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This collection contains fourteen lithographs of 19th century Native Americans which were initially published during the 1830s and 1840s. The images mainly represent prominent members of the Cherokee, Chippewa (also spelled Chippeway and Ojibwa), Menominee, Fox, Sauk, and Seneca tribes.

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This collection contains photos, information cards, newspaper clippings, correspondence, an interview transcript, essays, and a magazine article related to the 1936 Olympics held in Nazi Germany. The materials belonged to two women: Esther Wenzel, who attended the Olympics as a spectator, and Veda Brown who had a pen pal in Germany at the time of the Olympics.

Content Note Twenty-one photographs of southern Plains Indians and associated camps constitute this collection. Subjects include members of the Wichita, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Pawnee, Arapaho and Comanche tribes. Frontier photographer William S. Soule likely posed his subjects between 1869 and 1874 in Indian Territory, now part of Oklahoma. Words appearing on the photographs as captions may be offensive. This collection of photographs was owned by A. A. Hyde of Wichita, a Wichita businessman, philanthropist...

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A Past to Draw On is an autographed manuscript by John Glenn. The manuscript represents an expression on his part of man's inspiration to explore the stars and his concept of the kind of individuals necessary to accomplish this mission. The story also presents a capsulized version of John Glenn's life from his first car to his first space flight in the Friendship 7. It comprises a chapter in the 1962 book "We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves."

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This collection consists of 18 letters received by Illinois resident Aaron S. Beck from his friends and relatives, almost all of whom served in the Union army between 1863 and 1865. Topics include daily military life, skirmishes with Confederate forces, weather, women, the creation of Black regiments, and Copperheads.

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This collection contains receipts, other documents and newspaper articles regarding two students from Afghanistan who attended the University of Wichita from December 1938 to February 1941. The men studied police science at the expense of their country's government. Their lives ended tragically in Wichita with one student killing the other then committing suicide. Worth A. Fletcher, registrar of the University and advisor to the students, kept these materials.

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The Albert Sidney Johnson (A. S. J.) Carnahan Papers include correspondence, speeches, memorabilia, newspaper clippings, and photographs which reflect his terms of office as a Democratic Representative from Missouri in the U.S. House of Representatives (1945-1946, 1949-1960) and as Ambassador to Sierra Leone (1961-1963).

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This catalogue is a listing of books and their prices as purchased by Alexander Telford for his personal library. The books were acquired between 1848 and 1863.

Content Note The letters in this collection were received by Alfred H. Buck, an early Kansas settler in Lawrence and Big Springs, Kansas. Their subjects range from family matters to frontier farming in Kansas. Comments on prices for agricultural products, weather, transportation, livestock, farming techniques, and hazards such as insects and crop diseases are mentioned. The correspondents also report on epidemic diseases such as typhoid fever and smallpox. Dating between 1854 and 1879, the letters were...

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The Alonzo Thomas collection consists of images, press clippings, scrapbooks, correspondence, and ephemera which document the personal life and professional career of Alonzo Thomas, a Topeka-based watch manufacturer and jeweler.

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The Alys McKey Bryant collection contains her correspondence, photographs, slides, clippings and memorabilia. Included in the collection are copies of her memoir , “Born With Wings, Wings of a Lady Early Bird,” which gives a detailed look into her life and times. A detailed inventory of the items in this collection is available.

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This collection contains miscellaneous documents related to the United States Civil War. Muster rolls, requisition forms, certificates, engravings, letters and various other forms are included. The documents date between 1862 and 1869.

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The Americanization Movement collection is comprised of photocopies of correspondence and a transcript of the proceedings of a conference, attended by State Governors, of the National Bureau of Education and the National Committee of One Hundred. This conference was held in 1918 just prior to the United States’ entry into World War I, and reflected the unease of America at the Communist Revolution in Russia and the Kaiser's overrunning much of Europe.

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The Ami S. Matthews Papers contains personal diaries written by Matthews during the years 1859, 1865, and 1866 while she lived in Akron, Ohio. These diaries tell of events that happened in the daily life of a young woman. They describe her school days and life.

Content Note The collection of the Andre Family Papers consists of over sixty manuscript items including two letters from Major John Andre (1750-1780) to his uncle John Lewis Andre and a probate copy of the Last Will and Testament of Major Andre dated June 7, 1777. The majority of the collection is comprised of a series of letters from John Lewis Andre (Major John Andre’s cousin ) to his father who is also named John Lewis Andre discussing business and family affairs with references to European...

Content Note The first item in this collection is entitled "Memoir of the Late Major General Anthony Wayne." It was written sometime after 1811 and the author has not been identified. Most of the memoir is about General Wayne's service during the Revolutionary war and includes citations to sources. The second item in the collection is a manuscript copy made circa 1840 of field orders issued by General Wayne from his headquarters at Legion Ville, Pennsylvania, from December 2, 1792 to May 9, 1793. Wayne...

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The Archives of the Center for the Calligraphic Arts contain correspondence, workshop information and newsletters of calligraphy guilds throughout the world.

Content Note Correspondence, literary works and engraving plates dating from 1896 to 1943 comprise the greater portion of these papers relating to the Corell Publishing Company. Most of the correspondence and literary works are attributed to Booth Tarkington; however, some also concern Corell's magazine, John-a-Dreams. Correspondents include Edward W. Bryant, Robert T. Sloss, Carolyn Wells, Kenneth Brown, St. George Best, and Barton Currie. The collection also contains copies of the little magazine,...

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Ardis Manly Walker, poet and American Western history author, wrote the two poems that comprise this collection: “Star Gazer” and “Two Views of Immortality.”

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The Artifacts Collection contains items from Wichita and Kansas that may be used for study and display purposes.

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The autograph collection is a compilation of letters and cards from various manuscripts in Special Collections. The signatures range from 18th century European heads of state to well-known artists.

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The Badger Family Papers consists of letters from the Badger family in Fort Scott, Kansas, to the Haywood family in Brooklyn, New York, between 1872 and 1883. The letters, which discuss topics such as the weather, social activities, and each family's welfare, were written between the sisters Alice Badger and Eveline Haywood, and the cousins Henry Badger and Arthur Haywood, and Delice Badger and her aunt Eveline. The letters are arranged in chronological order.

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This collection from Wichita State University's Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of History, contains interviews with residents of Bel Aire, Kansas, about their lives in the city and the city's history. Materials include recordings of interviews, transcripts of interviews, short biographies of the participants, and release forms signed by participants.

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This collection from Sandra Cantwell contains the personal papers of law enforcement officer and civic leader Bernal D. “Bert” Cantwell. Materials include correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, political campaign materials, departmental reports and other materials related to Cantwell’s various positions in Kansas law enforcement and local enterprises. Series are arranged chronologically by job position in an effort to maintain original order.

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This collection from Bethel College contains interviews with Mexican-American immigrants living in and around Newton, Kansas. Materials include transcripts of interviews and correspondence regarding the collection.

Content Note This collection from Dr. Benson Tong contains oral histories on cassette tapes, copies of photos, newspaper articles, and statistics charts from the “Beyond Black and White: Hispanic and Asian Americans in Twentieth-Century Wichita” exhibit displayed at the Wichita Public Library in May and June of 2002. The majority of the materials are enlarged photocopies. Dates on materials reflect the dates of the original materials and the information they contain, not the dates on which the...

Scope and Contents This collection contains pamphlets concerning bimetallism, defined as “the use of gold and silver as the monetary standard of currency and value and the doctrine advocating bimetallism,” and the National Currency System, a system that refers to “currency that is a portion of the national money supply consisting of bank notes and government-issued paper money and coins,” and is not backed by precious metals any longer. The volume of currency is determined by the actions of the government or...

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The Bob Gottschalk Collection contains photographs, newspaper clippings, magazines and pamphlets that provide a sampling of Gottschalk’s work while he was a staff photographer for the Wichita Eagle newspaper and a freelance photographer during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. Much of the work in this collection contain photographs of famous early aviation personalities and of the University of Wichita (now Wichita State University).

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The collection of the book manuscript of Courage Is the Price contains the original rough draft as well as copies of photographs that appear in the book. Courage Is the Price is the story of Amelia Earhart's life told by her sister, Muriel Earhart Morrisey. The collection also includes an autographed copy of the book.

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Brave Words for a Startling Occasion is an autographed manuscript of a speech delivered by Ralph Ellison when he won the National Book Award in 1953 for The Invisible Man. Surprise and gratitude at the receipt of this award is reflected in this speech since the book was Ellison's first published major novel.