Tours

"White Glove" Tours of the Dole Archive

archive tour 2009
toy box

Featured Artifacts for March:

"Staff's Choice"

A selection of staff favorites will be on display in the Archives this month.

One of the items selected by a staff member as a favorite from the Dole Collection is Leader's Toy Box. Senator Dole is shown in the photo above holding Leader.

See past featured items here.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The next "White Glove" tour of the Archive will be:

Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. Reservations recommended; please contact Morgan Davis at: mrd@ku.edu

Come join us for a behind-the-scenes tour of the Robert J. Dole Archive at the Dole Institute of Politics. The Institute is located just west of the Lied Center on West campus of the University of Kansas.

On the thirty-minute complimentary tour led by Dole Institute archivists, guests will first see the reading room on the upper floor. Here students, historians, and authors come to research individual topics in the Senator's papers, photographs and press releases.

Next, guests will tour the archival storage area in the lower level where more than 4,000 boxes of Senator Bob Dole's personal and political papers are housed. More than 25,000 photographs of people and events related to Dole's personal life and political career are in the collection.

The tour winds up with a look at the archival processing room where staff and volunteers arrange, index and repair the papers, photographs and artifacts that comprise the Dole Collection.

Tours are typically held once a month on Saturday mornings. Guests wishing to tour the archive should call ahead to find out the dates of the next scheduled tour and make a reservation. There is no charge for the tour, but space is limited.

Reservations can be made by calling 785-864-1405 or e-mail mrd@ku.edu