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Family history index of the Betty Washington chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P752
Overview The Betty Washington Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, named in honor of George Washington's only sister, was founded at Lawrence, Kansas in 1896 to foster historic preservation, the study of U.S. history, historical research, and patriotism. This Family History Index is an alphabetical name index to the chapter's membership volumes dating to 1976. It was produced as a Bicentennial project of the chapter, and was edited by chapter librarian Barbara E. Clason. The...
Dates: 1976, 2005-2006

Family Pedigree Charts

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P342
Overview

Photocopies of Chaffin-Shorb pedigree chart and of Baker-Brenner pedigree chart.

Dates: unknown

Fannie Dixon photograph album

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: RH PH 538
Overview This collection consists of a single photograph album, which includes candid and posed photographs of Fannie Dixon and her friends from her time as a student at the Kansas Vocational School in Topeka, Kansas. The Kansas Vocational School started in 1895 as the Industrial and Educational Institute of Topeka for African Americans; in 1951, the name changed again to become the Kansas Technical Institute at Topeka. There are also photos from Amarillo, Texas, and Fort Smith, Arkansas. Some...
Dates: 1923 - 1928

Farmer's account book of Michael McNally

 Collection
Call Number: MS E119
Overview

Book of accounts for an early 19th century Irish farmer. McNally holds land from "Mr Baker": leaf 151 pays tithes to "Ternan": leaf 6. Contract IV: 1 has clause "Being first...read to the parties by Richd McNally" Yeates or Yeats landowners show up in VIIB; 22 May 1820 McNally pays Wn Yeats for "Law." Itemized funeral expenses for Wm McNally of Doolough at foot of leaf 12a. Iv:1 and MS P385:1 separately cataloged. Landowners not traced.

Dates: 1820-1859 (some records from 1796)

Farmers directory for Douglas and Franklin Counties, Kansas

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS CK23
Overview

An incomplete version of the Farmers Directory for Douglas and Franklin Counties, Kansas

Dates: 1920-1982

Farmers State Bank and Overland Park State Bank telegrams

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P785
Overview These five telegrams to the Farmers State Bank of Lenexa, Kansas and the Overland Park State Park (Overland Park, Kansas) in early March 1933 contain instructions for restrictions on withdrawals of deposits, as well as mandated bank holidays. Issued in conjunction with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Emergency Banking Act, approved by the U.S. Congress on March 9, 1933, these telegrams to Johnson County, Kansas banks were issued by Kansas Governor Alf M. Landon, Kansas Bank...
Dates: March 3-March 11, 1933

Father Robert Layne papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1024
Overview

Fr. Robert Layne served as pastor of St. David's Episcopal Church, Topeka, Kansas. This collection of his papers includes correspondence and sermons.

Dates: 1985 - 1998

Fay Talley papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 622
Overview

The collection of Fay Stainbrook Talley, a longtime Lawrence, Kansas, resident, contains primarily photocopies of reference material for genealogical research, Talley family genealogical information, and materials relating to her participation in various clubs and organizations including the Lawrence Flower Club, Douglas County Historical Society, Rebekah Lodge, and Pilot Club.

Dates: 1870 - 2006

F.E. Kittredge letter

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P805
Overview

This letter was written in 1875 by the Reverend Frank E. Kittredge, a Unitarian minister temporarily serving as pastor at Tremont, Illinois. His letter to another church (recipient unidentified) is one of inquiry and interest in its ministerial opening.

Dates: June 11, 1875

Federal Theatre Project collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 142
Overview

A collection of 21 plays, studies, and other works, in 23 volumes, produced by (or related to) the Federal Theatre Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.). The collection represents primarily research studies and reports (particularly as pertains to theatre history), and a small number of play and radio scripts. Many of the items in this collection indicate they came out of the Region of the West and/or the Research Bureau.

Dates: between 1935 and 1939

Film by Paul Hausman

 Collection — Case: 1
Call Number: KC AV 71
Overview

Film of one of the churches located at 9th and Vermont Streets in Lawrence, Kansas. Includes shots of churchgoers leaving church and views of Vermont Street, near Massachusetts Street in downtown Lawrence.

Dates: approximately 1960s

Film, transcripts and letters relating to getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet

 Collection
Call Number: MS 122
Overview Leonard Henny (born 1935), educator, filmmaker and author, learned of Larry Eigner (1927-1996) and his poetry through his colleague, Joseph Eigner, educator and Larry Eigner's brother. Moved by Larry Eigner's challenges and work, Henny produced this film, getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet, as a part of his work with Films for Social Change. The accompanying papers include transcripts of a poetry reading used in the film and Eigner's own...
Dates: 1970 - 1973

Finance de l'Angleterre collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS Q13
Overview Collection of economic and historical essays and statistical charts, written in French, mostly regarding England, written in various and anonymous hands. Fair copies or final drafts (including at least one translation) describing England as a commercial nation: its natural resources, demography, commerce, politics, public finance, etc., often comparing the country with France. Theory of relationship between commerce and government. Some political gossip. Other topics include Swedish and...
Dates: Dates composed: 1751-1754; also 1693-1694, 1736, 1740-1750; dates covered: 1077-1377, 1483-1509, 1689-1754, 1746-1754

Financial accounts, reports, etc, concerning the English administration of Tangier

 Collection
Call Number: MS 163
Overview

Financial accounts and reports concerning the British administration of Tangier, 1662-1683; a passport from Tangier to England, 1669; and a plan of the Cupboard Room [in Whitehall where the Tangier records were kept?].

Dates: 1669-1683, undated

Financial records of the Shepherd & Henry hardware store

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS E99
Overview

Financial records of a hardware store in Quindaro, Kansas run by William Shepherd and D.D. Henry.

Dates: May 20, 1857--May 5, 1859

First Baptist Church of Leavenworth, Kansas History

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P529
Overview

The First Baptist Church of Leavenworth, Kansas History is a typewritten history of the African American church, which was organized in 1857.

Dates: 1957

First Christian Church records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 829
Overview

This collection contains the records of the First Christian Church of Lawrence, Kansas, including financial records, service bulletins, administrative records, newsletters and pamphlets, and photographs.

Dates: 1938 - 1978

First National Bank of Bolivar, Missouri records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 102
Overview

This collection of the First National Bank records, Bolivar, Missouri, contains bank books, stock certificate book, and bank records. Much of the collection includes the financial records of several businesses operated by the Viles family.

Dates: 1859 - 1932

First Presbyterian Church of Lawrence records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1111
Overview

The First Presbyterian Church of Lawrence, Kansas was founded in 1858. This collection contains historical records and books, photographic and audiovisual material, correspondence, some small artifacts, news clippings, church publications, and miscellaneous documents related to the history and workings of the church.

Dates: 1834 - 2003

“First Twenty Years of the M. E. Church”

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P996
Overview

The manuscript is an early history of the Eureka Methodist Episcopal Church specifically from 1865-1885, as well as a history of the town of Eureka, Geenwood County, Kansas in general, with tangential reference to other churches operating at the time. The history is followed by a timeline of improvements to the church building and organ, dating from 1893 through 1978.

Dates: published 1980, focused on 1865-1978 (bulk 1865-1885)

First United Methodist Church records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 804
Overview

These records of the First United Methodist Church of Lawrence, Kansas, which date from 1877 to 1971, also include records generated under the church's earlier name, the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Lawrence. Included are records of church finances, members, marriages, funerals, baptisms, conferences, activities of the church's Loyal Ladies Class, its Epworth League of junior members, and special events in the church's history.

Dates: 1877 - 1971

Fleet prison manuscript

 Collection
Call Number: MS D114
Overview

A compilation of texts concerning governmental salaries, fees, extortion, peculation, and abuse of the public, particularly concerning the Court of Common Pleas and the Fleet Prison for debtors in England. The collection also includes a map of Fleet Prison.

Dates: volume compiled approximately 1630; map drawn between 1660-1677

Fletcher of Saltoun collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 109
Overview

A collection of books and manuscripts relating to the Fletcher of Saltoun Family, most of which have come from Saltoun Hall. Salton (Saitoun) is an estate east of Edinburgh, Scotland, in East Lothian (Haddington). The manuscripts are mostly estate account-books (1750-1806 and undated) but also include notes on agriculture (18th century), common-place books in English and Latin (18th century), and a paraphrase of the Corpus Iuris Civilis (1600s?).

Dates: approximately 1600-1806

Florence Akin collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P853
Overview

Florence Akin was born in Franklin County, Kansas, where she taught for many years and served as County Superintendent of Schools. This collection contains her published obituary and a photograph of her, as well as Miss Akin's written thoughts on county school supervision, composed soon after her election as County Superintendent.

Dates: 1921

Florence D. Tillman papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 974
Overview

The Florence D. Tillman papers are those of a longtime Hutchinson, Kansas resident who was highly active at that town's Second Baptist Church, where her husband was preacher.

Dates: 1941 - 1983

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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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Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 10
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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
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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
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
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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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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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