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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…

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…

A proposal for a Women's Center at KU, including a proposed operating budget.

We use protective enclosures for materials housed in all the KU Libraries’ system. For circulating collections, we use pamphlets, pockets or envelopes in pamphlet binders, or corrugated boxes. For the Spencer Research Library’s collections, we…