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Autobiography of Mary F. Beeson: James Warfield family in Old Shawneetown
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P615
Overview
Typescript of the autobiography of Mary F. Beeson, including Beeson's account of the murder of her father, James Lot Warfield, by William Quantrill's guerrilla band on October 17, 1862 at Shawneetown, Kansas.
Dates:
1905-1910
Autobiography of Minnie Mischke Peterson
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P426
Overview
An autobiography by Minnie Mischke Peterson about her teaching experiences in Kansas from 1903 through 1948. The collection also contains a photograph of Minnie with two other teachers in Russell Springs, Kansas, and a negative of Russell Springs teachers at the Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Dates:
Other: 1903 - 1948
Autographs and Letters from England, Scotland, and South Africa
Collection
Call Number: MS Q38
Overview
These two leaves, compiled by an unknown collector, have been pasted with autographs and letters. Three of the letters are complete.
Dates:
1803 - 1937
Ava Higley Milett photographs
Collection
Call Number: RH PH P24
Overview
This collection contains six photographs of schools in Atchison and Leavenworth Counties in Kansas from 1922 to 1925 and in the 1940s, including the Pardee School, Lane School, Delaware School, Bell School, and Mound School. Collection includes photograph description and identifications of students and teachers standing outside the schools. Ava Higley Milett appears as a student or teacher in all the photographs.
Dates:
approximately 1922-1940s
B. F. Smith holograph reminiscence
Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS D259
Overview
This handwritten reminiscence describes a Lincoln-Douglas debate in Jonesboro, Illinois in late summer 1858. Also included in the reminiscence is the author's personal meeting with both Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Douglas while working as a brakeman for the Illinois Central Railway in 1858 and 1859.
The account was written at the age of 81, in Lawrence, Kansas, Feb. 26, 1917, on the first and second front free end papers and half title page in Portrait Life of Lincoln, by Francis Trevelyan Miller,...
Dates:
Feb. 26, 1917
Babcock family papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 280
Overview
James and Wilma Babcock owned and operated Babcock Grocery and B and B Beauty Bar in Ottawa, Kansas. This collection contains their business records and personal papers, as well as those of their daughter, Marla Jo Babcock, and James Babcock's mother Nettie.
Dates:
1880 - 1939
Backus family newspapers collection
Collection
Call Number: MS R24
Overview
This collection contains newspaper issues and tear sheets, primarily from the Northeast region of the United States, with dates ranging from 1795 to 1870. It reflects the interests of Backus family members who were predominantly lawyers. The family settled in Connecticut in the late 1700s and migrated to upstate New York in the mid-1800s.
Dates:
1795-1870, 1889
Baker University miscellaneous records
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 999
Overview
This collection contains miscellaneous circular letters, telegrams, administrative forms, memorandums, war department related materials, and periodicals from Baker University. Most of the materials are from the first half of the 20th century.
Dates:
1907-1989
Balance books from a London trader
Collection
Call Number: MS E188
Overview
Account books of an anonymous speculative trader, providing yearly summary of accounts. Each volume covers a year, and contains a dozen accounts in fair detail and a list of 50 to 100 accounts showing net profit or debit. The "bottom line" is about £50,000. Cargoes largely consist of tropical produce; the trader also imported cheese and butter from Holland into England and had other investments.
Dates:
1810 - 1818
Bales family papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 952
Overview
The Bales family papers are those of native Kansans and University of Kansas graduates Orin Roland "Ron" Bales and his wife Katharine (Kufahl) Bales. They contain many photographs, personal papers, and business records of Ron and Katharine Bales, of their Alexander, Bales, Kufahl, and Kean family members who homesteaded in Douglas County, Pottawatomie County, and Leavenworth County, Kansas, and of their Fastenau family members of Nebraska City and Norfolk, Nebraska. Included are many letters...
Dates:
1855 - 1989
Ballad praising the Trough Volunteers led by Colonel Leslie of Castle Galsslough, and his family. Trough (in Monaghan, Ulster, Ireland)
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS Q11:9
Overview
12 stanza ballad, praising the 84 volunteers under brave Colonel Leslie, and his Lady and "young Charless." Describes a festal day at Castle Glasslough. Considers the House of Bourbon the enemy.
Dates:
Between 1778 and 1780
Baltis Wintermute Diary
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P925
Overview
Baltis K. Wintermute was a Union soldier in the 11th Regiment, Iowa Infantry during the Civil War. This collection contains his diary for the year of 1864.
Dates:
1864
Bandbook for E-flat cornet
Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS B170
Overview
Band book with MS music and laid-in printed music for E-flat cornet.
Dates:
1883
Banking ledger from Culbertson and Reno, Iowa City, Iowa
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P628
Overview
Ledger of Messrs. Culbertson and Reno, Bankers, Iowa City, Iowa, 1856-1857.
Dates:
1856 - 1857
Banks family papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1488
Overview
The Banks family collection consists of papers from long-time Kansas City residents Wade B. Banks, Jr., his wife Blanche, and their family. Most of the collection focuses on Blanche's involvement in the First African Methodist Episcopal Church (FAME), research into family geneology, work as principal of Shawnee Mission North High School, correspondence, speeches, reference material, and papers concerning civil rights in the United States.
Dates:
1921 - 2017
Barbara Ballard papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1507
Overview
This collection consists of records related to Barbara Ballard's career as a member of the Kansas House of Representatives, including records related to the legislative process and to the election and campaigning processes.
Dates:
1982 - 2009
Barbara Duke photographs
Collection
Call Number: RH PH P2827
Overview
A collection of early 20th century photographs donated by Barbara Duke, featuring photographs of Kansas City Harvey House employees circa 1915, including two group photographs. The collection also includes photographs from a hot air balloon launch in Rapid City, South Dakota in 1934 and a photograph of women weaving in Mexico City.
Dates:
1915, 1934
Barbara Hays Duke papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1495
Overview
This collection includes materials from throughout Barbara Hays Duke's life, a long-time resident of Lawrence, Kansas. Comprises memorabilia, photographs, and other items from her high school and college years, as well as later correspondence, research, and other items regarding family genealogy.
Dates:
1909-2006, 2016
Barber family (Lawrence, Kansas) letter to the Lawrence Journal-World
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P253
Overview
The Barber family is discussed, and special mention is made of one Thomas Barber, who was murdered in Lawrence. His story is recounted in a fictional work entitled, The Surveyor by Truman Nelson, a book about John Brown.
Dates:
June 8, 1961
Barkemeyer Family letters
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P625
Overview
39 letters, 1913-1919, written to Grace Barkemeyer of Halstead, Harvey County, Kansas, by immediate family members in California and elsewhere. The majority of the letters (1913-1915) were wrttien by Grace's sister Carrie, a nurse at various hospitals in California, including the German Hospital in San Francisco. These are lengthy letters and describe the rigors of a nurse's life. In 1915, Carrie decided to return to Kansas and pursue private nursing. Other letters include those written to...
Dates:
1913-1919
Barker Neighborhood Association records
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 793
Overview
The Barker Neighborhood Association, Lawrence, Kansas, was founded in 1982 as the East Central Neighborhood Association. The collection includes Association correspondence with the City of Lawrence regarding neighborhood concerns, flyers advertising gatherings, survey and diagrams relating to sidewalk installation, replacement and repair, and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1977 - 1999
Barnabas Dorr Palmer personal papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P111
Overview
The papers include (1) a testimony to his recent left-handness sworn before Douglas County Clerk in 1867, (2) a manuscript titled "A sketch of my military history" which he entered in a penmanship contest, sponsored by William Oland Bourne, editor of the "Soldier's Friend", (3) a letter from General U.S. Grant awarding Palmer first prize in the contest, and (4) letter awarding Palmer a $50 prize.
Dates:
1867 - 1868
Barnes City Election poll book
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS H3
Overview
Poll book of the election held in the city of Barnes [Kansas] in the county of Washington, on the 2nd day of August, A.D. 1932. George Jewell, Ira D. Hill, and Otto G. Yengeberg, judges, and Lloyd Wolverton and R. J. Kiefover, clerks.
Dates:
1932
Bartholomew Family collection
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P715
Overview
This collection, compiled by Margaret Bartholomew De Young, contains photographs and photocopies of family histories, genealogies, and clippings pertaining to her Bartholomew family ancestry. Predominating are records by and about De Young's grandfather, Elam Bartholomew (1852-1934), a Rooks County, Kansas farmer, botanist, and internationally renowned mycologist.
Dates:
1894 - 1987
Base map compiled by the 314th Engineers, N.A. Col. William B. Ladue, Corps of Engineers, N.A. Commanding
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS Q51
Overview
Relief map of the United States military reservation Fort Riley in Kansas, including Camp Funston, dated November 1917. The map was compiled by the 314th Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, commanded by William B. Ladue.
Dates:
November 1917
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- Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987 6
- Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission 6
- Otto, David Arthur, 1934- 6
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