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Judge James Polk Sams journal

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS C87
Overview

This handwritten journal by Judge James Polk Sams describes an expedition of fossil hunting in Wyoming undertaken in 1895. According to the journal, the Kansas State legislature appropriated twelve hundred dollars to Dr. W. S. Williston, to be expended in obtaining geological specimens for the State University of Kansas.

Dates: 1895

Judge Julie A. Robinson papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1557
Overview

This collection consists of case-related records and administrative documentation from Judge Julie A. Robinson's career as a United States District Court judge based in Kansas.

Dates: 1992 - 2014

Judge William L. Huggins Photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 525
Overview This collection includes 24 photographs that belonged to Judge William L. Huggins, a jurist and lawyer who lived and practiced in Emporia, Kansas most of his life. Most of the photographs are cabinet card portraits of individuals and groups; some are landscape or home interior photographs. Some photographs are idenitified with writing on the back, but many are not. The photographs were in the possession of Huggins' daughter, Margaret H. Ruddock, before being donated to the Kenneth Spencer...
Dates: 1870 - 1910

Judith Eisenstein Bagai collection of Theodore Sturgeon materials

 Collection
Call Number: MS 321
Overview Judith Ann Cutler Bagai (1936-2008) was a teacher, poet, and radio show host. She was good friends with writer Theodore Sturgeon, who allowed her to remove literary drafts and correspondence from his waste basket. This collection comprises the rescued drafts and correspondence relating to two of the Star Trek episodes he wrote, "Amok Time" (second season opening episode in 1967) and "The Root of Evil," renamed "The Joy Machine"...
Dates: March 29 - November 24, 1967; undated

Judy Wright papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1349
Overview

Judy Wright was the executive director for Independence Days, and a board member for the Lawrence Arts Commission, Independence Days Festival, Fairy Godmother Fund, and Kaw Valley Dance Theatre. This collection includes resources, letters, and newspaper clippings associated with these various associations.

Dates: 1982 - 2012

Julius Fischer ledger books

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS E127
Overview

Ledger books of the ice house of Julius Fischer.

Dates: 1882 - 1898

Julius Gottlieb Papers

 Collection — folders: 1-4
Call Number: RH MS P316
Overview Handwritten travel narrative in German, typewritten German transcription, and typewritten English translation of Julius Gottlieb's journey from Bosen, Germany to Pleasanton, Kansas in 1884. Gottlieb wrote his narrative in 1885 and his daughter, Selma Kallis, made the transcription and translation at a later date. Kallis' translation includes explanatory footnotes. Also included in Gottlieb's papers are several items collected on his trip, such as a baggage claim check and a vaccination...
Dates: 1884-1885

Junction City baseball photographs

 Collection — Folder: 1-2
Call Number: RH PH P1637
Overview

Two photographs of the House of David baseball team and possibly the All Nations baseball team visting Junction City, Kansas.

Dates: [between 1912-1925]

Junction City foundry tintype

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P59
Overview

This collection contains a single tintype photograph (reversed) of the early foundry in Junction City, Kansas. Image includes Albert S. Howard, operator; Lottie Howard, his wife, in the upper door; and their daughter and son in the windows of the brick building. "Foundry at Junction City - 1885" written above the door.

Dates: 1885

June Flood of 1908 at Kansas City postcards

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P2843
Overview

This collection consists of a set of postcards published by the Elite Post Card Company of Kansas City, Missouri, documenting the June 1908 flood. Most of the photographs focus on the Armourdale area in Kansas.

Dates: June 1908

June Tidwell Sprouls papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 964
Overview

The June Tidwell Sprouls papers are those of a longtime Hutchinson, Kansas resident and musician.

Dates: 1949 - 1986

Justin DeWitt Bowersock business papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 50
Overview

This collection includes records of Justin Bowersock's personal business and professional business not related to the Lawrence Paper Company or the Bowersock Mill. It includes a bank book dating from 1912 and business papers, primarily correspondence, dating from 1860-1922.

Dates: 1860 - 1918

Justin McCarthy correspondence

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P754
Overview

This collection consists of a single letter from Justin McCarthy, editor of the Morning Star, to William Hepworth Dixon apologizing for an "unhandsome allusion" in the newspaper about Dixon made while McCarthy was away in Europe.

Dates: October 4, 1867

Kāfiyah; an annotated Arabic grammar book

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS A60
Overview

Ottoman copy of Arabic grammar Kāfiyah. With marginal notations from another work or commentary on same.

Dates: [before April 15, 1657]

"Kansans on Kansas: an Inquiry into Values"

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P454
Overview

A transcript of a slide-tape show of reflections on Kansas and Kansas people by fellow Kansans. The show was done by the University of Man, located in Manhattan, Kansas, in the spring of 1975 through a grant funded by the Kansas Committee for the Humanities. Included in the collection are instructions for use and discussion guidelines.

Dates: 1975

Kansas 1860s diary

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS B78
Overview

A single diary, probably for the years 1863-1867, includes entries from a soldier who might have been named John Adams and might have served with the 2nd Kansas Volunteer Cavalry during the American Civil War. The volume also includes what appears to be financial accounts with individuals in Trading Post, Linn County, Kansas from after the war.

Dates: approximately April 1863-1867

Kansas Adjutant General's Office form letter

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P58
Overview

Thi is a form letter requesting military history, and is signed by T.J. Anderson. Topeka, September 6, 1865.

Dates: September 6, 1865

Kansas Advisory Council on Civil Rights records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 210
Overview The Kansas Advisory Council on Civil Rights (KACCR) was organized in 1959. A volunteer organization, its mission was to act as a link between communities and the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights. The collection includes records of Council Chairman Ruth Shechter, meeting minutes and administrative records, as well as newspaper clippings and collected material regarding civil rights and fair housing in Kansas. Much of the material relates to the Shawnee Mission Housing Council (SMHC) and the...
Dates: 1956 - 1976

Kansas Alliance Exchange Company stock certificate

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P69
Overview

The stock certificate is for one-fifth share in the name of C. W. Bucher, and signed by G. H. Benson and H. W. Sandusky.

Dates: October 10, 1889

Kansas (American) Baptist Life -- Beginnings to 1870

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P765
Overview

This collection contains a research paper written by G.R. Gross on Baptist life in Kansas. It was handed in for instructor Timothy Miller's "Religion in America" course, taught in the Fall of 1988.

Dates: November 29, 1988

Kansas Artists Postcard Series

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1331
Overview

The collection consists of postcards by Kansas artists, issued by the Association of Community Arts Councils of Kansas. The series encompasses 25 years, from 1978-2002. 16 postcards, each featuring a work by a local artist, were released each year.

Dates: 1978 - 2002

Kansas Arts Commission records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 230
Overview This collection primarily consists of meeting minutes of the Kansas Cultural Arts Commission (KCAC), later the Kansas Arts Commission, from 1966 through 1980. The collection also contains materials about or from conferences that members of the commission attended and minutes and project reviews of the Advisory Panels that were the preliminary reviewing committees for project support applications. There is also some information from other arts organizations, both statewide and national, with...
Dates: 1965 - 1986

Kansas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 543
Overview

This collection includes correspondence, newsletters, financial and membership records, program/event documents, meeting minutes and other administrative documentation, and convention materials from the Kansas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (KAHPERD).

Dates: 1936 - 2015

Kansas Association of Biology Teachers records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 771
Overview

The Kansas Association of Biology Teachers was founded circa 1938, with continuous activity since 1959; the organization is devoted to the development of teaching of the biological sciences. The collection contains newsletters, correspondence, and club records.

Dates: 1959 - 1971

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United States. Army 20
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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
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Haskell Institute 10
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 10
Reid, Albert Turner, 1873-1955 10
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Sumner High School (Kansas City, Kan.) 9
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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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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
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University of Kansas. Libraries. University Archives 6
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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