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The poster promotes a Paul Gregory-Charles Laughton Production of Marge and Gower Champion, Harry Belafonte, and the Voices of Walter Schumann in the play "3 for Tonight." It was scheduled for the Kansas State College auditorium on Wednesday, 17 November 1954.

The Abby Lindsey Marlatt papers include records from her academic career and personal life. They are divided into series covering her academic work, personal life, correspondence, and publications and art.

The academic series covers her undergraduate coursework at Kansas State College (KSC), graduate work at the University of California-Berkeley, and employment as associate professor at KSC. Types of material included are assigned work, study materials, notes, quizzes, and exams. Also, this series contains items from her academic year teaching at the Beirut College for Women in Lebanon.

The materials in the personal series include documentation of her life outside academia, including information about her church, travel documents, newspaper clippings, and programs, as well as a few personal effects such as a driver's license, budget book, and guest register.

The correspondence series represents much of Abby’s adult life, although the bulk is from the late 1930s though the late 1950s. Exchanges with her parents and friends include letters, telegrams, and postcards covering topics that include her personal and professional activities, as well as social issues such as pacifism, race relations, rationing, and religion.

The publications and art series contains books and artwork from Abby's collection usually focused on Kansas and KSC.

The Ada Rice papers include photocopied typescript and manuscript short stories of fiction and nonfiction, as well as digitized images from her life, between 1896 and 1948. They are from the early twentieth century and cover subjects like children's literature, Filipino life and culture, genealogy, George Washington's first cabinet, gold mining, John Quincy Adams, King's College (now Columbia University), London (England) life and culture, and orphan trains. The photographs include her portraits, her Manhattan home, the 1896 Mt. Pleasant (Kansas) school and students she taught, her international travels, and an American College Quill Club program.

This collection is housed with other small collections - Tex Winter collection (U2011.20) and Office of Military Affairs (U2011.16).

Box 1- A83412143080- Contains 4 file folders all of which contain ADA Building Surveys. First one contains surveys dated 1992 for: Fairchild, Farrell Library, Ford, and Foundation. Second folder is dated 1991, however the surveys were completed in 1992. They are for: Frith, Goodnow Hall, Grounds, Haymaker Hall and Holton/ Holtz. Third one has surveys dated 1992 for: Justin, Kedzie/King, Kramer, and Lafene Health. Fourth and final folder in this box is also dated 1992 and has the ADA surveys for: Leisure Hall, Lot A-30, Marlet Hall, McCain Auditorium, Military Science, and Moore Hall.
Box 2- A83412142327- Contains 3 file folders that also have ADA Building Surveys, and also a booklet of K-State’s “Title IX Compliance Report and Implement Plan,” dated September 1995. First file contains ADA surveys dated 1992 for: Natatorium, Nichols Hall, Physical Plant, Pittman, Rec Complex, Shellenberger, Seaton, Smith, and Smurthwaite. Second one has the surveys from 1992 for: Strong complex, Thompson, UFM, Umberger Hall, Vet Med Complex/ Trotter, Ward, and Waters/ Weber Waters Annex. Third folder has even more ADA Surveys for 1992 that go over: West Stadium/ West Hall/ Willard, ULA DOW Cottage, and the Union.
Box 3- A13411851556- Contains a binder with more ADA Surveys from 1992. The binder contains the surveys for: Ackert/Ahearn/ Anderson, Art Building, Bluemont, Bob Dole, Brandeberry, Bramlage, Burt Hall, Bushnell Hall, Call Hall, Calvin/Cardwell Hall, College Court, Davenport/Danforth Chapel, Denison, Derby, Durland, Dykstra, East Stadium, Edwards Hall, Eisenhower Hall, and Evans.
Box 4-Oversize Box- A83412143543- Contains presenter boards and posters for talks and events. All are labeled “Sponsored by the Dorothy L. Thompson Civil Rights Lecture Series.” Dates range from 1997-2004
Box 5-Oversize Box- A83412143525- Contains more presenter boards and posters for various evens held at K-State. Dates range from 1998-2008. There are posters of debates, lectures, and they are part of the “Dorothy L. Thompson Civil Rights Lecture Series.”

Box 1- A83412059312 - Four Binders. Two of which are detailing “Strategic Planning” or ways to grow/ maintain the university. One is from 1988, and the other goes from 1989 to 1991. Blue binder contains a “Report of the Title IX Task Force” for 1976. Last binder (green) goes over K-States push for affirmative action. It contains mailing lists for new students, and lists for “Recruitment sources for women/ minorities.” It also has some clipping of ad campaigns. Approx. dates 1976-1988.

Box 2- A83412142903- Four binders as well as file folders. Three binders contain title IX Survey forms, including two copies of the same one for the schools of Agriculture, Architecture, Design, and Business. Last Binder contains the “Report of the Title IX Task Force.” This box contains several folders with Title IX Tax surveys from 1975- 1976 separated by department. There are papers with lists of students and what their answers for the tax survey. Also, there are several fliers advertising programs, and they are with the department that they correspond with. One other folder contains files from the Alliance for Equality in Sports from 1978, and the last one has files pertaining to the “Task force on Women’s Programming and Services.”

Box 3- A83412049684-File Folders. Data sets from Program reviews from 1992, including administration, dean reports, and an overall summary of the programs. This box contains the folders for: The college of Architecture and Design, Arts and Sciences, Education, Business Administration, and the college of Technology. They also include Provost’s Committee Report from 1982, and records from General Administration. There is another section of files for the Minority Affirmative Action Committee records from 1978-1982.

This collection includes typewritten reminiscences of Aftosa International Roundup members, a membership roster, the 1990 roundup schedule of events, and two photocopied news clippings from the Laredo Morning Times relating to the 1990 roundup. It also includes four photocopied books which were reproduced for members of the society with the permission of the publishers:
Come Down Some Time [Memoir]. Anna Jane Holbrook (1955)
Doctor, Spare My Cow! [Memoir]. James A. Porter, Jr. (1956)
Wait for the New Grass [Novel]. Henry Birne (1961)
An Industry in Crisis: Mexican-US Cooperation in the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease. Manuel A. Machado, Jr. (1968)

Contains branch reports from Kansas Agricultural Experiment Stations. The branches and dates which we have reports for are Colby branch reports, dating from 1914-1981, Garden City branch reports, dating from 1908-1972, Fort Hays branch reports, dating from 1906-1972, Southeast Kansas branch reports, dating from1913-1984, and Mound Valley branch reports, dating from1950-1964.