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Jean François Champollion manuscript
Volume regarding alphabet of phonetic hieroglyphs, written by the French scholar and philologist who deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs in the early 1820s. Apparently a copy of a printed book. "Lettera a Dacier…relative all’alfabeto del geroglifici fonetici…da Champollion il giovane a Parigi Presso Firmino Didot…1822, prima traduzione Italiana di C. Vandoni 1824."
Jefferson County, Kansas rural school houses photograph collection
Photographs depicting rural school houses in Jefferson County, Kansas.
Jefferson Minnig Deitzler family papers
This collection includes a history of the Deitzler, Ditzler, or Dietzler family from their arrival in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as well as a brief history of settlement of Germans in Pennsylvania. The collection also includes several photographs of Deitzler family members and locations significant to the family in Pennsylvania.
Jennie Earl and Elizabeth S.C. [Crittenden] correspondence
This collection of letters was apparently written by two sisters living in Lawrence from 1859 to sometime after 1863. The letters are written to their mother and brother who lived in Westinfield, Connecticut, and concern events in Lawrence prior to and during the Civil War.
Jennifer Cain Bohrnstedt collection
In this collection of historian Jennifer Cain Bohrnstedt are a collector's edition U.S. Revenue stamp, a map of the north part of Topeka, Kansas, and photographs of the Topeka Cemetery gravestones of Mary Amelia Grant (1890-1987) and her cousin Dorothy Bradbury (1899-1979), and of Mary Grant's grandparents, William H. and Mary Bradbury.
Jerauld R. Crowell papers
Jerry Hall phonograph collection
This collection consists of four phonograph records of classical music recordings. Each phonograph record is labeled with Jerry Hall's name and address in Lawrence, Kansas, but it is unclear whether or not he recorded these phonograph records on behalf of the performers or not.
Jess Kisner letter
This letter from Garden City real estate agent Jess Kisner was written to Marion Russell, a Stafford County, Kansas farmer to whom Kisner had sold acreage in Finney County. Kisner writes regarding Russell's purchase, describes the state of the Finney County wheat crop, and describes additional parcels of land that he wishes to sell. On the letter's reverse are pencilled lists of income for the year 1921.
Jesse C. Newman, Jr. family papers
Jesse C. Newman, Jr. founded Newman Securities Company Inc. and is the president of the Newman Development Company in Overland Park, Kansas. This collection includes administrative papers of development projects and research in Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri and Nassau, Bahamas; materials related to the Japanese Cultural Arts Foundation of the Midwest's creation of an Asian conference center; and family photographs and other personal materials.
Jesse Milan papers
Jesse T. Roberts land certificate
Land certificate deeding real property to Jesse T. Roberts from the Delaware tribe, as recorded by the register at the Land Office at Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas Territory.
Jessica Mae Watts Elliott scrapbooks
Jessie Kennedy Snell papers
This collection contains several poems written by Jessie Kennedy Snell, a brief typed biography of the author, and a reception invitation celebrating the publication date of a compilation of Snell's "Lore of the Great Plains" columns, originally written for the Colby Free Press-Tribune. The reception took place at Colby Community College, in Colby, Kansas on September 18, 1973.
Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City records
"Jews in Barber County"
A photocopied 5-page typescript, appended by the writer's photocopied resource documents, prepared as a class paper by University of Kansas undergraduate student Allison MacGregor. MacGregor describes resources utilized by her in researching the history of a Russian/Jewish colony which resided in Barber County, Kansas from 1885 to 1887.
Jim McCrary papers
Jimmy M. Skaggs' The Cattle-Trailing Industry: Between Supply and Demand, 1866-1890
A collection of Jimmy M. Skaggs' typescript, layouts, galley proofs, and photographs for his book, The Cattle-Trailing Industry: Between Supply and Demand, 1866-1890, published in 1973 by the University Press of Kansas.
Joanne Hurst Papers
Joanne Hurst has held civil service, political, and academic positions in Kansas for several decades. This collection includes business correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs related to her career dating from the 1970s through 2009.
Joe Thompson papers
The Joe Thompson papers are those of a long-time Kansas resident who was highly active in scouting and worked as a social worker at both the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas and the Disciplinary Barracks at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.
Joel Grover diary
Grover was born in Springfield, Livingston Co., New York, August 5, 1825; died in Lawrence, Kansas, July 28, 1879. This collection consist of a diary kept during the years 1857 and 1858 by Joel Grover, an early resident of Lawrence, Kansas. A transcription of the diary was completed in 1981.
Joel Grover papers
This collection of papers pertain mostly to Joel Grover's work as commissioner and trustee of the Lawrence, Kansas school district, as well as his membership in a survey committee and alternate delegate of the 26th District of the State of Kansas. Some materials deal more with farm business, e.g. machinery.
Johan Louis Gerlagh volume of watercolors
Collection of approximately 160 watercolor drawings of natural objects, with some notes and verses in Dutch, from an artist in Holland.
Johanna Kollmorgen papers of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission
These are the working papers of Johanna Kollmorgen when she served as a member of the Lawrence-Douglas County (Kansas) Planning Commission. The Planning Commission is responsible for long-range comprehensive plans and development of the Lawrence-Douglas County, Kansas, land area. The collection includes the commission meeting minutes, staff reports and other supporting documentation from 1969-1979.
John A. Halderman correspondence and documents
Halderman was private secretary to A. H. Reeder, 1st governor of Kansas Territory. The letters deal with early Kansas Territory and State politics and government, land values and taxes, and some personal affairs.
John Alexander Martin correspondence and photograph
This collection contains some correspondence of John Alexander Martin to and from various receipients, in addition to a photograph of Martin. The photograph is after the painting by Kleckner dating from 1889.