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Bales family papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 952
Overview
The Bales family papers are those of native Kansans and University of Kansas graduates Orin Roland "Ron" Bales and his wife Katharine (Kufahl) Bales. They contain many photographs, personal papers, and business records of Ron and Katharine Bales, of their Alexander, Bales, Kufahl, and Kean family members who homesteaded in Douglas County, Pottawatomie County, and Leavenworth County, Kansas, and of their Fastenau family members of Nebraska City and Norfolk, Nebraska. Included are many...
Dates:
1855 - 1989
Clippings regarding the early settlement of the city and county of Leavenworth and of early Kansas governors
Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS C66
Overview
Clippings, 1889-90, published in the Leavenworth Advertiser and Western Life, successor to the Leavenworth Advertiser.
Dates:
Date Not Yet Determined
Josephine Few family papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P813
Overview
Josephine A. Few's grandfather, Dr. Samuel F. Few, emigrated from Virginia to Kansas Territory's town of Leavenworth in the early 1850s. These family papers contain several of his printed invitations to Leavenworth social events, a news clipping regarding the Few family farm near Leavenworth, and a letter from University of Kansas Professor E. H. S. Bailey regarding the water quality of the farm's mineral springs. Included are Josephine Few's descriptions of Dr. Few's ancestry and his life...
Dates:
1868 - 1958
Leavenworth Public Library photograph collection
Collection
Call Number: RH PH 72
Overview
Photographs of Leavenworth, Kansas scenes, and a few Lawrence, Kansas and Excelsior Springs, Missouri scenes. A majority of the photos were taken by Leavenworth resident Frank Morrow. Subjects of the images include identified and unidentified individuals in various groupings; residences, including some interior views; Fort Leavenworth and the Old Soldiers Home; churches, businesses (particularly the Great Western Stove Company), and street scenes in Leavenworth; bridges, trains, and river...
Dates:
approximately 1896-1907?
Papers of Kansas real estate investor J. Haviland Haight
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 556
Overview
This collection contains papers concerning the 19th century real estate investments of J. Haviland Haight in the Kansas counties of Leavenworth, Douglas, and Wilson.
Dates:
1850 - 1894
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
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- Farmers -- Kansas -- Correspondence 1
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- Women teachers 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Philippines 1
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- Alexander family. 1
- Bailey, E. H. S. (Edgar Henry Summerfield), 1848-1933 1
- Bales (Family : 1846- : Logan, KS) 1
- Bales, Florence Alexander, 1893-1989 1
- Bales, Katharine Kufahl, 1923- 1
- Bales, Orin Roland, 1919- 1
- Bales, Orin Roy, 1890-1966 1
- Emporia Garden Club (Emporia, Kan.) (Emporia, Kan.) 1
- Fastenau family. 1
- Few family. 1
- Few, George W., 1840- 1
- Few, Josephine A., 1884- 1
- Few, Samuel F., 1821?- 1
- Haight Family. 1
- Haight, J. Haviland, 1828- 1
- Kean family. 1
- Kufahl family. 1
- Kufahl, Bertha Fastenau, 1895-1989 1
- Kufahl, Sylvester William, 1898-1978 1
- Leavenworth Public Library (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1
- Lockwood (Family : Kansas, 1850-1950) 1
- Lockwood, Allen Thomas Stewart, 1892- 1
- Lockwood, Anson Ovid, 1855-1933 1
- Lockwood, Nora Dormer Stewart, 1864-1942 1
- Lockwood, Ruth Anne, 1899- 1
- Moore, H. Miles (Henry Miles), 1826- 1
- Morrow, Frank 1
- Stewart (Family : Kansas, 1850-1950) 1
- Stewart, Mary Jane Miller 1
- Stewart, Thomas 1
- Teeters, Joseph L. 1 ∧ less
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