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Biographical sketch of William E. Stafford
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P668
Overview
A one-page biographical sketch of poet William E. Stafford (1914-1993), a native of Hutchinson, Kansas and a graduate of the University of Kansas.
Dates:
March 1963
Biography of a city: Lawrence, Kansas videotapes
Collection
Call Number: RH Video 9
Overview
Dennis Domer, professor of architecture at the University of Kansas, presented a course on the history of Lawrence, Kansas, entitled, Biography of a City: Lawrence. These 15 videotapes of the course were produced by KU's Division of Continuing Education.
Dates:
1998
Biography of George Nuzum
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P102
Overview
An article with biographical information of White Cloud, Doniphan County, Kansas-based businessman and author George Nuzum, written by Josephine Kelley Blocker. The collection also includes a photograph of "The Superior's Clerks" and three sets of microfilm reels holding copies of Nuzum's History of the Iowa Indians.
Dates:
1890; 1906; 1932?
Biography of Mr. & Mrs. Walter Raleigh Smith
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P360
Overview
Photocopy of a biography of Mr. & Mrs. Walter Raleigh Smith and a description of their life in El Dorado, Kan. from 1915 to mid-century. Also included is autobiographical material about their son, Harold C. Smith.
Dates:
Other: between 1915 and 1950
Bishop Collection photographs and postcards
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P626
Overview
Bishop Collection of miscellaneous photographic postcards. Some show views of Kansas towns like Natoma and Burdick, others are addressed to May Eikelberger, 1912-1916. Most are of unidentified persons and places. Also includes Roster of Officers of Auxiliary Remount Depot No. 323, Camp Funston, Kansas, 1918.
Dates:
undated, 1912-1918
Bishop Robert Mize papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1045
Overview
Bishop Robert Mize (1907-2000) founded the Saint Francis Academy (then the St. Francis Boys Home) in 1945 in Ellsworth, Kansas. In 1960 he traveled to the Province of Southern Africa and was consecrated Bishop of Damaraland, where he served until 1970. From 1973 to 1976 he again lived in South Africa as a missionary to the Diocese of Botswana. This collection contains materials related to his life and ministry in Africa, including photographs (found in box 1), hymnals and dictionaries,...
Dates:
1930 - 1991
Bishop Vail house (Lawrence, Kansas) papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P825
Overview
These papers, a gift of University of Kansas professors Frances and Floyd R. Horowitz, concern the history of their former Lawrence, Kansas residence at 505 Ohio Street as the home of Thomas Hubbard Vail, the first Episcopal bishop of Kansas. The papers, all of which are photocopies of original documents, include correspondence between Bishop Vail's grandson, Thomas Hubbard Vail Motter, and Grace (Mrs. Fritz) Heider, when she and her husband occupied the former Vail home in the early 1950s....
Dates:
1870; 1951-1954
Black student movement at Lawrence High School
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P361
Overview
Photocopy of an honors history thesis, Black student movement at Lawrence High School (Lawrence, Kansas), written by Martin J. Modrcin at the University of Kansas in 1980.
Dates:
1980
Black Values and Public Policy Project records
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1163
Overview
The Black Values and Public Policy Project records are those of a Kansas Committee for the Humanities funded University of Kansas project.
Dates:
1976 - 1977
Blair Family papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 353
Overview
The Blair family collection contains the papers of Amanda Meeker Blair and her daughter, Kate Blair Evans.
Dates:
1885 - 1966
Blood-Hasselman family papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P399
Overview
Ida (Blood) Hasselman was the daughter of Colonel James Blood (1819-1891), a prominent early settler of Lawrence, Kansas. This collection contains photographs and manuscripts regarding the Blood family.
Dates:
1860s-1910, undated
Bolton Company letters
Collection
Call Number: MS 84
Overview
Letters from an English merchant and his company, William Bolton and Company (sometimes also Bolton, Darell and Morgan or Bolton, Morgan, & Co.) to his London associates (the merchants Robert, William, or Gyles Heysham). Regards imports and exports between Great Britain; Madeira, an island off the coast of Africa; and Portugal.
Dates:
1695 - 1711
Book of Record of Board of Trustees of Friends' Church, at Lawrence, Kansas
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P931
Overview
Record book of Oread Society of Friends in Lawrence, Kansas from 1907-1915. Includes a letter of confirmation about a contract to buy the Friends's property.
Dates:
1907 - 1915
Books of judgments in Pennsylvania and New York
Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS B30
Overview
Books of judgements in Pennsylvania and New York, 1852-1869, with C. C. Murray as the plaintiff.
Dates:
1852 - 1869
Boston Daniels photographs
Collection
Call Number: RH PH 85
Overview
Boston Daniels served as Chief of Police of Kansas City, Kansas during the 1970's. This collection of photographer documents his experiences in that capacity.
Dates:
1968-1972
Bourbon family postcards
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1357
Overview
The Bourbon family collection consists of five “real photo” postcards sent between relatives in Kansas City, Mo. and Beloit, Kan. in 1906 and 1907. In addition to family news, the postcards mention photography and developing images on the postcard stock, a large prairie fire in western Kansas, a local explosion in Kansas City, and a photo of Swope Park in Kansas City.
Dates:
November 1906-1907
Bourquin family collection
Collection
Call Number: RH MS G61
Overview
The collection includes photographic prints and negatives by Jules Bourquin, as well as images from other photographers. Also in the collection are newspaper clippings, letters, photographs, etc. about the V.F.W. Drum and Bugle Corps that Jules Bourquin helped organize, as well as copies of business correspondence from Jules and his father Emile Bourquin for their jewelry business in Horton, Kansas.
Dates:
1936 - 1941
Bowers and Bryant Families papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1156
Overview
The Bowers and Bryant Families Papers are those of long time Kansas residents, especially in Lawrence, Kansas and especially focusing on the first half of the twentieth century.
Dates:
1900 - 1957
Bowersock Mills & Power Company records
Collection
Call Number: 1990-06-22-KC
Overview
This collection consists of financial records, correspondence, journals, customer information, and other records from the Bowersock Mills & Power Company of Lawrence, Kansas, mostly dating from the mid-20th century.
Dates:
approximately 1890s-1970s (bulk 1920s-1960s)
Bowersock Opera House programs and bank book
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P475
Overview
This collection contains many theatre programs from live 19th century performances in downtown Lawrence, Kansas, and also a related 1905-1911 bank book. Sixty-five programs dated 1915 to 1925 are from Lawrence's Bowersock Opera House, which later became Bowersock Theatere. An 1890 program is from its predecessor, Liberty Hall.
Dates:
1890 - 1928
Bowser-Johnson Funeral Home records
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 678
Overview
The Bowser-Johnson Funeral Home records include funeral service records from an established Topeka, Kansas business.
Dates:
1931 - 1967
Boy Scouts, Eagle Court of Honor Program
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P419
Overview
Boy Scouts. Eagle Court of Honor, Troop 55, Lawrence, Kansas.
Dates:
October 25, 1981
Boys' Hotel and summer camp, Kansas City, Missouri photograph collection
Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: RH PH 136
Overview
Photographs of facilities, residents and activities of the Boys' Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri and the Boys' Hotel summer camp on the Big Blue River.
Dates:
1921 - 1932
Bradley-Fifield farm photograph album
Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: RH PH 154(f)
Overview
Views and activites on Iowa farm, possibly near Kanawha or Dubuque. Album created by Charles R. Pollock in 1905.
Dates:
1904 - 1905
Brenna Buchanan's research on La Yarda
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1431
Overview
La Yarda was a neighborhood of housing owned by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and used to house its workers, primarily those that immigrated from Mexico. This collection contains research about La Yarda and the role it played in the establishment of the Mexican-American community in Lawrence, Kansas, conducted by Brenna Buchanan for a project when a University of Kansas architecture student.
Dates:
1999 - 2009
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