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Herd family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1374
Overview

These are the family papers of Harold Shields Herd, former Kansas Supreme Court Justice, and his wife, Margaret "Midge" Zoe Rich Herd. Included are extensive correspondence and photographic files from her father, Horace "Hod" Hakes Rich, and considerable material about life in Comanche County, Kansas. The Herd family has several branches in southwestern Kansas.

Dates: 1817 - 2013

Herman T. Jones papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1112
Overview

The Herman T. Jones papers are those of a long time Kansas resident who was an educator at Western University and Kansas Vocational School during the 1930s-1940s and at Prarie View University and Training School (Texas) from the 1950s-70s.

Dates: 1933 - 1999

Herman Teerink collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P312
Overview

The collection consists of 4 letters (handwritten, signed, 9 pages total) from Teerink to P.S. O'Hegarty. Also in the collection are 4 offprints of articles by Teerink on Swiftian bibliography and some articles regarding collections/exhibitions of materials concerning Irish author Jonathan Swift, including clippings from booksellers' catalogs. Teerink was attempting to find certain rare items from Swift and enlisting O'Hegarty's help.

Dates: 1948 - 1949

Hester Buell papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 367
Overview

This collection contains the many poems and other writings of Tescott, Kansas librarian Hester Buell (1900-1993), which include her remembrances and memorabilia of her brother Harold and sister Helen. Within the collection correspondence are Miss Buell's letters from Wint Smith (U.S. Congressman from Kansas, 1947-1961).

Dates: approximately 1940s and 1979-1987

Hiat-Hett Family Genealogical Record Collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P966
Overview

This collection contains genealogical notes, author unknown, regarding the Hiat-Hett genealogy, members of whom settled in Douglas County, Kansas. This collection also contains two matted photographs, one of a member of the Hiatt family, dated as 1879, and an undated photo of an oil well from the Topeka Union Oil and Gas Syndicate.

Dates: 1879

Hidden places: the Mexican Fiesta broadcast tape

 Collection — tape: 1
Call Number: RH Cassette Tape 29
Overview

This single tape, Hidden Places : the Mexican Fiesta, May 25, 1984, describes the Chanute, Kansas, Mexican Fiesta in Santa Fe Park during it's 66th anniversary commemorating the establishment of Mexican independence September 15 and 16, 1810. This fiesta is believed to be the oldest fiesta in Kansas.

Dates: 1984

Hilda Enoch papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1142
Overview

The Hilda Enoch papers are those of long-time Lawrence, Kansas resident who was a member and officer of the Kaw Valley Chapter of the Older Women's League (or O.W.L.) and an active community participant.

Dates: 1952 - 2013

Hill family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1461
Overview Alfred "Scoop" Hill was an American newspaper man in the mid-20th century. With his wife Julia, he owned and operated several newspapers across the United States. In addition to his correspondence and documents dealing with his newspaper businesses, the Hill family papers include family letters dating back to Joseph Hill in the late 19th century to those of Tom Hill and his family in the early 21st century. Also in the collection are personal correspondence and documents relating to Alfred...
Dates: 1900 - 2005

Hillcrest School student photographs

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P2818
Overview

One page of collected black and white school photographs of the fifth grade class of Hillcrest Grade School in Lawrence, Kansas for the 1961/62 school year. Mrs. M. Ryther was the class teacher.

Dates: 1961 - 1962

Hillsboro, the city on the prairie manuscript material

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1081
Overview

This collection contains drafts, bibliographies, and subject files as compiled by Raymond Wiebe for the production of his published book, Hillsboro, the City on the Prairie.

Dates: approximately 1985

Hindu Animals and Native Trades

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS J14
Overview

98 colored drawings mounted in album of natural history subjects and trades held by Hindu "natives" in India. Topics include birds, animals, equipment, and various people in various occupations, etc.

Dates: between 1800 and 1899

Hinton family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1558
Overview This collection contains the records created and compiled by Patricia (Head) Hinton and Warren S. Hinton documenting their personal and professional lives. Records in this collection include scrapbooks and family histories; photographs; professional art and writings; correspondence with family and friends; yearbooks and other miscellaneous educational records; records about professional and volunteer endeavors; and records about significant life events including weddings, funerals, moves,...
Dates: 1921 - 2016

Hiram Barker papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1042
Overview

Hiram Barker of New Hampshire engaged in land speculation in Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri. This collection of his papers includes receipts, property deeds, correspondence, and account records of Barker's own estate.

Dates: 1838 - 1900

Hiram C. Clark papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P53
Overview

A diary, account book, and typed transcription of the diary kept by Hiram Clark, an early physician in Lawrence, Kansas.

Dates: 1854 - 1855

Historia di M. Bartolomeo Ruffino auditore in Tunisi della impressa che fece l'armata Turchesca a Tunisi il force et la golezza l'anno 1574

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS D62
Overview

Con l'impresa che fece Alli Malucco del regno di Fezza + di Marocco + una breve naratione della battaglia succeduta frail Re di Portugallo, + esso Malucco l'anno 1577.

Dates: 1577

"Historia Flagellantium de recto et perverso flagrorum usu apud Christianos" manuscript

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS E279
Overview

This is a manuscript draft dated 1691 for Jacques Boileau’s book, Historia Flagellantium. De recto et perverso flagrorum usu apud Christianos (Paris: Joseph Anisson, 1700). The manuscript consists of text written in one hand, with marginal notes and insertions added in a second hand, both apparently the hands of Boileau’s secretaries. The marginal notes and insertions were incorporated in the 1700 edition.

Dates: December 1691

Historic Places in the vicinity of Lawrence, a talk given for Kansas Day program, at Round Table Women's Club, and to Kanwaka Women's Literary Society

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P252
Scope and Contents

Places mentioned in the talk include Hickory Point, Black Jack, Franklin, Fort Saunders, Fort Titus and Lecompton, Kansas.

Dates: January 26, 1937; January 19, 1950

Historical documents of the Convento de la Madre de Dios

 Collection
Call Number: MS C238
Overview This book contains memoranda from the Convento de la Madres deo Dios in Torrelaguna (Toledo archdiocese, province of Madrid). It includes notarial transcriptions of documents that the monastery found it necessary to remember, jottings of events, inventories, etc., added to cover the history of the monastery. It appears to have been destroyed in 1809, during the Peninsular War between Bourbon Spain and Napoleon Bonaparte; it was suppressed in 1835 under a royal decree suppressing monasteries...
Dates: approximately 1520 - [early 19th century]

Historical Geography of Lawrence Area Tour records

 Collection — Folder: 1 - 2
Call Number: RH MS P1003
Overview

These records were created for the 1998 convention of the Association of American Geographers Rocky Mountain Division, which met in Lawrence, Kansas that year. This collection contains visitors’ guides; pamphlets; tour agendas; factbooks; and maps, providing conference attendees with a detailed geographical history of the Lawrence, Kansas area.

Dates: Fall 1998

"Historical Huron Cemetery" by Grant W. Harrington

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS D192
Overview

Mounted newspaper clippings for chapters 1-12 of article entitled, "Historical Huron Cemetery," written by Grant W. Harrington for the Kansas City Kansan.

Dates: 1947 - 1948

Histories and notes of Douglas County and Lawrence, Kansas

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P94
Overview

Materials related to histories Winnie D. Lowrance wrote about Lawrence and Douglas County, Kansas, as well as more specifically about Trinity Episcopal Church in Lawrence. Includes reference materials collected by Lowrance as well as notes.

Dates: 1926, 1938, 1940, 196?

History and war record of John O. Stotts, Sergeant Co. G, 3rd Regt, U.S. Infantry

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P155
Overview Stotts relates his experiences joining the army at St. Louis in 1866 and traveling over the Great Plains to Fort Lyon, Colorado. He describes killing buffalo and witnessing a Native American killing a bison; an encounter with members of a Native American village near [Zara?], Colorado; Fort Dodge and Buffalo Bill; Bent's Fort and the Bent family; flooding of Fort Lyon and the construction of New Fort Lyon; and the wars with Native American tribes, including comments on Satanta (Set-Tainte,...
Dates: 1866 - 1868

History of First Church of Christ, Scientist (Lawrence, Kan.)

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P326
Overview

Typewritten history of the church from its founding in 1895.

Dates: January 13, 1978

History of Friends in Council

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS E143
Overview

A history of the Friends in Council group, read at the sixtieth anniversary (1931) at Mrs. Hill's, April 19, 1932. This women's club was founded in 1871 in Lawrence, Kansas.

Dates: April 19, 1932

History of the centennial encampment no. 31, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and drafts of letters

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P158
Overview

Tablet containing history of the centennial encampment no. 31, I.O.O.F. and drafts of two letters.

Dates: 1920?

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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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