Collections Collections available for research and study Manuscripts cover a wide range of topics consisting of papers of organizations and individuals, diaries, company records, correspondence and other materials comprising the various holdings. Narrative finding aids with folder-level descriptions are available online for all processed manuscript collections. A recent addition is our finding aid for the Congressional Papers of Dan Glickman .
Images are valuable resources for research.
Among the subject areas are cities and towns of Kansas, sod houses, aviation, WSU, Indians of North America and Western scenes. Rare books now number over 5000 in subject areas including Wichita and Kansas history, Western Americana, the U.S. Civil War, abolition, the history of printing, U.S. Sanitary Commission, Mesmerism and hypnotism, and aviation and other modes of transportation. Designed and illustrated by Wichita artist C. A. Seward, this postcard was part of a publicity campaign coinciding with Kansas Day, January 29, 1912. Kansans were asked to mail these postcards to friends and associates in other states. Maps from the Baughman Collection of Early Kansas Maps, a collection of 19th-century maps, form the nucleus of the collection.