Kenneth Spencer Research Library

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 1,700 images from KU’s University Archives and made them available online; be sure to check them out!

The headless horseman tours campus on Halloween, 1976.
University Archives Photos. Call Number: RG 71/0 1976-1977 Prints:
Student Activities (Photos). Click image to enlarge (redirect to Spencer’s digital collections).

Caitlin Donnelly
Head of Public Services

Brian Nomura
Public Services Student Assistant

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 1,700 images from KU’s University Archives and made them available online; be sure to check them out!

Next Monday former KU basketball coaches Ted Owens, Larry Brown, and Roy Williams will gather with current coach Bill Self at Allen Fieldhouse for a program celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the facility. In anticipation of this special event, we’re sharing two photographs of the Fieldhouse under construction in 1954. To learn more about its origins, planning, construction, and dedication, see the article “Field House of Dreams” on the KU History website.

Allen Fieldhouse under construction, 1954. University Archives Photos.
Call Number: RG 0/22/1 1954 Prints: Campus: Buildings: Allen Fieldhouse (Photos).
Click image to enlarge (redirect to Spencer’s digital collections).

Caitlin Donnelly
Head of Public Services

Brian Nomura
Public Services Student Assistant

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 1,700 images from KU’s University Archives and made them available online; be sure to check them out!

Starting tomorrow, continuing students at KU can enroll for their spring classes. This weeks’ photos highlight the process before computers and the Internet: paper course descriptions, timetables, and forms, plus lots and lots of walking and waiting in line…especially if the course you wanted was already full.

To help explain the photos, we’ve also included the enrollment procedures for the Spring 1974 term.

Students picking up paperwork in Hoch Auditorium, 1968.
University Archives Photos. Call Number: RG 14/0 1968 Prints:
Office of Admissions/University Registrar (Photos).
Click image to enlarge (redirect to Spencer’s digital collections).

Finding departmental stations in Allen Fieldhouse, 1972.
University Archives Photos. Call Number: RG 14/0 1972 Prints:
Office of Admissions/University Registrar (Photos).
Click image to enlarge (redirect to Spencer’s digital collections).

Picking up Class Cards at departmental stations in
Allen Fieldhouse, 1976. University Archives Photos.
Call Number: RG 14/0 1976 Prints: Office of
Admissions/University Registrar (Photos). Click image to
enlarge (redirect to Spencer’s digital collections).

Enrollment procedures explained in the Timetable of Classes, Spring 1974 Enrollment Edition.
University Archives. Call Number: RG 14/0/3. Click image to enlarge.

Caitlin Donnelly
Head of Public Services

Brian Nomura
Public Services Student Assistant

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 1,700 images from KU’s University Archives and made them available online; be sure to check them out!

Not sure about what to wear to class, to Late Night in the Phog tomorrow night, or to some other upcoming event? Perhaps take some inspiration from the “Campus Fashions” section of the KU Student Handbook from 1965-1966.

“Suggested women’s dress for a variety of occasions” in the
KU Student Handbook, 1965-1966 (pages 65-66).
Note the parenthetical statement addressed to KU’s male students.
University Archives. Call Number: UA Ser 76/0/2. Click images to enlarge.

Caitlin Donnelly
Head of Public Services

Brian Nomura
Public Services Student Assistant

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 1,700 images from KU’s University Archives and made them available online; be sure to check them out!

We here at Spencer Research Library are very excited that the Kansas City Royals are in the playoffs this year, so it seems fitting that this week’s picture dates from the team’s last postseason run.

Front page of the University Daily Kansan from October 17, 1985, the day after the Royals
defeated the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League Championship Series.
The Royals went on to win the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals.
University Archives. Call Number: UA Ser 69/2/1. Click image to enlarge.

Caitlin Donnelly
Head of Public Services

Brian Nomura
Public Services Student Assistant