Jayhawk

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Birth of a Jayhawk, 1931
(General University Records, 1931) O'Bryon, James Edward
James H. Lane and the Origins of the Kansas Jayhawk
(Kansas Historical Society, 2011) Baron, Frank
History of the Jayhawk
(2011-02-21T17:01:50Z) Schulte, Becky
For more than a century the Jayhawk has served as a symbol of the University of Kansas. The history of the Jayhawk is a long and colorful one beginning as early as the Kansas Territorial period, 1854-1861. This presentation which has been given before KU alumni groups around the country brings together images and audio and video files found in the University Archives located in Spencer Research Library on the KU campus. A search through Jayhawker yearbooks, the University Daily Kansan newspaper, photo collections and clippings files has yielded more than a hundred images of Jayhawks providing a picture of the evolution of the mythical bird.
Hoffman’s Hawk. A University of Kansas Jayhawk Carved During the Russian Revolution of 1917 Reappears at KU in the Twenty-First Century
(2010-11-25T16:02:44Z) Greenberg, Marc L.
The paper describes the history of a 1917 carving of a Jayhawk by a Russian prisoner of war in Germany, donated to the University of Kansas by Conrad Hoffman, Senior American YMCA WPA Secretary in Germany during World War I.