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Alma Roller Mills records
Collection
Call Number: RH MS G42
Overview
Financial records, custom work ledger, journal.
Dates:
1881 - 1896
Alpha Delta Kappa, Tau Chapter records
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 146
Overview
Alpha Delta Kappa is an honorary teacher's sorority. The collection consists of correspondence, chapter meeting reports, rosters, convention programs and other miscellaneous papers, and scrapbooks that include photographs of members, newspaper clippings, programs, and other memorabilia.
Dates:
1954 - 1982
Alphabetical list of titles in Ten cent pocket series (Haldeman-Julius)
Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS A23
Overview
The manuscript pages are inserted into a printed cover and title page, with title: Catalog; List of 239 books at 10 cents each.
Dates:
20th century
Alternative Schools in Lawrence, Kansas
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1225
Overview
This collection contains official records of the Lawrence Association for Innovative Education, a Lawrence, Kansas-based nonprofit, as well as newsletters, rosters, and publicity materials from associated schools.
Dates:
1970 - 1980
Althea Vratil papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1078
Overview
Althea Vratil, of Larned, Kansas, was a University of Kansas student in the 1940s. This collection contains a scrapbook of clippings, postcards, Christmas cards, and articles about World War II published in the University Daily Kansan, the University of Kansas student newspaper, as well as correspondence.
Dates:
1940s
Alvah and Mary Shelden collection
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1018
Overview
The Alvah and Mary Shelden Collection contains their 1879 to 1885 journal of activities as residents of El Dorado, Kansas, as well as autobiographical and biographical accounts of their lives as early settlers and teachers in Butler County, Kansas. A typescript of their journal is included.
Dates:
1879 - 1885
Alvin Daniel Dahlene papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 274
Overview
This collection deals principally with Alvin Dahlene's participation in the game of horseshoes.
Dates:
1906 - 1978
Alvin Terry papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1333
Overview
The collection consists of Terry family history, photographs and correspondence. There are also papers related to Alvin Terry's education, time in the military, career and his avid interest in photography.
Dates:
1890 - 1990
Alvin Terry Photos
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1189
Overview
This collection contains framed and matted photographs taken throughout Kansas. Many of the items include titles, dates, and descriptive notes from Terry.
Dates:
1940 - 1982
Alyce Christopher-Ballard papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 485
Overview
The Alyce Christopher-Ballard papers are those of a long time Wichita, Kansas resident who was executive director of the Wichita Phyllis Wheatley Childrens Home. She was also a very active community member.
Dates:
1953 - 1989
A.M.E. Women's Missionary Society history
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P842
Overview
The history is a handwritten manuscript of the A.M.E. Church's Women's Missionary Society.
Dates:
between 1970 and 1979
Amelia Earhart Putnam Collection
Collection — Volume: 1-3
Call Number: RH MS D211
Overview
This is a three volume collection about Amelia Earhart Putnam that contains illustrations, maps, ports, newspaper clippings, and pictures.
Dates:
1937 - 1963
Amended articles of incorporation and by-laws of the Kansas Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P687
Overview
Articles of Incorporation and By-laws of the Kansas Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends, as adopted 1900 (three typescripts, with penned corrections and additions).
Dates:
1900
"America in the 1960s" course, oral histories
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 890
Overview
This collection consists of tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by students in the University of Kansas course "America in the 1960s" (History 510), which was taught by Rusty Monhollon. Subjects addressed by interviewee include everyday life, as well as the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy, the Chicago Democratic convention, racial issues, rural Kansas, the Vietnam war, and the draft.
Dates:
1999
American Association of University Women, Baldwin, Kansas, records
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 699
Overview
The American Association of University Women (AAUW), Baldwin is local branch of the AAUW Kansas organization. The collection consists of club records, including secretary books, a ledger, thank you notes, and yearbooks.
Dates:
1923 - 1998
American Association of University Women (Leavenworth, Kan.) records
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 640
Overview
The Leavenworth, Kansas, Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) was founded in 1937. The collection includes meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, AAUW annual yearbooks, and brochures, almost exclusively pertaining to the Leavenworth Branch.
Dates:
1937 - 2000
American Dance Symposia records
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 959
Overview
Elizabeth Sherbon was a professor of dance at the University of Kansas and co-founder of the American Dance Symposia. This collection consists mainly of files and photos related to the Symposia, which took place in Wichita, Kansas during the summers 1968-1972. Also included in the collection are Alice Sherbon Bauman's personal papers and family photos.
Dates:
1900 - 1989
American Guild of Organists, Lawrence-Baldwin chapter records
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 971
Overview
This collection consists of materials relating to the American Guild of Organists. Materials include the Code of Ethics, directories for various chapters nationwide, and the financial records of the Lawrence-Baldwin (Kansas) chapter.
Dates:
1970 - 1982
American Laboratory Theatre Collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 338
Overview
The American Laboratory Theatre, sometimes referred to as the 'Lab', was founded in 1923 in New York City, New York as both a professional theatrical group and a school. The collection consists mostly of administrative correspondence, as well as production programs, photographs, newspaper clippings, and some student files, all related to the school's efforts. Also in the collection are some secondary research materials about the theatre and school.
Dates:
1923-1982 (bulk 1925- 1930)
American Poetry - 20th Century literary ephemera collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 15
Overview
An artificial collection of manuscript drafts of poetry, correspondence, and other materials from a variety of poets and authors of the mid-20th century, purchased or otherwise acquired from a variety of sources and assembled by Spencer Research Library staff.
Dates:
1950s-1960s, 1980s (bulk 1960s)
American Vernacular Architecture course projects
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 887
Overview
This collection consists of projects for a University of Kansas course in architecture; the projects pertain to the residences, farmsteads, churches and public buildings in the Lawrence/Douglas County, Kansas area and include building plans, photos, and interviews with past inhabitants.
Dates:
1988 - 1990
American War Mothers Northeast Chapter No. 31 scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: RH WL MS Q1
Overview
This scrapbook of the American War Mothers Northeast Chapter No. 31 illustrates the activities and commendations of the organization from 1959-1961 with clippings, programs, photographs, certificates and correspondence. Yearbooks from 1948-1960 are also included.
Dates:
1948-1961; bulk 1959-1960
Ames-Enloe photograph collection
Collection
Call Number: RH PH 170
Overview
The collection contains photographs of the interiors of millinery shops and dry goods stores, a newspaper advertisement for Mrs. M. P. Ames Millinery, and snapshots from the 1904 Saint Louis (Missouri) World's Fair. The photograph album contains snapshots of social life in El Reno, Oklahoma. The Ames and Enloe families were milliners in Kansas and Oklahoma from 1905-1920.
Dates:
1880 - 1930
Amiri Baraka letter to Wesley Hartley
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P744
Overview
Typed letter signed to Wesley Hartley replying to his query as to the value of high school and college education to a writer. Together with original envelope and signed photocopied portrait.
Dates:
August 16, 1995
Amos Adams Lawrence correspondence
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P84
Overview
This collection contains the correspondence of Amos Adams Lawrence, treasurer of the New England Emigrant Aid Company. The letters, to and from Lawrence, date from 1846-1878.
Dates:
1846 - 1878
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