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Iota Nu Book Club minute books

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS C13
Overview Minute books of the Iota Nu Book Club, a women's book club held in Lawrence, Kansas. Minutes typically provide brief synopsis of each meeting's program, as well as treasurer's reports and anything else discussed at the meeting. Program content typically included not only a member providing a report about a book but also musical entertainment that may have been provided by members or non-members. Volumes may also include copies of the club's constitution and bylaws; roll call for each...
Dates: 1926 - 1956

Ioway Mission account book

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS VLT E1
Overview

In addition to the financial records there are records of baptisms from 1841 to 1846, marriages from 1841-1845, and a list of books belonging to S. M. Irvin, missionary at the mission.

Dates: 1837 - 1845

Irene Henderson Kelley reminiscence and photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P435
Overview

A reminiscence written by Irene Henderson Kelley concerning her childhood and experiences teaching in a rural school in Rawlins County, Kansas. Also photographs of Irene Henderson Kelley.

Dates: Other: Date Not Yet Determined

Irish broadsides, pamphlets, and other ephemera

 Collection
Call Number: O'Hegarty Q42
Overview

Collection of Irish broadsides, pamphlets, clippings, etc. collected by P.S. O'Hegarty, largely regarding Home Rule, Sinn Fein, Irish independence, and other political matters during the early part of the 20th century. Some items appear to be duplicates of each other; there are 93 items in total (some items having multiple parts).

Dates: 1907 - 1939

Irish Gems

 Collection
Call Number: MS D117
Overview

Book of poems.

Dates: March 11, 1879

Irish Melodies

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS E125
Overview

Words and music from parts 1-9 of Moore's Irish Melodies (which were originally published 1808-1824). With musical analysis of each melody.

Dates: between 1824 and 1834

Irish Parliamentary Party Committee records

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS E108
Overview

Accounts and minutes of the Irish Parliamentary Party Committee, a group formed after the 1890 split in the Irish Parliamentary Party by individuals who were against Charles Stewart Parnell. The volume includes a section of accounts before the minutes begin, and accounts are interspersed throughout the minutes. Letters are occasionally quoted in the minutes. An alphabetical index begins the volume.

Dates: 1893 - 1896

Isaac Van Hoesen collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P478
Overview

This collection contains correspondence, items related to Isaac Van Hoesen's military career during the United States Civil War, a scrapbook, photographs, and other material regarding Van Hoesen's political, business, and personal affairs throughout his life.

Dates: 1843 - 1900

Isabel Hawkey letters

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P786
Overview

Isabel Hawkey and her husband, Cyrus T. Hawkey, were born in Ottawa County, Kansas. After marrying, they lived in Colorado and in Kansas City, Kansas. These letters are chiefly incoming letters to Isabel Hawkey from her father, William Larzalere of Minneapolis (Ottawa County), Kansas, and from her aunt Elizabeth Ford of Burlington, New Jersey.

Dates: 1900-1910

Isely family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 7
Overview

Correspondence and family records from the Christian H. Isely family, Swiss immigrants who settled in Brown County, Kansas soon after the area opened for settlement.

Dates: 1849 - 1943

István Gladics musical scores

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 484
Overview István (Steven) Gladics served as director of music for the Village United Presbyterian Church in Prairie Village, Kansas. He also conducted several orchestras including the Kansas City Civic Orchestra and the Lyric Theater Orchestra. As a performer, he served as principal flutist with the Kansas City Philharmonic, the Lyric Theater Orchestra and the Starlight Theater Orchestra. This collection includes his own compositions and arrangements, some of which have been played in concerts and...
Dates: approximately 1930-1969

J. B. Anderson papers and photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1230
Overview

This collection consists of papers and photographs from J. (Joseph) B. Anderson and his wife Pearl, long-time residents of Topeka, Kansas. J. B. Anderson was a popular photographer in that city from the 1940s through the 1970s.

Dates: 1926, 1944, 1946, 1948-1955, 1959-1968, 1972-1973, 1975-1980, 1982-1999, 2001-2002

J. B. Littlejohn biographical sketch

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P749
Overview

J. B. Littlejohn, a longtime Kansas resident, served as a State Representative for Shawnee County from 1977 to 1981; the collection includes a biography and portrait photograph.

Dates: 1981?

J. B. Stoner gubernatorial campaign collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH WL MS 21
Overview

Included in this collection are campaign committee newsletters, flyers, a bumper sticker, and many news clippings from white supremacist J. B. Stoner's 1970 campaign for Governor of Georgia. Stoner was defeated in the gubernatorial election by Jimmy Carter, who was elected President of the United States in 1976.

Dates: 1970

J. B. Watkins papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1
Overview Jabez Bunting Watkins (1845-1921), capitalist and entrepreneur in Lawrence, Kansas, built one of the largest farm mortgage businesses in the central United States during the last three decades of the 19th century. Most of these papers are business correspondence and records which chronicle the corporate life of J. B. Watkins and Company, the J. B. Watkins Land Mortgage Company, the Watkins Land Company, and various other businesses owned or controlled by J. B. Watkins. The bulk of the papers...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1864-1946, 1882-1921

J. D. Ferguson Davie correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: MS 364
Overview

This collection consists of envelopes and letters from J. D. Ferguson Davie, Member of Parliament for the district of West Somerset, England to his agent, Mr. A. Payne, concerning estate matters. The collection also includes two articles in American Philatelist written by the donor Norman Leslie Hannon concerning the correspondence and some other secondary matter surrounding the letters and envelopes.

Dates: 1862-1876, 2004

J. Harlan Johnson papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 735
Overview

This collection consists of J. Harlan Johnson's research material, including notes, reference material, publications, and photographs, relating primarily to various forms of algae. The material concerns his time as curator of the Colorado School of Mines' Geology Museum, teaching at the school, and research and consultation work outside academia.

Dates: 1865 - 1977

J. M. Forshee letter from Fort Harker, Kansas

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P826
Overview This 8-page letter from J. M. Forshee, a Northern Pacific Railroad operator at Fort Harker, Kansas is written to his friend Jim, "alias Bill," on August 11 [circa 1867], approximately two weeks after Forshee's arrival at the fort. Forshee describes his previous grueling work schedule while at Junction City, the state of the cholera threat at the fort, the extent of the railroad track and its use as far west as Ellsworth, "the Indian threat," and the anticipated arrival of Indian...
Dates: August 11, 1867?

J. Reeling letter to J. Beckett

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P698
Overview

J. Reeling forwards an enclosure [not included with the letter at Spencer Research Library] to J. Beckett (flourished 1806-1809), Permanent Under-Secretary for the Home Department of the British government. The letter is docketed: "London Society held at the Black Swan. Bermondsey in correspondence with Leeds Clothiers". The enclosure had been left at the Post Office for lack of an address.

Dates: November 22, 1809

J. W. Miller papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 960
Overview J.W. (John W.) Miller (1872-1945) owned a hardware store at 627 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, Kansas during the 1920s to the 1940s. He also lived with his family on Louisiana Street, and owned several apartment buildings there. Aside from his entrepreneurial activities he also participated in the Benevolent Order of Elks Lodge #595, serving as the treasurer during 1930. His daughter Wilma R. Miller (1902-1988) was a 1924 graduate of the University of Kansas. She maintained the farm...
Dates: 1914 - 1988

Jack Alexander papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 722
Overview

The Jack Alexander papers are those of a native Kansan who held numerous public offices, serving as Topeka's Water Commissioner, within the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, and as legislative liaison to the Governor.

Dates: 1966 - 1991

Jack Crail papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 942
Overview

Jack Crail served in the United States military during World War II. This collection consists predominantly of his correspondence during his years in the service.

Dates: 1930-1964

Jack E. Lorts collection of Larry Eigner correspondence and manuscripts

 Collection
Call Number: MS 352
Overview

Collection of materials received by Jack E. Lorts from and concerning the poet Larry Eigner. Includes correspondence and poem typescripts from Eigner and two letters from poet Cid Corman. Lorts had undertaken a college paper on Larry Eigner and began corresponding with him as part of that project.

Dates: January 1960-February 26, 1962

Jackson Mortuary records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P845
Overview

The Jackson Mortuary records are those of a long time Wichita, Kansas business that the Jackson family has continued to run since its 1926 founding. The collection includes some paper material and photographs; the bulk of the collection consists of microfilmed funeral records from 1926-1956.

Dates: 1926 - 1988

Jacob Gordon papers

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Call Number: RH MS 1241
Overview The Jacob Gordon papers are those of the founding chair of the University of Kansas' African and African American Studies Department. During his time at the University of Kansas, Dr. Gordon was also a research fellow in the Institute of Life Span Studies and the director of the Center for Multicultural Leadership. The collection focuses on Dr. Gordon's time and work at KU, but includes some materials related to his time prior to arriving in Kansas and materials related to many of his...
Dates: 1949 - 2022

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 13
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Lane, James Henry (James Henry), 1814-1866 12
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 12
University of Kansas. Libraries 12
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Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 10
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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
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 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
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
Grauerholz, James 4
Guttridge, G. H. (George Herbert), 1898- 4
Hoad, William C. (William Christian), 1874- 4
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 4