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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 1970s. This collection of photographs 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

This is a collection of identified photographic material from Horton, Kansas. Also included are copies of business correspondence of a family business in Horton and a scrapbook of Veterans of Foreign Wars Drum and Bugle Corps.

Dates: 1862-1959 (bulk 1889-1940s)

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 20th century performances in downtown Lawrence, Kansas, and also a related 1905-1911 bank book. Seventy-one programs dated 1883 to 1925 are from Lawrence's Bowersock Opera House, which later became Bowersock Theatere. An 1890 program is from its predecessor, Liberty Hall.

Dates: 1883 - 1925

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
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. The photographer is Anderson of Kansas City or unknown, unless otherwise noted.

Dates: 1921 - 1932

Bradley-Fifield farm photograph album

 Collection
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

Brent Campney research on racist violence against African Americans

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1492
Overview The Brent Campney collection focuses on Dr. Campney's work in researching racist violence, especially towards African Americans in the Great Plains region of the United States. The collection contains newspaper clippings from the mid-1800s through the 20th century, with topics including the Exodusters, racist violence during the Reconstruction period, and violence in both general (Kansas) and specific (Salina, Atchison County, etc.) places. A large subset of materials relates to the 1949...
Dates: 1863-2001 (bulk 1863-1920s)

Brian Wilson Aldiss papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 214
Overview

Brain Wilson Aldiss is a British author best known for his science fiction novels and criticism. This collection includes letters, drafts, and other papers representing all stages of preparation for his Helliconia trilogy. The collection is organized to show how the Helliconia project evolved, from early planning and research to publication and reception.

Dates: 1978 - 1984

Brief for McDonald v. McGuire

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P663
Overview

This legal brief is a brief for the appellant in 1849 McDonald v. McGuire suit over slave ownership.

Dates: 1849

Brief history of businesses in Lawrence, Kansas operating in 1883

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P199
Overview

The leading industries of Lawrence, Kansas. A review of the manufacturing, commercial, real estate, and other important interests, together with a historical sketch. A valuable guide to the industries of the historic city of Kansas. Lawrence, Commercial and Manufacturing Publishing Co., 1883.

Dates: 1883

Brigham family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1017
Overview

The papers of the Brigham Family includes a short history of Sarah Brigham's life, an 1865 letter from Illinois Governor Richard Ogleshy to Col. J. M. Shuts, and a US service discharge document for Jackson M. Sheels. It also includes newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1800-1947, bulk 1860-1910

Brinton Webb Woodward records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS D129
Overview

This collection consists of diaries, some of Woodward's writings, and clippings and greeting cards collected by the Woodward family, who moved to Lawrence, Kansas during the territorial era.

Dates: 1841 - 1921

Brittendall family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1120
Overview

Clarence Brittendall (b. 1872) wrote from Okeene, Oklahoma Territory to Rilla Stone (1876-1954), Brookville, Saline County, Kansas, as he made improvements on his homestead claim from the Cherokee Strip land run in September 1893. The two exchanged letters until their marriage in November 1894. This collection consists of their correspondence as well as family history notes by Caroline Dean and Bessie Dutton. Most of the letters are accompanied by photocopied transcripts.

Dates: 1893 - 1994

Brown County, Kan. Records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 67
Overview

Various records including delinquient property taxes, railroad taxes, reports of the record clerk, and school reports.

Dates: 1871-1876; 1872-1896

Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence, and Research records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 876
Overview

The records in this collection are those of the Topeka, Kansas-based Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence, and Research, established in 1988 as a tribute to the 1954 Brown v. Topeka Board of Education case and its plaintiffs and participants. These records include general information on the foundation and related subjects and events.

Dates: 1970 - 2023

Bryan K. Whitehead papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 548
Overview Bryan Kendall Whitehead (1925-2008) was a legislative representative (effectively a lobbyist) for the Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees (BRAC). This collection of his papers reflect his work as a representative for BRAC in the Kansas Legislature, as a member of numerous special committees, and his interest in the performing arts. The collection includes professional correspondence, reports, bulletins, newspaper clippings,...
Dates: 1940 - 1994

Brydie R. Alsbrook papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1132
Overview

The Brydie R. Alsbrook papers are those of a native Kansas City, Kansan who worked as an educator for many years and was active in the community, especially at Church of the Ascension.

Dates: 1920 - 1988

Budget messages of Kansas Governor Fred Hall

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P729
Overview

These two budget messages were delivered to the Kansas Legislature by Kansas Governor Fred Hall on February 1, 1955 and January 11, 1956.

Dates: February 1, 1955 and January 11, 1956

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University of Kansas 76
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White, William Allen, 1868-1944 21
United States. Army 20
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 13
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Armitage, Katie 12
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 12
University of Kansas. Libraries 12
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Haskell Institute 10
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 10
Reid, Albert Turner, 1873-1955 10
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 9
Sumner High School (Kansas City, Kan.) 9
University of Kansas. Department of English 9
University of Kansas. Museum of Natural History 9
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Wilcox, Laird M. 9
Connelley, William Elsey, 1855-1930 8
Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900 8
O'Hegarty, P. S. (Patrick Sarsfield), 1879-1955 8
Ellis, Ralph N. (Ralph Nicholson), 1908-1945 7
Inge, William 7
Lawrence, Amos Adams, 1814-1886 7
Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894 7
Wood, Frank 7
African Methodist Episcopal Church 6
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Douglass Hospital (Kansas City, Kan.) 6
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 6
Kansas. Supreme Court 6
Kenneth Spencer Research Library 6
Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987 6
Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission 6
Otto, David Arthur, 1934- 6
Pennell, Joseph Judd, 1866-1922 6
Sturgeon, Theodore 6
Trinity Episcopal Church (Lawrence, Kan.) 6
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University of Kansas. School of Architecture and Urban Design 6
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University of Kansas. School of Law 6
White, William Lindsay, 1900-1973 6
Bowersock, Justin DeWitt, 1842-1922 5
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 5
Clark family 5
Docking, Robert Blackwell, 1925-1983 5
Douglas County Historical Society (Douglas County, Kan.) 5
Eigner , Larry, 1927-1996 5
Freemasons. Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Kansas 5
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 5
Haskell Indian Junior College 5
Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art 5
Johnson, Ronald, 1935-1998 5
Kansas Association of Colored Women and Girls’ Clubs 5
Kansas Committee for the Humanities 5
Kansas. Legislature 5
Kansas. Militia 5
Katzman, David M. 5
Lawrence (Kan.). City Commission 5
League of Women Voters of Kansas 5
Miller, Timothy, 1944- 5
Mrs. Hudson's Fine Books & Paper 5
New England Emigrant Aid Company 5
Populist Party (Kan.) 5
Robinson, Sara T. L. (Sara Tappan Lawrence), 1827-1911 5
Spencer, Kenneth Aldred, 1902-1960 5
Topeka School District (Topeka, Kan.) 5
United States. Congress. House 5
University of Kansas. Department of Music 5
University of Kansas. William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information 5
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity 4
Apfelbaum, Charles 4
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company 4
Bailey, E. H. S. (Edgar Henry Summerfield), 1848-1933 4
Beal, George Malcolm, 1897- 4
Benjamin, David, 1963- 4
Besinger, Curtis 4
Calvary Baptist Church (Wichita, Kan.) 4
Capper, Arthur, 1865-1951 4
Carney, Thomas, 1824-1888 4
Clarke, Sidney, 1831-1909 4
Coan, Clark 4
Democratic Party (Kan.) 4
Domer, Dennis, 1944- 4
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 4
Eldridge House (Lawrence, Kan.) 4
Enslinger, Dennis 4
Friends in Council (Lawrence, Kan.) 4
Funston, Frederick, 1865-1917 4
Gould, John, 1804-1881 4
Guttridge, G. H. (George Herbert), 1898- 4
Hoad, William C. (William Christian), 1874- 4
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 4
Irvin, S. M. (Samuel Mcleary), 1812- 4
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