A photograph of a red fox with one blind eye. This photograph was taken in Baldwin City, KS, just south of Lawrence. I had been watching this fox for a while, and learned that it was a part of a family with 3 kits. Despite the fox's apparent…
The 5,000-square-foot east wing (on the left) was added as part of a $1.6 million expansion of Watson Library that took place between 1962 and 1964. The wing included new quarters for the relocated Department of Special Collections.
Thomas Jefferson Fitzpatrick, professor of botany at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, left his wife a thirteen-room house and small bungalow filled to the rafters with books upon his death. When Robert Vosper heard of the sale, he and several…
After World War II, KU constructed temporary Quonset huts and wooden barracks in the area north of Strong Hall to accommodate the flood of new students.
A black-and-white photograph of seven women and one man standing in a row behind a second man who is seated. Above the group hangs a banner that reads: "Six-Year-Anniversary." The ends of pews are visible at the sides of the image.