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Lorraine Co-Operative Oil Company records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS D307
Overview

This collection contains the meeting minutes of the board of directors of the Lorraine Co-Operative Oil Company, as well as some other administrative documentation of the company.

Dates: 1930 - 1948

Lou Charno photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 45
Overview

This collection includes a photoprint series of University of Kansas alumni by Lou Charno, who used a dye transfer process invented in 1869 to produce the images. The photographs were published in an exhibition guide, Gallery of Outstanding Kansans, 1986. The collection also includes 4x6 black and white prints and negatives of several demolished or disintegrating properties around Lawrence, Kansas, taken in 2002.

Dates: 1986, 2002

Louie C. Walbridge Views of Russell, Kansas

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 126
Overview

This collection contains views of Russell, Kansas taken by Louie C. Walbridge, who came to Russell in 1882 and bought a nearby sheep ranch which he called Profile Ranch. The collection includes views of the main streets of Russell and of various residences. The information included in the inventory list of the photographs was written by a Russell resident in 1954. All glass plates have had corresponding prints made after the collection was received by Spencer Research Library.

Dates: 1888?

Louie Chester Walbridge photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 21
Overview

This collection contains scenes of Profile Ranch, Russell County and many views of Louie Chester Walbridge's wife and children, taken by him. It includes images of farming, some interior and exterior shots of the family home and other buildings on the ranch, and some images from a Christmas holiday.

Dates: approximately 1884-1910

Louis and Henry Manners Katzman collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 156
Overview

The Louis and Henry Manners Katzman collection comprises annotated sheet music used by the Katzmans and others to create arrangements of popular music for George Gershwin's radio program "Music By Gershwin" in the early 1930s.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1892-1970 ( 1892-1935)

Louis La Coss letters

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P819
Overview Louis La Coss, a 1911 graduate of the University of Kansas, became a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer and vice president of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. These two letters include one from La Coss, containing reminiscences of his days as editor of the University's student newspaper, The Kansan. The other is a letter to La Coss from prolific political author Raymond Moley, requesting editorial comment on a...
Dates: 1952 - 1953

Louis R. Scott papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1102
Overview

The Louis R. Scott papers are those of a life-long Lawrence, Kansas resident who, during World War II, served as part of the Tuskegee Air Unit, later working for the U.S. Postal Service, and was an active member of the First Regular Missionary Baptist Church.

Dates: 1959 - 1990

Louis Singleton Curtiss papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 35
Overview

Architectural drawings of buildings in Kansas City and Wichita, correspondence, class reports, measured drawings, photographs, and miscellaneous items.

Dates: 1893 - 1912

Louisa Paulina Eisenmayer wedding invitation

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P8
Overview

Wedding invitation. Dated TRenton [Kan.], March 9, 1874, Printed, with envelope. Device with intertwined E and B. In German.

Dates: March 9, 1874

Louise Brown Family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P328
Overview

The Louise Brown Family papers are those of a Lawrence, Kansas, family during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Dates: 1874, 1889-1917

Louise Wheaton Papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1110
Overview

The Louise Wheaton papers are those of a native Kansan, which focus on the Ninth Street Missionary Baptist Church of Lawrence, Kansas.

Dates: 1948 - 1987

"Loyalty Day" photo

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: RH PH 509
Overview

This collection consists of one photo, mounted on a piece of wood with the following written on it: "LOYALTY DAY, ARKANSAS CITY. APRIL 7, 1917. WE ARE WITH YOU WOODROW WILSON, WE'LL BE WITH YOU RIGHT ALONG. DADDY and the BOYS."

Dates: 1917

Lt. Alexander Alexion letters

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 727
Overview

This collection contains 17 personal letters written by Lieutenant Alexander Alexion (19th Bomb Group - 934 Squad) while he was stationed at Great Bend Army Airfield, Great Bend, Kansas, during World War II.

Dates: 1944 - 1945

Lt. B.A. Linett letter

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P28
Overview

Letter to the editor of the Globe, Washington, D. C. Dated Fort Leavenworth, January 30, 1837.

Dates: January 30, 1837

Lt. John F. Hall (1332nd AAF Base Unit, Army Air Force) papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1043
Overview

Lt. John F. Hall of Macksville, Kansas served in the 1332nd AAF Base Unit, Army Air Force during World War II. This collection of his papers includes correspondence, Air Force documents, and other personal notebooks and items.

Dates: 1942 - 1945

Luce and Swift family correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: MS 293
Overview

This collection is composed of letters written between two seafaring families, the Luces and Swifts, in the late 1800s. The letters portray daily life in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts and highlight life aboard a whaling vessel.

Dates: 1858 - 1930

Lucetta Duncan autograph book

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS A28
Overview

This autograph book was apparently assembled during the month of March, 1878. It includes the autographs of Miss Duncan's classmates in the public school of Lawrence, Kansas.

Dates: March 1878

Lucy A. Wight photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 132
Overview

This collection contains photographs displaying views of Lawrence, Kansas structures, the Kansas River, and river activities. They were taken by Miss Lucy A. Wight, a stenographer, who was living at 1012 Pennsylvania St. with her widowed mother Mrs. Ruth L. Wight in 1900. Lucy's sister Miss Annie I. Wight, a music teacher, was also living at the residence. All glass plate negatives have had corresponding prints made after the collection was received at Spencer Research Library.

Dates: 1899 - 1908

Lyman Underwood Humphrey correspondence, documents, and memorabilia

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 27
Overview

Humphrey was governor of Kansas, 1888-1892. This collection of correspondence and documents, which is arranged chronologically, covers the period from 1872 to 1906.

Dates: 1872 - 1906

Lynn Bretz collection of Elizabeth Layton and Asa Converse materials

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1541
Overview This collection contains information, interviews and material regarding Kansas artist Elizabeth Layton and her father, newspaperman Asa Converse, collected by Lynn Bretz. The information, interviews and materials were probably used to write the text "Portrait of the Artist" in the book Through the Looking Glass: Drawings by Elizabeth Layton. There is a print, but no original artwork of Elizabeth Layton in this collection. Memorials of Lynn Bretz...
Dates: late 1880s-2014, bulk 1980s

Lyona, Kansas photograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH P323
Overview

This collection contains photographs of the Staatz family in the Lyona and Woodbine, Kansas area circa 1887 to 1940, including Staatz family homes, stores in Lyona, and the Lyona School, district number 1.

Dates: approximately 1887-1940

M. Charles D. Henry Jr. Collection

 Collection — folders: 1-2
Call Number: MS P735
Overview

This collection consists of a journal kept by Private M. Charles D. Henry who was stationed in France during World War I. It also includes a related booklet and several photographs.

Dates: 1918 - 1919

M. Whitcomb Hess, a bibliographical checklist of fifty years

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

This bibliographical checklist covers the years 1924-1974 and was prepared by her daughter, likely in Columbus, Ohio in 1976.

Dates: 1976

Mabel Amrine reminiscences

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P369
Overview

The collection consists of a typescript of a newspaper article from 1955 and photocopy of a magazine article from 1956 written by Mabel Chilcott Amrine; and photocopies of a three-part newspaper article from 1957 written by M. F. Amrine. There is also a photocopy of Mrs. Amrine's magazine article which also appeared in a Topeka newspaper in 1957.

Dates: 1955 - 1957

Mable T. Staden papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P869
Overview

The Mable T. Staden Papers are those of a Kansas native and long time Lawrence, KS resident. Staden worked at several local, Lawrence businesses and was an active member of St. Luke AME Church.

Dates: 1946-1948, 1970-1972

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 13
Republican Party (Kan.) 13
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University of Kansas. Libraries 12
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O'Hegarty, P. S. (Patrick Sarsfield), 1879-1955 8
Ellis, Ralph N. (Ralph Nicholson), 1908-1945 7
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Lawrence, Amos Adams, 1814-1886 7
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Wood, Frank 7
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Kansas. Supreme Court 6
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Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission 6
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Trinity Episcopal Church (Lawrence, Kan.) 6
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University of Kansas. Libraries. University Archives 6
University of Kansas. School of Architecture and Urban Design 6
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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
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Kansas Association of Colored Women and Girls’ Clubs 5
Kansas Committee for the Humanities 5
Kansas. Legislature 5
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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