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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

Hornbooks collection

 Collection — Box: 1, Object: 1-2
Call Number: MS C315
Overview

Two hornbooks, one made of ivory and the other made of horn, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries and displaying the alphabet.

Dates: 17th, 18th centuries

Horton, Kansas photograph album

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 104
Overview

This collection consists of a single volume with ten photographs of Horton, Kansas at the beginning of the 20th century. Photographs primarily include buildings, homes, and other locations around town with one photo of women residents.

Dates: circa 1906

Horton, Kansas photograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 89
Overview

Photographs showing Horton, Brown County, Kansas businesses, activities, and residents.

Dates: 1888 - 1947

Howard family collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1410
Overview This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, and genealogical data pertaining to the Howard and Bennett family lineages. It includes many genealogical charts, tracing ancestors back to the 1700s, as well as a book on Bennett family history written by Edith Bennett Howard. There are also photographs as recent as the late 1970s and cased photographs and cabinet card photographs dating back to the mid- and late-19th century. Several maps, diplomas, and personal journals provide...
Dates: between 1850 and 1990

Howard H. Miller papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 675
Overview

These are the letters and diaries of Howard Hale Miller, a pharmacist with the US Navy Medical Corps, while he was stationed aboard the USS Leonard Wood from 1941-1943.

Dates: 1941 - 1943

Howard Killam Collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1381
Overview

This collection consists of photographic material including slides, negatives, and photographs of various train stations, engines, cars, and cabooses, as well as manuscript material about trains and railroads. The material was collected and documented by Howard Killam througout his lifetime.

Dates: 1908 - 1992

Howard N. Stoner audio recordings

 Collection
Call Number: KC AV 3
Overview

Three reel to reel audio tape recordings of Howard Stoner reminiscing about his career as a guard at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Dates: approximately 1970s-1980s?

Howard W. Mitchell journal

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH VLT MS B5
Overview

Mitchell's travels in Colorado, New Mexico, and Kansas are recounted in detail, as are his observations regarding the people he encounters. Half of the journal is devoted to Colorado and New Mexico, and the other half to Salina, Kansas.

Dates: November 8, 1877

Hughes and Hersey Farm photograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 67
Overview

Photographs of the Hughes and Hersey farm operations at Arvilla, Dakota Territory, as well as scenes of Arvilla, trains, and Manitoba excursionist visitors.

Dates: 1884

Hugo Rothstein Letter

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P724
Overview

Hugo Rothstein (1810-1865), a major in the Prussian army and director of Berlin's Royal Central Gymnasium (Konigliche Turnlehrer Bildungsaustalt), sends new year's greetings to an unidentified "Doktor".

Dates: January 5, 1853

Human Resources Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri, records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 95
Overview

The Human Resources Corporation (HRC) of Kansas City, Missouri was incorporated in 1964 as a non-profit, tax exempt community action agency to administer public and private funds for area anti-poverty programs. The collection consists of papers of board member and officer (treasurer) of HRC, Robert E. Rosenwald. They are mostly copies of papers presented to the board for approval of HRC activities.

Dates: 1964 - 1971

Hungate family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1420
Overview

This collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and other miscellaneous materials from the Hungate family, particularly Dr. Carroll Paul Hungate and his immediate family during the end of World War II when he was stationed in Rio de Janerio, Brazil. There is also a small amount of material, including a scrapbook, from Ida (Devaney) Patterson, Hungate's mother-in-law, and her family.

Dates: circa 1860-1967 (bulk 1920s-1948)

Hunter family letters

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1361
Overview This collection contains correspondence from the Hunter family, in excess of 75 letters and 230 pages, ranging from 1844 to 1913. Much of the correspondence is from Almon and George Hunter to their mother Betsy Graham, of Youngsville, Warren County, Pennsylvania. There is also a great deal of correspondence from Mrs. Graham's brother, Shubil D. Chappel. The Hunter brothers and Chappel had emigrated earlier from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin, and later to Kansas Territory. In 1860 Almon went to...
Dates: 1844 - 1913

Hutchinson, Kansas business records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P721
Overview This collection includes records from two Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas businesses: the Carey Salt Company and the Richards-Scheble Candy Company. Included are shipping orders and waybills for shipments from the candy company in 1919. There is also a signed carbon copy of a February 3, 1923 notice from Carey Salt Company president Emerson Carey, in his capacity as chair of the Hutchinson Chamber of Commerce Agricultural Committee, and his son, Emerson Carey, Jr., announcing cash prizes to...
Dates: 1919 - 1923

Hutchinson, Kansas Cyrus Cauldron souvenir photo book

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P2838
Overview

This collection includes a souvenir photo book from a women's fraternal organization, Cyrus Cauldron (sometimes spelled Caldron) No. 8, in Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas. Photographs appear to be from the 1920s and include member and group portraits and images of buildings and homes within Hutchinson. Notable buildings include the Convention Hall, Sante Fe Railroad, and Fred Harvey's Bisonte Hotel.

Dates: approximately 1920s

Hutchinson, Kansas NAACP collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1457
Overview The Hutchinson, Kansas NAACP collection contains correspondence, whether addressed to the Hutchinson branch or sent by the Hutchinson branch (and by extension by Darrell Pope, the branch's president for several decades), as well as correspondence between other NAACP branches within the state of Kansas. The collection also contains materials regarding finances, meeting objectives and minutes, event calendars, banquets, and newspaper clippings about the NAACP. For the miscellaneous items, it...
Dates: 1982 - 2017

Hylas Thompkins family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 551
Overview

The Hylas Thompkins family papers document the lives of a long time Missouri family during the 1940s-1960s.

Dates: 1943 - 1962

"I cannot think when I behold thy chair. . ." Copied by Sophie Tennyson?

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P316
Overview

Poem of 13 4-line stanzas, beginning: "I cannot think when I behold thy chair. . ."

Dates: October 11, 1893

I. F. Bradley, Sr. family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P838
Overview

The I. F. Bradley, Sr. family papers are those of a long time Kansas family, the head of which was a Kansas City, Kansas Justice of the Peace and active in civil rights and politics.

Dates: 1976

Ian Hamilton Finlay poetry and correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: MS 48
Overview

Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) was a poet and artist who lived most of his life in Edinburgh, Scotland. This collection dates from 1964 to 1967, when Finlay was involved in the concrete poetry movement. Included are drafts and final printed copies of Finlay’s works, extensive correspondence with art historian Stephen Bann and critic Mike Weaver, periodicals and photographs.

Dates: 1964 - 1967

"Ice Gorge" of Lawrence, Kansas postcard

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P2820
Overview

One postcard with a black and white image of the "Ice Gorge" outside Lawrence, Kansas, presumably along the Kansas River. Some buildings are visible in the distance.

Dates: [between 1900 and 1920]

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 13
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Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 10
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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
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Kansas. Supreme Court 6
Kenneth Spencer Research Library 6
Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987 6
Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission 6
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Pennell, Joseph Judd, 1866-1922 6
Sturgeon, Theodore 6
Trinity Episcopal Church (Lawrence, Kan.) 6
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University of Kansas. Libraries. University Archives 6
University of Kansas. School of Architecture and Urban Design 6
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University of Kansas. School of Law 6
White, William Lindsay, 1900-1973 6
Bowersock, Justin DeWitt, 1842-1922 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
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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
Grauerholz, James 4
Guttridge, G. H. (George Herbert), 1898- 4
Hoad, William C. (William Christian), 1874- 4
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 4