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Reminiscences of Council Grove (Kan.) early history
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 65
Overview
The collection includes reminiscences, including one by Alice Smith, local news, and history of Methodist Episcopal Church.
Dates:
1867?-1925?
Reminiscences of early Lawrence, Kansas and St. Joseph, Missouri
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P54
Dates:
1943
Robert L. Gilbert papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P238
Overview
Robert L. Gilbert immigrated to the United States from England in 1855 and arrived in Lawrence, Kansas later that year. This collection contains diaries, personal books, letters and official documents, and an autobiography, and photographs.
Dates:
1849-1973, predominantly 1849-1913
Robert O. Wright Photographs
Collection
Call Number: RH PH 16
Overview
This collection contains photographs depicting various scenes of early Kansas settlements, rural life, and domestic work, used by Robert O. Wright, an assistant professor in the Art Department at the University of Kansas, for his film "Kansas Folk Art and Individuals" in 1978.
Dates:
approximately 1850 - 1915
Rosa C. Haag Ise recollections
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P321
Overview
"Mother's recollections of her early life." Lawrence, Kansas, undated. These are the recollections of Rosa C. (Haag) Ise, from about 1858 to about 1880. They recount memories of her life in Holton, Kansas.
Dates:
between 1880 and 1977
Samuel Jay Crumbine letter
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P12
Overview
Letter, "To Violet and Warren." Dated Jackson Heights, N. Y., December 14, 1946. The letter comments extensively on the authenticity of Wright's book. There is also autobiographical information about Crumbine, who practiced medicine in Dodge City from the early 1880's to 1904.
Dates:
December 14, 1946
Stewart-Lockwood family papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 114
Overview
This collection contains the family papers of the Stewart family of Leavenworth, Kansas, and the Lockwood family of Baldwin, Kansas, covering a period of almost one hundred years, 1852-1950. These families were predominantly professionally oriented, including teachers, ministers, and farmers.
Dates:
1852 - 1950
T.D. Heed letter to his sister, Susanna Mercy Heed
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P783
Overview
This photocopy is of a July 1, 1867 letter from merchant Thomas Dougherty Heed, written from Fort Harker, Kansas, a military post along the Santa Fe Trail in Ellsworth County. Heed, a native of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, addresses his 3-page letter to his sister, Susanna Mercy Heed of Bucks County, describing the traffic on the Santa Fe Trail, the Indian threat, buffalo herds, and the local gambling and violence. Included is a photocopy of an 1867 promotional circular issued by the Kansas...
Dates:
July 1, 1867
Typescript of Neosho
Collection — folders: 1-4
Call Number: RH MS P14
Overview
Typescript manuscript of Davidson's book, inscription page, and cover of dust jacket.
Dates:
Other: Before 1966
Wabaunsee County (Kan.) settlement research
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P795
Overview
This collection of research regarding a late nineteenth-century African American settlement in Wabaunsee County, Kansas was conducted by Penny Clark.
Dates:
approximately 1994
William E. Drenner family collection
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 973
Overview
This collection contains correspondence, photographs, slides, photographic albums, scrapbooks, published books, exhibit panels, and reference material of William Drenner and his family. It also contains business papers and reports from Drenner's banking career.
Dates:
1920s-2000s
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