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Kansas Council on Crime and Delinquency records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 686
Overview This compilation of materials on criminal justice administration and history was put together by William Arnold, sociology professor at the University of Kansas. It includes reports, printed documentation, and notes from the late 1960s through the 1990s. Governmental entities covered include the Kansas Council on Crime and Delinquency, Kansas Dept. of Corrections, Kansas State Penitentiary, Kansas Governor's Committee on Criminal Administration, the Kansas Committee for the Humanities and...
Dates: 1969 - 1999

Kansas County Election Data surveys

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 516
Overview

This collection contains survey data from Kansas county elections. Francis Heller compiled information from the offices of the County Clerk, the County Treasurer, the Register of Deeds, the County Attorney, the Probate Judge, the Sheriff, the Coroner, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Clerk of the District Court, and the County Commissioners. Data for these offices, for the most part, ranges from 1924 to 1952 and the survey data and information is contained in this collection.

Dates: 1924 - 1952

Kansas Department of Education records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1004
Overview

This collection of the Kansas State Department of Education records consists of administrative documents regarding Master Plan III, which dated from the 1980s, including meeting minutes, vocational education reports, correspondence, brochures, committee details, etc.

Dates: 1981 - 1987

Kansas Distributing Company photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 185
Overview

Transparencies of Kansas and Missouri places during the 1960s used by the Kansas Distributing Company to produce postcards. Includes some postcards, which are all located in box 3. Images from each location may include building exteriors (rarely interiors), historical markers or monuments, or farming or other outdoor scenes. Buildings typically include schools, courthouses, hotels and motels, hospitals, churches and chapels, and historic structures.

Dates: 1960s

"Kansas dust storms" (a scrapbook compiled by staff of the University of Kansas Library)

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH E221
Overview

A scrapbook concerning Kansas dust storms, compiled by staff of the University of Kansas Library. Content includes photographs taken by the Stovall Studio of Dodge City, Kansas and clippings from various Kansas community newspapers, mostly from 1935.

Dates: 1913 - 1950

Kansas Engineering Society Records

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P635
Overview

This collection contains membership lists, calenders of events, memos and documents regarding the Engineers in Education Functional Section within the Kansas Engineering Society.

Dates: 1966 - 1970

Kansas Exposition Association list of shareholders

 Collection — item: 1
Call Number: RH Misc. 3
Overview

A list of shareholders in the stock of the Kansas Exposition Association, Lawrence, Kansas, July 25, 1875.

Dates: July 25, 1875

Kansas farm photograph

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P47
Overview

This collection includes a photograph of a scene at a Kansas farm with a sod house, windmill, a wagon, horses, and an unidentified family and dog. A "D.G. Clark" is identified as possibly the photographer, along with Goodland, Kansas.

Dates: approximately 1880s-1900

Kansas Farmer's diary (Winfield, Kan.)

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P885
Overview

160 page diary written by an anonymous farmer in Winfield, Kansas, Cowley County during the late nineteenth century. The farmer’s entries include activities related to planting, livestock, business exchanges and family life. He includes details of the weather and business costs, as well as social events and names of farm workers, family, and neighbors.

Dates: 1884 - 1899

Kansas farming scenes photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 133
Overview

Photographs on postcard stock documenting farm work in various Kansas communities. Identified locations include Kiowa County, Altamont, Minneola, Lenexa, and Coldwater, as well as Beaver Crossing, Nebraska.

Dates: 1910s-1930s (bulk 1910s?)

Kansas Federation of Colored Women's Clubs

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P530
Overview

The typescript is a photocopy of a paper written for the Afro-American Clubwomen in Kansas Project.

Dates: 1900-1930, 1984

Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs records

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P701
Overview

The Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs supports many women's clubs within the state by providing information and programming, as well as serving as a clearing house for shared club reports. This small collection contains a secretary and treasurer report for the 2nd district for 1945-1946 and a handwritten report of dues collected and charities supported from 1958-1966

Dates: 1945-1966

Kansas Folklore Society records

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P639
Overview

The Kansas Folklore Society is an organization dedicated to promoting the collection, documentation, study, and celebration of folklore. This collection contains meeting minutes, tenative schedules, and lists of members of the Society.

Dates: 1969 - 1994

Kansas Geological Survey records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 930
Overview

The Kansas Geological Survey is operated by the University of Kansas. This collection of its records include Kansas Water Board meeting documents, agendas, Kansas Energy Office records, Water Management records, and photographs. While the photographs date from much of the 20th century, the textual materials date only from the 1970s.

Dates: 1910 - 1980

Kansas glass plate negatives

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 568
Overview This collection contains glass plates and a few flexible negatives that are all presumably from Kansas. The collection includes portraits of Joseph Woydziak, a farmer from Barton County, Kansas, and a portrait of the 1890 graduating class of Wilson High School in Wilson, Kansas, as well as a shot of the water works in Lawrence, Kansas, and other images of unidentified locations. The names of items are taken from the words printed on envelopes from which the items were pulled for...
Dates: approximately 1890-1932

Kansas Governor Docking administration records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 759
Overview

Marvin Harder was a political science professor at the University of Kansas who also served as special assistant for policy review and coordination for Kansas Gov. Robert Docking. This collection is comprised of records pertinent to his service in the Docking administration, including clipping scrapbooks as well as files on issues related to education, professional negotiations, and state highways.

Dates: 1966 - 1974

Kansas Governor's Conference on Aging photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 169
Overview

This collection contains photographs from the Kansas Governor's Conference on Aging in 1978.

Dates: 1978

Kansas Governors' miscellaneous correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P296
Overview

The collection includes miscellaneous correspondence, clippings, etc. of Kansas governors, collected over the years from various individuals.

Dates: 1839 - 1954

Kansas historical clippings

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS Q507
Overview

This collection contains newspaper clippings collected by Parsons, Kansas Public Library staff dating from 1946 to 1950 detailing the state’s history. These clippings also detail the history of the namesakes of several rivers in Kansas and the geodetic point in Osborne, Kansas that served as the reference location for horizonal measurements in surveying in the United States for most of the 20th century.

Dates: 1946 - 1950

Kansas House concurrent resolution no. 534

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P249
Overview

House concurrent resolution no. 534, a concurrent resolution urging the offering of courses of instruction in Kansas history in the elementary and secondary schools of the state. [Topeka] 1965.

Dates: 1965

Kansas in the fifties, Lawrence, Kansas.

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS E137
Overview

Article from the Alma enterprise, November 6-20, 1903.

Dates: 1942

"Kansas in Transition: Human Dimensions of Community Change" project records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 180
Overview

Correspondence, surveys, notes, itineraries, news releases, unedited transcripts of the forums, and other related materials from "Kansas in Transition--The Human Dimension," a jointly funded Kansas Committee for the Humanities-University of Kansas Museum of Art project exploring the general theme of communities transitioning in Kansas in the 1970s.

Dates: 1973 - 1974

Kansas industries photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 127
Overview

A collection of photographs of mines, salt plants, and other industrial sites in Kansas.

Dates: approximately 1890

Kansas Juvenile Code Commission collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS D174
Overview

Proceedings and summary of recommendations from hearings held before the Juvenile Code Commission, October 6-June 2, 1948, at Topeka, Kansas.

Dates: 1947 - 1948

Kansas Library Association papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 365
Overview Collection of material gathered from various sources relating to the Kansas Library Association including constitution, minutes of annual meetings, programs, membership lists, president's letters, newsletters, ALA publications, and minutes of the Kansas Friends of Libraries and the Kansas Traveling Libraries Commission. Also included is the text of an address given by Mrs. Margot Benary to the KLA meeting at Emporia on May 3, 1963 and a typed manuscript of "The Kansas Library Association,"...
Dates: 1900 - 1965

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Lawrence (Kan.) -- History 67
Kansas -- History -- 1854-1861 52
Women -- Kansas -- Lawrence -- Societies and clubs 32
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 29
Douglas County (Kan.) -- History 28
Kansas -- History 28
Kansas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 26
Diaries 24
Lawrence (Kan.) 24
American poetry -- 20th century 23
Kansas -- Emigration and immigration 21
Lawrence Massacre, Lawrence, Kan., 1863 21
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 21
Kansas -- Politics and government 18
Science fiction 17
African Americans -- Kansas 15
Architecture -- Designs and plans 14
Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas 14
Kansas -- Photographs 14
Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1854-1861 14
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American 14
African American families -- Kansas 13
Kansas -- Description and travel 13
Lawrence (Kan.) -- History -- 19th century 13
African Americans -- Kansas -- Politics and government 12
African Americans -- Kansas -- Topeka 12
American poetry -- Kansas 12
English literature -- 19th century 12
Kansas -- Genealogy 12
Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1951- 12
Lawrence (Kan.) -- Social life and customs 12
Family archives -- Kansas 11
Historic buildings -- Kansas -- Lawrence 11
Leavenworth (Kan.) -- History 11
World War, 1914-1918 11
African American Baptists -- Kansas 10
African American families -- Kansas -- Topeka 10
African American women -- Kansas -- Societies and clubs 10
City planning -- Kansas -- Lawrence 10
Lawrence (Kan.) -- History -- 20th century 10
Overland journeys to the Pacific 10
Science fiction, American 10
African American legislators -- Kansas 9
African Americans -- Kansas -- Kansas City 9
Authors, American -- 20th century 9
Fort Leavenworth (Kan.) 9
Fort Riley (Kan.) -- History 9
Lawrence (Kan.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 9
Lawrence (Kan.) -- Church history 9
Lawrence (Kan.) -- Maps 9
African American clergy -- Kansas 8
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence 8
Business records -- Kansas -- White Cloud 8
Clubs -- Kansas -- Lawrence 8
Douglas County (Kan.) -- Genealogy 8
Elections -- United States 8
English poetry -- Irish authors 8
Europe -- Description and travel 8
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, American 8
Zoology -- Research 8
African Americans -- Kansas -- Lawrence 7
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Conservatism -- United States 7
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World War, 1939-1945 7
Wyandotte County (Kan.) -- History 7
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Authors, Irish -- 20th century -- Correspondence 6
Community development -- Kansas -- Lawrence 6
Education -- Kansas 6
Emporia (Kan.) -- History 6
English literature -- Irish authors 6
Entomology -- Research 6
Farmers -- Correspondence 6
Genealogy 6
Geology -- Research 6
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Indians of North America -- Kansas 6
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University of Kansas 78
Quantrill, William Clarke, 1837-1865 21
White, William Allen, 1868-1944 21
United States. Army 20
Brown, John, 1800-1859 14
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
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