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Frederick Allan Whitehead papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 162
Overview

This collection consists of activist publications from the 1960s and 1970s, including from the Stevens Institute of Hoboken, New Jersey, and from the Students for a Democratic Society, maintained by Fred Whitehead from when he was a student at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas and Columbia University in New York.

Dates: 1963 - 1970

Frederick Clark papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P776
Overview

F.W. Clark of Washington, Kansas was a life-long Kansas resident. This collection contains a bank certificate, a Democratic National Committee advertisement card, 6 Missouri Pacific Railway passes (1911-1917), and several registration certificates.

Dates: approximately 1900-1920

Frederick Eggert gift acceptance speech by the Board of Trustees, First Methodist Church, Lawrence, Kansas.

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P655
Overview

Typescript of a speech by William F. March, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, First Methodist Church of Lawrence, Kansas, May 20, 1920, accepting a gift from the estate of Frederick Eggert which established the Frederick Eggert Memorial Fund.

Dates: May 30, 1920

Frederick Funston clippings collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS D275
Overview Collection of newspaper and magazine clippings regarding Kansas-based military leader Frederick Funston, the Kansas 20th Volunteers and other military units Funston later led, and other officers and soldiers in the Kansas 20th, notably Wilder Metcalf. The volumes originally came from the Wilder S. Metcalf Library and were donated to Watson Library at the University of Kansas in 1944, where staff appear to have added some clippings after donation. The collection also inclues some photographs,...
Dates: approximately 1899-1949

Frederick Funston photograph

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P159
Overview

Photograph of General Frederick Funston in his military uniform.

Dates: [between 1896 and 1917]

Frederick O. Magerkurth portrait photograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 8
Overview

The subjects of the photographs in this collection are identified predominately as Salina, Kansas residents. Some of the oversize prints are double-sided.

Dates: approximately 1912-1960

Frederickson family photographs

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P2802
Overview Photographic prints and some copy negatives of members of the Frederickson or Fredericksen family of Allen and Wilson Counties in southeastern Kansas. Family members photographed include Walter and his wife Marguerite, James or Jim (former marshal of Bassett), Fred, Mary (Frederickson) Keas and her husband Gene, Dolores (Frederickson) Hughes Catlett and her son Thomas Eugene, and Patty (Frederickson) Hernandez and her husband Lloyd. There are also group photographs of the men of Savonburg,...
Dates: Majority of material found within approximately 1904 - 1951, 1980s?

Freedom Coalition collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 697
Overview

Freedom Coalition, a grass-roots civil rights organization based in Lawrence, Kansas, worked to ensure that all people in Lawrence are free from social and institutional oppression and legal discrimination, regardless of sexual orientation. The collection includes records of the organization and collected from individual members, as well as assorted articles and material related to sexual orientation issues.

Dates: 1970 - 2003

Freedom of Information files regarding KU and Lawrence groups

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 740
Overview

This collection contains FBI files released under the Freedom of Information Act and the correspondence through which it was obtained. The files pertain to Lawrence, Kansas-based organizations that were affiliated with the New Left and the Students for a Democratic Society.

Dates: 1968 - 1990

Freeling Tufts collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 45
Overview

The collection includes personal and business correspondence and documents reflecting Freeling Tufts' career as a cvil engineer and real estate entrepreneur.

Dates: 1864 - 1906

Freeman Collection of Hesper, Kansas history records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 979
Overview

This collection contains various histories of the community of Hesper in Douglas County, Kansas. Included are histories of the Hesper Academy and the Hesper Friends Church, as well as biographies of Davis family members who were early Hesper settlers and witnesses to William Quantrill's August 1863 raid on the nearby town of Lawrence.

Dates: 1912 - 1977

French fortifications

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: MS J3
Overview

36 plans of late 17th century fortifications, primarily in the region between France and Belgium.

Dates: 1667 - 1686

French Treaty of Alliance with Spain and Valais

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P119
Overview

Copy of a treaty between France and Spain and Valais during the reign of Louis XIV, possibly copied in 1730. "Renouuellement d'alliance entre le Roi tres Chretien de France et de Nauarre d’une part et les louables Cantons Catholiques de la Suisse et la louable Republique de Valais de l'autre fait a Soleure le 9 mai 1715."

Dates: 1730?

Friends in Council records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 94
Overview

Friends in Council of Lawrence, Kansas, was founded in 1871 as a women's organization dedicated to cultural enrichment of its members. The collection includes records of members, constitution with amendments, minutes, and clippings.

Dates: 1871 - 2017

Friends of the Kaw records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1160
Overview This collection consists of organizational records and materials related to the Friends of the Kaw's efforts to preserve and make publicly accessible the Kaw, or Kansas, River and its environs. Materials include newsletters, membership lists, administrative records for the organization, information from fund raising efforts and from legislative lobbying efforts, and records related to the group's efforts to halt dredging permitting for Holiday Sand and Gravel Company and Victory Sands and...
Dates: 1980-2009 (bulk 1994-2009)

Friends of Yates Branch records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 521
Overview

The Friends of Yates Branch Papers are those of a Kansas City, Kansas group begun in 1979 to raise funds for the Yates Branch YWCA. After the city's YWCA closed the Branch, the Friends continued many of that organizations community programs.

Dates: 1925 - 1993

Frowe and Lathrop families records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 696
Overview This collection comprises several generations of the Frowe and Lathrop families from the 1840s to 2016, most of which were ancestors, descendants, and relatives of Mary Phillips Miller. Other major family names in the collection include Phillips and Miller; minor family names include Johnson, Hahn, Gipson, Erixon, Drake, Richardson, Sebring, Ward, Wright, etc. The collection includes personal correspondence, documents, photographic material, personal mementos, genealogical records, news...
Dates: 1842 - 2016

"Frozen in Time" J. J. Pennell exhibit photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 48
Overview

This collection contains photographs copied from 19th century Junction City, Kansas-based photographer Joseph Judd Pennell's glass plate negatives by John Blumb and Tom Southall for the 1983 Mid-America Alliance traveling exhibit, "Frozen in Time."

Dates: 1896 - 1922

Fruehauf Truck Company photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 147
Overview

Photographs of trucks manufactured by the Fruehauf Truck Company at various businesses in Enid, Tulsa, Seminole, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Dates: 1944 - 1951

Fulghem Photograph Collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 115
Overview

This collection contains photographs compiled by Dorothy Fulghem of friends and family members in various locations in Kansas.

Dates: approximately 1929 - 1945

Funeral service programs from the Topeka, Kansas-based African American community

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P961
Overview

This collection contains memorial service programs for individuals of African American descent in the Topeka, Kansas area, some of which contain biographical information. Includes services for Solon W. Patterson (died in 1956); Esther Martha Watts (1964); and Lloyd Gerald Murphy (1962).

Dates: 1956, 1962, 1964

G. Foyle Estates Survey

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS D172
Overview

Volume of survey maps and statistical charts for the estates of G. Foyle, Esquire, showing the fields in 16 parcels of land, and associated commons,waste, and enclosures. 1070 trees located, and separately valued as timber. Most properties appear to be in Dorset, England, between Shaftesbury and Sherborne (including Marnhull and Margaret Marsh); not all have been identified.

Dates: 1796?, 1805

G. Graves newspaper clippings

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1198
Overview

Newspaper clippings dating from 1950 to 1980, covering local history in and around Lawrence, Kansas. The collection also includes several funeral memorials, a booklet about volunteering opportunities in Lawrence, Kansas in 1966, and a program for a religious service honoring Reverend W.S. Simms for 50 years of Christian service. Other local topics found in the collection include Haskell Institute and education in Lawrence more generally, as well as the Lawrence Jewish Community Center.

Dates: 1950 - 1980

G. L. Painter letter

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P867
Overview

This letter from Dodge City, Kansas real estate agent G. L. Painter (G. L. Painter & Co.) is to A. M. Pheasant of Windber, Pennsylvania. Painter writes to Pheasant regarding transactions involving the sale of real estate by Pheasant, and the status of litigation related to the sale.

Dates: May 15, 1917

G. W. Paddock diary transcript

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P857
Overview This transcript of the diary of Methodist Episcopal minister George W. Paddock chronicles his journey from New York State to Kansas Territory in 1857 and his traveling ministry in the territory to 1861. Transcribed from Paddock's 149-page diary in holdings of the Kansas State Historical Society, it contains his descriptions of frontier life, the settlers and Native Americans to whom he preached, the many settlements which he visited, and hostilities in the territory's free-state conflict. ...
Dates: 1857-1861, 1901

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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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