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George F. Jenks map research projects collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 347
Overview

This collection consists of a wide variety of materials related to map production, generated and collected by George F. Jenks, a professor of geography at the University of Kansas from 1949-1986. The collection also includes publications written by Jenks and other research and teaching materials from his career.

Dates: 1933, 1947, 1951-1980s (bulk 1950s-1970s)

George Giles papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 504
Overview

The George Giles papers are those of a native Kansan who played professional baseball in a number of Negro League teams, including the Kansas City Monarchs. After retiring from baseball, he was a successful Manhattan, Kansas businessman.

Dates: 1919 - 1985

George I. Walker diaries

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P939
Overview This collection consists of 7 small Pierce's Memorandum and Account Books filled in by teenager George I. Walker with a daily accounting of his life from late September 1885 to late December 1886. In March 1886 Walker's family moved from the Yorktown, Iowa area to Ness County, Kansas. Topics in Walker's diary include the weather, what family and friends were doing, and what Walker did on a daily basis. His typical activities included farm work, attending writing school, visiting with...
Dates: September 29, 1885 - December 27, 1886

George Kren Photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 114
Overview

A collection of 16x20" color portrait photographs of predominantly Kansan and Kansas City-based artists and gallery directors, photographed by George Kren.

Dates: 1981 - 1984

George Marshall collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 158
Overview

The collection consists primarily of photographs taken in and around Garnett, Kansas, during the early 1900s, as well as photographs taken in Colorado and other parts of Kansas. The collection also contains reports from the superintendent of schools in Ottawa, Kansas, to the Board of Education during the years 1931 through 1948.

Dates: 1898 - 1948

George Pollock photograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH P2831
Overview

This collection contains photographs of individuals and groups, both candid and posed shots indoors and outdoors, as well as images of a flood and a parade. The glass plates were found by George Pollock on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, KS when he was a student there.

Dates: approximately 1890s

George Strachey letter

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P302
Overview

This collection consists of a single letter by George Strachey, writing from the Foreign Office to "Sir," regarding a Mr. [W.?] Arrowsmith, to whom Strachey had a year previously lent his maps of Russia for a project. Strachey indicates he cannot help the recipient of his letter with his map because he does not yet have his maps back from Arrowsmith.

Dates: May 25, 1855

George W. Collamore papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 33
Overview

Correspondence, documents relating to Lawrence property and Pike's Peak gold mines, steamship freight bills, papers, etc.

Dates: 1854 - 1869

George W. Johnson letter

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P999
Overview Letter from George W. Johnson in Coffeyville, Kansas to his cousin Helen L. Hilton in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Johnson expresses gratitude to Hilton and her mother for taking care of his mother and discusses his activities since coming to Kansas, including architectural drawing for his father; carpenter work; and working at a couple drugstores. One pharmacy was located near Pittsburg; the one he is at at the time of writing was Powell, Flora and Company Drugstore in Coffeyville, located...
Dates: May 3, 1891; postmarked May 24, 1891

George W. Packard letters

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P109

George Walter Rayhill collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 82
Overview

This collection contains scattered family papers, some of Rayhill's business correspondence, and photographs of the Rayhill family, who migrated from the eastern half of the United States in the late 19th century and lived in Warrensburg, Missouri.

Dates: [1855]-1952

George Washington Carver Papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS P743
Overview

Letter written to Mr. Hardwick from George Washington Carver on July 25th, 1924. The collection also includes a modern portrait print of Carver and a fragment of an unidentified second letter. The items are housed within a decorative case from a previous repository, the Copley Library in La Jolla, California.

Dates: July 25, 1924

George Washington Robnett papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH WL MS 14
Overview

George W. Robnett (1890-1975) was an author and advertising executive, and co-founder and executive secretary of the National Laymen's Council, Church League of America (1937-1956). In 1960 he founded the Institute for Special Research. He was publisher of NEWS AND VIEWS. After retiring, Robnett concentrated his efforts on the Middle-East conflict and made three trips to the area. This collection includes Robnett's files containing correspondence and ephemera.

Dates: 1950 - 1969

George Watters papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS P765
Overview

Collection includes a prison autograph album and correspondence from Irish nationalist and prisoner, George Watters, who was with the Waterford Irish Republican Army (IRA). There are a few other related papers in the collection as well, including a blank petition for Watters' release.

Dates: 1922 - 1924

George Wetterhold business letters

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P863
Overview

George Wetterhold was owner of the George Wetterhold Mattress Factory in Wichita, Kansas from about 1902 until the 1920s. These seven letters to Wetterhold regarding purchases from his factory are from businesses in Kansas and Oklahoma, written from 1909 to 1914.

Dates: 1909 - 1914

Georgiana Graves papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 906
Overview

This collection consists of material related to the history of banking in Douglas County, Kansas, including manuscript drafts of a history by Georgiana Graves, newspaper articles, as well as advertisements and record samples.

Dates: 1885 - 1984

Gerald L.K. Smith negatives

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

A series of black and white negatives of Gerald L. K. Smith and his Passion Play project in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Dates: approximately 1960s or 1970s

Geraldine Mowbray-Arnett collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1489
Overview Dr. Geraldine Mowbray-Arnett was the first known African American woman to attend the University of Kansas School of Medicine in 1937. She went on to have a succesful career and eventually become the director for the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York. This collection includes newspaper clippings, yearbooks, correspondence, several photographs, a dissertation including an interview with her, and items from her time in the Sumner High School Alumni Association, as well as a few papers...
Dates: 1908 - 2012

Geraldine Slater photograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH P2830
Overview

This collection contains a DVD and scanned copies of glass plate negative images of building sites, as well as views of construction of pipelines and a dam structure in Topeka, Kansas.

Dates: 1920s

German-American accounts book

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS E61
Overview

Accounts book for a store in a German-American community, 1860-1867, with poetry clipped from newspapers attached, possibly maintained by I. F. Sing. The location of the store is unknown.

Dates: 1860 - 1867

German Lutherans in Block, Kansas photograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 167
Overview

This collection includes photographs of German Lutherans in Block, Kansas, located near Paola, Miami County. Images consist of family portraits, including wedding and confirmation portraits; Trinity Lutheran Church; Paola and Kansas City, Missouri; and vacation snapshots. Many of the subjects of the portraits are identified. Image formats include tintypes, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, postcards, and prints on paper.

Dates: 1882 - 1931

German State Documents

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 228
Overview This collection of German State Documents, collected by Dr. Charles Sidman, History Professor at the University of Kansas, contains copies of books, book chapters, newspaper articles, dissertations and memoirs from archives throughout Germany. The collection contains information concerning World War I through the mid-1920s, including the "Dolchstoss", or "stab-in-the-back" legend. Following the surrender of Germany in 1918, many right-wing groups claimed that the German Army did not lose...
Dates: 1890 - 1968

Gertrude Leona Sailors' Daughters of the American Revolution records

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P948
Overview This collection consists of materials related to Gertrude Sailors' membership in the Dodge City, Kansas chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). It includes her membership card in the national organization from 1917, an annotated copy of the 1936 state conference program held in Kansas City, Kansas, and a black and white photographic print of what is apparently the Dodge City chapter members in colonial attire, posed in front of a United States flag. The photograph was...
Dates: 1917-1930s

Gertrude Von Stiers letters

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P810
Overview

This letter, written by ninety-three-year-old Lucas, Kansas resident Gertrude Von Stiers, is a memoir of her Mudge family's emigration from Iowa to Furnas County, Nebraska in 1879. She details their experiences as sodbusters, living in a dugout, and includes her recollections of Rayville residents in nearby Norton County, Kansas. Included is an accompanying letter from her married daughter Louise, recounting her own memories of Furnas County, Rayville, and of Rodenbaugh family members.

Dates: November 18, 1969, January 6, 1970

Gervais F. Reed papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1176
Overview

This collection includes political and financial correspondence related to the operation and ownership of the Garden City Telegram newspaper of Garden City, Kansas, held by Gervais Reed with Robert B. and L.F. Reed. The collection also contains photographs and newspaper pages from the 1930s through the 1990s.

Dates: 1930 - 1998

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German 81
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University of Kansas 77
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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