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Ephemera from the commencement including the program for the Grand Concert given by the Full Band of the Fifth U.S. Infantry, a ticket for the Commencement Banquet on June 11, and a ticket for a reserved seat on Class Day June 10, 1873 in the new…

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…

He was intimately involved with the establishment of the University serving on the first Executive Committee and the first Board of Regents. He had also been the first Governor of Kansas and was elected to the Kansas State Senate.

Starting at left are Spooner Library, Dyche Hall and Museum of Natural History, Green Hall, Fraser Hall, Blake Hall, Snow Hall, Bailey Hall and the Fowler Shops.

The diary mainly consists of drafts of a petition dated November 1864 to be sent to Lt. General Harder "in behalf of the federal officers confined in this military prison, hereby respectfully submit in protest against the treatment which we have…

"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…

Beloved teacher and renowned scientist, Francis H. Snow rose from the ranks of the faculty and was chosen as the fifth chancellor. During his tenure from 1890 to 1901, the University reorganized, the endowment was association was created, the first…

Early in September 1877, twenty year old Lewis Lyndsay Dyche drove a covered wagon with a friend to Lawrence to enroll as a student at the new university. They set up camp near the site where Spencer Art Museum now stands and lived there until the…

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…