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History of the First Church of God in Christ of Coffeyville, Kansas.

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P877
Overview

The First Church of God in Christ of Coffeyville, Kansas History is a handwritten history of the African American church, which was organized in 1917.

Dates: Between 1927 and 2009

History of the First Methodist Church (Towanda, Kan.)

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS D228
Overview

History of the First Methodist Church, Towanda, Kansas / compiled by Mrs. Harry Wilson, Sr. and Mrs. Drew Edmiston for the sixty-eighth anniversary, September 1956.

Dates: 1956

History of the First Presbyterian Sabbeth [sic:] School of Council Grove, Kansas

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P246
Overview

A history of the Church School of the First Presbyterian Church of Council Grove, Kansas, dating from 1874 to 1887. The author is unknown.

Dates: between 1887 and 1964

History of the Iola Schools

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P439
Overview

A history of the Iola, Kansas, schools beginning with the opening of the first school in 1859 continuing until 1903.

Dates: 1859 - 1903

History of the Johnson Evangelical Brethren Church

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS D225
Overview

This history was begun by Jennie Whitman in 1920 and subsequently completed by Leslye Hardman Women in 1961. It includes the names of former pastors, charter members, and a brief description of the Women's Society of World Service. The last leaf holds a mounted newspaper clipping from the Phillips County Review (May 11, 1961) about the services held in commemoration of the church's 50th anniversary.

Dates: 1961?

History of the Missouri, Kansas and Colorado Railroad from 1873-1882

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P140
Overview

History of the Missouri, Kansas and Colorado Railroad from 1873-1882 when it was a narrow-gauge line from Cherokee to Parsons.

Dates: 1964

History of the origin and growth of the Church of the Nazarene in Kansas.

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P354
Overview

Photocopy of a Master of Science thesis submitted to Kansas State Teachers College, Pittsburg, Kansas, in 1949. The paper traces the Church of the Nazarene in Kansas from 1890 to 1949.

Dates: 1949

History of the Osage Mission Lodge from 1870-1900

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P104
Overview

Short history of the Osage Mission Lodge no-53, I.O.O.F., read on the 30th anniversary of the Lodge. 1900.

Dates: 1900

"History of the Pawnee Indians from 1541 to 1893"

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P373
Overview

Photocopy of a typed paper giving the history of the Pawnee tribe from 1541 to 1893 and describing tribal government and organization as established in 1936.

Dates: 1978?

History of the Turnverein

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P509
Overview

History of the Turnverein, by Henry Albach. Lawrence, Kan., 1941.

Dates: 1941

History of the Vinland Telephone Company and its people

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P459
Overview

A short essay on the history of the Vinland, Kansas, Mutual Telephone Company.

Dates: 1903 - 1973

History of Wilson County, Kansas

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P441
Overview

This collection contains a brief history of Wilson County, Kansas; a history of Fort Row, which is located three miles south of Coyville; and a brochure from the Wilson County Historical Society.

Dates: before 1982

Hixon Lumber Company financial records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS G48
Overview

The collection primarily contains the financial records of the Hixon Lumber Company of Atchison, Kansas over an 85 year period, providing an almost complete record of the lumber company's financial transactions between 1871 and 1939. There is also some correspondence, indexes, and other records in the collection.

Dates: 1871 - 1956

"Ho for Kansas! Exodusters, 1984"

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P886
Overview

The collection consists of a press booklet compiled and sent out by Exodusters Awareness, Inc. prior to the 1984 celebration held in Topeka, Kansas.

Dates: 1984

Hodgeman Colony history collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P977
Overview

Collection of copies of original and secondary source material regarding the Hodgeman Exoduster colony and African American community members particularly centered around Kinsley, Edwards County, Kansas.

Dates: 1879 - 1963

Hollie Family Photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 112
Overview

This collection contains photographs of the Hollie Family and friends in Kansas, Missouri, Mississippi, and Illinois.

Dates: approximately 1910 - 1975

Hollis Hedberg papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 546
Overview

Hollis Dow Hedberg was a world famous geologist who would become Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. The majority of this collection relates to his work for the Gulf Oil Corporation in various capacities in Venezuela and later in their corporate offices.

Dates: 1903-1988

Holsinger and Rose family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 663
Overview

The Holsinger and Rose families immigrated to the United States in the 1700s. The collection reflects their activity in the Rosedale, Kansas, area during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by means of correspodence, poetry, newspaper clippings, and brief biographies, which address topics ranging from accounts of the Civil War, Kansan identity, politics and Christianity.

Dates: 1883 - 1933

Homer Eon Flint papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 328
Overview

This collection contains stories written by Homer Eon Flint, both in published form and as draft submissions to his editors; professional correspondence; personal photographs; financial records; notes and sketches of Flint's inventions; as well as writings about Flint.

Dates: 1911-2002

Homilies of Saint Joannes Chrysostomus

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C76
Overview

Homilies of Saint Joannes Chrysostomus (approximately 349-407), patriarch and archbishop of Constantinople and one of the most prolific authors in the early Christian church. Volume also includes a work by St. Basil the Great (or Basil of Caesarea, 329 or 330-379 CE), another early Christian theologian who supported the Nicene Creed, on leaves 496-549.

Dates: 16th century

Hong Kong return to China newspaper collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS Qa51
Overview

Collection contains issues from five Hong Kong newspapers published on July 1, 1997 about the return of Hong Kong to China after 156 years as a British Colony. Newspapers were compiled by Michiko Ito, who was present in Hong Kong on the date of the transfer.

Dates: July 1997

Hope Laws papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 347
Overview The papers of Overbrook, Kansas resident Hope Laws include her handwritten genealogical records of her father's Laws family members and her mother's Sellers family who emigrated to the Willow Springs Township of Douglas County, Kansas in the 1870s. Included are Laws family business papers and letters from out-of-state family members, as well as official records relating to her grandmother Laws' first husband who served in Illinois' 113th Infantry Regiment and died in the Civil War's...
Dates: 1863 - 1953

"Hopefield Presbyterian Mission"

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P995
Overview This collection contains newspaper clippings from the March 30, 1951 Oswego Independent written by Wayne A. O'Connell, detailing the history of Hopefield Presbyterian Mission in Labette County, Kansas from 1819 to 1950. The collection also contains printed photos of Dr. William Comb Requa and John McCoy, as well as an illustration of William Sherley Williams. Terms and language used in the collection is representative of when the text was created and has not...
Dates: March 30, 1951

Horace W. Wardell personal papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P627
Overview

Horace W. Wardell was a Civil War soldier from Illinois who later resided in both El Dorado and Hutchinson, Kansas. This collection contains his obituary, some correspondence, and three of his diaries from 1863-1864. Also included is the diary and correspondence of Wm. H. Bloss, circa 1873, and other miscellaneous correspondence.

Dates: 1863 - 1936

Horizon 2020 records

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: RH MS 816
Overview

Horizon 2020 is the comprehensive land use plan for the City of Lawrence, adopted by the Lawrence/Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Commission in 1996, the Lawrence City Commission in 1997, and the Douglas County Board of County Commissioners in 1998. This collection includes materials used during the development of the plan in the early 1990s.

Dates: 1992 - 1994

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American poetry -- 20th century 23
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Lawrence Massacre, Lawrence, Kan., 1863 21
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 21
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Science fiction 16
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American 14
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Language
English 3826
French 106
German 81
Spanish; Castilian 73
Latin 61
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Names
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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