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Kenneth Spencer and two unidentified military officers at Jayhawk Ordnance Works, undated [circa 1943-1946]

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“A Plan to Produce Strategic War Materials,” by Kenneth Spencer and Dr. L. C. Heckert, Kansas State Teachers College, Pittsburg, December 1940

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Professional engineering license in mining engineering, presented to Kenneth Spencer, 1932

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Kenneth Spencer (center) in a coal shovel with his brother Harold (far left) and father Charles (second from left), undated [circa 1929].

Place card for Kenneth’s seat at Helen’s eighteenth birthday party, November [1919 or 1920]

Photograph, Kenneth and Helen around the time they got married, undated [circa 1920s]

Newspaper article, “Spencer-Foresman” wedding announcement, Pittsburg Daily Headlight, January 7, 1927

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Photograph, Kenneth Spencer in his football uniform, undated [circa 1916-1920]

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Kenneth’s lifelong love of sports began during his childhood. As a student at Pittsburg Normal High School (1916-1920), he excelled at football, basketball, and track. According to various biographical articles about Kenneth, a displaced vertebrae…

Kenneth S. Spencer with toy (description on the back: "the beginning of an engineer")

As shown in this photograph – with “the beginnings of an engineer” written on the back – Kenneth showed an early mechanical aptitude. According to one article, as a youth he "built a model steam shovel to scale and operated it with an electric motor.…

School-Fellow Days: A Record Book

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High school scrapbook, School-Fellow Days: A Record Book, belonging to Kenneth Spencer, undated [circa 1916-1920]

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