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O'Dell-Wilson family photographs
This collection contains photographs of the O'Dell-Wilson family and of two grade schools in Topeka, Kansas. Most of the photographs are undated. An O'Dell family member was a schoolteacher, and the Wilson family had been farmers in the La Cygne, Linn County area.
Office Chronicles
Official documents of Tulancingo, Mexico
Official documents from the alcalde of Tulancingo, Mexico: sentences, royal proclamations, notarial register, 1 Papal bull, etc. Consists of 13 manuscripts; 143 printed items with manuscript additions. Subjects include criminal cases, resources and manufactures, governmental processes, slavery and Indigenous populations, commerce, etc.
Official Navy photographs of Kansas City flooding
The collection includes 85 aerial and ground photographs taken by official photographers stationed at the United States Naval Air Station in Olathe, Kansas, of the flooding in the greater Kansas City area in 1951.
Oil Drilling Map of Allen and Woodson Counties, Kansas
Old and New Club records
These records of the Old and New Club of Lawrence, Kansas document the activities of this men's club from the time of its establishment in 1874. Included are its meeting programs from 1874, minutes from 1898 to 1903, correspondence, clippings, papers, and photographs of members.
Old Folks' Annual Reception invitation, Liberty Hall, Friday evening
Invitation, addressed to Lawrence resident W.L. Bullene and Ladies, to the annual reception and ball. Committee members are listed on the back.
Old Holy Family Catholic Church, Eudora, Kansas records
This collection contains an historical account of the Old Holy Family Catholic Church in Eudora, Kansas and a census of Holy Family Catholic cemetery from 1866-1987, documented by Adam G. Workman in 1988.
Old Sacramento; an account of the cannon reputed to have fired the first shot against slavery
This is an account of the artillery piece originally captured by Col. Alexander Doniphan during the Mexican War. The cannon is reputed to have "fired the first shot" against slavery as well as in support of the cause. It is now on permanent deposit with the Douglas County Historical Society, Lawrence, Kansas.
Old West Lawrence and the law of historic preservation
This paper was submitted to the Historic Preservation Seminar, Fall, 1973. It details a history of Old West Lawrence (bordered on the north by 6th Street, on the east by Tennessee, on the south by 9th Street and on the west by Illinois), the Old West Lawrence Association, and preservation of the area under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.
Old West Lawrence Association records
This collection includes newsletters, meeting agendas and minutes, pamphlets, maps, association history, and other records related to the Old West Lawrence Association (OWLA) and its involvement in the preservation of Lawrence, Kansas' built environment and history.
Old West Lawrence historical resources survey
Old Windmill of West Lawrence, Kansas drawing
This collection consists of a modern recreation of a drawing of the Old Windmill in Lawrence, Kansas, completed by George. J. Hood on January 21, 1904. The drawing has a note saying the windmill was erected in 1863-64.
Ole J. Olsen photographs
This collection includes glass plate negatives from the Olsen family farm and the Concord Schoolhouse near Horton, Brown County, Kansas. The photographs were taken by Ole J. Olsen. All negatives have corresponding prints made after Spencer Research Library received the collection.
Olga (Davis) Heaven papers
The Olga (Davis) Heaven Papers are those of a longtime Kansas resident, who was a native of Coffeyville and active at the University of Kansas. The collection includes a photocopied scrapbook, which includes material about Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority at the University of Kansas, as well as other clippings, programs, and correspondence. There are also a number of photographs, which are of Martha Isman Davis and several of her children; all photographs were taken in Coffeyville, Kansas.
Olive Branch Lodge No. 74 F. & A.M.
The Olive Branch Lodge No. 74 F. & A.M. history is a brief handwritten document chronicling the Kansas organization's primary activities.
Olive Carr Strachan photographs
The collection contains modern black and white reprints of photographs pertaining to Olive Carr's teaching career in Eudora, Kansas and her parents' wedding portraits.
Oliver R. McNary collection
This collection of personal papers include materials gathered by McNary on the treatment and exchange of Union prisoners during the Civil War.
Oliver Wendell Holmes correspondence
Collection includes letters to and from American physician and humorist Oliver Wendell Holmes. Correspondents include a Miss Willis of Boston and E. Lakin Brown [(1809-1899), of Michigan?]
Olivia Bennett papers
Files regarding Robert Bennett's service as Governor of Kansas, maintained by his wife, Olivia Bennett, First Lady.
On becoming an influential in Wichita
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Oral History Project of POW Camp Concordia Preservation Society
Kansas Humanities Council funded an oral history project regarding Camp Concordia, a POW camp for German prisoners of war during World War II. Collection includes transcripts and videotapes of interviews with Concordia residents, and transcripts of interviews with several former prisoners.
Oral history project regarding the Hispanic community of Emporia, Kansas
This collection is comprised of transcripts of interviews conducted for an oral history project in the Hispanic community in Emporia, Kansas, in 1980. Robert Oppenheimer was involved with this project and interviews were conducted by Sandra Granado, Simon Rodriguez, Linda Hernandez and others. The collection also includes modern photographic prints from copy negatives of photographs obtained through the oral history project.
Oral history project regarding the Hispanic community of Garden City, Kansas
This collection includes audio cassette tapes and transcripts of interviews conducted by Robert Oppenheimer and others for a Hispanic oral history project in Garden City, Kansas, as well as modern photoprints from copy negatives of photographs from the local Hispanic community. The project was a result of a grant from the Kansas Council for the Humanities initiated by Dr. Oppenheimer, who was a professor in the University of Kansas' History Department.