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A photograph showing a patron talking to two librarians in the reference desk. In the background are the stacks.

A mother with two young daughters look through the library stacks in search of books.

A photograph of a woman reading to two children in the stacks of the Lawrence Public Library.

Oral history interview with Pattie Johnston, outreach coordinator at the Lawrence Public Library, where she talks about her experience of the library, starting with the Carnegie library, which she visited often as a child. She describes the…

University of Kansas banner with a blue background, American flag graphic, small Jayhawk, and the word 'Kansas' printed at the top, with signature from the 2015 Pearsonites, residents of the Pearson Scholarship Hall at the University of Kansas. In…

Pedro (Pete) Romero was interviewed by Helen Krische on May 23, 2006, and then by Emily Raymond on January 29 and February 4, 2021, as part of an oral history project to document the La Yarda and Mexican-American communities in Lawrence, Kansas.…

A photograph of Peter Emery, who played a large part in securing a Carnegie grant for the construction of a new library building. The photograph shows him aged 55 to 70 wearing a fur hat and a light gray suit with a dark gray waistcoat and tie.

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,…

Photograph of Alice Fowler holding the church circle quilt of First Regular Baptist Church. Alice Fowler is the granddaughter of one of the Sewing Circle members, Ethel Moore, who thought of and planned the First Regular Baptist Church quilt…

Photograph of Bernadette Traiger hanging up a parrot for a Raven Bookstore window display.

Charles (right) and Phil Saunders (left) were commercial fishermen on the Kaw River. In this photo, they are holding a line of recently caught fish.

Postcard with a black and white photograph of three children playing on the front. Photograph shows a small hill with rock siding, two young girls are standing at the bottom and a young boy is standing on a ledge next to a cloth flap. On the bottom…

Close-up photograph of one of the main quilt squares on the First Regular Baptist Church Circle Quilt. Included are the names of church members who donated 10 cents per name to have their names included on a section of the quilt. Embroidered names…

Photograph of several of the circles embroidered on the First Regular Baptist Church fundraiser quilt. The red marks on the bottom of the quilt are Kool-Aid stains. As Mary Lou Wright remembers, the Sewing Circle allowed First Regular to use the…

Newspaper clipping of Henry "Catfish" Oakes holding a large catfish. Oakes was a great uncle to Barbara Higgins-Dover. She remembers that he used to play the harmonica and sing, making up songs for her.

Photograph of regular Raven patrons, Lee Harris (left) and Beth Schultz (right). Schultz is well known for bringing in book titles written on small scraps of paper to the Raven, after having converted to the store from Borders when she experienced…

Photograph of Michael Seiwert (facing back) and a small stuffed raven on a bookshelf at Raven Bookstore on opening day.

Photograph of Pattie Kehde (left) and Mary Lou Wright (right) on opening day at the Raven, placing the first two books on the shelves.

Photograph of the Pugh home, owned by the Pugh family from the 1960s until approximately 2006. Ruth M. Pugh was a librarian at South Junior High and Central Junior High and obtained the photograph during research on the house around 1980. The…

Photograph of the Raven Bookstore storefront before the midnight release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Bookstores were allowed to begin selling a newly-released Harry Potter book no earlier than midnight, so these devoted Harry Potter…

Photograph of Richard and Theda Higgins standing in front of their fish market, Higgins Fish Market. Richard was a Riverking who caught fish on the Kaw, while Theda was responsible for cleaning, cutting, packaging, and selling the fish at the market.…

Newspaper clipping of Richard Higgins holding a Burbot, a rare fish to catch in the Kansas river. Richard Higgins was a Riverking and the grandfather of Barbara Higgins-Dover, who remembers fishing on the Kaw River with him as a young girl.

Photograph of Richard Higgins, the grandfather of Barbara Higgins-Dover, weaving a fishing net, which he used to catch fish in the Kaw River. Barbara remembers her grandfather weaving fishing nets in the living room when she was growing up.

Photograph of an embroidered pillow made by Mary Lou Wright for Sara Paretsky. Mary Lou Wright has made several of these crossword pillows over the years, always with the help of Bernadette Traiger, who finishes the back and edges of the pillow with…