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Oral history recordings of Vietnam Veterans

 Collection
Call Number: RH Cass. Tape 24
Overview

This collection is comprised of 10 audiocassette tapes which contain oral interviews of Vietnam Veterans.

Dates: 2003

Oral Interviews

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 602
Overview

23 transcripts of oral African American history interviews taken in 1977 in Lawrence, Kansas, about race relations in Lawrence.

Dates: 1977

Order of the House of Commons Drawn Out of the Journals of the Said House Beginning at Primo Ed: 6ti: and ending 31:

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS E95
Overview

Volume writen by "the learned William Lambert of Lincolns Inn Esquire." Includes sections on the first, second, and third reading of bills; who can and cannot be burgesses; punishment for offenses against the House; House member privileges, etc. William Lambarde (1536-1601) was an English antiquarian, politician, and writer on legal subjects.

Dates: Approximately 1700

Orders to Pay from the British Treasury

 Collection
Call Number: MS 145
Overview

A collection of 14 orders to pay by the Treasury of Great Britain from the 18th century, with no apparent connection to each other.

Dates: 1714-1760 (bulk 1716-1725)

Oread Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends minutes

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS C37
Overview

Minutes of the Oread monthly meeting of Friends. Nov. 1950 - May 1966.

Dates: Nov. 1950 - May 1966

Oread Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P259
Overview

Papers include annual budget, list of members and correspondence.

Dates: 1950

Oread Neighborhood Association records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 768
Overview

This collection consists of survey reports, inventory forms, newsletters, photographs, and other administrative records from the Oread Neighborhood Association (ONA) of Lawrence, Kansas. The association has been concerned with the historic preservation of buildings in its neighborhood, expansion of the University of Kansas into the neighborhood, and maintaining the upkeep of the neighborhood.

Dates: 1979 - 2003

“Origin of Names of Army and Air Corps Posts, Camps and Stations in World War II in Kansas”

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P990
Overview

Mary Moore Allen (1892-1963), daughter of North Carolina Supreme Court Justice William R. Allen (1860-1921), wrote pamphlets on the origins of names for Army and Air Corps posts, camps and stations in World War II for many states in the United States. This collection includes two copies of a typewritten pamphlet listing the origins of Army and Air Corps posts, camps and stations in Kansas During World War II, in alphabetical order.

Dates: approximately 1953

Original letters and manuscript copy of Paul E. Wilson's "Letters to Harriet"

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1073
Overview "Letters to Harriet" was produced by Paul E. Wilson in 1990, incorporating the content of letters that he wrote as a World War II serviceman to his wife Harriet who was living at Lyndon, Kansas. In this collection are Wilson's original letters to his wife, parents, and daughter Betsy, written from Army training camps and from combat zones in New Guinea and the Philippines. With Wilson's letters is his handwritten manuscript for his 1990 compilation, including his introduction, conclusion,...
Dates: 1942-1946; 1990

Original manuscripts and research notes for Rural schools and schoolhouses of Douglas County, Kansas

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 792
Overview

A collection of Goldie Piper Daniels' original manuscripts and research notes for her book, Rural Schools and schoolhouses of Douglas County, Kansas, published in 1975. Included are the author's many original pencil drawings of Douglas County schoolhouses, with which her book was illustrated.

Dates: approximately 1969-1976

Original plans for Pumping Plant for Lawrence Water Company

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS S29
Overview

This collection is comprised of 8 original drawings for the pumping plant at the Lawrence Water Company. The plans were made official by the City Engineer at the time, E.H. Dunmire.

Dates: 1913

Original typescript of Bleeding Kansas.

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 30
Overview

Editor's copy of the manuscript, "Bleeding Kansas",

Dates: 1954

Orrin M. Murray papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 508
Overview

The Papers of Orrin M. Murray are those of a native Quindaro, Kansas historian and educator.

Dates: 1958 - 1986

Orsetti family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 131
Overview

The Orsetti family papers contains financial accounts, business letters, maps, and house-plans, legal documents, etc. These items are bound together into 294 volumes.

Dates: 1180 - 1874 (bulk 1450-1820)

Osage County, Kansas record of deaths

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P451
Overview

Photocopy of a ledger recording the death of persons living in Osage County, Kansas. The ledger covers the time period January 1892 through January 1941 and states the name, date of death, place of burial and burial costs of the deceased. The original ledger is located at the Osage County Historical Society in Lyndon, Kansas.

Dates: 1892 - 1941

Osage Mission ledger books

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS G7
Overview

Various account books with the Osage Nation.

Dates: 1851 - 1857

Oscar Eugene Learnard family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 36
Overview

This collection consists of copied and original correspondence, clippings, photographs, and other related materials regarding the life of Oscar Eugene Learnard, his family, and the early history of Lawrence, Kansas.

Dates: 1850 - 1943

Oscar Stark collection of photographs of African Americans

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 549
Overview

This collection consists of cartes de visite, cabinet cards, paper prints, and other mounted prints of African Americans, many apparently from Missouri and others from other parts of the Midwest and Northwestern United States. Some of the images are identified, many are not. The collection is roughly organized by photographic process and then by identified groups or individuals first, unidentified following.

Dates: approximately 1870s-1920s

Osey Gail Peterson collection on Albert T. Reid

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1544
Overview

This collection largely consists of pen and ink, pencil, and watercolor sketches created by artist and cartoonist Albert T. Reid, originally from Clyde County, Kansas. The collection also includes some newspaper clippings, music scores, and other items gathered by Osey Gail (French) Peterson when she was a Kansas-based reporter writing about Reid and his works.

Dates: approximately 1890s-1910s, 1944

O'Sullivan family history

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1611
Overview

The collection includes two bound histories of the O'Sullivan family, photocopies, and a history paper written by Shea O'Sullivan for a class at the University of Kansas. The O'Sullivan family immigrated from County Cork, Ireland to an area near Hutchinson, Kansas.

Dates: 1955 - 2018

Otho Lewis papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1103
Overview

The Papers of Otho Lewis are those of a Kansas native who was an active church member and writer.

Dates: 1968 - 1978

Ottawa, Kansas Middle School photographs

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P12
Overview

This photographic collection comprises photographic prints and contact sheets of classroom scenes at Ottawa Middle School in Ottawa, Kansas, taken by photographer Jane Morse in 1982. Images include music class with teacher Cryss Brunner, home economic class with teacher Donna Howell, and band class with teacher Brent Wheeler. Some of the teachers and students appear to be African American.

Dates: 1982

Ottawa University photograph

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P151
Overview

This collection contains one photograph of Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas, dating from approximately 1927.

Dates: approximately 1927

Otto and Edna Frederikson papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 674
Overview Kansas native Otto Frovin Frederikson was a professor of history and social sciences at Madison College (Harrisonburg, Virginia) from 1931-1957. His wife, Enda Tutt Frederikson, was an English professor at the same university. A published author, in 1928 she won first prize in the Herbert Carruth Memorial Poetry Contest at the University of Kansas for her poem, "Epitaph," written in memory of Mary White, daughter of William Allen White. This collection contains diaries and journals kept by...
Dates: 1864 - 1998

Our trip West

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P712
Overview

This photocopied typescript is a 93-page account of an automobile trip to California by William L. Hastie and his wife Anna of Lawrence (Douglas County), Kansas. Hastie's account, which begins with their September 1937 departure and ends with their February 1938 return to Lawrence, includes details of visits with many family members and acquaintances along the way.

Dates: 1937; March 16, 1985

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Lawrence (Kan.) -- History 67
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Women -- Kansas -- Lawrence -- Societies and clubs 32
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 29
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Kansas -- History 28
Kansas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 26
Diaries 24
Lawrence (Kan.) 24
American poetry -- 20th century 23
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Lawrence Massacre, Lawrence, Kan., 1863 21
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 21
Kansas -- Politics and government 18
Science fiction 17
African Americans -- Kansas 15
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas 14
Kansas -- Photographs 14
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American 14
African American families -- Kansas 13
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Lawrence (Kan.) -- History -- 19th century 13
African Americans -- Kansas -- Politics and government 12
African Americans -- Kansas -- Topeka 12
American poetry -- Kansas 12
English literature -- 19th century 12
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Lawrence (Kan.) -- Social life and customs 12
Family archives -- Kansas 11
Historic buildings -- Kansas -- Lawrence 11
Leavenworth (Kan.) -- History 11
World War, 1914-1918 11
African American Baptists -- Kansas 10
African American families -- Kansas -- Topeka 10
African American women -- Kansas -- Societies and clubs 10
City planning -- Kansas -- Lawrence 10
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African American clergy -- Kansas 8
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University of Kansas 78
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