“This is a Fun Locality for Botanizing”: Francis H. Snow and KU Students in...
Soon after my arrival at Spencer Research Library, a patron request provided me the opportunity to poke around some of the photographs contained within KU’s University Archives. I was especially...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Family Vacation Edition
Each week we’ll be posting a photograph from University Archives that shows a scene from KU’s past. We’ve also scanned more than 5,700 images from KU’s University Archives and made them available...
View ArticleThe Quandary of Young Francis Snow
On Sunday, PBS aired the first of a six-part miniseries called Mercy Street, set at a Union hospital in Alexandria, Virginia, during the Civil War. This is the first of two blog posts that will explore...
View ArticleA Philosophy and a Photograph: Frank Snow’s Gift to a Modern Historian
On Sunday, PBS will air the final episode of a six-part miniseries called Mercy Street, set at a Union hospital in Alexandria, Virginia, during the Civil War. This is the second of two blog posts that...
View ArticleHappy (Belated) Birthday, Lewis Lindsay Dyche!
Lewis Lindsay Dyche, noted naturalist, explorer, lecturer, professor and taxidermist, was born on March 20, 1857, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In the history of the University of Kansas...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Inauguration Edition
Each week we’ll be posting a photograph from University Archives that shows a scene from KU’s past. We’ve also scanned more than 34,800 images from KU’s University Archives and made them available...
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