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David Beard photographs
Collection
Call Number: RH PH P2217
Overview
This collection includes photographs owned by David Beard, a lifelong resident of Topeka, Kansas who worked as a porter at the Jayhawk Hotel in Topeka and later as a dining car employee for the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad. The photographs in black and white show various groups of African Americans from local Topeka organizations, including the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World (IBPOEW), St. John's African Methodist Epsicopal Church, and the Iron Horsemen, a...
Dates:
1922, 1927, 1957
Geraldine Slater photograph collection
Collection
Call Number: RH PH P2830
Overview
This collection contains a DVD and scanned copies of glass plate negative images of building sites, as well as views of construction of pipelines and a dam structure in Topeka, Kansas.
Dates:
1920s
Grant-Bradbury family papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 965
Overview
The Grant-Bradbury Family Papers are those of Mary Amelia Grant, a professor of classical languages at the University of Kansas at Lawrence from 1921 to 1960. The collection contains many of the donor's personal papers, but is largely comprised of correspondence, diaries, legal documents, and photographs which document the lives of her parents and maternal grandparents of Topeka, Kansas, her father's Grant family ancestors of Livingston County, Michigan, and her mother's Bradbury ancestors of...
Dates:
1716 - 1987
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
Papers of Joe Douglas
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 596
Overview
The papers of Joe Douglas, an African American Kansan, document his career with the Topeka, Kansas Fire Department and his active civic involvement. It ranges from correspondence to newspaper clippings to certificates that Mr. Douglas has received. Also included are Douglas's many photographs of the Fire Department and of other Topeka organizations and events, as well as photographs of other Douglas family members and the damage from the 1966 tornado in Topeka.
Dates:
1891, 1908-1988, 2002-2005
Security Benefit Life Insurance Company records
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 534
Overview
This collection includes records and photographs from the Security Benefit Life Insurance Company, a fraternal beneficiary society that evolved into a life insurance company over the 20th century. Records include financial information and reports, administrative and legal documents, insurance rate books, correspondence and contracts regarding two organizations' merger to become Security Benefit, promotional information, manuals, and documentation regarding the building of a hospital on office...
Dates:
1892 - 1992
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, American 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Beard, Almenita 1
- Beard, David 1
- Bradbury family. 1
- Bradbury, Mary Brown, 1823-1898 1
- Bradbury, Timothy, 1781-1839 1
- Bradbury, William H., 1829-1900 1
- Brown family 1
- Bubb family. 1
- Bubb, Henry Agnew, 1907-1989 1
- Capitol Federal Savings and Loan Association (Topeka, Kan.) 1
- Douglas, Joe, 1928-2020 1
- Dykes, Archie R. 1
- Grant family. 1
- Grant, Elisha Wilcox, 1823-1904 1
- Grant, Emerson Warren, 1848- 1
- Grant, Jennie Bradbury, 1854-1930 1
- Grant, Mary A. (Mary Amelia), 1890-1987 1
- Griffith,, Kate , 1854-1902 1
- Improved, Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks of the World 1
- Kansas. Board of Regents 1
- Knights and Ladies of Security 1
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913 -1994 1
- Peyrot, Marco 1
- Reagan, Ronald 1
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 1
- Security Benefit Association 1
- Security Benefit Life Insurance Company 1
- Slater, Geraldine 1
- St. John A.M.E. Church of Topeka, Kansas 1
- Topeka (Kan.). Fire Department 1
- Topeka School District (Topeka, Kan.) 1
- United States Savings and Loan League 1
- United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 129th (1862-1865) 1
- Venable family. 1
- Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944 1 ∧ less
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