Kenneth Spencer Research Library Archival Collections

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John K. Estes, a professional photographer, established the Estes Studio at 806 Massachusetts street in Lawrence, Kansas in the late 1940s and operated it until his death in 1971. This collection contains photographs depicting images of individuals, groups, and organizations active in Douglas County, as well as records, predominately financial, of the studio.

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H.D. Hart was a resident of Lawrence and worked as a printer for the Topeka Daily Capitol. Photography was his avocation. The photographs include a variety of subjects in and around Lawrence, Topeka, and Abilene, Kansas. All of the photographs are black and white unless otherwise noted.

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This collection of photographs includes images of McFarland family members, some at Oak Hill Cemetery (Lawrence, Kansas?), and two in the Joplin, Missouri area.

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This movie, 8 minutes and 20 seconds long, includes shots of Lawrence, Kansas, including Massachusetts street, an elementary school, a church, multiple neighborhoods, and the University of Kansas campus (including dorms and Jayhawk Boulevard, the main thoroughfare through the main campus).

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This collection contains views of the 1951 Kansas River flood in Lawrence and Topeka, Kansas.

Overview This collection contains photoprints and slides made to accompany articles published in various University of Kansas campus publications, including the University Daily Kansan, Oread, Jayhawker Yearbook, and the Alumni Magazine. This collection is also comprised of photographs of non-campus activities in the surrounding Douglas County and Lawrence areas, including current events, landscapes, festivals, geographic locations,...

Overview Wilbur Hess worked as a photographer both commercially and as a photojournalist in Salina and Lawrence, Kansas. This collection contains his journalistic photographs, aerial photographs, studio portraits of individuals and weddings, commercial images for businesses, personal photographs of his family and trips, and other photographic images in prints, negatives, slides, and other photographic medium. The collection also includes Hess' personal and business correspondence and papers, as...