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Berkeley-Dursley account books
Collection
Call Number: MS 130
Overview
A collection of financial accounts for the Berkeley family, including primarily Charles Berkeley (1649-1710), the 2nd Earl of Berkeley, and his son James Berkeley (1680-1736), 3rd Earl of Berkeley (James was also styled Viscount Dursley from 1699-1710 before he succeeding his father as Earl of Berkeley in 1710). Also included are briefer accounts for the Countess Dowager of Berkeley (presumably Elizabeth, Charles's wife and James's mother), and the Honorable George Berkeley, Charles's fourth...
Dates:
1702-1713; 1716-1717
Bernice McFarland papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 991
Overview
Bernice McFarland was a Lawrence, Kansas native, University of Kansas graduate, and member of the Home Study Club. She spent much of her adult life away from Kansas. This collection of her papers includes her own personal records as well as the Van Tries family.
Dates:
1910 - 1983
Bert Nash family papers, including papers of Luther Bittle Bushong
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 731
Overview
Bert Allen Nash (d. 1947) was an educational psychologist at the University of Kansas. Nash was particularly interested in the study and remedy of child welfare agencies in Kansas, and was active in the Lawrence, Kansas community. In 1950, in recognition of Nash's contributions, the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center was established in Lawrence. The collection contains personal papers of Nash and his family, as well as his father-in-law Luther Bittle Bushong, and includes correspondence,...
Dates:
1910 - 1974
Bertha (Bachle) Hunnius correspondence
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P171
Overview
A letter written in German dated December 6, 1894, to Bertha Bachle from (_____ ) Helene. Bertha Bachle was married to Carl Julius Adolph Hunnius, a civil engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who surveyed throughout the West and Southwest.
Dates:
1894
Bessie Wilson photographs
Collection
Call Number: RH PH P2832
Overview
A collection of photographs from the family of Bessie Wilson. Includes two photographs of the 9th Cavalry band, a photograph of a father and his two daughters with the label "Wilson Family," a photograph of five African American men, and a large group photograph in front of the Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church.
Dates:
approximately 1920s-1960s
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Leavenworth, Kan.) papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P876
Overview
The Papers of Bethel A.M.E. Church of Leavenworth, Kansas are those of an African American church in Leavenworth, which is one of the earliest African Methodist Episcopal churches in Kansas.
Dates:
1920, 1949
Bethel College, Newton, Kansas negatives
Collection
Call Number: RH PH 528
Overview
This collection contains photographic negatives of people and buildings relating to Bethel College in Newton, Kansas. Most of the photographs were taken between approximately 1945 and 1955, but many are copies of older photographs, including cabinet cards. The negatives came in a numbered sequence, which has been retained.
Dates:
between 1945 and 1955
Betty Lou (Tucker) Majure papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P758
Overview
This collection includes material collected by Michigan Valley, Kansas native Betty Lou (Tucker) Majure including a Michigan Valley High School yearbook, 1938 and photos of a church, a home, and a barn.
Dates:
1938
Beverly Boyd papers
Collection
Call Number: PP 489
Overview
This collection includes papers related to Brooklyn College and her work at the University of Kansas.
Dates:
1957 - 1995
B.F. Williams & Son General Merchandise records
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 990
Overview
B.F. Williams and Son General Merchandise operated in Woodston, Kansas throughout the 1920s-1940s. This collection includes an expense/income ledger and customer account book, as well as a folder of loose material.
Dates:
1920s-1940s
Bibliography of cartography by Philip Lee Phillips
Collection
Call Number: MS D197
Overview
"Bibliography of cartography or A descriptive list of books and magazine articles relating to maps, map-makers and views," by Philip Lee Phillips, F.R.G.S., Chief, Division of Maps, Library of Congress. The volumes appear to be a 1920 version of Phillips' typescript, heavily annotated in various hands with additional information and editing marks. They include references to "Supplement" and have at least one manuscript addition with the date 1928.
Dates:
1920, 1928
Bill Mayer correspondence
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1386
Overview
Correspondence from Bill Mayer while in Army Air Force training as a bomber crewman. Includes one "V mail" sent from England in April of 1945; all other letters are from bases located in the United States.
Dates:
1943 - 1945
Bill "Whitey" Sanders editorial cartoon sketches
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS R251
Overview
Bill "Whitey" Sanders was an editorical cartoonist for the Kansas City Star newspaper from 1963-1967 before beginning a 24-year career with the Milwaukee Journal. This collection consists of 14 charcoal sketches done by Sanders during a visit to the University of Kansas School of Journalism.
Dates:
1964
Billy Q. McCray papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 430
Overview
The Billy Q. McCray papers are those of a long time Kansas resident who served in both the Kansas House of Representatives and the Kansas Senate before becoming director of the Kansas Department of Economic Development Office of Minority Business. This collection of McCray's papers includes correspondence from constituents, documents generated by the Education and the Ways and Means Committees, legislation introduced by McCray, and papers of the Kansas Legislature's Minority Caucus.
Dates:
1975 - 1985
Biographical account of Samuel N. Simpson
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P936
Overview
Biographical account of Samuel N. Simpson, an early resident of territorial Kansas, by an unknown author. The sketch includes genealogical information about Simpson's ancestors as well as information about Simpson's personal and business life throughout the 19th century. The bulk of the account is allegedly a history of the Border Wars between Kansas and Missouri written by Simpson himself.
Dates:
undated
Biographical accounts of George Byng, 1st viscount Torrington (1663-1733), and his son, Admiral John Byng (1704-1757)
Collection
Call Number: MS E32
Overview
Printed book: The trial of the Honourable Admiral John Byng at a court martial...London, R. Manby [and others], 1757.
Dates:
1801, 174-?
Biographical notes on Ovid
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P707
Overview
The unknown writer notes the biographical information about Ovid's life he has been able to gather from Ovid's writings. This is an unsewn gathering of 4 bifolia (originally 5). The page numbering 3-18 indicates that the outer bifolium is lacking.
Dates:
18th century
Biographical sketch of William E. Stafford
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P668
Overview
A one-page biographical sketch of poet William E. Stafford (1914-1993), a native of Hutchinson, Kansas and a graduate of the University of Kansas.
Dates:
March 1963
Biography of a city: Lawrence, Kansas videotapes
Collection
Call Number: RH Video 9
Overview
Dennis Domer, professor of architecture at the University of Kansas, presented a course on the history of Lawrence, Kansas, entitled, Biography of a City: Lawrence. These 15 videotapes of the course were produced by KU's Division of Continuing Education.
Dates:
1998
Biography of George Nuzum
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P102
Overview
An article with biographical information of White Cloud, Doniphan County, Kansas-based businessman and author George Nuzum, written by Josephine Kelley Blocker. The collection also includes a photograph of "The Superior's Clerks" and three sets of microfilm reels holding copies of Nuzum's History of the Iowa Indians.
Dates:
1890; 1906; 1932?
Biography of Mr. & Mrs. Walter Raleigh Smith
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P360
Overview
Photocopy of a biography of Mr. & Mrs. Walter Raleigh Smith and a description of their life in El Dorado, Kan. from 1915 to mid-century. Also included is autobiographical material about their son, Harold C. Smith.
Dates:
Other: between 1915 and 1950
Bishop Collection photographs and postcards
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P626
Overview
Bishop Collection of miscellaneous photographic postcards. Some show views of Kansas towns like Natoma and Burdick, others are addressed to May Eikelberger, 1912-1916. Most are of unidentified persons and places. Also includes Roster of Officers of Auxiliary Remount Depot No. 323, Camp Funston, Kansas, 1918.
Dates:
undated, 1912-1918
Bishop Vail house (Lawrence, Kansas) papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P825
Overview
These papers, a gift of University of Kansas professors Frances and Floyd R. Horowitz, concern the history of their former Lawrence, Kansas residence at 505 Ohio Street as the home of Thomas Hubbard Vail, the first Episcopal bishop of Kansas. The papers, all of which are photocopies of original documents, include correspondence between Bishop Vail's grandson, Thomas Hubbard Vail Motter, and Grace (Mrs. Fritz) Heider, when she and her husband occupied the former Vail home in the early 1950s....
Dates:
1870; 1951-1954
Black student movement at Lawrence High School
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P361
Overview
Photocopy of an honors history thesis, Black student movement at Lawrence High School (Lawrence, Kansas), written by Martin J. Modrcin at the University of Kansas in 1980.
Dates:
1980
Black Values and Public Policy Project records
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1163
Overview
The Black Values and Public Policy Project records are those of a Kansas Committee for the Humanities funded University of Kansas project.
Dates:
1976 - 1977
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