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Get acquainted : G.W. Kerford Quarry services, you can profit when you do.

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS R65
Overview

Photocopy of a full-page newspaper advertisement which appeared November 26, 1950 in the Atchison Daily Globe. It contains caricatures of the Kerfords and some of their employees.

Dates: Other: Date Not Yet Determined

Getting ready for the fair; a history of Bismark Grove and fair

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P444
Overview

The history of Bismark Grove and Fair was written by Alyssa Saul and won first place in the 1982 Kansas History Contest sponsored by the Douglas County Historical Society.

Dates: 1880

Gilbert H. Finlay Order of Eastern Star scrapbook material

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1491
Overview

This collection contains scrapbook material that was apparently never assembled into a scrapbook: photographs, ephemera, newspaper clippings, and letters to and from Gilbert H. Finlay, the Grand Patron of the Order of the East Star for the Kansas state chapter.

Dates: 1966 - 1989

Gilbert H. Finlay scrapbooks and papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1155
Overview This collection contains two scrapbooks that document the service of Augusta, Kansas resident Gilbert H. Finlay as Grand Sentinel and as Worthy Grand Patron of the Grand Chapter of Kansas, Order of the Eastern Star. Included are photographs, clippings, and programs from meetings of Kansas chapters attended by him in his official capacities from 1966 to 1969. In accompanying folders are texts of Grand Chapter ceremonies and letters concerning Mr. Finlay's 1989 election to the last degree of...
Dates: 1966-1969; letters, 1989

Gilchrist Family Papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1317
Overview

The Gilchrist Family Collection includes memorabilia from the descendants of Mary Catherine Dunn and Andrew Bryson Gilchrist who settled in Harvey County, Kansas, in the 1880's. This collection includes photographs, newspaper clippings, letters, family trees, family directories, and e-mail correspondences from numerous members of the Andrew Bryson Gilchrist Family.

Dates: 1938 - 2002

Gilgas family photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 130
Overview

Glass plate and flexible negatives of scenes of the Gilgas family, their farming activities, and Willow Springs School in Douglas County, Kansas. Prints are also available of all negatives in the collection and should be consulted by researchers first.

Dates: before approximately 1920

Giovanni Costa letters

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Call Number: MS P673
Overview Giovanni Costa of the Society of Jesuits (S.J.) wrote these three letters to three English contacts on the same day in 1851: Thomas Grant (1816-1870), Roman Catholic bishop of Southward; Jesuit Father Brownbill in London; and Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman (1802-1865), cardinal and archbishop of Westminster. In each of these letters, he provided an introduction to Mr. Giacomo Laguita (1813-1895), described as a good Catholic and the lawyer of the British Legation in Naples, Italy. He asked...
Dates: November 15, 1851

Giuseppe Antonio Langhi correspondence received

 Collection
Call Number: MS 68
Overview

Giuseppe Antonio Langhi Correspondence received, 1590-1610

Dates: 1590 - 1610

Giuseppe de Lama bound book of annotated poems

 Collection
Call Number: MS C104
Overview

Bound book of poems, annotated. Fair copy (holograph?) made apparently to present to the dedicatee, "Madame la Comtesse Blanche Uggeri de la Somaglia" (Somaglia, Bianca Uggeri Capece della, 1743-1822, of Piacenza). The volume includes social verses with semi-biographical notes on the Parisians who inspired them and their own poems. There are also some political allusions.

Dates: 1795 - 1796

Gladys Filson Carlson photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 36
Overview

Gladys Filson Carlson was a member of the 1927 graduating class from the University of Kansas. The collection includes portraits of schools, agricultural and outdoor scenes from Kiowa, Kansas and from areas of western Kansas.

Dates: approximately 1885-1949

Gladys Garrison papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 328
Overview

The Gladys M. Garrison papers consist primarily of letters and postcards received by her and by her Garrison and Havens family members who resided in the Kansas communities of Salina, LeRoy, and Greeley from the early 1900s.

Dates: 1905 - 1960

Gladys M. Burks papers

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Call Number: RH MS 1376
Overview The Gladys M. Burks papers are those of a lifelong Kansas City, Kansas resident whose father worked for the City Ice Company and who was, herself, a social worker and an active Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) member. The collection includes documents related to Mrs. Burks' employment with the Kansas City School District and Kansas Civil Service, her mentorship activities, newspaper clippings collected by Mrs. Burks, as well as various civic and church handouts and flyers, and...
Dates: 1900 - 1990

Glasgow family letters

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1329
Overview

This collection includes 12 letters written by members of the Glasgow family from approximately 1876-1881. The letters are written from Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. Most of the letters address business matters regarding farms, including the purchase and selling of land and animals. The letters also address information and changes regarding family and friends, such as marriages, births, holidays, and day-to-day activities.

Dates: 1876 - 1881

Glen Kappelman commemorative stamps

 Collection — folders: 1-3
Call Number: RH VLT MS P14
Overview

Stamps commemorating the Kansas territorial centennial (1954), Kansas statehood (1961), and James Naismith (1961), the inventor of basketball.

Dates: Other: 1954, 1961

Glenn Kappelman World War II photographs collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 533
Overview

Glenn Kappelman smuggled a camera with him when he served in the European theatre of World War II. The photographs he took document his training, time as a replacement soldier awaiting assignment, and service with the 106th Cavalry Group in France, Germany, and Austria.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1944-1945, 1999, 2000 ( 1944-1945)

Glenn Kappelman's collection on community development projects

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: RH MS 349
Overview

Records related to Glenn Kappelman's position as a court-appointed appraiser to review community development projects in Douglas County and Lawrence, Kansas.

Dates: approximately 1969-1975

Glenn, Livingood, Penzler Architects project slides

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 503
Overview

The Glenn, Livingood, Penzler Architects, a Lawrence, Kansas-based firm, provided services related to architecture, including graphic design, historic preservation, space planning, renovation, and site analysis. The firm merged with Treanor Architects in Spring 2008. This collection contains slides that depict various projects in the Lawrence area on which the firm has worked.

Dates: 1970 - 1999

Glenwood State Hospital photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 146
Overview

Photographs (cyanotypes) of Glenwood State Hospital, Glenwood, Iowa.

Dates: Late 19th century

God, Guts, and Guns literary archive

 Collection
Call Number: RH WL MS 9
Overview

These papers contain Phillip Finch's manuscript and galley proofs for his 1983 book, God, Guts, and Guns, which described contemporary forces of political conservatism (more commonly called "the Radical Right") within the United States. Included is a small quantity of correspondence related to his book, including a letter to Laird Wilcox, donor of the Finch manuscripts.

Dates: 1980 - 1982

"Golden Spear" manuscript

 Collection
Call Number: MS B78
Overview

Handwritten magazine of poetry, essays, stories, watercolors issued by the members of the Golden Spear, a charitable and literary club. The Golden Spear appears to be named after a mountain near Bray, south of Dublin. The Home for Crippled Children in Bray opened by Mrs. Lucinda Sullivan in 1874, was renamed the Sunbeam House in 1930, and closed in 1960.

Dates: May 1887

Gordon Greb papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH WL MS 3
Overview

Gordon Greb served as Chairman and CEO of the Greb X-Ray Company, Kansas City, Kansas and a member of the Heart of America Conservative Club. This collection of his papers includes correspondence regarding political activism, paper drafts, and assorted newsletters.

Dates: approximately 1960-1985

Gordon Parks clippings and obituary materials

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P884
Overview

The Gordon Parks collection consists of materials from several Kansas newspapers on Parks' work, life, and death.

Dates: 1969, 1991, 2006

Governor Mike Hayden's family on Harvest Days slides

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Call Number: RH PH 534
Overview

This collection contains color slides taken of Governor Mike Hayden's family and harvesting procedures in July of 1983.

Dates: July 1983

Grace Episcopal Church records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 918
Overview

Grace Episcopal Church is located in Chanute, Kansas. This collection primarily contains newsletters and other mailings from the church, along with vestry records, financial records, records of rites of baptism, marriage, burial, and confirmation, as well as service programs and other miscellanea.

Dates: 1916 - 1991

Grace R. Clark papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P714
Overview

These papers of Grace R. Clark, an Arkansas City, Kansas piano teacher, church organist, and choir director, include clippings, photographs, and other mementos from her life and from the lives of her Clark family members.

Dates: 1930 - 1967

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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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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
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Lawrence, Amos Adams, 1814-1886 7
Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894 7
Wood, Frank 7
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Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 6
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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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