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Alfred M. Landon collection
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 3
Overview
This collection of speeches, correspondence, pamphlets, clippings, audiovisual material, and miscellaneous memorabilia was collected by historian Donald R. McCoy as a result of his research for the biography Landon of Kansas.
Dates:
1927-1963, 1966, 1980, 1983
Alfred M. Landon oral interviews
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 819
Overview
Alfred Mossman Landon, 1887-1987, a prominent Kansas Republican, served as Governor of Kansas from 1933-1937 and ran an unsuccessful campaign for the United States presidency in 1936. This collection includes audiotapes and transcripts of interviews with Governor Landon by Donald R. McCoy and Louis George Griffin from 1975-1976.
Dates:
1975 - 1976
Charles S. Scott papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1145
Overview
The Charles S. Scott Papers are those of a prominent native Topeka, Kansas lawyer who focused on civil rights and was one of the plaintiff's lawyers in the landmark Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas case.
Dates:
1918 - 1989
Frank Doster correspondence and miscellaneous writings
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 9
Overview
Doster was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives in 1872, judge of the 25th judicial district, 1887-92, and Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, 1887-1903. The collection is made up of photocopies of Doster's speeches, correspondence, and other writings, dating from 1913-1933. The speeches are arranged chronologically, followed by the correspondence (1922-1932), miscellaneous writings of Doster (c.1913-1930's), and eulogies written in honor of Roster after his death in 1933.
Dates:
1913 - 1933
Henry Agnew Bubb papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 159
Overview
Henry Bubb, a financial executive, was an alumnus of the University of Kansas and a member of the Kansas Board of Regents. This collection includes material related to Bubb's business and personal activities from 1936-1983, as well as scrapbooks, dating from 1932-1974, which document Bubb's various business, political, philanthropic and social activities.
Dates:
1930 - 1983
James Ashford Manka papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 122
Overview
The James Ashford Manka papers are concerned primarily with Manka's peripheral activities, not with his law practice. The collection has been arranged by subject. File folders with this subject arrangement were maintained by Manka and fall into five categories and form a rough chronology of Manka's activities.
Dates:
1929 - 1970
Papers of Harry Darby
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1345
Overview
Harry Darby was an American politician from Kansas and served as a United States Senator for Kansas from December 2, 1949 to November 28, 1950. Darby also owned and operated the Darby Steel Corporation in Kansas City, Kansas, which built Landing Craft, Tanks (LCTs) used by the U.S. military during WWII. This collection includes business documents and correspondence, awards and honorary degrees, speeches, newsprint, correspondence between family members and politicians, event programs and...
Dates:
1878 - 2008
Transcripts and broadcast sound recordings of speeches and interviews by and about Alfred M. Landon
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 205
Overview
These broadcast sound recordings were collected by the news staff of Wren Radio. Each recording was either produced or acquired by Wren because the subject of the recording is Alfred M. Landon, president of Wren Broadcasting Company and 1936 Republican presidential candidate.
Dates:
1936 - 1976
Unidentified papers, possibly attributed to E. H. Sears.
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P144
Overview
These papers may have been written by E. H. Sears, according to accession notes, but his death date appears to conflict with the manuscript dates. The papers were among some newspapers initialled E. H. Sears given by James C. Malin.
Dates:
1876 - 1879
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- Scott, Charles S., 1921-1989 1
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- Sears, Edmund H. (Edmund Hamilton), 1810-1876 1
- United States Savings and Loan League 1
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