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Kansas Republican Women Club’s manual

Date: 1942,1949

This manual is from the Kansas Republican Women Club’s. Included in the manual for the Club are their bylaws, constitution, meeting notes and a question and answer section about the…

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Kansas Day Club

Date: 1892-1923

This series is part of a bigger collection from Gertrude Ackerman. These documents represent speeches, correspondence and programs of the Kansas Day Club.

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Kansas Day Club Officers

Date: 1892-1951

This series is part of a bigger collection from Gertrude Ackerman. These documents represent officers involved with Kansas Day Club.

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39th – 49th Annual Kansas Day Meetings

Date: 1930-1940

This series is part of a bigger collection from Gertrude Ackerman. These documents represent participant lists, speeches and addresses, and correspondence from the 39th to 49th annual Kansas Day meetings.…

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29th – 38th Annual Kansas Day Meetings

Date: 1920-1929

This series is part of a bigger collection from Gertrude Ackerman. These documents represent participant lists, speeches and addresses, and correspondence from the 29th to 38th annual Kansas Day meetings.…

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18th – 28th Annual Kansas Day Meetings

Date: 1909-1919

This series is part of a bigger collection from Gertrude Ackerman. These documents represent participant lists, speeches and addresses, and correspondence from the 18th to 28th annual Kansas Day meetings.…

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Valley Victors 4-H Club scrapbook

Date: 1946-1953

This is a scrapbook compiled by members of the Valley Victors 4-H Club in Valley Falls, Kansas. Included in the scrapbook are photographs of members with their livestock, parades, displays,…

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Wayne L. Bishop Collection

Date: 1944 - 1945

The Wayne L. Bishops Collection contains letters written during his service in World War II to his wife Florence and son Darrel. He served in the 382nd Infantry Regiment, 96th…

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Samuel Peppard scrapbook

Date: 1865-1990

This scrapbook contains letters, photographs, newspaper articles, military records, government records relating to Samuel Peppard, known for his “Peppard wind-wagon.” A novel device of the Kansas territorial period was the…

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VOX-KOP: the voice of the Kansas Ordnance Plant

Date: January 08, 1943-July 30, 1943

This employee newsletter was published at the Kansas Ordnance Plant in Parsons, Labette County, Kansas, during World War II, until it was halted because of the paper shortage. It contains…

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VOX-KOP: the voice of the Kansas Ordnance Plant

Date: September 21, 1942 - December 31, 1942

This employee newsletter was published at the Kansas Ordnance Plant in Parsons, Labette County, Kansas, during World War II, until it was halted because of the paper shortage. It contains…

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To My Countrymen The Americans circular

Date: 1899

This is a circular written by W. F., but further research has identified the author as possibily Emilio Aguinaldo who was a Filipino revolutionary, politician, and a military leader who…

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Elizabeth Miller Watkins photographs

Date: Between January 1, 1958 and December 31, 2006

Elizabeth Miller Watkins (1861-1939), known to many in Lawrence, Kansas as “Lady Bountiful”, began working as an office clerk for J.B. Watkins Land and Mortgage Co. During her tenure with…

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John Lee Meyer, Jr. World War II scrapbook

Date: 1943-1946

This is a scrapbook compiled by John Lee Meyer, Jr., who served in the First Infantry Division, 18th Regiment, Company F. It contains photographs, maps, newspaper clippings, general orders, and…

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Independence Day celebration in Walton, Kansas

Date: July 04, 1912

This poster or broadside advertises a Fourth of July celebration in Walton, Kansas. The day’s program and hotel and restaurant accommodations are printed on it. Festivities included a baseball game…

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Theater scrapbook and date book, Topeka, Kansas

Date: 1880-1889

This scrapbook, compiled by J. W. Wood, contains programs, clippings, illustrations, and other memorabilia of the theaters and performers in Topeka, Kansas, in the 1880s. There are two photographs of…

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Guy Alfred Coover Collection

Date: 1898 - 1907

This is a collection of letters written by Guy A. (Alfred) Coover to Mrs. M. (Margaret) T. Coover, his mother, during the Philippine-American War, and related newsclippings. Coover was a…