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The 1893 football team with the first African American player Edward Harvey. An all-around athlete, he also played on the 1890 and 1891 baseball team.Edward had two brothers, Frederick Douglas Grant, and Sherman Alan, who were also athletes at the…

Portrait of the Class of 1895 taken on the steps of Old Snow Hall.

Pictured here in the 1903 Jayhawker yearbook is Lela B. Ford and Inez E. Wood. They are among the earliest African Americans to have their photos in a KU yearbook.

Henry Wright's architectural sketch of the KU campus in 1904. Note the plan for a drive, which was realized in the World War II Memorial Project.

Team photo of the 1908/09 season basketball team. James Naismith is in the suit, middle row, second from left. Phog Allen is seated to Naismith's right.

First established fraternity at the University of Kansas.

Note that North College is drawn in just to the left of center and is also in the inset at lower right.

With a sweep of the pen the University of Kansas came into being at the first meeting of the Kansas Board of Regents on March 21, 1865. Members present were S.O. Thacher, Charles Robinson, J.S. Emery, G.W. Paddock, D.P. Mitchell, I.T. Goodnow, State…

Photograph of campus taken from the air probably in 1923 or 1924. The locations of university buildings that are no longer extant can also be seen, including the first Fraser Hall, Old Blake Hall, Chemistry Hall, Old Snow Hall, Haworth Hall, and…