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KFKU, WIBW-TV, and WREN materials

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P759
Overview

This collection contains promotional materials for television station WIBW-TV, Topeka, Kansas, as well as materials from radio stations KFKU at the University of Kansas and WREN of Lawrence, Kansas.

Dates: between 1950 and 1977

Kickapoo Land Allotments

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P76
Overview Front of volume includes columns for allotment number, name of allottee in both English and Kickapoo, section/township/range information, age and sex of allottee, and space for notes. Not every column is always filled in; notes frequently include information regarding whether allottee passed away or got married; allottee's partner's name, etc. The back of the volume includes a few lists, including of deceased individuals, of individuals who were born after allotments were assigned, and other...
Dates: 1892 - 1906

"Kids, let's make a mud fort" workshop materials

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P2798
Overview Color photographs, sample registration form, and some research photocopies related to the "Kids, Let's Make a Mud Fort" workshop conducted in Lawrence, Kan. August 17-18, 1998. The fort created by the children and grown-ups was based upon documentation regarding early Lawrence earth works built during the Border Wars in territorial Kansas. Photos are of instructors Katie Armitage and John Jewell working with the participating children at the earth works site off the Kansas River...
Dates: 1998

Kij Johnson papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 377
Overview

The Kij Johnson collection contains story drafts, research materials related to published and unpublished works, correspondence, award materials, and audiovisual materials. Johnson is a speculative fiction author, as well as an author of nonfiction and poetry.

Dates: 1975 - 2021

Kingsley and Regina Frey fiftieth wedding anniversary

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P580
Scope and Contents

Invitation and newspaper article from the Kingsley and Regina Frey Golden Wedding. The newspaper article provides some biographical information on the Topeka, Kan. couple.

Dates: 1978

Kinnamon family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1054
Overview

The Richard Kinnamon family resided in Reno County, Kansas. This collection of their papers contains memo books and account ledgers 1875-1923, farm journals 1886-1888, and daily journals 1880-1881. This collection also contains almanacs from 1875, 1877, 1878 and correspondence of Pearl Francis Kinnamon.

Dates: 1875 - 1923

Kiowa Territory photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 144
Overview

Views of a town in the Kiowa Territory, later claimed as part of the state of Oklahoma. Views include street scenes, industries, and residences.

Dates: approximately 1907

KJHK Radio Wars

 Collection
Call Number: PP 505
Overview The majority of this collection consists of letters, newspaper clippings and photographs that tell the story of a feud between faculty members at the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas who wanted control of KJHK radio station, and a group of students and ex-students, known as the "KJHK dissidents," who demanded KJHK remain under student control. The remainder of the collection chronicles the birth and eventual demise of a music festival called the...
Dates: 1983 - 2010

Knaus-Gavitt correspondence and miscellaneous documents

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 115
Overview

The Knaus-Gavitt collection consist mostly of correspondence and miscellaneous documents to Warren Knaus and W.W. Gavitt.

Dates: 1867 - 1936

Knights and Ladies of Security collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P127
Overview

Beneficiary certificates, letters, application form, and miscallenous printed materials from the Knights and Ladies of Security. Those addressed in the correspondence include A. Ballard, J. C. McArthur, E. E. N. Coan, and W. B. Kirkpatrick.

Dates: 1895-1933

Ku Klux Klan collection (Tacoma, Washington)

 Collection
Call Number: RH WL MS 33
Overview

This collection consists chiefly of Ku Klux Klan membership guides, but also includes communications relating to Klan members of Pierce County, Washington during the 1920s. Included are pamphlets published by and for Women of the Ku Klux Klan, two photographs of a Klan parade float, and a Klan hood from Tacoma, Washington.

Dates: 1920 - 1936

KU Klux Klan convention photograph

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P828(ff)
Overview

This group portrait was taken at a convention between the years 1921 and 1925, the heyday of Ku Klux Klan activity in Kansas. It is possible that this photograph was taken at one of several sites including Topeka, El Dorado, Pittsburg, Emporia, or as suggested by a banner in the photograph, Leavenworth.

Dates: approximately 1921 - 1925

KU Twelve Incident

 Collection
Call Number: PP 497
Overview Gail J. Hamilton was one of twelve students involved in the "KU Twelve Incident." During the commencement ceremony on May 19, 1980, twelve members of the Academic Freedom Action Coalition displayed a banner protesting the University of Kansas' policy prohibiting the display of banners in certain public spaces. The twelve students were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct; their charges were eventually dropped. A KBI investigation found evidence of police brutality against two...
Dates: 1980 - 1983

Kurt Thurmaier poster collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH WL MS R11
Overview

This collection contains various Cold War-era peace posters and artworks from various sources, countries, and organizations. Includes posters from religious organizations, such as Quaker and Mennonite groups, as well as organizations formed specifically for peace and against nuclear armament, and university and municipal groups.

Dates: 1975 - 1984

L. H. Tragelles letter

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P687
Overview

L. H. Tragelles (possibly Trazelles or Inazelle), writes from the Gaity Theatre in Dublin on January 29th to an unknown recipient. The writer, currently a pantomime performer, thanks the recipient for kind remembrances and wishes and encloses a program (not included) as an example of the work which the writer has done while traveling around the world 3 times.

Dates: January 29, after 1871

Ladies Literary League (Lawrence, Kan.) records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 620
Overview The Ladies Literary League of Lawrence, Kansas, was founded in 1882 as the Etesian Club, a women's reading club originally formed to promote culture and social intercourse. Within a few years, the group changed its name to the Ladies Literary League (LLL). This collection includes the club's records, correspondence, clippings, photographs, governance documents, yearbook/program books, secretary minute books, a recipe book, reminiscences, and histories and publications written by club members...
Dates: 1882 - 2020

Ladies of Lawrence portrait album

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 51
Overview

The Ladies of Lawrence presented this album to Edmund Gibson Ross, Commandant at Lawrence, for his action of closing the liquor shops in the town. The photographs are mounted four per page.

Dates: approximately 1862

Lady Margaret Beaumont letter

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P661
Overview Lady Margaret Beaumont (1831-1888) was the daughter of Sir Ulrick John de Burgh and Hon. Harriet Canning. In 1856 she married Wentworth Blackett Beaumont. During the 1870s and 1880s, she served as a hostess for many society and political functions. This letter, dated February 23rd from 144 Piccadilly Terrace. W. [in London, England], is addressed to "Dear Sir" and refers to an objective they have in common and who might support them in their endeavor. An 1865 watermark on the stationery...
Dates: February 23, [1865 or later]

Laird M. Wilcox Papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH WL MS 1
Overview Laird M. Wilcox, a widely published authority on political extremism and ideological movements, is the founder of the Wilcox Collection of Contemporary Political Movements at the University of Kansas, one of the largest collections of its kind for the study of left-wing and right-wing political movements in the United States. These papers include Wilcox's research correspondence with individuals and organizations, manuscripts of his many publications, and the correspondence and publications...
Dates: 1951 - 2013

Laiten L. Camien papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 163
Overview

Papers relating to teaching and financing education, 1880-1940, and account book for Dill City Consolidated Schools, Dill City, Oklahoma.

Dates: 1880 - 1940

Lakemary Center records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1005
Overview

This collection contains board materials of the Lakemary Center ranging from 1977-1979. The Lakemary Center was founded by the Ursuline Sisters of Paola, Kansas in 1969. The program services individuals with developmental disabilities.

Dates: 1977 - 1979

Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota photograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 10
Overview

Portraits and group photographs of Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Native Americans at and near the Rosebud Indian Agency, South Dakota and Forts Robinson and Niobrara, Nebraska. Also includes photographs of the United States 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee. Many of the photographs were taken by J.A. Anderson. Terms and language used on the photographs are representative of when the images/text were created and has not been replicated in this finding aid whenever possible.

Dates: 1887 - 1914

Lambert Lumber Company records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS G68
Overview

The records in this collection reflect the business transactions at the Winchester yard of the Lambert Lumber Company and are extensive in the breadth of their documentation, including so many types of business records, as well as in the chronological coverage of the company, extending from 1897 to 1958. The precise dates of the existence of the company are unknown. The records have been arranged by type of material and then chronologically within that organization.

Dates: 1897 - 1958

Land Grant to Samuel Dannell

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS Q2:2
Overview

Legal document: land grant: engraved form filled in by hand. Signed by Andrew Jackson.

Dates: November 1830?

Land title abstracts for Johnson County, Kansas

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 536
Overview

This collection includes land title abstracts for Johnson County, Kansas, created by the Anderson Title Company.

Dates: 1860-approximately 1950

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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