kansas -- Lawrence -- Societies and clubs 32
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 29
Douglas County (Kan.) -- History 28
∨ more
Kansas -- History 28
Kansas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 26
Diaries 24
Lawrence (Kan.) 24
American poetry -- 20th century 23
Kansas -- Emigration and immigration 21
Lawrence Massacre, Lawrence, Kan., 1863 21
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 21
Kansas -- Politics and government 18
African Americans -- Kansas 16
Science fiction 16
African American families -- Kansas 14
Architecture -- Designs and plans 14
Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas 14
Kansas -- Photographs 14
Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1854-1861 14
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American 14
Kansas -- Description and travel 13
Lawrence (Kan.) -- History -- 19th century 13
African Americans -- Kansas -- Politics and government 12
African Americans -- Kansas -- Topeka 12
American poetry -- Kansas 12
English literature -- 19th century 12
Kansas -- Genealogy 12
Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1951- 12
Lawrence (Kan.) -- Social life and customs 12
Family archives -- Kansas 11
Historic buildings -- Kansas -- Lawrence 11
Lawrence (Kan.) -- History -- 20th century 11
Leavenworth (Kan.) -- History 11
World War, 1914-1918 11
African American Baptists -- Kansas 10
African American families -- Kansas -- Topeka 10
African American women -- Kansas -- Societies and clubs 10
City planning -- Kansas -- Lawrence 10
Overland journeys to the Pacific 10
Science fiction, American 10
African American legislators -- Kansas 9
African Americans -- Kansas -- Kansas City 9
Authors, American -- 20th century 9
Fort Leavenworth (Kan.) 9
Fort Riley (Kan.) -- History 9
Lawrence (Kan.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 9
Lawrence (Kan.) -- Church history 9
Lawrence (Kan.) -- Maps 9
African American clergy -- Kansas 8
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence 8
Business records -- Kansas -- White Cloud 8
Clubs -- Kansas -- Lawrence 8
Douglas County (Kan.) -- Genealogy 8
Elections -- United States 8
English poetry -- Irish authors 8
Europe -- Description and travel 8
Franklin County (Kan.) -- History 8
Lawrence (Kan) -- Description and travel 8
Lawrence (Kan.) -- Genealogy 8
Lawrence (Kan.) -- Photographs 8
Lawrence (Kan.) -- Pictorial works 8
Railroads -- Kansas 8
Science fiction -- Authorship 8
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories 8
Women -- Societies and clubs 8
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, American 8
Zoology -- Research 8
African Americans -- Kansas -- Lawrence 7
Authors, English -- 19th century 7
Conservatism -- United States 7
Elections -- Kansas 7
Fantasy fiction 7
Irish literature 7
Kansas -- History -- 19th century 7
Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 7
Lawrence (Kan.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 7
Music -- Instruction and study 7
Natural history illustration 7
Stock certificates 7
Students -- Social life and customs 7
Teachers -- Kansas 7
United States -- History -- 1933-1945 7
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel 7
Women poets 7
World War, 1939-1945 7
Wyandotte County (Kan.) -- History 7
Authors, English -- 20th century 6
Authors, Irish -- 20th century -- Correspondence 6
Community development -- Kansas -- Lawrence 6
Education -- Kansas 6
Emporia (Kan.) -- History 6
English literature -- Irish authors 6
Entomology -- Research 6
Farmers -- Correspondence 6
Genealogy 6
Geology -- Research 6
Historic preservation -- Kansas -- Lawrence 6
Kansas -- Pictorial works 6
+ ∧ less
 
Language
English 3825
French 106
German 81
Spanish; Castilian 73
Latin 61
∨ more  
Names
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
∨ more
Between the Covers Rare Books 13
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 13
Republican Party (Kan.) 13
Armitage, Katie 12
Lane, James Henry (James Henry), 1814-1866 12
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 12
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
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
+ ∧ less