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Lawrence centennial celebration

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P86
Overview

Lawrence centennial celebration, September 23-28, 1954.

Dates: September 23-28, 1954

Lawrence, Kansas 75th Anniversary Collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P777
Overview This collection contains documents pertaining to Lawrence, Kansas' 75th anniversary of its founding in 1929, including a scrapbook of newspaper clippings compiled by University of Kansas library staff at the time and a poster announcing celebratory events associated with the anniversary. It also includes program carbons, expense sheets, print reviews, correspondence, souvenir programs and pamphlets, several out-of-town newspaper letters and reviews, a timeline, assorted newspaper clippings...
Dates: 1920 - 1929

Lawrence Kansas Common Council minutes

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P122
Overview

This collection contains eight pages of the 1854 minutes of the Lawrence Common Council meetings regarding discussion of city boundaries, laws and rights of residents, and a list of jurors, documenting the founding of the town of Lawrence, Kansas.

Dates: 1854

Lawrence League for the Practice of Democracy records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 48
Overview

The Lawrence League for the Practice of Democracy (LLPD) was organized in 1945 with an aim to advance better interracial relations in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas. This collection contains the correspondence of the LLPD, minutes of the Executive Board and general meetings of the organization, scrap books, clippings, surveys and other activities reflecting the efforts of the organization from 1945 to 1965.

Dates: 1945 - 1965

Lawrence Paper Manufacturing Company records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS E76
Overview

This collection includes some limited testing, payroll, inventory, and correspondence records from the Lawrence Paper Manufacturing Company of Lawrence, Kansas, originally owned by Justin DeWitt Bowersock and later managed by the Hill family.

Dates: 1906 - 1925

Lawrence Sesquicentennial Commission records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 594
Overview The members of the Lawrence, Kansas Sesquicentennial Commission were appointed by the City Commission to coordinate events and plan projects commemorating the 150th anniversary of the founding of Lawrence in 2004. They were responsible for the Sesquicentennial Parade and Birthday Party, an attempt to host a 2004 presidential debate, a time capsule, and the opening of a new park, Sesquicentennial Point. This collection includes their administrative records, including secretary and...
Dates: 1978 - 2006

Letter from F. L. Pilla to his brother

 Collection
Call Number: RH VLT MS P9
Overview

F.L. Pilla was a minister in Eudora, Kansas at the time of Confederate ally William C. Quantrill's attack on Lawrence, Kansas in mid-August 1863. Pilla writes to his brother recounting this news and indicating that there was some fear that Eudora might have been one of Quantrill's targets.

Dates: September 21, 1863

Letter to Captain Grover from Captain Sircoxy

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P828
Overview This letter, dated November 3, 1857, is from Delaware Chief John Sarcoxie (signed "Sircoxy" in the letter) to Joel Grover, a free-state loyalist of Kansas Territory whose property in the town of Lawrence was a station on the Underground Railroad. Citing their prior contract, the Delaware chief asks for Grover's payment of $600 to the Delaware Nation as agreed upon completion of the Quindaro Road (a stage road from the Underground Railroad town of Quindaro, Kansas to Lawrence, completed in...
Dates: November 3, 1857

Letters and notes about border raids in Lawrence

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P160
Overview

This collection consists of letters and notes from Samuel F. Tappan sent to William E. Connelley regarding Tappan's involvement with and recollection of the territorial border wars in Kansas. The letters were written a half-century after the fact.

Dates: 1901

Lewis Timothy Litchfield papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS VLT B6
Overview

This collection includes Lewis Timothy Litchfield's diary, 1854-1855, containing an account of his trip and settlement in Lawrence, Kansas, as part of the second Emigrant Aid party, and a certificate presented to Litchfield from his English study at Cambridge High School in Massachusetts.

Dates: 1854 - 1855

Log cabin: home of pioneer Americans.

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS C62
Scope and Contents

Log cabin: home of pioneer Americans. Lawrence, Kansas, 1941. Story by Bumgardner as published in the Lawrence Journal World.

Dates: 1941

Maggie Herrington journal

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P428
Overview

Maggie Herrington's journal of her experiences during the year 1867 as part of a school assignment and two pieces of correspondence between the Watkins Community Museum of Lawrence, Kansas, and Lida Mattman, Maggie Herrington's granddaughter, dated 1979.

Dates: 1867

Manuscript, "A Night of Terror"

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P241
Overview

A night of terror. The recounting of events told by the widow of Duncan Allison, concerning Quantrill's Raid.

Dates: 1863

Mary Chesley Killam letter

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P855
Overview This 7-page transcript of an undated letter from Mary Chesley Killam is a descriptive memoir of her pioneer years in Lawrence, Kansas from 1855 to 1863. Writing to a newspaper near her native village of Barnstead, New Hampshire, she recalls the appearance of Lawrence when she and her husband first arrived, incidents involving abolitionist John Brown as a frequent guest of their hotel, and pro-slavery attacks on free-state Lawrence, including William Quantrill's Lawrence massacre of August...
Dates: between 1880 and 1889

Mary S. Learnard collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P803
Overview This small collection purportedly relates to early Lawrence, Kansas resident Mary S. (Mrs. Oscar E.) Learnard, who was a daughter of Lawrence pioneer Shalor Eldridge. Included is an unattributed typescript describing Lawrence's early history. Also included is the record of an account (entries dated 1871-1872) with Iowa City, Iowa businessman Justin DeWitt Bowersock who later moved to Lawrence, where he was prominent in business and in state and local politics. The Iowa City account with...
Dates: 1871-1875, 1938

Materials relating to the exhibit on 19th century houses in Lawrence, Kansas

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 380
Overview This collection includes materials relating to an exhibit on 19th century houses in Lawrence, Kansas, which was put together by the University of Kansas Museum of Art. The typescripts include the proposal, correspondence, and the draft of the text for the catalog of the exhibition, which took place from September 22 to October 27, 1968 and was published by the Museum. Representative examples of various styles and types of dwellings built in Lawrence in the 19th century are portrayed, as well...
Dates: 1966 - 1968

Maude Gooch Phillips poems

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P88
Overview

Handwritten and typed manuscripts of poems written by Maude Gooch Phillips, mostly focused on the early history of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas.

Dates: early 1900s

Memoir of early days in Kansas

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: RH MS 128
Overview

Eldridge was active in the efforts to make Kansas Territory a free state. Formerly a Democrat, Eldridge joined the Kansas delegation at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. Memoir of early days in Kansas, miscellaneous stock certificates, and account sheets, 1859-1898.

Dates: 1859 - 1898

Memorandum of Agreements

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS B4
Overview

Memorandum of agreements made with certain parties by the Lawrence Bridge Company, 1864-1866.

Dates: 1864 - 1866

Minutes; membership roster

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS E139
Overview

The G.A.R. in Kansas was organized shortly after the Civil War. This collection consists of thirteen manuscript volumes. Twelve of these volumes are minutes of the organizations meetings. The thirteenth volume is a membership roster.

Dates: 1893-1930; 1896-1916

Nellie McGurdy scrapbook of newspaper clippings

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS D239
Overview

This volume contains newspaper clippings and obituaries of well-known persons, most likely complied by Nellie McGurdy.

Dates: approximately 1889-approximately 1935

Nixon and Williamson family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1116
Overview

The Nixon and Williamson families as well as the Chapman and Cooper families had ties to Edwardsville, Wyandotte County, Kansas; to Wamego, Pottawatomie County, Kansas and to the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas. This collection of the families' papers date from 1849-1961 and consists of letters, certificates, journals and photographs.

Dates: 1849 - 1961

Old West Lawrence and the law of historic preservation

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P234
Overview

This paper was submitted to the Historic Preservation Seminar, Fall, 1973. It details a history of Old West Lawrence (bordered on the north by 6th Street, on the east by Tennessee, on the south by 9th Street and on the west by Illinois), the Old West Lawrence Association, and preservation of the area under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.

Dates: 1973

Oscar Eugene Learnard family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 36
Overview

This collection consists of copied and original correspondence, clippings, photographs, and other related materials regarding the life of Oscar Eugene Learnard, his family, and the early history of Lawrence, Kansas.

Dates: 1850 - 1943

Papers of Carol Buhler Francis

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 582
Overview

Carol Buhler Francis was a longtime resident of Lawrence, Kansas, and an active member of the community. This collection includes materials related to projects in which she was involved professionally through her advertising, journalism, and other writing; and personally through her community involvement.

Dates: 1874 - 2015

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Quantrill, William Clarke, 1837-1865 9
University of Kansas 6
Brown, John, 1800-1859 4
Connelley, William Elsey, 1855-1930 3
Learnard, Mary S., 1842-1932 3
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Ambler, Cathy 2
Eldridge, Shalor Winchell, 1816-1899 2
Elliott, Robert Gaston 2
Friends in Council (Lawrence, Kan.) 2
Grover, Joel, 1825-1879 2
Haskell Institute 2
Leavenworth, Lawrence, and Galveston Railroad Company 2
Morrow, Robert, 1825-1912 2
Rice, Harry Nicholas 2
Rowe, Elfriede Fischer 2
Abbott, James Burnett, 1818-1897 1
Acme Manganese Mining Company (Kansas City, Kan.) 1
Adair family 1
Adair, Asa Rogers 1
Adair, Emma May Keyser, 1865-1952 1
Adair, Hugh Rogers, 1889-1971 1
Agnew family 1
Alford family 1
Allison, Isadora Augusta Johnson 1
Archibald family 1
Archibald, John Christie, 1812-1860 1
Armitage, Katie 1
Baldridge family 1
Barber family. 1
Barber, Thomas W., 1814-1855 1
Berry, G. W. (George W.) 1
Bismark Fair (Lawrence, Kan.) 1
Black Kettle, -1868 (Cheyenne chief) 1
Borg family 1
Borgen, Charles, 1937-2021 1
Boss of the Bay Mining Company 1
Bowersock, Justin DeWitt, 1842-1922 1
Branson, Jacob 1
Bumgardner, Edward, 1865- 1
Carney, Thomas, 1824-1888 1
Chapman family 1
Clark family 1
Clark, Hiram C., 1817-1855 1
Clarke, Edith Marie, 1870-1957 1
Clarke, Florence 1
Clarke, Martha (Resident of Kansas) 1
Coal Creek Library (Vinland, Kan.) 1
Congress of Racial Equality 1
Cooper family 1
Cooper, John Wesley, 1842- 1
Crawford, Elizabeth Ticknor 1
Delaware Tribe of Indians 1
Delmonte Consolidated Mining Company (Leadville, Colo.) (Leadville, Colo.) 1
Dine-A-Mite Inn 1
Douglas County (Kan.). Board of County Commissioners. 1
Douglas County Historical Society (Douglas County, Kan.) 1
Dowdell, Rick D. 1
Drake, F. D. 1
Duncan, Elizabeth, 1837-1879 1
Dyer, Ruth Adair, 1895-1986 1
Earl, Elizabeth S. C. 1
Earl, Jennie L. 1
Earle family 1
Edwards, Charles L. (Charles Livingston), 1828-1916 1
Eldridge Hotel (Lawrence, Kan.) 1
Eldridge House (Lawrence, Kan.) 1
Eldridge family. 1
Elliott family 1
Elliott, Maude, 1898- 1
Elliott, Samuel Steele, 1870-1957 1
Ellis, George, 1832-1864 1
Embry, Dennis D., 1948- 1
February Sisters (University of Kansas) 1
Finley, James Agnew 1
Fisher, Charlie (Fugitive slave) 1
Fisher, H. D. (Hugh Dunn), 1824-1905 1
Fitch, Edward, 1832-1863 1
Fitch, Sarah Wilmarth 1
Francis, Carol Buhler 1
Fullenwider, Cathy 1
Girard, James Preston, 1944- 1
Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1
Gower, James H. 1
Gower, James O., 1832-1866 1
Gower, Robert H., 1844- 1
Grand Army of the Republic. Department of Kansas 1
Grand Army of the Republic. Lawrence Circle No. 75 (Lawrence, Kan.) 1
Grand Army of the Republic. Washington Post No. 12 (Lawrence, Kan.) 1
Graves, G. 1
Haight Family. 1
Haight, J. Haviland, 1828- 1
Heider, Grace M. (Grace Moore) 1
Henderson, Margaret Thompson, 1880-1954 1
Henry, Margaret Virginia, 1853-1933 1
Hercules Powder Company 1
Hill, Irving, 1875-1965 1
Hindman, Thomas Carmichael, 1828-1868 1
Horowitz, Floyd R. 1
Horowitz, Frances Degen 1
Howe family. 1
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