Overview This collection consists of organizational records and materials related to the Friends of the Kaw's efforts to preserve and make publicly accessible the Kaw, or Kansas, River and its environs. Materials include newsletters, membership lists, administrative records for the organization, information from fund raising efforts and from legislative lobbying efforts, and records related to the group's efforts to halt dredging permitting for Holiday Sand and Gravel Company and Victory Sands and...

Overview

This collection contains newspaper clippings collected by Parsons, Kansas Public Library staff dating from 1946 to 1950 detailing the state’s history. These clippings also detail the history of the namesakes of several rivers in Kansas and the geodetic point in Osborne, Kansas that served as the reference location for horizonal measurements in surveying in the United States for most of the 20th century.