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Kansas Women's Republican Club twenty-sixth annual convention program

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P477
Overview

Program from the twenty-sixth annual convention of the Kansas Women's Republican Club, held at Topeka, Kansas on January 28, 1955, listing convention sessions as well as club officers and committee chairs.

Dates: January 28, 1955

Kanwaka Literary Club Program

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P458

Kappa Kappa Iota Nu Conclave and Rho Conclave records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 908
Overview

This collection contains minutes, scrapbooks, and directories of the Lawrence, Kansas chapters (the Nu Conclave and the Rho Conclave) of Kappa Kappa Iota, a national sorority for women teachers. Also included are directories issued by Kappa Kappa Iota's Kansas Conclave (Gamma State), listing all Kansas chapters of the sorority.

Dates: 1958 - 2000

Karl Allen collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH WL MS 60
Overview

This collection contains materials gathered by Karl Allen, an American neo-Nazi who founded the White Party and operated a bookstore on the Party's behalf in the 1960s in Washington, D.C. Includes some bookstore records as well as news clippings, ephemeral publications, correspondence, and other materials related to Allen's socio-political interests.

Dates: 1957 - 1982

Karl H. White papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P254
Overview

This collection consists of correspondence and papers written by and about Karl White. The correspondence refers to an article that appeared in the Lawrence Journal World, December 19, 1964, entitled "Lots of Fun in Those Good Old Days" by Elfriede Fischer Rowe. In his letters to Mrs. Rowe, White recalls his boyhood and college days in Lawrence, Kansas.

Dates: 1940 - 1985

Karole Armitage collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1143
Overview

This collection documents the professional dance career of Karole Armitage, a Lawrence, Kansas native, from her early days as a young ballerina through 2017. The materials, comprising correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, programs, and more, were collected by Katie Armitage, Karole's mother.

Dates: 1959 - 2017

Kate Warthen Searcy papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 34
Overview

Kate (Warthen) Searcy was an early homesteader in western Kansas, in addition to being a schoolteacher, author, and newspaper editor. This collection includes her family correspondence and some records related to her career, as well as photographs and other personal materials.

Dates: 1853-1953 (bulk 1882-1926)

Katherine Goldsmith papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1093
Overview Katherine Goldsmith was a teacher, writer, and historian in Kansas City, Missouri. Her papers comprise materials spanning the mid-19th century through the 20th century relating to her key areas of research interest: Kansas City metropolitan area history, industry, railroads, urban planning, and city development. These materials include significant collections of newspaper clippings, essays, publications, maps, photographs, and correspondence that provide both contemporary and retrospective...
Dates: 1825 - 1999

Kathryn Nelson Gifts, Miscellaneous items

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P461

Kathy George photograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH P1636
Overview

This collection contains late 20th century reproductions of photographs of railroad workers and their families, a meat market in Carlyle, Allen County, Kansas, and two girls playing.

Dates: approximately 1880s-early 1900s

Katie Armitage papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1479
Overview

This collection of Lawrence, Kansas-based historian Katie Hart Armitage's papers includes Armitage's correspondence spanning from the 1970s until 2016, as well as her historical research materials and preparatory notes for tours and presentations centered primarily on the American Civil War, the Oregon-California Trail, and the Santa Fe Trail.

Dates: 1953 - 2017

Katie Armitage research on African Americans in Douglas County, Kansas

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1390
Overview

This collection consists of research materials used by Katie Armitage for her publications and presentations on African Americans in Lawrence and Douglas County, Kansas.

Dates: Usage: 1975 - 2010

Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers photographs

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P2811
Overview

The Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers were a counterculture group in the Lawrence, Kansas area during the 1960s and 1970s. This collection contains five black and white group photographs of the Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers. Some of the photographs contain nudity.

Dates: between 1960 and 1970

Kaw Valley Living Wage Alliance collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1602
Overview This collection is made up of papers from the Kaw Valley Living Wage Alliance, including a disassembled scrapbook, newsletters, talking points and fact sheets, newspaper clippings, and a directory of local organizations. Founded in 2000, the informal alliance was a broad coalition of people who in 2003 convinced the City Commission of Lawrence, Kansas to require a living wage from firms receiving tax abatements. After this initial achievement, the organization focused on local housing needs...
Dates: September 25, 2000 – January 17, 2006

Kaw Valley Medical Society records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 526
Overview

The Kaw Valley Medical Society records are those of a Kansas City, Kansas- based organization of medical professionals.

Dates: 1967 - 1987

Kaw Valley Older Women's League (O.W.L.) records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1423
Overview

This collection consists of the records of the Kaw Valley Chapter of the Older Women's League (O.W.L.), a group devoted to advocating for the concerns of mid-life and older women. It includes correspondence, meeting minutes and information related to programs held by the Douglas County, Kansas-based group, news clippings, some information from the larger regional and national O.W.L. organizations, and other related materials.

Dates: 1983, 1991-2016 (bulk 1992-2008)

Kaw Valley Quilters Guild Records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 695
Overview The Kaw Valley Quilters Guild is a non-profit organization that aims to promote and advance the art of quilting. Serving members from across the Northeast Kansas and Kansas City area, the Kaw Valley Quilters Guild has been operating since 1977. This collection includes monthly newsletters and templates, administrative records, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and materials related to local and quilt historian Barbara Brackman. Detailed records of annual quilt shows and...
Dates: 1977 - 2016

Kay Jay Laessig photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH P2849
Overview

This collection includes the 1st through 5th grade class photographs of Kay Jay Laessig, who attended McAllaster Grade School at 14th and Rhode Island in Lawrence, Kansas during World War II. The collection also includes a picture of the 1944 McAllaster Orchestra in front of the school building and a candid photo with names listed on the back. Also included are photocopies of Kay Laessig’s 1942 war rations books.

Dates: 1941 - 1945

Kaye family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 240B
Overview

This collection consists of estate documents, principally deeds, of the Kaye family of Woodsome in Yorkshire, England, from the 13th to 18th centuries, with the majority of documents dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. Some locations cited in these documents include Almondbury, Honley, Kirkheaton, Slaithwaite, Kirkburton, Huddersfield, etc.

Dates: approximately 1200-1770

Kelley Brothers records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS G58
Overview

Records from grocery and general mercantile store Kelley Brothers in White Cloud, Kansas. The bulk of the collection consists of financial records from the 1890s-1920s, but there are also some loose receipts and notes and James P. Kelley's transfer ledger from the 1940s.

Dates: 1896 - 1951

Kenison family photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 97
Overview

This collection contains photographic prints of the Hirim Kenison family in Waterville, Kansas, as well as son Charles Kenison's home and business in Goff, Kansas and photographs of son-in-law E.J. House and daughter Nell Kenison.

Dates: approximately 1890-1905

Kennedy - Ottinger family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1350
Overview

This collection includes an autobiographical account of life in Kansas City from the late 1920s through the late 1940s written by Audrey Maridale Kennedy and postcards, correspondence, personal papers, scrapbooks, and photographs from the Kennedy and Ottinger families from throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

Dates: 1816 - 2008

Kenneth F. Crockett's research material on Kenneth and Helen Spencer

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1569
Overview

This collection consists of photocopies of original documents used in Ken Crockett’s research, his handwritten notes, and two drafts of the complete manuscript of the book he wrote on Kenneth and Helen Spencer, Kenneth and Helen Spencer: Champions of Culture and Commerce in the Sunflower State.

Dates: 2010 - 2014

Keplinger family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 737
Overview Lewis Walter Keplinger, an Illinois native, established a law practice in Wyandotte, Kansas in 1883; he later became a State Representative and a Wyandotte County judge. The collection includes a diary kept by Keplinger while he served as a soldier during the latter part of the Civil War, as well letters he wrote to his family during Civil War and through the early part of the 20th century. The collection also includes letters by other family members and Keplinger family genealogical...
Dates: 1862 - 1975

Kersey Coates letter

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P9
Overview

This collection consists of a single letter, dated December 13, 1855, Cleveland, Ohio, to Hiram Hill, Esq., Philadelphia, Penn. Coates discusses his transacting business regarding real estates interests in Lawrence and Kansas City shared by Coates, Hill and others, who are unnamed. Their property in Lawrence is considered valuable and at Coates' direction was surveyed into town lots. Coates also alludes to the "trouble" in Lawrence which would probably "'fizzle out 'most ingloriously."

Dates: December 13, 1855

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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