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Land use final report & photographs, Douglas County, Kansas

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P850
Overview In 1976, the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission contracted the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (KARS) Program to complete a survey of Douglas County land use. KARS is a research program of the Kansas Biological Survey at the University of Kansas. The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission and National Air and Space Administration (NASA) jointly funded the project. The collection consists of proof sheets of the aerial photographs taken over the 468 square miles of Douglas...
Dates: 1976

Lane County, Kansas photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 163
Overview

Scenes in or near Lane County, such as, farming, oil wells, and Dighton, Kansas.

Dates: 1917 - 1940

Lane University (Lecompton, Kan.) pocket card for academic year 1897-1898

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P666
Overview

A printed pocket card issued by Lane University (Lecompton, Kan.) for academic year 1897-1898, listing student tuition and key dates for fall and spring terms. Signature on reverse: John Bridwell.

Dates: approximately 1897

Langston Hughes: art and literature of necessity; typescript

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P374
Overview

The First Annual Langston Hughes Lecture delivered by Arthur D. Drayton, Langston Hughes Visiting Professor, Fall Semester 1978 at the University of Kansas. The lecture discusses Hughes' life and works.

Dates: Fall semester 1978

Langston Hughes literary ephemera

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P789
Overview

This collection of literary ephemera by author and poet Langston Hughes consists of a program and a translation by Hughes.

Dates: 1963

Langston Hughes literary works collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1023
Overview

The Langston Hughes literary works collection contains a variety of typescripts, proofs, and publications of Hughes' writings acquired from various sources.

Dates: 1926-1967

Langston Hughes National Poetry Project papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1403
Overview This collection of records is from the Langston Hughes National Poetry Project, organized by Doctors Maryemma Graham and Doretha Williams of the University of Kansas' Department of English, Dr. Graham also creating and founding the History of Black Writing Project under which this grant-funded project took place. The Langston Hughes National Poetry Project recruited a variety of institutions, organizations, and individuals to become a part of a national effort to extend the legacy of...
Dates: November 1, 2002-December 5, 2005

Langston Hughes papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 127
Overview

The Langston Hughes papers consist of a range of items chiefly pertinent to his career as a poet and playwright.

Dates: 1931 - 1967

Langston Hughes photograph

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P2790
Overview

An undated photograph of Langston Hughes inscribed “To Susan Powell, Sincerely – Langston Hughes.” Acquired from Southwestern Michigan, likely that it was signed by Hughes in 1945 when he delivered a lecture at the Kalamazoo Central High School Auditorium.

Dates: estimated 1945

Langston Hughes play scripts

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1554
Overview

This collection consists of six play scripts written by or about Langston Hughes, sometimes with other authors. All scripts have been autographed by Hughes.

Dates: 1937 - 1958

Larned, Kansas photograph album

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 41
Overview

This collection includes views of street and buildings in Larned, Kansas and landscape around the town. Also included are views of Boyd's Ranch on the Santa Fe Trail and of Fort Larned.

Dates: 1886

Larned, Kansas stereoviews

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 560
Overview

This collection consists of stereoviews of Larned, Pawnee County, Kansas and the surrounding countryside. Stereocards are a double set of photographic paper prints mounted on cardstock that is viewed through a stereoscope to produce a three-dimensional image. Once mass-production methods became available, stereocards became widely distributed across the United States by the 1880s.

Dates: approximately 1865-1880s

Larry Eigner poems and papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 39
Overview

American poet Larry Eigner, 1927-1996, wrote his poetry in an open form, sometimes referred to as "spatial poetry". This collection is primarily composed of a large number of his poems as well as rough drafts. Also included are some of Eigner's prose writings and his correspondence with poets, publishers and librarians, which give insight into his life and art.

Dates: 1950 - 1993

Larry K. Laird papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1579
Overview

The Larry K. Laird collection contains articles and correspondence relating to his work as a Foreign Service Officer with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), documents relating to his family history, and photographs. Some of the materials in this collection have been addressed to Eileen and Earl Laird, Larry's parents.

Dates: 1935-2006 (bulk 1980s-2000s)

Larry Lester Papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P887
Overview

This collection contains a 12 page manuscript of "Above the White Foul Lines" (An Editorial Comment about the Negro Baseball Leagues) by Larry Lester.

Dates: 1987

Larry Winn Congressional papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 717
Overview

Edward Lawrence "Larry" Winn represented Kansas in the United States House of Representatives from 1967-1985. This collection of his papers is comprised predominately of his Congressional files, as well as scrapbooks and some photographs. These congressional files include records related to proposed legislation, subject and reference files, committee records from those committees Winn served on, publicity and press-related materials, and other related records.

Dates: 1965 - 1985

LaSalle Extension University collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 375
Overview

Collection contains educational materials from the "Problems in Business Management" correspondence course at LaSalle Extension University circa 1927 to 1934. It includes form letters sent by LaSalle Business Management staff, as well as assignments from the course completed by Clarence Love.

Dates: approximately 1927-1934

LaShelle collection of Northcentral Kansas photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 73
Overview

Images of central Kansas possibly near Ellsworth (Ellsworth County) or Minneapolis (Ottawa County), Kansas. Some photos of Rock City, near Minneapolis, Kansas. Includes farm scenes and family photos.

Dates: approximately 1900

Last Cherokee Nation Council photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 20
Overview The Cherokee Nation Council was established as the lower house of the legislature by the 1839 constitution of the Cherokee Nation. Its membership was composed of three representatives from each of the eight districts of the nation. The last council meeting with the power to make laws for the tribe and held in Talequah, territorial government that was formed by the Organic Act of 1890 which established the jurisdiction of the United States over the Indian Territory. The collection consists of...
Dates: approximately 1889

Lathrop Bullene family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS VLT A1
Overview Diary, January 17, 1857 to April 12, 1857; with a partial address and account book, circa 1854-1857? Account of Lathrop Bullene's journey to Lawrence in the Kansas Territory, starting from Richmond, Illinois. Various addressees, accounting notations, and itineraries are written at the front and near the end of the diary. The collection also includes a telegram sent by W.M. Johnson to Bullene after Quantrill's raid, reassuring Bullene that his family was safe, as well as Bullene's son William...
Dates: January 17, 1857-April 12, 1857; between 1854-1857; August 22, 1863; 1925

Laura McCall Award competition application materials

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P2801
Overview Pages 1, 3, and 9 from an application to the Laura McCall Award in Division C for Julia Springer, a home service representative for the Kansas Power and Light Company. Also included is a black and white 8x10 photograph of Ms. Springer and the superintendent of the Kansas State School for the Deaf with a group of female students. Page 9 of the application form describes Ms. Springer giving the students a cooking demonstration and explains that she helped plan the new home economics department...
Dates: 1956

Laura Pierpont Sperry Letters

 Collection
Call Number: RH VLT MS Q2
Overview

These letters are from Laura Pierpont Sperry, sent from Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, and Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to her son, Anson, between 1847 and 1849. Mrs. Sperry describes life at Fort Leavenworth, as well as information on the Mexican-American War, American soldiers on the frontier, settlement of Oregon Territory, and American soldier movements along the Oregon Trail.

Dates: 1847 - 1849

Laura Powell Collection of Theodore Sturgeon Postcards and Letters

 Collection
Call Number: MS 320
Overview

Collection of 34 postcards and 2 letters from science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) to Laura Powell, circa August 1976 - April 1979, and undated.

Dates: 1976 August 11 to 1979 April 11, and undated

Laurenia Kiser papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 857
Overview

The papers of Laurenia Kiser are those of a Kansas native who taught for over twenty years and was highly active in Alpha Kappa Alpha.

Dates: 1918 - 1985

Lavern E. Farmer World War II collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1013
Overview

In this collection are 285 letters, cards, and telegrams written by U.S. Army Sergeant Lavern E. Farmer to his parents of Delphos, Kansas during Sergeant Farmer's medical training and subsequent World War II service at Army hospitals in England, France, and Belgium. Included are newsletters issued by Farmer's medical units as well as photographs, various Army communications, and souvenirs.

Dates: 1942 - 1945

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 13
Republican Party (Kan.) 13
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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
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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
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Douglass Hospital (Kansas City, Kan.) 6
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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