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Clippings from the Lawrence Journal World regarding a new bridge across the Kansas River
Clippings from the January 1, 1917 and January 6, 1917 Lawrence Journal World regarding a new bridge across the Kansas River in Douglas County, Kansas.
Clippings on the Grange and the Populist movements in Kansas.
This collection consists of newspaper clippings on the Grange and Populist movements collected from 1886-1893 by Richard Theodore Ely. (See accession file for photo copies of clippings.)
Clippings regarding businesses in Kansas City and Lawrence
Clippings regarding John Brown
abolitionist : clippings / compiled by University of Kansas
Clippings regarding the campaign of Lyman U. Humphrey, governor of Kansas
The volume contains clippings from various Kansas newspapers addressing the suitability of Humphrey for the governorship. Also included in the volume are inaugural memorabilia and a congratulatory letter from John J. Ingalls, Vice-President of the United States, dated January 20, 1889.
Clippings regarding the early settlement of the city and county of Leavenworth and of early Kansas governors
Clippings, 1889-90, published in the Leavenworth Advertiser and Western Life, successor to the Leavenworth Advertiser.
Clippings regarding the proceedings of the Kansas State Legislature
Clippings scrapbook and University of Kansas directory
This collection includes a 1924-25 University of Kansas directory and a scrapbook. The scrapbook includes newspaper clippings concerning contemporary world events, such as World War II, and local events in the Wichita, Kansas area.
Clive Owen Family Papers
In March 1912, the Clive Owen family fled Mexico in the aftermath of the Revolution of 1910 to San Antonio, Texas. This collection tells of their departure and subsequent relocations to Anaheim; Boyero, Lincoln County, Colorado; and eventually Ottawa, Kansas and is comprised mostly of the diaries of matriarch Mabel Lucy Kelsey Owen, as well as letters, interviews, and interjections from Paul C. Owen, son of Mabel and Clive and self-titled editor of the collection.
Cloudesley Shovell letters and material related
Letters to and from Cloudesley Shovell (1650-1707), naval officer and Admiral of the Fleet for Great Britain during the War of the Spanish Succession, as well as an engraving and list of ships sailing under Shovell's command in 1703.
Clyde Bysom collection
This collection contains photographs, letters, audiovisual files, books, magazines, diary entries, newspaper clippings and ephemera belonging to and relating to Clyde Bysom. Bysom was a jazz musician from Lawrence, Kansas.
Clyde Wilson for Congress records
The Clyde Wilson collection consists of papers and other campaign materials collected during his 1970 campaign for Missouri’s 8th District.
Coal Creek Library : the oldest continuous library in Kansas and the two families who helped organize it.
The collection contains Letha Johnson's masters thesis in American history from Emporia State University in 2007 on the Coal Creek Library located in Vinland, Kansas and its history
Coal-mining drawing
This unauthored, undated ink drawing is of a coal-mining scene in the late 1800s or early 1900s.
Cock's Museum Catalog
A list of Natural History specimens and curiosities in a small private English museum, collected approximately between 1814 and 1850. The items in the catalog appear to reflect a world trip in 1814; marine specimens collected at Cromer, Brighton, and other resorts in the 1840s; land specimens collected in the Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex area in the 1840s; gifts from the British Isles and abroad; and specimens and curios collected by Richard Bailey while abroad in 1841 and 1850.
Codex by Girolamo Garzoni
Book on the divine right of the Holy Roman Empire, dedicated to Rudolph II, who was to become Emperor in 1576 and who had become Roman king in October 1577, and written by Girolamo Garzoni, a legal writer and auditor in Ferrara. At the end of the Latin form of his name, the word Auximate means from Osimo, Italy, his birthplace, though the volume may have been written in Austria.
Coffey family papers
The Coffey family papers contain the papers of Vernon C. Coffey, a train porter who played an important role in the Brotherhood of Trainmen, Brakemen, Porters, Switchmen, Firemen, and Railway Employees, Inc. The Coffey family papers also includes the papers of Cornelius R. Coffey, a pioneer in the field of aviation, and Ada E. Coffey Williams, who has been influential in nursing and vocational education in Kansas.
Cole family papers
Coleman Company advertising records
W.C. Coleman, founder of the Coleman Lamp Company, relocated his operation to Wichita, Kansas in 1901. The young Company's business boomed beginning in the early 20th century, as portable lamp became a household essential in rural areas. This collection consists of advertising designs and mock-ups for various Coleman products, as well as some product manuals, and is labeled and organized according to the original Company filing system.
Collected poems of William Allen White compiled by Donald S. Pady, Tempe, Arizona
Unpublished scrapbook compiled by Donald S. Pady of poems written by Kansas-based journalist and newspaper editor William Allen White. According to Pady, the purpose of the collection is to bring together the many verses of White which are found in numerous publications.
Collection of Accounts of Political and Governmental events
Collection of 72 separately written accounts of Parliamentary debates, political law-cases, diplomatic correspondence, etc., bound together in two volumes. Most (perhaps all) are near-contemporary copies of the originals.
Collection of Anna C. Sullivan
This collection consists of the travel journal of Anna C. Sullivan, which details her trip to Europe at the onset of World War I. The journal also includes a description of her trip to New England and Canada and contains contact information and other notes. A world map found folded and inserted loose at the back of the volume is included.
Collection of George Ellis, First Lieutenant, Company I, 12th Kansas Infantry materials
Collection of Lantern Slides for the History of Education and Mathematics
This collection consists of over 500 lantern slides that were once used as visual aids for teaching the history of education and mathematics.
Collection of Movie Stills
The John Tibbetts Collection of Movie Stills consists of photographs for a variety of motion pictures; Tibbetts received the photographs as part of his work as a film reviewer. There are also various issues of the magazine American Classic Screen, of which Tibbetts was the editor.