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Francis M. Mason diary

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS E203
Overview

Franklin "Francis" Marion Mason moved to Kansas in 1863, building a homestead near McCune Township in Crawford County, Kansas. This collection consists of his diary providing a brief account of life on the farm from 1888-1904, documenting chores, weather, and other daily tasks in rural Crawford County. Loose items found in the diary have been stored separately.

Dates: 1888 - 1904

Francis Pierce Fitzwilliam letterbook

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS E58
Overview

This letterbook contains signed carbon copies of correspondence from Francis Fitzwillam, an attorney in Leavenworth, Kansas, dating from June 9, 1910 to July 14, 1913. There is an index to the letterbook.

Dates: 1910 - 1913

Francis Sharkey's memorandum books

 Collection
Call Number: MS 248
Overview

This collection of 6 autobiographical memorandum books was written by Francis Sharkey of Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland, possibly starting as early as 1835 but, based on internal evidence, mostly in 1848-1849.

Dates: approximately 1835-1849

Francisco de Salzedo devotional book

 Collection
Call Number: MS B50
Overview Devotional book kept and in part written by Francisco de Salzedo. The first part is titled "Cartilla de la doctrina religiosa" and includes at the end a parallel between the canonical hours and the hours of Christ's passion; a Latin poem beginning "Matutina ligat Christum"; and the meaning of the Mass. The second part, entitled "Consejos y documentos espirituales pertenecientes & la Mystica Theologia" by Pedo de la Piftuela contains 7 tracts on prayer, meditation, and the amorous union...
Dates: copied 1744

Francisco María Núñez Monge papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 88
Overview

This collection consists of two typescripts: Legislación sobre el monopolio de Licores y la fábrica Nacional (a history of legislation on the liquor monopoly) (1940) and Estudio Histórico sobre la producción y el monopolio de licores en Costa Rica (a study on the historical production and monopoly of liquors in Costa Rica) (1941).

Dates: 1940, 1941

Frank A. Theis papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 948
Overview

Throughout his lifetime, Frank Theis launched several grain trade endeavors and acted as administrator/director of many government programs. This collection of his papers includes correspondence, articles, clippings, and research data regarding Theis' involvement in the grain trade and its regulation by the United States government.

Dates: 1929 - 1954

Frank Carlson oral history collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 358
Overview

Frank Carlson (1893-1987), a Concordia, Kansas native, is the only Kansas statesman to have served in the Kansas Legislature, Governor's Office and both houses of Congress. This collection includes transcripts and audio recordings of his 1976 oral history, which addressed not only his political career, but also his personal experience.

Dates: 1976

Frank Claude Davis papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 282
Overview Frank Claude Davis was born on Feb. 22, 1858, in Platte County, Missouri, the nephew of R.T. Davis. This collection contains correspondence to and from Frank Claude and R.T. Davis during the period of Frank's employment with the Milling and Manufacturing Company in St. Joseph, Missouri.The business correspondence reflects his travel while on the job and his relationship with retail trade merchants and jobbers. Also included are bill receipts, personal correspondence, telegrams,...
Dates: 1879 - 1902

Frank Doster correspondence and miscellaneous writings

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 9
Overview Doster was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives in 1872, judge of the 25th judicial district, 1887-92, and Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, 1887-1903. The collection is made up of photocopies of Doster's speeches, correspondence, and other writings, dating from 1913-1933. The speeches are arranged chronologically, followed by the correspondence (1922-1932), miscellaneous writings of Doster (c.1913-1930's), and eulogies written in honor of Roster after his death in...
Dates: 1913 - 1933

Frank Harris correspondence and photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 40
Scope and Contents

About 150 letters (photostats and originals) to and from Frank Harris, along with two photographs and other miscellaneous manuscript items. Most of the letters date from the latter part of Harris's life. Correspondents include George Bernard Shaw, Princess Alice of Monaco, Upton Sinclair, Jay Kaufman, and others.

Dates: 1892 - 1931

Frank Holland papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 943
Overview

Frank Holland (1890-1983)served as a structural engineer for Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Company, Leavenworth, Kansas. This collection of his papers consists of records he kept, predominantly financial, as he traveled around the state in his professional capacity.

Dates: 1915 - 1980

Frank Ivers Frayne collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 79
Overview

The Frank Ivers Frayne collection consists of photographs of the Frayne family and other mementos of Frank's theatrical career, as well as some of Frayne's drawings, play manuscripts, accounting records, and correspondence. There are also newspaper clippings and scrapbooks about the Frayne shows and about the Frayne family more generally.

Dates: 1881 - 1891

Frank Kersnowski papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 340
Overview

This collection includes correspondence and recordings of interviews with Irish writers, and additional paper materials related to interviews with the writers. The materials were compiled by Dr. Frank Kernsnowski, an English Professor and Irish studies scholar who earned his doctorate at the University of Kansas, and retired from Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. Also included are enclosures removed from Kersnowski's book collection of Irish literature.

Dates: 1965 - 2003

Frank Proctor family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P943
Overview This collection consists of photocopied legal, educational, and personal documents belonging to the Frank Proctor family, spanning from approximately 1870 to 2000. The collection includes several educational records of the family, including diplomas, honors, academic progress reports; as well as magazine publishings, personal writings, army records, deeds, wedding programs, funeral programs, community events, and photographs. A notable family branch besides the Proctors are the Joseph and...
Dates: Majority of material found within approximately 1870-2000

Frank R. Lanter Lumber Company collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS E13
Overview

This collection consists of three volumes of accounting records from the Frank R. Lanter Lumber Company of Olathe, Kansas. The volumes include a bad accounts list and ledger, account book, and daily sales ledger.

Dates: 1887 - 1912

Frank T. Shute diary

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P888
Overview This collection contains Frank T. Shute's diary from 1879 to 1881. He details his family's life from Omaha, Nebraska to Highland Township in Jewell County, Kansas. The diary includes names of relatives living in the Shute household, as well as those living nearby. Shute also includes an inventory of his personal property and real estate, lists of payments and receipts, notes the weather and condition of crops. Also included in the collection is an 1876 letter regarding a homestead filing...
Dates: 1876 - 1881

Frankfort High School stock certificate

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P218
Scope and Contents

Stock certificate owned by F. D. Bliss, for purchase of gymnasium equipment. Frankfort, June 1, 1924.

Dates: June 1, 1924

Franklin, Douglas County Collection.

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS C64
Scope and Contents

Mounted newspaper clippings concerning the history of Franklin and Douglas Counties. Two clippings are identified as being from the Lawrence Daily Journal-World, 1927 and 1936.

Dates: between 1930 and 1939

Franklin family collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1127
Overview The Franklin family collection contains family correspondence and photographs of William E. and Phoebe A. Franklin, who emigrated from Illinois to the South Haven Township of Sumner County, Kansas in 1884 and in 1902 moved to Verden, Oklahoma. The collection contains their 1902 to 1947 correspondence from Oklahoma with family members of Illinois and South Haven. Included is a Civil War letter from William Franklin describing his participation in the capture of Fort Blakely, Alabama on April...
Dates: 1865 - 1947

Franklyn D. Ott and Aleta Jo Petrik-Ott papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 368
Overview

This collection contains scientific and scholarly material regarding algae and ferns, written or gathered by Franklyn D. Ott and Aleta Jo Petrik-Ott.

Dates: 1882-1994 (bulk 1960s-1990)

Fraternal Aid Hall Floor Plan

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS Q417
Overview

This collection contains a blueprint floor plan of the Fraternal Aid Association's Hall (Lawrence, Kansas), as well as a dance card from a 1907 Phi Kappa Psi dance held at the hall. The building was probably designed between 1894, when the association incorporated, and 1904 and was built in 1905 at the corner of 8th Street and Vermont. The Lawrence association was part of a national fraternal aid organization.

Dates: [between 1894-1904], 1907

Fred and Dorothy Rumsey papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 636
Overview

Fred and Dorothy Rumsey were Lawrence, Kansas residents and co-owners of Rumsey Funeral Home in Lawrence. This collection consists largely of family photos dating, roughly, from the late 19th century to 2001. It also includes family letters, financial and real estate records, and personal correspondence and official documents produced during Fred Rumsey's service in the Navy, 1944-1946.

Dates: 1890 - 2001

Fred Holmes Bowersock diary

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS B41
Overview

Diary of Fred Holmes Bowersock's 1886 trip to Europe, with daily expenses. Bowersock, the son of prominent Lawrence, Kansas-based businessman Justin DeWitt Bowersock, was accompanied on this trip to Europe by University of Kansas Professor W.H. Carruth. England, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, and Austria were in the itinerary. Bowersock took voice, piano, and guitar lessons, visited many landmarks and art galleries, etc.

Dates: January-August 1886

Fred Six papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1506
Overview

This collection contains political campagin information, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, diplomas, certificates, magazines, legal research, and ephermera belonging to and relating to Fred Six and various members of his family.

Dates: 1929 - 2011

Frederic Shields correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: MS 44
Overview

Unbound letters: artistic (and literary and social). The collection includes 140 letters written to Frederic Shields, arranged by writer (usually an artist or literary man). Also in the collection are 3 letters by Shields; 2 letters by Caine to Ernestine Mills (MS 44Eb); 1 letter by Hughes to McLachlan (MS 44Ke); 1 sketch by Shields (MS 44L:38); and 1 printed ticket (MS 44L:3b).

Dates: 1865 - 1912

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French 106
German 81
Spanish; Castilian 73
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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
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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
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