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Helen Foresman Spencer papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 542
Overview
Helen Foresman Spencer was the wife of Kansas City industrialist Kenneth Aldred Spencer. Following her husband's death in 1960, Mrs. Spencer became president and director of the charitable foundation which they established in 1949. Under her direction until its dissolution in 1979, the Kenneth A. and Helen F. Spencer Foundation significantly expanded and enriched the cultural, scientific, and educational institutions of the Kansas City and Midwest region. The Helen Foresman Spencer papers...
Dates:
1904 - 1982
Papers of Kenneth Aldred Spencer
Collection
Call Number: RH MS VLT 157
Overview
The papers of Kenneth A. Spencer, Kansas City-based business executive and industrialist, date from 1918 to 1960 and reflect Spencer's professional activities, as well as some aspects of his personal life and hobbies.
Dates:
1918 - 1960
Research on Kenneth Spencer and Kenneth "Boots" Adams
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 945
Overview
Charles Barnes, a journalism student at the University of Kansas, compiled this collection which includes materials acquired through his research on Kenneth Spencer and Kenneth "Boots" Adams, regarding their involvement in Phillips Petroleum and uranium and nuclear facilities.
Dates:
1980 - 1984
Robert S. Lemon photographs
Collection
Call Number: RH PH P2837
Overview
This collection consists of black and white photographic prints of various sizes of Robert Lemon, Sr., his wife Lois, their friends Kenneth and Helen Spencer, and other individuals in various candid shots. Images are mostly from Canadian fishing expeditions in the 1920s and 1930s or from Pittsburg, Kansas in the 1930s and 1940s.
Dates:
1920s-approximately 1944
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- Spencer, Helen Foresman, 1902-1982 3
- Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Co. 2
- Spencer Chemical Company 2
- Adams, Kenneth Stanley, 1899- 1
- Baker University. Library 1
- Barnes, Charles 1
- Foresman family 1
- Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art 1
- Helen Foresman Spencer Theatre for the Performing Arts 1
- Kenneth A. and Helen F. Spencer Foundation 1
- Kenneth Spencer Research Library 1
- Koch, John, 1909- 1
- Lemon, Robert S., Jr. 1
- Lemon, Robert S., Sr., 1899- 1
- Linda Hall Library 1
- Midwest Research Institute (Kansas City, Mo.) 1
- Phillips Petroleum Company 1
- Spencer family 1
- St. Luke's Hospital (Kansas City, Mo.) 1
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission 1
- University of Kansas. Medical Center. Kenneth Aldred Spencer Memorial Chapel 1
- University of Missouri--Kansas City. Kenneth A. Spencer Chemistry Building 1
- William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts 1 ∧ less
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