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Oral history interview with Alice Ann Johnson, board member of the Lawrence Public Library Foundation. She tells the story of the foundation and its involvement in the recent renovation of the Lawrence Public Library. She explains the process the…

A floorplan of the proposed basement added to the Lawrence Public Library building in 1991. This basement would house the reading room, typing room, genealogy room and additional storage.

Text: Volume II of the records of the Schubert Mortuary, spanning December 1912 to October 1924. The Schubert Mortuary operated in Eudora in the early twentieth century before moving to Lawrence in 1927 under Carl Schubert, the son of founder Johann…

Fidel Jimenez, Sr., was interviewed by Helen Krische in 2006 as part of an oral history project to document the La Yarda and Mexican-American communities in Lawrence, Kansas. La Yarda was a neighborhood of worker housing provided by the Santa Fe…

Postcard with a sepia photograph of Louisiana Street on the front. Photograph is looking down the street and focuses more on the houses on the right side, an "x" is written in pen above a building in the background. At the bottom of the photograph …

Harold Jehle was inducted into the United States Army in 1942 and served in the Flying Grasshoppers, 2nd Army Air Force LTE at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, until 1946. Prior to enlisting, he worked as a mechanic for the Army Air Corps in Kansas as a…

Postcard with a colored image of the Kansas Hermit's home on the front. Image depicts an open face shack surrounded by trees. Across the bottom of the postcard "The Home of the Kansas Hermit, Cameron's Bluff, Lawrence, Kansas." is printed in white.…

Souvenir postcard of Lawrence, Kansas. On the front is an image of a man in a top hat smoking a cigar being escorted by a police officer on either side of him, the police uniforms are colored in blue. On a red background, "I May Stay In This Town…

Postcard with a black and white photograph of the Innes Building on the front. Photograph depicts the a building on a corner with horse drawn carriages on the streets near the building. At the bottom of the photograph "9817 A Innes Building,…

Postcard with a black and white photograph of the Innes Building on the front. Photograph depicts the a building on a corner with horse drawn carriages on the streets near the building. At the bottom of the photograph "9817 A Innes Building,…

Postcard with a note from the Improved Order of the White Kittens on the front. The note is from the Supreme August Tabby. Above the note are two outlines of cats.

Postcard with a bill for the Hutson Hotels on the front. A note is typed in black ink stating that the Hutson Hotels owes the $3.00 for an Eldridge Hotel road sign. On the back the postcard is addressed to Mr. E.B. Eibes in Tonganoxie, Kansas with a…

Postcard with a black and white photograph of Massachusetts Street on the front. Photograph is from the top of a building--likely the Douglas County Courthouse--and looks north down Massachusetts Street from the intersection of 11th and…

Interviewed as part of the Lawrence Remembers: The World War II Years Project, Walter C. Houk, Jr. talked about his father, Walter C. Houk, Sr., who served in the military during the Second World War. Walter Sr. was born on June 10, 1917, and died…

Elizabeth “Betty” Holmer worked at Sunflower Ordnance Works during the Second World War. Interviewed by Pattie Johnston on July 19, 2003, as part of the Lawrence Remembers: The World War II Years Project, Holmer talked about life in Lawrence,…

Postcard with a black and white photograph of Haskell Institute on the front. The photograph is small and in a black banner at the top of the right side. At the top of the left side is the image of a typewriter, beneath is is the image of a notepad.…

Postcard with an advertisement for a play at the Bowersock Opera House. On the front of the postcard is a black and white photograph of three actors in costume on set. At the top of the photograph "Minnie Dupree in the Delightful Comedy "The Road to…

Frances Hill lived in Kansas during the Second World War. Interviewed by Brian Grubbs on June 14, 2006, Hill talked about her experiences during and after the war years. Hill was born on June 16, 1918, in Chapman, Kansas. After graduating high school…

Richard A. “Dick” Hewitt served in the United States Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1946. Interviewed by Kristen Miller on January 9, 2003, as part of the Kansas Veterans History Project, Hewitt talked about his experiences during the Second World…

Segments from an interview with Barbara E. Henry conducted by Kaye McIntyre of Kansas Public Radio for a KPR special commemorating the thirty-year anniversary of the 1983 broadcast of The Day After, a made-for-TV movie depicting the aftermath of…

Ellis Ralph Hayden served in the United States Navy from 1942 to 1945. Interviewed by Pattie Johnston on June 21, 2007, Hayden talked about his experiences during the Second World War. Hayden was born on February 4, 1924, in Ottawa, Kansas. He…

Archie Hawkins served in the United States Army Air Corps (83rd Squadron) from 1942 to 1945. Interviewed by Pattie Johnston on August 14, 2006, Hawkins talked about his experiences during the Second World War. Hawkins was born on April 24, 1919, on…

The annual report, published in the Daily Kansas Tribune, of the first year of the Lawrence Library Association. The report recounts how the association was formed, its arrangments to puchase J.S. Boughton's library collection, and the advances that…

Oral history interview with Dorothy Harvey, who was serving as the president of the United Church Women of Lawrence at the time that Lawrence's fair housing ordinance was passed in July 1967. This interview was conducted by Tom Arnold on November 11,…

Les Hannon served in Britain’s Royal Air Force from 1941 to 1945. Interviewed as part of the Lawrence Remembers: The World War II Years Project, Hannon talked about his experiences during the Second World War. Hannon was born on December 31, 1923,…