When the contemporary binding of Spencer Library's 1508 edition of Ptolemy's Geographiae was repaired in the middle of the 20th century, this strip of paper was removed from the binding. There is a multiplication table in column form on the recto of the strip of paper and the verso is blank. The volume was printed in Rome by B. V. de Vitalibus.

This collection contains the records of M.L. Mun and the Tanner family, personal papers of Mary Mun Tanner, and photographs. It also includes correspondence of E. William Tanner and Mary Mun Tanner during courtship and first years of marriage, from 1897-1902, the bulk of which is sent and received within Oklahoma Territory. Also includeded are a body of letters and receipts primarily sent from within California Territory, and later California state.

Murry Dickson was a resident of Leavenworth, Kansas and professional baseball player in the 1940s and 1950s for several major league teams. This collection includes photographs, news clippings, baseball cards, and audio visual materials mostly related to his baseball career.

The Murt Hanks, Jr. Papers are those of a native Kansan elected as Manhattan, Kansas' first African American mayor.

Handwritten library catalog of Pedro Nuñez de Guzmán, 3rd Marques de Montealegre, who flourished around 1668. Incomplete, apparently volume 1 of 2. It ends with equivalent of leaf 132 verso of the printed version. Either copied from printed version or from a common source, this volume does not include a title-page (in Spanish) of printed version or its preface, or table of headings, or the addena (Diferencia) printed at the end of part 2.

Two 1865 muster-out rolls of Company D, Sixth Regiment of the Kansas Cavalry at Fort Scott, Kansas. The company was commanded by Captain David Goss. Rolls include the soldier's name, rank, age, and whether he was mustered-out or died in the service.

Co. H of the 6th Infantry was among the troops serving in Kansas and ordered to aid in execution of laws and preservation of public peace at the opening of the polls Oct. 5, 1857. (Kansas Historical Collections, v.5, p.311-312)

This letter was written to the author's great granddaughter, who at the age of 11 was assigned the task of gathering information about an "older" person by her Girl Scout leader. Mitchell relates his life on a farm in Osage County, Kansas, his abbreviated education, the birth of his first child, and a summary of his local political activities.

In this memoir, written on 304 numbered leaves, Rosa B. "Rose" Garrison Hawkins, born in 1870, recalls her early years on her parents' farm in McLean County, Illinois, her elopement and marriage at age fifteen, her life as a homesteader in western Kansas and southeastern Colorado, and her return to Illinois in 1890. Her account, extending from early childhood to 1896, details the many harrowing hardships which she and her husband endured as homesteaders and overland travelers.

Project report, sound cassettes, and transcripts of interviews of thirty-one Hispanic and Latino immigrants to the United States, residing in Kansas City, Kansas. Interviews were conducted January-October, 2003.

This collection contains tax deeds and receipts pertaining to Lucetta Stevens, apparently the sister of Myra, as well as correspondence between the sisters and other family members. Also contained in this collection are a number of family photographs, including individual and small group portraits.

This collection contains papers of Myrl Zimmerman, a longtime Lawrence, Kansas resident who worked as a security guard for the University of Kansas during the time of the 1951 flood. The collection includes extensive photographs and newspaper articles pertaining to the July 1951 flood. Personal scrapbooks and correspondence are also included.

Contains a brief autobiography by Myrtle Arvilla Trent, including details about her early years in Hartville, Oklahoma living in a family-built rock house and her family's move to Arkansas, Missouri, and eventually Kansas in 1922. Also includes details about her courtship and marriage to Lucas Trent, raising her family, and helping her husband with his work at W. B. Young Wholesale Company, the lives of her children, and a flood in Hutchinson, Kansas in 1929.

The Myrtle L. Triplett papers are those of a long time Wichita, Kansas resident who was extremely active in that city's Holy Savior Catholic Church, particularly the Ladies Auxiliary of the Knights of St. Peter Claver.

The N. Clark Smith papers are those of a Kansas resident who performed as part of a traveling musical group, worked as band director at a number of schools, and composed and published a number of musical pieces.

N. Goupile writes to an unknown recipient whom he misses. He mentions Lord Charles Hay of Linplum (1700?-1760) and a visit to France. Goupile requests that the recipient help get some funds to a relative and says that Mr. Hotham will assist in the transaction. As he closes, Goupile notes that his wife gave birth to another son a month ago and that the family has great trust in and respect for the recipient. Goupile appears to be writing from Prestonpans, Scotland.

Nancy Kassebaum Baker was born in Topeka, Kansas in 1932 and attended public schools. She graduated from the University of Kansas in 1954 and received a masters degree from the University of Michigan in 1956. She worked on various Kansas commissions and committees and in 1978 was elected to the United States Senate where she served until 1997. The materials in this collection come from her 1978 primary and general election campaign and include printed materials and audio tapes.

This collection contains some copied photographs from Nancy Porter's family, as well as photographs from the family of A. R. Maxwell, a Wells Fargo agent who resided in Lawrence, Kansas. The first 12 photographs in the collection are later copy prints from the Porter family photographs; the rest of the collection are contemporary prints from the Maxwell family. Many of these are badly faded; most also have handwritten notes on them.

Nancy Shontz served on the City Commission of Lawrence, Kansas, from 1981-1985, and worked actively with the Lawrence Preservation Alliance and the local chapter of the League of Women Voters. The collection contains her papers regarding these activities as well as other city- and county-related issues.

The Papers of Nannie Tillman are those of an early twentieth century Atchison, Kansas resident.

This collection contains incoming and outgoing correspondence from 1926 to 1934, mostly in connection to Naomi Royde-Smith's publishing and writing career, but personal and other business correspondence is also present. The collection also contains some of Royde-Smith's short story manuscripts, household bills/receipts, royalty statements, invitations, correspondence written by/to Royde-Smith's husband Ernest Milton, and other miscellaneous papers.

A narrative of a buffalo hunt, with a letter of transmittal. Dated Optima, Oklahoma Territory, February 18, 1892.

Andrew Williams' autobiographical narrative gives an account of Quantrill's raid on Lawrence, Kansas in 1863. Williams wrote it at the urging of William E. Connelley.

Narrative on Lawrence, Kansas public schools. Lawrence, ca. 1934.