Solar-powered Ruby bobblehead, with Ruby in a seated position. Molly McIntyre acquired this bobblehead in Tokyo when studying abroad in Japan on a University of Kansas trip. Ruby is Molly's character in Shiny Dreamers, so this bobblehead is a special…
Spoon engraved with '1876,' the founding year of the club, '1901,' and 'The No Name Club.' Spoon has an elaborate design on the handle. The No Name Club was a women's group founded by Annie Julia Soyle Prentiss as a study and literary club. This…
Spoon engraved with '1876', the founding year of the club, '1926,' the 50th anniversary date, and 'The No Name Club.' The No Name Club was a women's group founded by Annie Julia Soyle Prentiss as a study and literary club. This spoon was given to…
Silver ring with a front design of a small building with colonnades, surrounded by laurels and stars. The letters 'LMHS' appear on the roof of the building. The sides of the ring display the year 1931, along with a notched pattern. On the inside of…
Yellow t-shirt with the words 'Past or Present Members Allen Press Bong Squad' printed on the front in blue. An illustration of a mail truck and children holding letters and brooms surrounds the words. Ian Schneck says he received this shirt as a…
White t-shirt with a Jayhawk cartoon holding a smaller Jayhawk wrapped in a white cloth printed on the front. Underneath the cartoon are the words 'Jaystork Cares.' Ian doesn't know the story behind this t-shirt, but found it during a garage sale and…
Large red flag with a while circle in the middle, with a blue outline of the state of Kansas overlaid with a red rifle and Bible and framed with the words 'Lawrence Centennial' on the top and bottom of the circle. The red rifle and Bible are…
White Sonic Youth 'Dirty Japan' t-shirt with yellow-haired space cadets on the front of the shirt, wearing blue and red jumpsuits and holding guns, standing in front of a swirling red mass. On the back of the t-shirt are the words ' Sonic Youth'…
Peach-colored check with the word 'Swede' printed top and center, addressed and signed by Clarence Wilson from Swede's Pool Hall to the Railway Light + Co. The check is written for twenty-one dollars and twenty-four cents. The printed date is 1914.…
White t-shirt with a bicycle wheel graphic encompassing an outline of the University of Kansas. Included are the words '7th Annual Lawrence Community Bike Ride.' Greg Leung received this t-shirt through participating in the bike ride in 2017.
University of Kansas banner with a blue background, American flag graphic, small Jayhawk, and the word 'Kansas' printed at the top, with signature from the 2015 Pearsonites, residents of the Pearson Scholarship Hall at the University of Kansas. In…
Plaque from the successful Guiness Book of World Records attempt for the 'loudest crowd road at an indoor sports event.' Each attendee of the University of Kansas 2017 basketball game against the West Virginia Mountaineers received a commemorative…
Photograph of the Pugh home, owned by the Pugh family from the 1960s until approximately 2006. Ruth M. Pugh was a librarian at South Junior High and Central Junior High and obtained the photograph during research on the house around 1980. The…
Close-up photograph of one of the main quilt squares on the First Regular Baptist Church Circle Quilt. Included are the names of church members who donated 10 cents per name to have their names included on a section of the quilt. Embroidered names…
Photograph of several of the circles embroidered on the First Regular Baptist Church fundraiser quilt. The red marks on the bottom of the quilt are Kool-Aid stains. As Mary Lou Wright remembers, the Sewing Circle allowed First Regular to use the…
Photograph of Alice Fowler holding the church circle quilt of First Regular Baptist Church. Alice Fowler is the granddaughter of one of the Sewing Circle members, Ethel Moore, who thought of and planned the First Regular Baptist Church quilt…
Promotional poster for the Crackwhore zine. Poster includes cursive 'Crackwhore' above a framed photograph of a nude man, surrounded by the handwritten words 'the Mentors, 'nudity!!,' 'drugs!,' '*whoroscopes,' 'eye candy,' and 'a serialized…
Cocktail cards included in the Crackwhore Quarterly Issue #4, with cocktail recipes from local bartenders around Lawrence, along with a cocktail recipe from Xoe Wreckroach, the creator of Crackwhore.
First issue of Smelt Money, a zine circulated in Lawrence and Topeka between 1996-1999, featuring poetry from local Lawrence writers. Smelt Money had no formal publication routine, unlike several other zines circulated during this time.
Third issue of Smelt Money, a zine circulated in Lawrence and Topeka between 1996-1999, featuring poetry from local Lawrence writers. Smelt Money had no formal publication routine, unlike several other zines circulated during this time.
Sixth issue of Smelt Money, a zine circulated in Lawrence and Topeka between 1996-1999, featuring poetry from local Lawrence writers. Smelt Money had no formal publication routine, unlike several other zines circulated during this time.
Eighth issue of Smelt Money, a zine circulated in Lawrence and Topeka between 1996-1999, featuring poetry from local Lawrence writers. Smelt Money had no formal publication routine, unlike several other zines circulated during this time.