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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, reports,...
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 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)
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
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 to...
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 the 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
Alfred Curtiss and Clara Haskins Curtiss genealogy
Collection
Call Number: RH MS E93
Overview
The genealogy of Alfred Curtiss and of his wife Clara Haskins Curtiss of, their descendants and some of their relatives. Ransomville, N.Y., 1924 written by their daughter, Elizabeth Curtiss. The collection also includes two images, one each of Alfred and Clara Curtiss.
Dates:
1924
Alfred M. Landon collection
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 3
Overview
This collection of speeches, correspondence, pamphlets, clippings, audiovisual material, and miscellaneous memorabilia was collected by historian Donald R. McCoy as a result of his research for the biography Landon of Kansas.
Dates:
1927-1963, 1966, 1980, 1983
Alfred M. Landon oral interviews
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 819
Overview
Alfred Mossman Landon, 1887-1987, a prominent Kansas Republican, served as Governor of Kansas from 1933-1937 and ran an unsuccessful campaign for the United States presidency in 1936. This collection includes audiotapes and transcripts of interviews with Governor Landon by Donald R. McCoy and Louis George Griffin from 1975-1976.
Dates:
1975 - 1976
Algis Budrys papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 112
Overview
Collection comprising typescript draft (with manuscript corrections) for Algys Budrys's science-fiction novel Who?; two printed editions of the novel; and the painting by Kelly Freas that inspired Budrys's short story "Who?", which Budrys later expanded into a novel.
Dates:
approximately 1955
All-American Conference to Combat Communism records
Collection
Call Number: RH WL MS 18
Overview
The All-American Conference to Combat Communism was formed in 1950 to defend American liberties and to expose and curtail communism within the United States. These records of the organization were collected by Frederick S. Harris, one of the Conference leaders who was also National Commander of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States. The records consist primarily of Harris's correspondence with other leaders of the Conference, and include meeting programs and published statements of the...
Dates:
1950 - 1962
All-Sew Club records
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 337
Overview
A collection of the records and the minutes of various meetings of the All-Sew Club from the years 1912-1971.
Dates:
1912 - 1971
Allabelle O. Napue papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 723
Overview
The papers of Allabelle O. Napue are those of a Topeka, Kansas resident who owned and operated a beauty shop there in the mid-20th century.
Dates:
1929 - 1986
Allen Dunmire diary
Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS A37
Overview
Diary entries are made in ink and pencil. Each entry mentions the weather conditions and is followed by the daily activities. There are diary entries for each day of the year 1879. In addition, there are notes on expenditures and receipts during the year as well as accounts received and paid.
Dates:
1879
Allen Ginsberg-Fred Jordan collection
Collection
Call Number: MS P742
Overview
The collection consists of ten pieces of typescript, a signed contract for publishing and correspondence between Allen Ginsberg and Fred Jordan about Ginsberg's "Howl" and "Kral Majales." It also includes an annotated photocopy transcript of "Kral Majales."
Dates:
1965 - 1967
Alliance brig financial accounts
Collection
Call Number: MS P636
Overview
A group of accounts for the brig Alliance of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in preparation for what was perhaps her maiden whaling voyage, including receipts and line-item accounts.
Dates:
May-September 1819
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