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Harvey family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1152
Overview

The Harvey Family Papers are those of a long time Kansas farming family headed by David and Rebecca Harvey. The papers focus on the Harvey's three sons, Sherman (a lawyer), Grant (a doctor), and Edward (a farmer), all of whom graduated from the University of Kansas.

Dates: 1913 - 1977

Haskell County (Kan.) map printer's plate

 Collection — item: 1
Call Number: RH MS Misc. 2
Overview

Extinct towns such as Taw, Folsom and Lockport are identified as is the extinct Wild Horse Lake.

Dates: approximately 1887-1902

Haskell Indian Band program

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P470
Overview

Program of concert by the Haskell Indian Band from Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas. Dennison, Wheelock, Director, no date provided on the program. On the reverse side there are handwritten notes regarding bulls, cows, steers, hogs.

Dates: between 1903 and 1904

Haskell Indian Nations University Powwow audio recordings

 Collection — Reel: 1-2
Call Number: RH Tape 34
Overview

These are audio recordings of Powwow chanting and dancing at Haskell Indian Nations University. One tape is dated 1974; the other tape is undated.

Dates: 1974, undated

Haskell Institute programs

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P726
Overview

This small collection includes a program of the senior presentation of "Hiawatha", a drama, at Haskell Institute, 24 May 1904; two copies of the 1905 junior program; and a commencement day program for June 28th, all for programs held by classes at the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas.

Dates: 1904 - 1905

Hattie Haskell autograph book

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS C70
Overview

Autograph album owned by Lawrence, Kansas resident Harriet (Hattie) Haskell. Individuals signing her book often included a reference to a bible verse or a quotation in addition to their signature, as well as their location from where they were signing or residing. Most of the signatories lived in Lawrence, Kansas.

Dates: approximately 1880-1887 (mostly 1880-1882)

Havilah E. Hastings papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS B52
Overview

The collection includes Dr. Havilah E. Hastings patient account records and business ledgers. Dr. Hastings practiced medicine in Olathe, Johnson County, Kansas until his death in 1908.

Dates: 1880 - 1914

Hawkins Hall of Fame papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P836
Overview

The Hawkins Hall of Fame Papers are documents relating to educator Ernest J. Hawkins' nomination to the Kansas Teachers' Hall of Fame.

Dates: 1997

Hayden family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1159
Overview

Willard Hayden served with the United States Army Medical Corps in France during World War I. This collection contains Mr. Hayden's correspondence to his family and photographs taken in Europe during his service. The collection also contains documents and extensive photographs relating to his daughter Pauline Nunemaker's ancestors, genealogy, and family history.

Dates: 1833 - 2002

Hazel Anderson papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 818
Overview This collection consists of the papers of Hazel Anderson, a longtime Lawrence, Kansas resident. She worked as the law librarian at the University of Kansas for many years, while also working with various community organizations. The collection contains material related to the Lawrence Business and Professional Women's Club (BPWC), the Kansas Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, the National Federation of BPWC, and the International Federation BPWC, as well as Anderson's...
Dates: 1919 - 1975

Hazel Lee Simmons collection on early Lawrence, Kansas history

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 770
Overview

Hazel Lee Simmons was a principal of Cordley Elementary School, Lawrence, Kansas, whose interests included local history. This collection, comprised of scrapbooks and research notes, represents material she gathered in preparation for history presentations to her students and other groups.

Dates: 1954 - 1976

Hearne family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 840
Overview

The Frank J. Hearne family papers include family, business, and political correspondence; legal documents, mining surveys, maps and photographs dating from 1890-1915. Correspondence around 1904 between Hearne, F.T. Gates, and John D. Rockefeller involves the political situation in Colorado and the governor's race of 1904.

Dates: 1890 - 1915

Hector C. Henderson's letters to Mae Josephine Gillette

 Collection
Call Number: MS 311
Overview

These letters were written by Hector C. Henderson, serving as a private (later promoted to corporal) in the 1st Wellington Company, New Zealand Expeditionary Force to his American pen pal, Mae Josephine Gillette in Winsted, Connecticut. Writing first from New Zealand and later from England, France, and Germany, with his observations and experiences of World War I. Also in the collection are various photographs.

Dates: 1915 - 1919

Heinrich Block papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P365
Overview

Typescript copy detailing the account of the emigration trip of Heinrich Block and his family from Russia to the United States and their life in the United States from 1813 to 1896. The account was gathered from Heinrich's son Peter H. Block's history and translated by Paulina Foote sometime between 1900 and 1973.

Dates: [sometime between 1900 and 1973]

Heinz Frederick Peters literary manuscript

 Collection
Call Number: MS 26
Overview

Typescript, layout drafts and proofs of Heinz Frederick Peters' book, Rainer Maria Rilke: Masks and the Man, published by University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1960.

Dates: 1960

Helen Courtois papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH WL MS 12
Overview Helen Courtois was the secretary and founder of the Keep America Committee (K.A.C.), an anti-communist organization based in Los Angeles which was active in the 1950s. The Committee acted as a reprint service, reproducing and disseminating articles from far-right publications. Courtois was also involved in Mankind United, a religious cult active during the World War II era. This collection of her papers reflects her participation in these organizations, as well as a collection of newspapers,...
Dates: 1950s

Helen Foresman Spencer papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 542
Overview Helen Foresman Spencer was the wife of Kansas City industrialist Kenneth Aldred Spencer. Following her husband's death in 1960, Mrs. Spencer became president and director of the charitable foundation which they established in 1949. Under her direction until its dissolution in 1979, the Kenneth A. and Helen F. Spencer Foundation significantly expanded and enriched the cultural, scientific, and educational institutions of the Kansas City and Midwest region. The Helen Foresman Spencer papers...
Dates: 1904 - 1982

Helen Holmes Papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1136
Overview

The Helen (Lambert) Holmes Papers are those of a long time Wichita, Kansas resident. They focus on her father, Detective William "Bill" Lambert, and uncle Jim Gordon a member of the quartet The Four Tunes.

Dates: 1980

Helen N. Eacker letter Lawrence, Kan.

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P219
Overview

Letter is written on letterhead of "Progressive Headquarters, State Committee, Topeka, Kan." and lists Eacker as secretary, with her Lawrence address. Mentions illness and shopping in Topeka.

Dates: July 1, 1913

Helen Perry photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH P153
Overview

Photographs from Helen Perry, who was a schoolteacher in Bourbon County, Kansas from 1929-1932 and Allen County, Kansas from 1942-1948. Includes photos of children at play and of parades and fairs involving Perry's students.

Dates: 1929 - 1948

Helen Pieper University of Kansas memoribilia

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1213
Overview

This collection contains yearbooks, tickets and pamphlets to school activities Helen Pieper collected while attending the University of Kansas.

Dates: 1928 - 1932

Helen R. Hoopes poem

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P409
Overview

Contains an untitled poem written by Helen Rhoda Hoopes to Cassandra Ritter, dated December 16, 1936.

Dates: December 16, 1936

Helen S. Gilmore last will and testament

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P37
Overview

Last will and testament of Helen S. Gilmore of Emporia Township, Lyon County, Kansas, dated June 15, 1877.

Dates: June 15, 1877

Helen Sheumaker Collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P934
Overview

The Helen Sheumaker papers are those of an alumna of the University of Kansas. The collection includes documents submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of American Studies, University of Kansas.

Dates: 1993

Helen Thomas papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P956
Overview

This collection consists of a copy of Helen Thomas' death certificate and a letter regarding her beneficiary, brother Howard Meckling, from the English Franklin Funeral Home of Kansas City, Kansas.

Dates: 1975

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University of Kansas 76
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White, William Allen, 1868-1944 21
United States. Army 20
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 13
Republican Party (Kan.) 13
Armitage, Katie 12
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 12
University of Kansas. Libraries 12
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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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