Kenneth Spencer Research Library Archival Collections

Overview This collection contains photographs of the area around Annie Wight's home in Douglas County, Kan., showing Wakarusa Valley, the Kansas River, plants around the yard, and still lifes in the home. Miss Annie I. Wright was a music teacher living at 1012 Pennsylvania Street in Lawrence with her widowed mother Ruth L. Wight and sister Lucy A. Wight.

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.

Overview Typescript of a diary written by teenager Eva A. Brown of Nemaha County, Kansas. She discusses the weather, going to school or church, family members' coming and goings, and activities on the family farm as well as her own other daily activities. Family members frequently went to Seneca, Nemaha County's county seat; less frequently they went to Baileyville or Axtell in next-door Marshall County, or K.C. (Kansas City). Other family names from the area mentioned in the diary include McBratney,...

Overview This collection contains documents pertaining to Lawrence, Kansas' 75th anniversary of its founding in 1929, including a scrapbook of newspaper clippings compiled by University of Kansas library staff at the time and a poster announcing celebratory events associated with the anniversary. It also includes program carbons, expense sheets, print reviews, correspondence, souvenir programs and pamphlets, several out-of-town newspaper letters and reviews, a timeline, assorted newspaper clippings and...

Overview A guide to the University Archives at the University of Kansas compiled by Patricia Michaelis.

Overview Black and white photographic prints taken mostly in western Kansas by faculty and/or students associated with the University of Kansas, including ornithologist Charles D. (C. D.) Bunker. Many of the photographs focus on geologically interesting views; some are of individuals the KU faculty and/or students met during their travels.