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"A Thousand Years of Erlaheim"/"Tausend Jahre Erlaheim"
This collection consists of the manuscript volume "Tausend Jahre Erlaheim" written by William Zirkel, and its English translation completed by Lisbeth Sass, with a forward by Vansel S. Johnson dated from 1960. The volumes include mounted illustrations, facsimiles, maps, photographs, and text regarding the history of Erlaheim in Ravensburg, Germany. Johnson's ancestors, the Johannes family, came to Valley Falls, Kansas in the 1860s from Erlaheim.
Albert Bloch slides
Album of Architectural and Topographical Drawings and Etchings
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.
Alvin Terry papers
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.
Bales family papers
Barbara Burghart-Perreault collection
The Barbara Burghart-Perreault collection is made up of Burghart-Perreault's journals, correspondence, family papers, and photographs. The collection also contains her creative work, including drawings and paintings, photography, and creative writing. The papers and manuscripts of writer and literature professor, Myron Greenman, a close friend of Burghart-Perreault's, are also included.
C. Y. Thomas collection
Charles Heller papers
Charles Anthony Heller, born in Vienna, Austria and later becoming an American citizen, worked extensively in petroleum economics and politics. The Heller collection is concerned primarily with his work in this field.
City of Eudora records
Eudora, Kansas records including cemetery records, council minutes, treasurer records, city ordinances, tax rolls, and city council minutes. Also includes Justice of the Peace Court records.
Correspondence of Henry Sagan
Primarily concerns his Rilke collection. Also copies of Rilke material (1898-1924), 1 Rilke letter (1901), etc.
Correspondence of Isidor Landau
Correspondence of Isidor Landau discussing theatre, as well as literature and social life. Includes 316 letters; 16 Manuscripts; 35 photographs; and 49 printed ephemeral items (posters, theatre-programs, etc.)
Correspondence of Olga Novikova
Collection of correspondence written to Olga Novikova, a 19th century cosmopolitan Pan-Slavic lobbyist, from influential English and European members of her salon.
Curriculum of the Prisoner of War Camp (Concordia, Kansas)
Course outlines for University of Kansas courses conducted in 1945 for German soldiers held as prisoners of war at Camp Concordia (Concordia, Kansas) during World War II.
Diaries of John H. Eibest
John Henry Eibest was a farmer in Grant Township in Douglas County, near Lawrence, Kansas. This collection contains 51 diaries and associated documents pertaining to the farm, property, and life of John Eibest.
Eberhart Reunion Association collection
These Eberhart family histories, photographs, genealogical charts, and minutes of the Eberhart Reunion Association document the family history of Joseph Eberhart and his wife Catherine (Kistler) Eberhart, who emigrated from Pennsylvania to Kansas Territory in 1854, becoming early settlers on a Douglas County claim located south of the Lawrence community. Records of the Association chronicle the Pennsylvania German ancestry of the Eberharts and the history of the Eberharts in Kansas.
Environmental Research and Development Foundation records
Ernest Manheim papers
Ernst Moritz Arndt collection
Fahrländer family letters
This collection consists of original letters and typed translations, with contextual notes, from Fahrländer family members and friends in both Germany and the United States to Hermann or Herman Fahrländer, who moved to the United States in the 1880s.
Franklyn D. Ott and Aleta Jo Petrik-Ott papers
This collection contains scientific and scholarly material regarding algae and ferns, written or gathered by Franklyn D. Ott and Aleta Jo Petrik-Ott.
German State Documents
Henry D. and Mariana Lohrenz Remple papers
This collection comprises the papers of Henry D. Remple, a clinical psychologist born in the Molotschna Mennonite colony in Ukraine, and Mariana Lohrenz Remple, a teacher and prominent Girl Scout leader. The couple were both descendents of German Mennonites and were based in Lawrence, Kansas for the majority of their adult lives. The collection also includes a small amount of material relating to their children, Lucy Jean (Remple) McAllister and Robert "Robie" Keith Remple.
Hollis Hedberg papers
Hollis Dow Hedberg was a world famous geologist who would become Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. The majority of this collection relates to his work for the Gulf Oil Corporation in various capacities in Venezuela and later in their corporate offices.
Hungate family papers
This collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and other miscellaneous materials from the Hungate family, particularly Dr. Carroll Paul Hungate and his immediate family during the end of World War II when he was stationed in Rio de Janerio, Brazil. There is also a small amount of material, including a scrapbook, from Ida (Devaney) Patterson, Hungate's mother-in-law, and her family.