Tours
"White Glove" Tours of the Dole Archive
The next "White Glove" tours of the Archive will be:
Saturday, January 17 at 10:30 a.m. For reservations please e-mail asweets@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 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
