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Articles and Drawings about Architecture from Kansas City Newspapers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 655
Overview
This is a collection of newspaper clippings from Kansas City newspapers, such as the Kansas City Star, Kansas City Journal, Kansas City Post, and the Kansas City Journal-Post from 1913-1924. The articles relate to prominent Kansas City landmarks such as the Liberty Memorial and Union Station in downtown Kansas City, as well as residences and commercial buildings. The collection also includes articles and pages from national publications such as American Contractor and Western Contractor.
Dates:
1913 - 1924
Artifacts from the 1984 Discovery Space Shuttle Mission
Collection
Call Number: Pryce MS J2
Overview
Material carried on the maiden flight of the space shuttle orbiter Discovery (STS 41D, August 30 – September 5, 1984) and publicity material associated with the mission.
Dates:
August 30 – September 5, 1984
Artificial Kansas-based photographs collection
Collection
Call Number: RH PH 535
Overview
This artificial collection was assembled by putting together smaller sets of purchased photographs from various photographic dealers on a variety of subjects relating to Kansas. Many of the purchases were selected by Spencer Research Library's Kansas Collection photoarchivist during the 1980s and 1990s. The collection consists of real photographic postcards, lithographic print postcards, cabinet cards, cartes de visit, mounted and unmounted prints, stereoviews, glass plate negatives, and other...
Dates:
approximately 1875-1984 (bulk 1900s-1910s)
Artificial non-Kansas photographs collection
Collection
Call Number: RH PH 539
Overview
This artificial collection was assembled by putting together smaller sets of purchased photographs from various photographic dealers on a variety of subjects outside the state of Kansas in the United States and Canada. Many of the purchases were selected by Spencer Research Library's Kansas Collection photoarchivist during the 1980s and 1990s. The collection consists of real photographic postcards, lithographic print postcards, mounted and unmounted prints, stereoviews, glass plate negatives,...
Dates:
approximately 1867-1954 (bulk 1900s-1920s)
Artificial Portraits collection
Collection
Call Number: RH PH 540
Overview
This artificial collection was assembled by putting together smaller sets of purchased photographs from various photographic dealers, focused on portraits of individuals, couples, and groups. Many of the purchases were selected by Spencer Research Library's Kansas Collection photoarchivist during the 1980s and 1990s. The collection consists of real photographic postcards, lithographic print postcards, cabinet cards, cartes de visite, mounted and unmounted prints, glass plate negatives, and...
Dates:
approximately 1868 - 1986 (bulk 1900s-1960s)
A.S. Thweatt diary
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P366
Overview
Photocopy of a diary written during a trip from New Orleans to New York City in 1867. The diary entries were made in a North, Brush & Mason's Catalogue of fancy goods.
Dates:
1867
Assessment of the Unitarian Fellowship of Lawrence's Adaptive Reuse of the Pleasant Valley District #14 Schoolhouse
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P872
Overview
This paper by University of Kansas student Dan Carey (later Dan Carey-Whalen) describes the historical and architectural importance of the Pleasant Valley #14 schoolhouse which was purchased as a meeting house in 1960 by the Unitarian Fellowship of Lawrence, Kansas. Citing the building's suitability for the National Register of Historic Places, Carey proposes various preservation-minded measures for its adaptive use. Included are photographic negatives of the meeting house.
Dates:
December 6, 1999
Assessments of Kansas Highways
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 668
Overview
This collection contains student projects from the EVRN 615 class at the University of Kansas, primarily conducted in assessment of the U.S. Highway 59 corridor between Lawrence and Ottawa, Kansas.
Dates:
2001
Association for Retarded Citizens of Douglas County records
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 815
Overview
The Association for Retarded Citizens/Douglas County in Kansas was organized in May 1956. Known since the 1990s as the ARC of Douglas County, the organization provides advocacy and referral services for people with developmental disabilities and their families. This collection includes administrative records, correspondence, and collected material regarding the Kansas Association for Retarded Citizens, the Topeka Association for Retarded Citizens, the Bess Stone House, and Cottonwood, Inc.
Dates:
1956 - 1989
Association of Kansas Theatre records
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 724
Overview
The Association of Kansas Theatre (AKT), a Wichita-based support organization for theater groups in Kansas, publishes
a directory and a quarterly newsletter, The Marquee, maintains a script library, and sponsors an
annual convention. The collection includes administrative records of the organization, including photographs, video- and audio-cassette tape recordings and newsletters.
Dates:
1975 - 1996
At the River's Bend: An Illustrated History of Kansas City: Independence and Jackson County research files
Collection — Box: 1-2
Call Number: RH MS 799
Overview
This collection contains the research files compiled by authors working in collaboration with the Jackson County Historical Society, in the production of the book "At the River's Bend: An Illustrated History of Kansas City, Independence, and Jackson County".
Dates:
1850 - 1982
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway miscellaneous files
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1399
Overview
The collection consists of various letters concerning train and railway-related issues from 1910 to 1953; train part blueprints; some financial data from 1937 to 1944; letters and documents from 1922 to 1952 regarding brake parts; and letters and documents from 1936 to 1948 regarding bar and roller bearings.
Dates:
1910 - 1953
Athletic Director's records
Series
Call Number: RG 66/11/4
Overview
This series, from the Athletics Department record group at the University of Kansas, consists of correspondence and related materials from when Forrest C. Allen (better known as Phog Allen) was Athletic Director at the university. The records are organized alphabetically by topic or correspondent's family name. Topics include but are not limited to specific sports; equipment; stadium construction; administrative duties; and associations and clubs in which KU teams competed.
Dates:
1919-1943 (bulk 1920s-1930s)
Augustine E. Costello letter
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P400
Overview
Letter from writer Augustine Costello to his young cousin "Charles", living in Ireland. The collection consists of a single autobiographical letter to this cousin, who also has decided to become a journalist, and is writing for the Freeman.
Dates:
July 9, 1891
Austin C. Chapel Civil War diary
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P739
Overview
This 110-page Civil War diary of Austin C. Chapel, 5th Sergeant of Company G in Wisconsin's 13th Infantry Regiment, chronicles his daily activities in 1863 while guarding Union supplies in Tennessee. Documents which accompany the diary include Chapel's notice of appointment as 5th Sergeant, a 4-page letter written by Chapel in 1862 while posted at Fort Scott, Kansas, and his photograph in uniform.
Dates:
1863; also documents dated 1857, 1861, 1862
Austin-Frey family papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1026
Overview
The Austin-Frey family papers document a family whose members came to reside in Osage City and Lawrence, Kansas from the late 1800s to the late 1900s.
Dates:
1946 - 1988
Autobiographical sketch of James Andrew De Moss
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P667
Overview
A handwritten autobiographical sketch of James Andrew De Moss, who in 1883 settled in Thayer, Kansas, where he was a physician as well as a minister and a published author of books on Christianity.
Dates:
after 1903
Autobiographies of a man and woman, Oskaloosa, Kansas, late 19th century
Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS D177
Overview
Two separate autobiographies, the first by a farmer born near Oskaloosa, Kansas, and the second by a woman, possibly his wife.
Dates:
late 19th century
Autobiography of George, a sailor from Lincolnshire
Collection
Call Number: MS P447
Overview
Autobiography by George, a sailor from Lincolnshire, England. Topics include the Workhouse; being a farmer's boy and runaway; serving as a Trent and Humber sailor; working in coatwise and London shipping. Crew on convict ship bound for Botany Bay, 1797; mutiny by French prisoners; imprisoned in Argentina (Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Montevideo, etc.) Convert to Catholicism; escaped to the United States, 1802; returned to England. Became a Baptist; religious meditations, verse, and vision.
Dates:
after 1830
Autobiography of Mary F. Beeson: James Warfield family in Old Shawneetown
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P615
Overview
Typescript of the autobiography of Mary F. Beeson, including Beeson's account of the murder of her father, James Lot Warfield, by William Quantrill's guerrilla band on October 17, 1862 at Shawneetown, Kansas.
Dates:
1905-1910
Autobiography of Minnie Mischke Peterson
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P426
Overview
An autobiography by Minnie Mischke Peterson about her teaching experiences in Kansas from 1903 through 1948. The collection also contains a photograph of Minnie with two other teachers in Russell Springs, Kansas, and a negative of Russell Springs teachers at the Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Dates:
Other: 1903 - 1948
Autographs and Letters from England, Scotland, and South Africa
Collection
Call Number: MS Q38
Overview
These two leaves, compiled by an unknown collector, have been pasted with autographs and letters. Three of the letters are complete.
Dates:
1803 - 1937
Ava Higley Milett photographs
Collection
Call Number: RH PH P24
Overview
This collection contains six photographs of schools in Atchison and Leavenworth Counties in Kansas from 1922 to 1925 and in the 1940s, including the Pardee School, Lane School, Delaware School, Bell School, and Mound School. Collection includes photograph description and identifications of students and teachers standing outside the schools. Ava Higley Milett appears as a student or teacher in all the photographs.
Dates:
approximately 1922-1940s
B. F. Smith holograph reminiscence
Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS D259
Overview
This handwritten reminiscence describes a Lincoln-Douglas debate in Jonesboro, Illinois in late summer 1858. Also included in the reminiscence is the author's personal meeting with both Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Douglas while working as a brakeman for the Illinois Central Railway in 1858 and 1859.
The account was written at the age of 81, in Lawrence, Kansas, Feb. 26, 1917, on the first and second front free end papers and half title page in Portrait Life of Lincoln, by Francis Trevelyan Miller,...
Dates:
Feb. 26, 1917
Babcock family papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 280
Overview
James and Wilma Babcock owned and operated Babcock Grocery and B and B Beauty Bar in Ottawa, Kansas. This collection contains their business records and personal papers, as well as those of their daughter, Marla Jo Babcock, and James Babcock's mother Nettie.
Dates:
1880 - 1939
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- Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 8
- O'Hegarty, P. S. (Patrick Sarsfield), 1879-1955 8
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- Connelley , William Elsey, 1855-1930 7
- Lawrence, Amos Adams, 1814-1886 7
- Reid, Albert Turner, 1873-1955 7
- Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894 7
- University of Kansas. William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information 7
- Wood, Frank 7
- African Methodist Episcopal Church 6
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 6
- Bowersock, Justin DeWitt, 1842-1922 6
- Douglass Hospital (Kansas City, Kan.) 6
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 6
- Inge, William 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
- Populist Party (Kan.) 6
- Sturgeon, Theodore 6
- Trinity Episcopal Church (Lawrence, Kan.) 6
- University of Kansas. Libraries. University Archives 6
- White, William Lindsay, 1900-1973 6
- Besinger, Curtis 5
- Between the Covers Rare Books 5
- Democratic Party (Kan.) 5
- Docking, Robert Blackwell, 1925-1983 5
- Eigner , Larry, 1927-1996 5
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- Johnson, Ronald, 1935-1998 5
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- New England Emigrant Aid Company 5
- Robinson, Sara T. L. (Sara Tappan Lawrence), 1827-1911 5
- Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity 4
- Apfelbaum, Charles 4
- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company 4
- Beal, George Malcolm, 1897- 4
- Benjamin, David, 1963- 4
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- Douglas County Historical Society (Douglas County, Kan.) 4
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- Ellis, Ralph Nicholson, 1908-1945 4
- Friends in Council (Lawrence, Kan.) 4
- Funston, Frederick, 1865-1917 4
- Grand Army of the Republic. Department of Kansas 4
- Guttridge, G. H. (George Herbert), 1898- 4
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- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 4
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- Kansas Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers 4
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- League of Women Voters (Lawrence, Kan.) 4
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- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913 -1994 4
- Nuzum family 4
- Oppenheimer, Robert, 1942- 4
- Paden, William Doremus, 1903-1979 4
- Plymouth Congregational Church (Lawrence, Kan.) 4
- Pomeroy, S. C. (Samuel Clarke), 1816-1891 4 ∧ less
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