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List of settler deaths in Douglas County, Kansas

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P389
Overview

List of deaths by month. Some entries include age or year of birth, where born, and how long the pioneer lived in Douglas County, Kansas.

Dates: September 14, 1930-1931

List of subscribers for speech by Francis P. Blair

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P6
Overview Subscription list for a speech by Honorable Francis P. Blair on the 'Kansas question,' delivered in the House of Representatives in Washington, D. C. The address, intended for publication by the Washington Globe, had subscribers who included Francis P. Blair, who ordered 5,007 copies of his own speech. Other notable subscribers were William A. Howard, Republican congressman from Michigan and a member of the House committee, who investigated the state of...
Dates: March 23, 1858

Literary manuscripts and clippings of Jonathon Cott

 Collection
Call Number: MS P585
Overview

Unbound typed leaves and printed clippings: poems by Jonathan Cott (1942-), who has served as an editor at Rolling Stone and written several books of poetry, essays, and other works.

Dates: 1960s-1975?

Literary manuscripts by David Ohle

 Collection
Call Number: PP 9
Overview David Ohle, an alum of the University of Kansas, has written and edited novels, short stories, poetry, and other works of fiction, as well as some non-fiction. Included in this collection is a manuscript of The Whole Moldenke (titled Motorman on publication) and a galley sheet (printer's proof) of a work titled The Moldenke. It also includes manuscripts of The...
Dates: 1970-2010s

Little Bighorn prints by William Nelson

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P2826(ff)
Overview

Ten 26x20" color artistic prints by William Nelson, signed and numbered. The prints depict the Battle of Little Bighorn, otherwise known as the Battle of the Greasy Grass or Lt. Colonel George Custer's Last Stand, which took place at the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory in 1876 between U.S. Cavalry troops and Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapahoe warriors. The prints were created for the centennial anniversary of the battle.

Dates: 1976

Little Brown Koko scrapbook

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-3
Call Number: RH MS Q477
Overview This collection consists of a single disassembled scrapbook of clippings of the Little Brown Koko stories. Story topics included holidays, schooling, scrapes and adventures that the character Little Brown Koko got into, etc. The short stories generally have a small illustration at the top of the story; most of these illustrations are signed "Wagstaff." Terms and language used in the collection are representative of when the images and text were created and have not been replicated in this...
Dates: approximately 1940s-1950s

Living the Dream, Inc. invitations

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P988
Overview

This collection consists of two invitations to the 35th and the 40th anniversary banquet and celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday on January 18, 2020 and 2025 from Living the Dream, Inc., a Topeka, Kansas-based nonprofit organization. The invitations include a menu, list of board members and business partner members, and a card providing information about guest speakers: Billie Jean Young in 2020 and Ernest Lee Thomas in 2025.

Dates: 2020, 2025

Livre des gages

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS B60
Overview

This is the account book in which Alexandre, Comte de Warfusée (1618-1658), recorded wages paid to domestic servants during the years 1639-1645.

Dates: 1639 - 1645

L.K. Hughes photograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 506
Overview

The Hughes photographs are those of the L.K. Hughes Photography business run by Leon and Rosie Hughes. They illustrate everyday life in Wichita, Kansas from the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s.

Dates: 1944 - 2010

Lloyd Biggle papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 79
Overview

A collection of science-fiction writer Lloyd Biggle's archives: notes, drafts, corrected proofs, correspondence with his publisher, and materials related to the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) and Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA).

Dates: 1949 - 1979

Lloyd H. Ruppenthal papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 844
Overview

These papers of McPherson County, Kansas attorney and Kansas state senator Lloyd H. Ruppenthal consist of correspondence, reports, service records, and clippings which emanated from his political activities, military service, and professional service activities. The papers, which date from 1935 to 1976, include records from three court cases at which Ruppenthal provided legal representation.

Dates: 1935 - 1976

Lloyd Kerford papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P584
Overview

The Lloyd Kerford Papers are those of a lifelong Kansan who was a partner in the George W. Kerford Quarry Company, Atchison, Kansas.

Dates: 1916 - 1968

Loanda Augustina Lake Warren diaries

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1545
Overview

This collection consists of two volumes of diaries from Loanda Augustina (Lake) Warren, one from 1879-1880 when she lived with her husband in Olathe, Kansas; and one from 1893-1895 when she had moved back to upstate New York after his death. The collection also includes transcriptions of the 1879-1880 diary and a letter dating from 1884.

Dates: 1879-1880, 1884, 1893-1895

Locomotive Finished Material Company of Atchison, Kansas collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P2821
Overview

Eight black and white photographs of railroad crossings and a brochure from the Atchison, Kansas-based Locomotive Finished Material Company about "The Universal Permanent Highway Crossing."

Dates: approximately 1925

Log cabin: home of pioneer Americans.

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS C62
Scope and Contents

Log cabin: home of pioneer Americans. Lawrence, Kansas, 1941. Story by Bumgardner as published in the Lawrence Journal World.

Dates: 1941

Logan, Kansas photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 161
Overview

This collection includes photographs of Logan, Kansas buildings and citizens, circa 1913-1916.

Dates: approximately 1913-1916

Logbook of the Royal Navy ship Dublin

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS E189
Overview

Logboook of the Royal Navy ship Dublin, Oct 1835-July 1836, covering part of its assignment on the South American station, 1835-1838.

Dates: October 1835-July 1836

Lois Grimes papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 635
Overview

Lois Grimes was a Junction City, Kansas, resident, and an active member of the Baptist church. The collection covers the records of this involvement, including Calvary Baptist Church, Smoky Hill River Missionary Baptist District Association, and the Kansas Baptist State Congress of Christian Education.

Dates: 1929 - 1989

Lois Lewis papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1101
Overview

The Lois Lewis papers are those of a Topeka, Kansas resident whose family was active in the city's Alpha Kappa Alpha chapter.

Dates: 1960s-1970s

Lois Swaney collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P949
Overview This collection consists of materials from Lois Swaney (married name Lois Connelly), a singer known as the "Sweetheart of Song," who performed for several years with her band at the Hotel Phillips in Kansas City, Missouri. The collection includes several song request cards from performers working at the Hotel Phillips, a 1929 poster announcing Golden Mead and her Metropolitan Girls from South Dakota sent to Swaney, and several photographs of Lois Swaney and bands that performed in the...
Dates: 1929-1940s

Lora McCune diary and Job Fletcher letters

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1016
Overview Rosemary King is the granddaughter of Lora McCune, who immigrated to Kansas from Pennsylvania circa 1886, and C. S. (Charles Sumner) Nation. The couple settled in Chanute, Kansas where Nation served as teacher and postmaster. Job Fletcher, of Sagamon County, Illinois served on the Illinois state legislature with Abraham Lincoln. The connection between McCune and Fletcher (if any) is not apparent. This collection includes McCune's diary from 1886, as well as an assortment of letters to...
Dates: 1832-1881, 1923

Lorenzo Dow Lewelling campaign ribbon

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P456
Overview

A campaign ribbon for Lorenzo D. Lewelling, who was elected governor of Kansas in 1892 and 1894. The ribbon is stamped with a likeness of Lewelling and the words "Our next governor."

Dates: between 1890 and 1892

Lorenzo Drake family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P745
Overview

The Lorenzo Drake family papers are those of a long time Kansas City, Kansas family headed by Lorenzo and Rosa Anna [Smith] Drake.

Dates: 1903 - 1940

Lori Wistuba postcard collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P322
Overview

Contains four postcards featuring views of Kansas and Missouri, circa 1912-1913. Views include the Blue River at Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri; a plowing scene; a public school building in Eudora, Kansas; and the F.W. Niemann Hardware Store in Cummings, Kansas. Two of the postcards also include brief notes addressed to Jack Maier.

Dates: approximately 1912-1913

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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