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Nate Foster papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1601
Overview

Collection includes photographs, newsletters, and correspondence related to the personal and professional life of Nate Foster, a Kansas-based African American powerlifter active from the late 1970s into the mid-1980s. Foster won the World Masters titles for powerlifting from 1980 to 1983. Foster also coached the US Women's Powerlifting Team at the World Championships in Hawaii in 1981.

Dates: 1977 - 1981

Nathaniel Sawyer family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1460
Overview This collection includes correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other legal and personal papers from the Nathaniel Sawyer family, a prominent Topeka, Kansas-based family of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Materials are both originals and photocopies, including copies of materials related to Harlem Renaissance artist Aaron Douglas, husband to Alta Sawyer. Most of the collection pertains to Daniel Smith Sawyer II, his children (especially Constance Sawyer), and Aaron Douglas...
Dates: circa 1880-2012 (bulk 1950s-1990s)

National Amateur Press Association membership bundles

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 259
Overview The National Amateur Press Association first met in 1876, and is considered the oldest amateur press group in the world. The organization is founded in the tradition of letterpress printing, but also encompasses the associated arts of writing, editing, publishing, and illustration as they pertain to amateur journalism. "Bundles" are mailed each month to all members, containing the work of printers as well as writers and poets, who may or may not print their own material. This collection...
Dates: 1969 - 2024

Nationally Accredited Flower Show Judges of Greater Kansas City records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1051
Overview

The Nationally Accredited Flower Show Judges of Greater Kansas City is a member organization of the Federated Garden Clubs of Missouri and the National Council of State Garden Clubs, Inc. This collection of their records contains minute books from the club's founding through 1986.

Dates: 1953 - 1986

Native American stereocards

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 521
Overview

25 stereocards of posed views of Native American life, manufactured by the Keystone View Company. One stereocard displays students in front of Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas. Terms and language used on the stereo cards to identify the photographs is representative of when the images were created and by whom; this language has not been replicated in this finding aid. No individual tribes are identified in the collection.

Dates: undated [circa 1900-1910]

Natural Cooler Storage Project of War Food Administration scrapbook

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS Q85
Overview

Photostatic copy of a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, news releases from the federal government, photographs, and a site plan for the George W. Kerford Quarry Company's mine cooler leased by the War Food Administration in 1944.

Dates: 1944

Natural History Art and Illustration by D. D. Tyler

 Collection
Call Number: MS 337
Overview The collection consists of the archives of natural history art and illustration projects executed by D. D. (Diane Dee McAbee) Tyler from 1971 through 2014. She is known for illustrating children's books and for creating internationally marketed T-shirt designs for Liberty Graphics. The many animals, plants, landscapes, and other subjects she has depicted are represented in this collection through all stages of production, ranging from initial sketches to final products. The collection...
Dates: 1971 - 2015

Naturalist’s Sketch Book

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS D130
Overview

Book of natural history. Brief scientific descriptions and paintings of butterflies and moths, birds, beetles, mantides and locusts, other insects, coral, shellfish, jellyfish, etc. Gives generic and specific characteristics, other names, locality, and bibliographical references to Linnaeus and mid-18th century writers.

Dates: between 1821 and 1900

"Nature display'd; being a short account of such particulars of natural history as was thought most proper to excite curiosity and form the minds of youths"

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C109
Overview

Compendium of natural history, physical sciences and technology compiled by Gregory Faux of Thetford, Norfolk, England in 1748 and intended for educational use. Illustrations are mainly of animals, but some of technology (ship's rigging, wine-press, methods of fishing, etc.) Some are copied or based on Pluche (sometimes apparently not illustrating text).

Dates: 1748

Ne Plus Ultra Art and Literary Club records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 679
Overview

The Ne Plus Ultra Art and Literary Club records are those of a local collective effort among Topeka, Kansas, women to promote unity and goodwill through domestic artwork, literature and community service.

Dates: 1913 - 1969

Nebraska State Penitentiary photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 129
Overview

This collection consists of photographic postcard prints of images from the first Nebraska State Prison building and buildings, grounds, and activities located at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln, Nebraska. Most of the images date from approximately 1910.

Dates: approximately 1870 and 1910

Needwood Forest Manuscript

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS D61
Overview

Needwood Forest Manuscript is a copy of a printed book published: Lichfield, Jackson, 1776. At Part III is laid in an Epitaph on Mrs. Nelly Mundy, who died September 5 , 1813. With this is bound a printed book: Mundy’s "The Fall of Needwood, Derby, Drewry," 1808.

Dates: Between 1776 and 1808

Nellie McGurdy scrapbook of newspaper clippings

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS D239
Overview

This volume contains newspaper clippings and obituaries of well-known persons, most likely complied by Nellie McGurdy.

Dates: approximately 1889-approximately 1935

Nelson Case scrapbook

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS D209
Overview

Scrapbook primarily concerning Oswego and Labette counties and Nelson Case. Includes programs, etc. of the Kansas State Sunday School Association and certain district meetings.

Dates: 1879 - 1893

Nelson S. Shaler collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P75
Overview The contract is handwritten and signed by members of the tribe, including Ke-a-quack, as well as Shaler and J. E. Badger, interpreter. The laminated newspaper clipping is from the Long Island Daily Press (undated but likely from the 1950s or early 1960s) and describes the contract. The letter is handwritten in the Kickapoo language and is addressed Kecon Wahthas-Kuk and signed Kecon Shan-nah. Shaler was a trader who drew up the contract with the Kickapoo to...
Dates: August 23, 1860; June 9, 1864

Neva Entrikin papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P400
Overview

Includes a copy of "From Smaland, Sweden to Smolan, Kansas, Part II" written by Neva Entrikin for a Kansas history class at the University of Kansas in 1978.

Dates: 1978

New York City rabbis protesting abortions photograph

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH WL PH 8
Overview

A single photograph of rabbis in New York City protesting against abortion.

Dates: July 1989

News releases, fact sheets, and photographs regarding President Harry S. Truman

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: RH MS 129
Overview This collection is comprised of news releases issued by the Research Hospital and Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri following the final hospitalization of former President Harry S. Truman, and "fact sheets" issued by the Fifth Army Information Office after his death in December, 1972. The news releases provide a day-to-day log of President Truman's hospitalization. The fact sheets (which total 146) were distributed to the press corps providing biographical data and other background...
Dates: 1972

Newspaper articles regarding Laird M. Wilcox

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS CK4
Overview

A collection of copied news paper clippings tracing Laird M. Wilcox's political activities from 1963 to 1973. Also includes "What's Up on the Far Left," a newspaper column written by Wilcox.

Dates: 1963-1972, March 1971-November 1972, 1973

Newspaper clipping of the poem, "The Storm"

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P679
Overview

A clipping containing Kansan Richard E. Schneder's poem, "The Storm," published in an identified newspaper, under a column titled "With the Kansas Poets."

Dates: between 1924 and 1999

Newspaper clippings, Collected poems

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS B67
Overview

Poems collected by author at request of May Williams Ward. Salina, Kansas.

Dates: 1947 - 1956

Newspaper clippings concerning Utopia College and its founder, Roger Babson

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS C60
Overview

Mounted newspaper clippings from the Kansas City Star concerning Utopia College and its founder, Roger Babson.

Dates: 1952

Newspaper Clippings: Kansans in Mexico

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS C74
Overview

Kansans in Mexico: a souvenir/compiled by Clifford C. Baker. Mounted newspaper clippings. Articles in Kansas newspapers by members of a party of Kansas journalists in Mexico in 1888.

Dates: 1888

Newspaper clippings on the early history of Gray County, Kansas

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS R296
Overview

The collection contains a number of newspaper clippings from 1961-1976 detailing the early history of Cimarron, Montezuma, and other towns in Gray County, Kansas.

Dates: 1961 - 1976

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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 (1952-2026) 4
Guttridge, G. H. (George Herbert), 1898- 4
Hoad, William C. (William Christian), 1874- 4
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 4