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Charlotte (Stone) Gentry's record of participation in the Home Demonstration Program (Home Economics Extension Service, County Farm Bureau)

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P669
Overview

In this 33-page booklet, Charlotte (Stone) Gentry documents her participation from January through December 1937 in a Home Demonstration Program offered by the Home Economics Extension Service of the County Farm Bureau. Gentry lists names of program leaders, participants, and the year's calendar of programs.

Dates: 1937

Chart of "Line of Batle [sic]" with instructions

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P517
Overview

Chart of "Line of Batle [sic]" with instructions for communication by signals, sent by Vice-Admiral Sir Stafford Fairborne, commanding twelve Royal Navy ships in the North Atlantic off Kingsale, Ireland, to Captain Miles [i.e. Josian Mighells] in preparation for British battle with French ships during the Spanish War of Succession. Written aboard the HMS Medway in the North Atlantic, off the coast of Kingsale, Ireland.

Dates: June 4, 1704

Charter Oak Land and Lumber Company, Lawrence, Kansas, records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS E22
Overview

Account book and Letterbook belonging to Charter Oak Land and Lumber Company, Lawrence, Kansas.

Dates: 1900 - 1902

Charter of Capitol Federal Savings and Loan Association

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS R308
Overview

The collection is comprised of the 1938 charter for Capitol Federal Savings and Loan Association.

Dates: 1938

Chase County Board of County Commissioners records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS E82
Overview

Journals recording the activities of the Board of County Commissioners, Chase County, Kansas. Includes two original volumes and one photocopy of an original journal.

Dates: January 7, 1867 to September 3, 1872

Chase County Register of Deeds receiving index

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS E157
Overview

Receiving index used by the Chase County Register of Deeds. Includes columns for month/day/hour record was received, names of grantors and grantees, whom delivered, and fees. "John Woodman" is written on the inside front cover, and "Receiving Index" is penned on the outside front cover of the volume.

Dates: 1859 - 1880

Chase County Superintendent of Public Instruction records

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS E83
Overview

Record of official acts of the county superintendent of schools, dating from 1870-1881, together with annual reports, the register of school officers, a register of applicants for schools, a register of teachers employed, the apportionment of state school funds for Chase County, and other records.

Dates: 1870 - 1881

Chelsea, Kansas photograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 23
Overview

Views of people, businesses and activites in Chelsea, Butler County, Kansas at the turn of the 19th into the 20th century.

Dates: 1899 - 1908

Cheney, Kansas photograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 159
Overview

Photographic postcards of streets, businesses and activities in Cheney, Sedgwick County, Kansas in the early part of the 20th century. The City of Cheney was established in 1884 and is located in south-central Kansas. Many of the photographs in this collection were taken by W.C. Dildine.

Dates: 1908 - 1916

Cherokee, Kansas photograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 148
Overview

Views of buildings and activities in Cherokee, Crawford County, Kansas and of the Tharp family, including the bank owned by Tharp. The photo album in the collection includes several views around Leavenworth County.

Dates: 1880 - 1920

Cherokee Nation reports of the High Sheriff

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS E59
Overview Reports of the High Sheriff of the Cherokee Nation for the quarter ending December 31, 1875, together with the reports of the sheriffs of the Tahlequah, Going Snake, Sequoyah, Delaware, Canadian, Flint, and Illinois districts for the same period, and the districts reports for the second quarter commencing January 1, 1876 and ending March 31, 1876, including Saline district. Reports typically include columns for names, service (often listed as "guard"), number of days served, monetary amount,...
Dates: December 31, 1875; January 1, 1876 and ending March 31, 1876

Cheryl Brown Henderson campaign papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1190
Overview

The Cheryl Brown Henderson Campaign Papers are those of one of the three 1996 U.S. House of Representatives, Kansas Second District Republican candidates and candidate for the Kansas House of Representatives 55th District during the 1998 election.

Dates: 1968-1979; 1989-1998

Chester I. Lewis papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 558
Overview

Chester I. Lewis (1928-1990), a Hutchinson, Kansas native, became a Wichita-based attorney and leader in the modern Civil Rights movement. This collection of his papers primarily reflects his leadership in the NAACP "Young Turks" organization and other civil rights efforts.

Dates: 1948 - 1991

Chester Lewis oral history collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 889
Overview

The Chester Lewis oral history collection was compiled by the Sedgwick County Historical Museum of Wichita, Kansas with support by the Kansas Humanities Council, for use in a museum exhibit entitled "Chester I. Lewis: a Civil Rights Legacy".

Dates: 2006

Chester Owens collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1549
Overview

This collection consists of materials Chester Owens has gathered about the Kansas City, Kansas region and the history of African Americans in the region, as well as materials regarding his own political career as a Kansas City, Kansas city councilman. Much of the collection concerns H.W. Sewing, businessman and founder of Douglass State Bank.

Dates: 1923-2010 (bulk 1950s-1980s)

Chesterman C. Linley scrapbooks

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS EK5
Overview

Chesterman C. Linley was a University of Kansas alum and lawyer in Kansas. His collection consists of personal scrapbooks chronicling the jazz movement in Kansas City during the 1960s and 1970s.

Dates: 1950 - 1979

Cheyenne and Arapaho Upper Arkansas Agency records

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS E60
Overview

Accounts book and ledger maintained at the Cheyenne and Arapaho Upper Arkansas Agency, Darlington, Indian Territory, 1869-1875. More than a simple accounts book, this manuscript lists letters received at the agency from July 16, 1869 to June 20, 1870 with notes regarding their contents, inventories of rations, records of substanence issued listing the name of the recipients, and records of supplies delivered by contractors.

Dates: 1869 - 1875

Children's Hour, Inc. records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 714
Overview

Children's Hour Inc. was a nursery school program in Lawrence, Kansas dedicated to serving low income or single parent family children. The Children's Hour was the first integrated nursery school in Lawrence.

Dates: 1964 - 1970

Chilocco Indian School photograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 122
Overview Chilocco Indian School opened in Oklahoma Territory, also known as Indian Territory, in 1884. Federally operated like the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas, the Chilocco boarding school emphasized agricultural training for Native American students, rather than trades. The school closed in 1980. This collection includes photographs of students' school activities, dating from approximately the 1910s. Most of the photographs are posed portraits; most of the students and children appearing...
Dates: approximately 1910-1920

Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations land allotment

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P243
Overview

Land allotment to Thomas K. Whitthorne of the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, August 17, 1904, under Act of Congress, 1902, approved by Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations to allot homesteads to each citizen of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations.

Dates: August 17, 1904

Choix d'ariettes et de chansons de table

 Collection
Call Number: MS B35
Overview

Group of songs, without music, collected into a single volume, possibly in France. Includes love songs, light songs, drinking songs, political songs. Napoleon is mentioned; sometimes gives name of tune or of opera.

Dates: approximately 1791 - 1819?

Christian and brotherly advices...alphabetically digested under proper heads

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS E3
Overview

Christian and brotherly advices...alphabetically digested under proper heads. London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends). London; King's Lynn, Norfolk (England). The volume covers the years 1672-1751 and was copied around 1751. Volume concerns discipline and includes Books, Children, Plainness, Tithes, Tombstones, etc.

Dates: 1672-1751

Christian Balzac Hoffman papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 92
Overview

C.B. Hoffman, born in Atzmoos, Switzerland in 1851, came at age 3 to the United States with his family. The collection primarily consists of materials related to Hoffman's activities as a socialist from 1910-1915, containing correspondence, manuscript articles and notes by Hoffman, and scattered personal and business papers.

Dates: 1889 - 1917

Christian F. Rumold reminiscence

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P471
Overview

This item is Christian F. Rumold's reminiscence of his life. The first part is genealogical background of the origins of his family. The second part describes his being raised south of Abilene, Kansas, attending Kansas Weslyan in Salina, Kansas, and the law school at the University of Kansas. He went on to become a professor and administrator at Berea College, Kentucky, Kent State University, Ohio, in 1918, and Western Reserve University in 1931 where he received his Ph.D.

Dates: approximately 1964

Christian Jenkinson collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS G31
Overview

Financial and other business records of Christian Jenkinson, a grocer in Troy, Doniphan County, Kansas, at the turn of the 19th to the 20th centuries. The collection contains some of the business records of Mr. Jenkinson. Coverage of the records is spotty, although there is heavier coverage in the early years of the business. The collection also includes an autograph album owned by Jenkinson from his youth.

Dates: 1887 - 1936

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Lawrence, Amos Adams, 1814-1886 7
Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894 7
Wood, Frank 7
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Otto, David Arthur, 1934- 6
Pennell, Joseph Judd, 1866-1922 6
Sturgeon, Theodore 6
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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
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Haskell Indian Junior College 5
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Miller, Timothy, 1944- 5
Mrs. Hudson's Fine Books & Paper 5
New England Emigrant Aid Company 5
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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
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Domer, Dennis, 1944- 4
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 4
Eldridge House (Lawrence, Kan.) 4
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Friends in Council (Lawrence, Kan.) 4
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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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