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Ruby Dell Wilson

African American Funeral Programs

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Radley, Kansas Collection, 1913-1960, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library

Finding Aids

This collection consists of photographs and postcards from immigrant families in Radley, Kansas.

Radley, Kansas is a small unincorporated community located in Crawford County five miles north and three miles west of Pittsburg. Radley was founded as a mining camp of the Girard Coal Company.

Bailey, Jessie Marie, Collection, 1950-1985, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library

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Contains replica American Revolution and American flags, Confederate flags, English, French and Spanish flags; era of Columbus and other American Colonial flags along with information cards for most of the flags; books about the history of flags; American State flag description cards; Native American flag description; and other flag histories.

Jessie Marie Bailey was born in El Dorado Springs, Missouri in 1897 and died in Pittsburg, Kansas in 1983. She taught in the Pittsburg, Kansas public school system for forty years. After her retirement she restored, researched, and gave presentations about flags.

The Running Of The Tide, Jan Baker, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

Altered book created by Jan Baker (1950-2018). Jan Baker was an accomplished artist and RISD Professor of Graphic Design (1981-2017) guiding students through book arts, letterpress, papermaking, bookbinding, and visual poetry in the Graphic Design department. For 37 years, she infused her classes and the campus community with the magic and meaning that comes from the handmade. Lettering, cutting, folding, binding, inventing, collecting - these were some of Jan's favorite things. Read more">. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

The Little Poems Of Barbara Erskine, Jan Baker, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

Altered book created by Jan Baker (1950-2018). Jan Baker was an accomplished artist and RISD Professor of Graphic Design (1981-2017) guiding students through book arts, letterpress, papermaking, bookbinding, and visual poetry in the Graphic Design department. For 37 years, she infused her classes and the campus community with the magic and meaning that comes from the handmade. Lettering, cutting, folding, binding, inventing, collecting - these were some of Jan's favorite things. Read more">. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

The Inner Shrine, Jan Baker, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

Altered book created by Jan Baker (1950-2018). Jan Baker was an accomplished artist and RISD Professor of Graphic Design (1981-2017) guiding students through book arts, letterpress, papermaking, bookbinding, and visual poetry in the Graphic Design department. For 37 years, she infused her classes and the campus community with the magic and meaning that comes from the handmade. Lettering, cutting, folding, binding, inventing, collecting - these were some of Jan's favorite things. Read more. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

Gudgen, Jr., Prentice, Collection, 1849-1997, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library

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A collection of correspondence, Kansas history, programs and flyers, publications, city directories, photographs, postcards, maps, stationery, newspaper clippings, miscellaneous, and oversized.

Prentice E. Gudgen Jr. was born on April 15, 1939 to Prentice Everett and Gretta H. Stuessi Gudgen. His father was a coach at Pittsburg State University. He graduated from Pittsburg High School in 1958 and worked for McNally’s Manufacturing for twenty-seven years. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Boy Scouts of America, and the Crawford County Historical Society. Gudgen was also a local historian. He passed away on June 16, 2006.

Dwayne Kevin Tremble

African American Funeral Programs

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Ida Rea Clark

African American Funeral Programs

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Chayce Xavier Allen

African American Funeral Programs

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Reading Contemporary French Literature, Warren Motte

Zea E-Books Collection

This book focuses upon a dozen French writers who have helped to set the terms for contemporary French literature and its horizon of possibility. Though they have pursued significantly different paths, each one of them is committed to the principle of literary innovation, to making French literature new. They work in full cognizance of literary history and of the tradition that they inherit, even as they reshape that tradition in each of their books. They invite their readers to take a critical stance with regard to those books, and to participate actively in the construction of literary meaning. Both bold …

A Quick Dash Through The Uses Of Hyphens And Dashes, Erica Goodoff

Word for Word 2022

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The Grand Strategy Of Gertrude Bell: From The Arab Bureau To The Creation Of Iraq, Heather S. Gregg

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

The remarkable life of early-twentieth-century British adventurer Gertrude Bell has been well documented through her biographies and numerous travel books. Bell’s role as a grand strategist for the British government in the Middle East during World War I and the postwar period, however, is surprisingly understudied. Investigating Gertrude Bell as both a military strategist and a grand strategist offers important insights into how Great Britain devised its military strategy in the Middle East during World War I—particularly, Britain’s efforts to work through saboteurs and secret societies to undermine the Ottoman Empire during the war and the country’s attempts to stabilize …

Scenario Specification Structuring Effective Collaborative Communication, James Lipuma, Cristo Leon, Kamiya Patel

STEM for Success Resources

Dr. James Lipuma, a faculty member in the Humanities and Social Sciences department, Cristo Leon (PhD. Graduate Student) director of research at NJIT College of Science and Liberal Arts, and Kamiya Patel CEO-President at Lyra have a new article entitled “Scenario specification structuring effective collaborative communication”.

The Message Design Of Raiders Of The Lost Ark On The Atari 2600 & A Fan’S Map, Quick Start, And Strategy Guide, Miguel Ramlatchan, William I. Ramlatchan

Distance Learning Faculty & Staff Books

The message design and human performance technology in video games, especially early video games have always been fascinating to me. From an instructional design perspective, the capabilities of the technology of the classic game consoles required a careful balance of achievable objectives, cognitive task analysis, guided problem solving, and message design. Raiders on the Atari is an excellent example of this balance. It is an epic adventure game, spanning 13+ distinct areas, with an inventory of items, where those hard to find items had to be used by the player to solve problems during their quest (and who would have …

John Mcbride

African American Funeral Programs

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Della Mcneely

African American Funeral Programs

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Mary Lee Mcbride

African American Funeral Programs

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Miss Lubertha Mccall

African American Funeral Programs

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Walter Mccollum

African American Funeral Programs

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Sarah Mccollum

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Interview With Ndisabiye Steve, Ndisabiye Steve, Ezra Schrader

Interviews

Transcript of interview and audio recording conducted with Steve Ndisabiye. Per the "Methodology" section, the transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.

This interview was recorded over Zoom and manually transcribed.

Ervin Elaine Watson

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Brittany Nicole "Brit Brat" Macon

African American Funeral Programs

Funeral program for Brittany Nicole Macon on July 9, 2022 at St. Paul CME Church

Loretta J. Williams

African American Funeral Programs

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Raymond Key

African American Funeral Programs

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Id140 Oral History, Uniting Cultures

Uniting Cultures: Who We Are, How We Got Here: Collecting Stories Oral History Collection

Woman born in the late 50s in Honduras. Talks about how difficult it is to find work and be able to provide for her family in Honduras. She has no family in the area, but a couple nieces and nephews in other states in the U.S.

Id137 Oral History, Uniting Cultures

Uniting Cultures: Who We Are, How We Got Here: Collecting Stories Oral History Collection

Honduran woman born in the mid-50s. Came to the U.S. during the pandemic with one of two granddaughters to reunite her with her dad. Describes a difficult childhood of poverty and loneliness after her parents died. Immigration story includes separation from her teenage granddaughter, who navigated the buses because she is able to read, as they tried to enter the U.S. under Trump’s immigration policies.

Stephen D. Geller Papers, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Finding Aids

This collection includes the creative works of Stephen D. Geller and personal materials ranging from 1954-2007. Creative works include his completed screenplays, teleplays, scripts, manuscripts, novels, poems, research files, and other related materials. Personal bound copies of some of his works are handwritten while others are typed. Personal materials include family photographs, an astrology birth chart, correspondence, and materials related to Geller’s early education.

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Social Justice Autobiography, Jeffrey Mckee

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Essay