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Afro-American Clubwomen Project records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 705
Overview

The Afro-American Clubwomen's Project was a grant-funded collecting project, developed by the University of Kansas Women's Studies program, which sought to document the history of African American Women's clubs in Kansas.

Dates: 1900s-1986

Agnes Dawson collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 295
Overview

Agnes (Balloch) Dawson was married to William Dawson III, who served as United States Minister to Ecuador, Colombia, and Uruguay, as well as U.S. Ambassador to Panama between 1931-1941. This collection includes extensive letters written by Agnes to family members describing daily diplomatic life and public social events. Included in her correspondence are photographs and newspaper clippings. A genealogy of her paternal lineage is also included from 1861-1905.

Dates: 1861 - 1941

Agnes Hudson papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P799
Overview

The Agnes Hudson papers are those of a long time Salina, Kansas resident who was an active participant in that city's social activities.

Dates: 1934 - 1945

Agnes T. Frog political campaign materials

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 472
Overview Agnes T. Frog, "A True Amphibian", was a 1986 write-in candidate for Douglas County Commissioner, representing the interests of voters who protested the County Commission's decision to issue $4 million in general obligation bonds the previous year. The funds which were slated to help pay for the proposed southern Lawrence bypass, the proposal of which generated concern regarding environmental impacts to the area, specifically the Baker Wetlands. The collection consists of photocopies of...
Dates: 1986

Agreement between Robert Morrow and Jonathan Oldham and William T. Faxon

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P874
Overview

This agreement, signed by Robert Morrow, Jonathan Oldham, and William T. Faxon of the city of Lawrence in Kansas Territory, specifies their respective contractual obligations in a business arrangement for buying, cutting, curing, and packing pork. The agreement names Morrow for purchase of the pork, with Oldham and Faxon supplying the necessary buildings and labor.

Dates: November 27, 1860

Agreement to aid to the Memphis, Kansas and Colorado Railway Company

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P96
Overview

Agreement to give aid to the Memphis, Kansas and Colorado Railway Company, with 45 signatures. Parsons, Kansas.

Dates: February 7, 1878

Agricultural Hall of Fame records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1144
Overview The Agricultural Hall of Fame in Bonner Springs, Kansas was issued a federal charter by an act of the 86th Congress and signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on August 31, 1960. The purpose of The National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame is to educate society on the historical and present value of American agriculture and to honor leadership in Agri-Business and Academia by providing education, information, experience and recognition. This collection consists of correspondence,...
Dates: 1975 - 1977

A.L. Murphy diary

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH VLT MS A5
Overview

A.L. Murphy's diary recounts his journey from Independence, Missouri overland to California.

Dates: 1849-05 - 1849-10-18

Albert A. Reichert papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1028
Overview

Albert A. Reichert, who lived for many years at Seneca, Kansas, was a veteran of the Spanish-American War, serving with the 22nd Kansas Volunteer Infantry Regiment. These papers include several of his letters of 1898, written to his parents of Holton, Kansas while he was posted at military camps in Virginia and Pennsylvania. His papers contain a small quantity of additional correspondence and his wife's funeral notice of 1951.

Dates: 1862 - 1951

Albert and Angela Feldstein political ephemera collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH WL MS 64
Overview

This collection contains political ephemera, buttons, stickers and posters from the 1990s through the 2010s, mostly of a left-leaning or liberal political nature from the United States.

Dates: 1990 - 2019

Albert Bloch slides

 Collection
Call Number: PP 657
Overview Collection includes 35mm photo slide negatives of various artwork created by Albert Bloch, an American Modernist artist. Bloch also served as head of the Department of Painting and Drawing at the University of Kansas from 1922 to 1947. The collections features slides of completed artwork, drafts, and close-up details shots of Bloch's artwork from 1906 to 1959. Many of the slides were taken by Paul Mannen, one of Bloch's students and a collector of his works. The collection came through...
Dates: 1906 - 1959

Albert D. Salisbury, Jr. papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 739
Overview

The Albert D. Salisbury Jr. papers are those of a long time Lawrence, Kansas resident who worked in the University of Kansas Chemistry Department and was active in various Lawrence Masonic groups and the Ninth Street Baptist Church.

Dates: 1921 - 1988

Albert Howell Horton correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 151
Overview

Collection of correspondence written to Horton between 1868 and 1892. The correspondence primarily reflects Horton's legal career.

Dates: 1868 - 1892

Albert Reid miscellanea

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P717
Overview

Albert T. Reid, born in Concordia, Kansas, is best known for his work in editorial cartoons in the early 20th century. He also worked as a painter and a teacher of art throughout his life. This collection consists of materials relating to Reid's donation to the Garnett Public Library.

Dates: 1920s, 1953-1955

Albert T. Reid cartoon collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS D171
Overview

This collection consists of cartoons collected by the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas, as started by a donation from Kansas-born cartoonist Albert T. Reid. The collection also includes records regarding the acquisition of the collection, as well as a few scattered personal records from Reid.

Dates: 1850s - 1960s (bulk 1920s-1950s)

Albert T. Reid papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1162
Overview

This collection contains a large amount of correspondence spanning Albert T. Reid's career as cartoonist and artist. There is also a substantial amount of original sketches and drawings--including both cartoons and later work--along with print versions of his art. The remainder of the collection includes various clippings and pamphlets, reference materials for his art, and examples of art from friends and other artists.

Dates: 1872 - 1996

Albert T. Reid papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 551
Overview

This collection of papers and photographs from cartoonist and artist Albert T. Reid includes personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, drawings and notes, newspaper clippings, and reference materials used as sources for Reid's work, as well as photographs and reproductions of Reid's work.

Dates: 1900s-1959 (bulk 1920s-1950s)

Alberta Pitcher papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 736
Overview

The Papers of Alberta Pitcher are those of a long time Lawrence, Kansas resident who worked in the houses of several University of Kansas fraternities.

Dates: 1923 - 1998

Albertype Company photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH P139
Overview

Collection of photographs created by the Albertype Company of street scenes and buildings in various Kansas towns.

Dates: approximately 1910

Album inscribed to Milly Bushe

 Collection
Call Number: MS B113
Overview Manuscript "Album" inscribed to "Milly Bushe from Papa June 1857." The Bushe family appears to have lived in Arnestown, County Wexford, Ireland. Contains poems in various hands, some initialed and dated by the contributors. Among them, several commemorative poems refer to the death of Milly's sister, Annie H. Bushe, in 1868. The latest dated entry is signed "M[illy] B[ushe] April 1918". The opening poem is illustrated with a pencil sketch. Two loose inserts (printed poems) have been removed...
Dates: approximately 1857-1918

Album of Architectural and Topographical Drawings and Etchings

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C297
Overview

This album of scenic views of buildings, topography and architectural details seems to been assembled by an amateur or student artist with the initials H.P. They probably record travels in Denmark, France, Switzerland and Britain circa 1889-1890, but some of the sketches may have been made from photographs.

Dates: 1889 - 1890

Album of letters and autographs from New York, New Jersey and Boston literary circles

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS E68
Overview

Album of autographs and letters by members of New York, New Jersey and Boston writing and publishing circles, mostly women. Collected by Annie Isabel (Willis) McCullough, a journalist and children's writer active 1889-1916. Some of the correspondence relates to Wellesley College, which she entered about 1884. She married William H. McCullough in 1894.

Dates: 1867-1909

Album of reviews, prospectuses, etc, of the Oxford University undergraduate magazine Farrago

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS D80
Overview

This collection consists of a single album, compiled by S. Nowell Smith and Peter Burra, containing 31 reviews of Farrago; 2 prospectuses; 1 8 page brochure (November 1930); a blank order form (December 1930); 7 advertisements in periodicals; 3 flyers; 4 posters; 3 placards; and 2 notices. Includes 1 signed order from C. Day Lewis, with note on page 9, and 1 signed order from Virginia Woolf also on page 9.

Dates: 1930 - 1931

Alexander L. Boyle artworks

 Collection
Call Number: PP 548
Overview

Alexander Boyle taught in the design department at the University of Kansas from 1953-1992. The collection includes items in various stages of creation and reproduction from Boyle's art. Boyle's focuses were birds in wildlife, traditional Aztec/Mesoamerican art, and buildings on the campus of the University of Kansas. His works depicting the Campanile and old Fraser Hall are included.

Dates: 1965 - 1992

Alfred B. McPhaul papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P571
Overview

The Alfred B. McPhaul Papers reflect the Wichita, Kansas postal worker's involvement in that city's St. Matthew C.M.E. Church and interest in photography. They consist of items related to Gwendolyn Fuller Mukes and her performance at St. Matthew C.M.E. and a brief speech by McPhaul given to the Club Vintige. The two folders are arranged alphabetically. Photograph negatives from the collection are located at RH MS-P P571.

Dates: 1985

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University of Kansas 77
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 13
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Sumner High School (Kansas City, Kan.) 9
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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
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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
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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
Coan, Clark 4
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Domer, Dennis, 1944- 4
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 4
Eldridge House (Lawrence, Kan.) 4
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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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