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Small scrapbook with newspaper clippings from the first commencemnt program including valedictory exercises. "At the appointed time the juniors being drawn up in due array, were confronted by Miss Flora Richardson, who discoursed them in a serious…

"When this week's papers informed me that you now were Chancellor of Kansas University, I had a feeling of regret that so good a teacher and so earnest an investigator had been asked to become a manager as well. But when I rememberd that Jordon of…

Address of the Honorable S. O. Thacher at the dedication of the State University, Lawrence, September 12, 1866. Solon Thatcher, a lawyer from Lawrence, was a member of the first Kansas Board of Regents that signed the University into being on March…

He delivered lectures for 6 months across Kansas describing his Arctic adventures upon his return from Alaska. He went to Alaska in June 1896 through October to hunt white Dall sheep to bring back as specimens for the Natural History Museum on…

The entire ornamental stone job of the Dyche Museum including the animals was executed by Joseph Roblado Frazee, a master carver and sculptor.

Blanche is recognized as the first African American to graduate from the University of Kansas. In 1885 he earned his A.B. and 1891 his A.M. in education. Bruce was appointed principle of Sumner School in Leavenworth in 1885, retiring in 1939.

Old Fraser after 1887, when the new powerhouse was built and before 1896, when the gates were gone.

Professor Snow, far right, is shown in this photograph with his students in July 1889 on one of his many collecting expeditions in Estes Park, Colorado. In that class were William Allen White (far left) and Frederick Funston (framed in doorway).…