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Florence Harkrader Hastings photographs

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-7
Call Number: RH PH 545(f)
Overview

Photographs, dated 1915, of images taken around the College of Emporia in Kansas by donor Carol Graham's mother, Florence Harkrader Hastings. Photographs include scenes of students and buildings on Emporia's campus.

Dates: 1915

Florence Looney papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS Q299
Overview

The Florence Looney Papers are those of a long time Wichita, Kansas resident and are dated from 1974-1987. They consist solely of several oversize posters and published materials. Folder arrangement is alphabetical.

Dates: 1974 - 1987

Florence Lydia Snow papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 969
Overview

Florence Snow (1861-1955) was a poet and author who lived most of her life in Kansas. These papers include her journals and notebooks, correspondence, poems and other writings, public proofs and notes, studies of the human hand, Snow's obituary along with images of her, and some family history.

Dates: 1895 - 1954

Florence Lydia Snow scrapbook

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1096
Overview

This bound scrapbook contains news clippings and tearsheets of published articles and short stories by Kansas poet and author Florence L. Snow. The scrapbook, compiled by the author, includes manuscript segments of her writings. Housed separately are two photographs--one of Snow at her Lawrence, Kansas home, and one of the home of her sister Ella Snow (Mrs. W. W. Sain) at Neosho Falls, Kansas.

Dates: 1884-1898, photographs: approximately 1920-1941

Floyd Schultz collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 446
Overview Floyd Schultz (1881-1951) was an amateur archaeologist who lived in Junction City, Geary County, and Clay Center, Clay County, Kansas. His interest in Native American history and culture extended to both participating in archaeological digs and documenting the lives of living Native Americans in various counties throughout Kansas. This collection includes Schultz's correspondence with firms to acquire artifacts and photographs for his collections, as well as a handwritten list of his...
Dates: 1870s-1949

Floyd Schultz history

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1609
Overview

The Floyd Schultz history consists of research compiled by Marlin Hawley on amateur archeologist Floyd Schulz of Clay Center, Kansas. It predominately contains photocopies of Schultz's correspondence, inventories of Indigenous objects that Schultz collected, articles written by and about Schultz, and Hawley's original correspondence about Schultz.

Dates: 1922 - 2011

Forbes Brothers Central Mills financial records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 359
Overview

The Forbes Brothers Central Mills of Topeka, Kansas, was established in the late 1890s by William A. Forbes under the name of Forbes Milling. This collection contains annual financial reports of the company covering the years 1931 through 1948.

Dates: 1931 - 1948

Ford Madox Brown collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 206
Overview

This collection consists of letters and exhibit catalogs concerning British painter and designer Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893), compiled originally by University of Kansas English Department faculty member William Doremus Paden.

Dates: 1855 - 1889

Fort Leavenworth, Kansas photographic postcards

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P486
Overview

Two real photographic postcards depicting Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The views are of officers' quarters on Pope Avenue and of Otis Hall. There are descriptive inscriptions on the back of each postcard. Fort Leavenworth, which is located north of Leavenworth, Kansas, is the oldest Army post west of the Mississippi River and is known for training Army leaders through its Command School.

Dates: approximately 1909

Fort McKinney, Wyoming photograph album

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Call Number: RH PH 143
Overview Scenes of army life at Fort McKinney, Wyoming. Included in the collection are photographs of troops drilling, soldiers at recreation, officer's homes, a Chinese laundry, and other buildings at the fort. Among the army units shown are Troop H, C 8th Infantry, 6th Cavalry, and the 9th Cavalry. There are also views of the Custer Battlefield and towns in Wyoming including Clearmont, Buffalo, and Newcastle, as well as two photographs of Kansas City, Missouri. The album contains albumen and...
Dates: approximately 1870s

Fort Riley camp photograph

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P2799(f)
Overview

This collection consists of one panoramic photograph on fabric backing. A caption reads "Camp of Instruction. Fort Riley, '08, Pennell photo."

Dates: 1908

Fort Riley, Kansas counseling project records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1019
Overview

Jan Flora and Dave Bunten served as counselors for a project at Fort Riley, Riley County, Kansas during the Vietnam War. This collection is comprised of working files as well as publications regarding conscientious objector status and service discharge.

Dates: 1970s

Fort Riley photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 515
Overview

Five panoramic silver gelatin photographic prints showing Kansas National Guard (K.N.G.) soldiers at Fort Riley, Kansas in the latter half of the 1920s. The photographs have been flattened and wrapped around a structural support tube in a single cubic foot box.

Dates: 1925 - 1929

Fort Riley World War II-era photographs

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Call Number: RH PH 517
Overview

Photographs of Fort Riley, Kan. and other locations during World War II and the years directly following. The photographs appear to have been taken mostly by a sergeant who trained at Fort Riley and was later sent overseas to serve in Europe and Japan. Several photographs show a three-vehicle wreck in a roadside ditch 33 kilometers from Landshut, Germany, potentially as part of "Exercise Normal," a large scale war maneuvers training event in the fall of 1948.

Dates: 1944 - 1949

Forty-Nine Sixty-Three Neighborhood Coalition records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P40
Overview

September 1971 progress report, April 1972 status report, and several photocopied flyers and a form letter to individuals living in the neighborhood, regarding the coalition's efforts on behalf of the neighborhood.

Dates: 1971-1972, undated

Forum Club papers

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS D217
Overview

One volume of papers read by members of the Forum Club, focused on English and Irish poets and poetic movements, mostly of the 19th and early 20th century.

Dates: 1919?

Foster brothers collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1277
Overview

This collection includes the correspondence of J.B. Henry and E.B. Foster between 1890 and 1902. The letters concern business transactions, family news, newspaper clippings, and mineral discoveries. Also includes 13 letters between March 21st and April 20th, 1896, concerning lobbying attempts to secure oil lease rights on Osage tribal land in Kansas as well as newspaper clippings and three packets of zinc mineral samples.

Dates: 1890 - 1902

"Four Centuries in Kansas"

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS E214
Overview

In 1930 several newspapers in Kansas reprinted a manuscript on Kansas history by Bliss Isely as a serial entry in their daily papers. The article was addressed to the schoolteachers of Kansas, who were to bring it to the attention of their students. Isely’s laudatory interpretation of Kansas history includes Native American history, white settlement, and the building of transportation systems. The articles are written from a Eurocentric white male perspective.

Dates: January 20-February 23, 1930

Four letters written by William Maxwell

 Collection
Call Number: MS P211
Overview

A collection of four letters written by William Maxwell to P.S. O'Hegarty.

Dates: 1939-1944

Fowler-Rose-Thompson Collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 88
Overview

This collection consists of personal and business papers of the Fowler, Rose, and Thompson families and of their connections, the Bracken, Lane, Sawyer, Shonerd, Ott, Smith and Bullock families.

Dates: 1777 - 1982

Fragments of papyrus with manuscript Greek text

 Collection
Call Number: MS9/2:11
Overview

Part of the Papyrus Fragments Collection. Fragments of paypyrus with manuscript, Greek text

Dates: 500-700 A.D.

Frances E. Kitchen memorabilia

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1148
Overview

The Memorabilia of Frances E. Kitchen are those of a longtime Kansas resident who worked as a nurse at both Western University and Douglass Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas. Items in the collection include a nameplate and two plaques. The collection's one photograph is housed at RH MS-P 1148.

Dates: 1954, 1976, undated

Frances Tomlin papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1032
Overview

The Papers of Frances Tomlin are those of a native Kansan who was highly active in Hutchinson.

Dates: 1941 - 1989

Francis Harper papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 245
Overview The Francis Harper collection consists of the scientific and personal papers of the naturalist Francis Harper (1886-1972). It includes correspondence, scientific field notes and photographs, historical research materials, manuscripts and published works, as well as personal and family records, etc. The papers reflect his wide-ranging interests, but the major research topics represented are the animals and people of the Okefinokee [i.e. Okefenokee] Swamp and of northern Canada, as well as the...
Dates: 1899 - 1973

Francis J. Walsh correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1314
Overview

This collection includes letters from Francis and wife Blanche Walsh to his parents, letters from Francis' parents to him, and various letters from Francis' friends during World War II. The bulk of the collection dates from the years 1942-1945, with only a few items included on either side of those dates.

Dates: 1932 - 1950

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 13
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Sumner High School (Kansas City, Kan.) 9
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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
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Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission 6
Otto, David Arthur, 1934- 6
Pennell, Joseph Judd, 1866-1922 6
Sturgeon, Theodore 6
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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
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
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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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