"WHITE
GLOVE" TOURS OF THE DOLE ARCHIVE
The next "White Glove" tours of the Archive will be: Saturday, July 26th at 11:00 am
Saturday, August 16th at 10:30 am
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
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 785-864-1420 or e-mail asweets@ku.edu.
