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Segments from an interview with Jim Fisher conducted by Kaye McIntyre of Kansas Public Radio for a KPR special commemorating the thirty-year anniversary of the 1983 broadcast of The Day After, a made-for-TV movie depicting the aftermath of nuclear…

Oral history interview with Homer Floyd, who was the director of the Kansas State Commission on Civil Rights at the time that Lawrence's fair housing ordinance was passed in July 1967. Mr. Floyd had also been student athlete at the University of…

Homer Frank served in the United States Army Air Corps (155th Photo Recon Outfit) from 1942 to 1945. Interviewed by Pattie Johnston on November 23, 2007, Frank talked about his military experiences during the Second World War. Frank was born on March…

Postcard with a Fraternal Aid Association contract on the front. Contract is typed in green ink with blank lines filled in with black ink. Sent from Grand Junction, Colorado, the location of Council No. 750 but the General Secretary is located in…

Postcard with a Fraternal Aid Union letter on the front. Letter is about monthly payments going up. Sent to Sadie B. Ranker in Attica, Kansas and signed by James Glendinning from Secretary Lodge No. 38 in Lawrence, Kansas. On the back the original…

Postcard with a colored image of Bowersock Mills on the front. Image is of the two mills with the bridge in the foreground and the railroad tracks underneath. Image is a photograph colored in by hand. At the top of the left side "Home of Zephyr…

Glen E. Freeman served in the United States Army (1371st Infantry, Company H) from 1940 to 1945. Interviewed by Deborah Pye on July 5, 2006, Freeman talked about his military experiences during the Second World War. Freeman was born in Kansas on…

Postcard with a receipt from The Security Benefit Association on the front. Receipt is for Ethel Craig's August 1932 payment of $1.85 signed by financier Olive Freer at 604 Kentucky. Craig's address is in Seneca, Missouri. Postmarked August 18, 1932…

Postcard with a receipt from The Security Benefit Association on the front. Receipt is for Ethel Craig's September 1932 payment of $1.85 signed by financier Olive Freer at 604 Kentucky. Craig's address is in Seneca, Missouri. Postmarked September 22,…

Solar-powered Ruby bobblehead, with Ruby in a seated position. Molly McIntyre acquired this bobblehead in Tokyo when studying abroad in Japan on a University of Kansas trip. Ruby is Molly's character in Shiny Dreamers, so this bobblehead is a special…

Postcard with a black and white photograph of a man standing next to a large piece of ice on the Kaw River on the front. Photograph depicts the river covered in sheets of ice with the man in the middle along with another man standing in the…

Postcard with a colored image of Massachusetts Street on the front. Image is looking south down Massachusetts Street from Seventh Street. Image is a photograph colored in by hand. In the image a trolley is going down the street. At the top of the…

Postcard with a purple tinted photograph of Haskell Institute in the center of a gold-yellow banner on the front. Banner is on a white background. At the top of the postcard "Haskell Institute Lawrence, Kansas" is printed in purple ink. At the bottom…

Postcard with a colored image of Lawrence High School on the front. Image is of the side of the building. At the top of the left side "High School, Lawrence, Kans." is typed in black ink. At the top "1909" is written in pencil. On the right side is a…

Postcard with a black and white photograph of the Manual Training School on the front. Photograph is the school from a distance and shows the front and the side of the building facing the street. At the bottom is a white strip with "Manual Training…

Alfred “Al” Gallup served in the United States Army (Air Corps) from 1941 to 1950. Interviewed by Kristen Miller on June 2, 2003, as part of the Kansas Veterans History Project, Gallup talked about his experiences during the Second World War. Gallup…

Brothers Andrew and Bob Garcia were interviewed by Helen Krische in 2006 as part of an oral history project to document the La Yarda and Mexican-American communities in Lawrence, Kansas. La Yarda was a neighborhood of worker housing provided by the…

Sisters Erminia Gauna and Kitty Pacheco were interviewed by Helen Krische in 2006 as part of an oral history project to document the La Yarda and Mexican-American communities in Lawrence, Kansas. La Yarda was a neighborhood of worker housing provided…

Postcard with a colored image of the U.S. 40 and 59 bridge over the Kansas River on the front. Image is of the side of the bridge and facing north. A white border is around the entire image. At the top border "Douglas County Bridge, Lawrence, Kansas…

Jimmie L. Gill served as a first lieutenant in the Army Air Corps (Air Transport Command) from 1942 to 1946. Interviewed by Pattie Johnston on May 10, 2006, Gill talked about his experiences during the Second World War. Gill was born on March 3,…

Byron Harold Gilmore served in the United States Army (Air Force) from 1941 to 1966. During World War II, he served in the 23rd Fighter Groups, 76th Fight Squadron. Interviewed on May 14, 2003, as part of the Lawrence Remembers: The World War II…

Postcard with black and white photographs of Lawrence Central and High School on the front. Photograph of Lawrence High School is on the right side and Central School is on the left slightly on the image of the high school. Both photographs are on a…

John Glinka served in the United States Army (106th Signal Corps Service) from 1942 to 1945. Interviewed by Pattie Johnston as part of the Lawrence Remembers the World War II Years Project, Glinka talked about his experiences during the Second World…

Phillip A. Godwin served in the United States Navy as a hospital corpsman first class from 1946 to 1948. Interviewed by Pattie Johnston on June 18, 2007, Godwin talked about his experiences during the Second World War. Godwin was born on January 24,…

Isabel (Chavez) Gonzalez was interviewed by Emily Raymond on February 19, 2021, as part of an oral history project to document the La Yarda and Mexican-American communities in Lawrence, Kansas. La Yarda was a neighborhood of worker housing provided…