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Homer Clark Wadsworth Papers, 1949-1982 (K0724)
8 c.f.

Personal and professional correspondence of Wadsworth, civic leader, director of the Kansas City Association of Trusts and Foundations, and president of the Kansas City school board with foundations, trusts, special projects, and universities with which was associated. Also his speeches.

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Anna Mae Armer Wallis Papers, 1925-1932, 1971 (CG0032)
0.4 c. f.

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This collection contains Anna Mae Armer Wallis's 1929 Charleston High School yearbook "The Blue-Jay" and scrapbook of her activities in high school.

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Walnut School, Pettis County, Missouri Records, 1906-1966 (R0260)
(1 roll of microfilm)

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The Walnut School, Pettis County, Missouri Records contain a microfilm copy of the records of the district clerk of Walnut School in southern Pettis County, Missouri. With the exception of 1963 to 1964 the records are complete for the period 1906 to 1966.

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Warrensburg, Missouri, School Board Minutes, 1866 (C3239)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains a record of the organizational meeting of the Warrensburg school board.

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Washington University School of Medicine, Class of 1943, Photograph, 1943 (P0581)
1 photograph

Class photograph from the Washington University School of Medicine, December 1943.

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Arthur Washington Papers, 1929-1995 (S1113)
1 cubic foot, 72 folders, 52 photographs

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The Arthur Washington Papers contains student handbooks, school programs, memos, certificates, and photographs pertaining to Washington's involvement in Sumner High School's academic and athletic programs. The collection also documents Washington's involvement with Alpha Phi Alpha, the Archdiocesan Development Appeal, and the campaign to revitalize the Ville neighborhood.

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George Waters Record Book, 1829-1840 (C1285)
0.03 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Accounts, 1829; marriages performed, 1831-1840, in Marion, Ralls, and Pike Counties, MO; and list of subscribers to school of William Hatch, Ralls County, 1865.

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Ralph K. Watkins Papers, 1866-1970 (C4551)
1.4 cubic feet (31 folders)

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Papers of a University of Missouri education professor including teaching resources, educational publications, information on professional activities and presentations, and family genealogy research material.

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Watson Seminary (Ashley, Mo.) Catalogue, 1866 (C0610)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Eleventh annual catalogue of a Pike County school. Names of faculty members and students, course of study, and aims of the institution.

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John J. Watts Papers, 1874-1912 (R0038)
2 cubic feet (38 volumes, 6 rolls of microfilm)

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The John J. Watts Papers are notebooks of genealogical records kept by a circuit-riding Baptist minister in the northern Ozarks. The records cover Phelps, Pulaski, Texas, and parts of Maries, and Dent counties in south-central Missouri.

Weaubleau Christian College Collection, 1902 (R0993)
(1 folder)

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This is a biennial catalog for 1902-1903 for the Weaubleau Christian College at Weaubleau in Hickory County, Missouri. John Whitaker was president of the school, which was operated under the auspices of the Christian Church.

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Webster Groves High School Memorabilia Collection, 1960-2015 (S1203)
0.25 cubic feet

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This collection consists of Webster High School yearbooks, newspaper clippings, obituaries, and a photograph.

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Thomas A. Webster Papers, 1921-1988 (K1219)
9 c.f.

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Webster was executive director of the Urban League of Kansas City, community activist, and chairman of the Social Science Department of Avila College. Includes files related to his research and writing: notes, clippings, preliminary and final drafts of articles, correspondence, and printed material. Also his personal and professional correspondence and scrapbooks and files of his wife, Fern Beck Webster (1911-2002), an early childhood educator and advocate.

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Raymond L. Weeks Papers, 1873-1954 (C1045)
5.4 cubic feet, 10 a.d.

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Papers of Raymond L. Weeks containing primarily correspondence regarding his academic career in Romance languages, philology, and phonetics at the universities of Michigan, Missouri, and Illinois; and Columba University in New York City. Royalty statements, postcards, poetry, photographs, newspaper clippings, and articles and scholarly writings concerning languages make up the rest of the collection.

Mary Beth Weiner Papers, 1991-1993 (K1072)
0.2

Weiner was president of the Kansas City chapter of the Women's American Organization for Rehabilitation Training (ORT), an organization which building technical schools for underprivileged areas in Israel and the United States. Includes ORT flyers and newspaper clippings on the biennial ORT convention representing their Kansas City chapter.

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Betty Mae Gilpin Roark Weithers Scrapbook, 1927-1947 (K0613)
0.2 c.f.

Scrapbook and photographs relating to the birth and early life of Weithers, a student at Southwest High School and later a teacher and in 1967 and became director of the special education department for the Kansas State Board of Education.

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Frankie Welch Report Card, 1866 (C1888)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Report card from Baptist Female College for the month ending 19 October 1866.

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West Plains High School Collection, 1911 (R1019)
(1 folder)

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This single-sheet, four-panel pamphlet is the course of study and rules governing course for West Plains High School in Howell County, Missouri. Although undate, a footnote includes the years 1911 to 1913. William Melcher served as superintendent of the school.

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West Plains Public Schools Collection, 1937 (R0974)
(1 folder)

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These are programs for the graduation exercises of the West Plains public schools. They include a program for the baccalaureate, high-school commencement, and eighth-grade graduation ceremonies at West Plains in Howell County, Missouri, in May 1937. Included are names of participants and graduates.

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Western District, Missouri Federation of Teachers Records, 1974-1983 (K0817)
3.5 c.f.

Organizational records of a western Missouri teachers union. Includes correspondence, reports, newspapers clippings, photographs, and other documents related to the activities and concerns of the union.

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Westport Historical Society Records, 1950-2004 (K1235)
7 c.f.

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Organizational records of the Society including minutes, photographs, event records, audio, video and cassette tapes, and maps.

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James Parker Wheatley Papers, 1945-1982 (S0205)
1 cubic foot, 4 folders, 16 volumes

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The James Parker Wheatley Papers document the daily activities of a pioneer in educational television programming. Born in 1906, Wheatley served as a broadcaster on the Armed Forces Network, general manager of WGBH in Boston, and the first public affairs director of KMOX in St. Louis. Materials of interest include Wheatley's diaries, reflecting his appointments with potential interviewees for programs on WGBH and KMOX, and an undated telephone directory of his professional contacts.

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Grace Matthews White Scrapbook, 1909-1924 (K0387)
0.02 c.f.

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Mrs. Edwin C. White was a well-known music teacher in Kansas City, MO. Newspaper clippings of famous musical artists, music programs from Kansas City's Orpheum Theater, Shubert Theater, and others. Also items from the Society of Music Teachers and related to her students.

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Pearl Schwartz White Papers, 1911-1981 (S0133)
0.15 cubic foot, 6 folders

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The papers of Peral Schwartz White contain correspondence, scrapbooks, programs, newspaper clippings of a St. Louis African-American educator. Items of interest include material on the Missouri State Association of Negro Teachers, as well as statistics on negro teachers in Missouri in the 1930s.

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Whizzo, Ol' Gus and Me Collection, 1940-2003 (K1236)
2 c.f.

Notes, video interviews, and video/film transfers used in the production of a Public Television documentary about Kansas City children's TV programing in the 1940s-1980s.

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Frank Courtney Wilkinson Family Papers, 1862-1958 (K0713)
41 c.f.

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Wilkinson was an attorney, banker, real estate businessman, and member of the Missouri House of Representatives. Includes notebooks, photographs, memorabilia, correspondence among family member, high school and college coursework, Navy publications and printed material used in son Frank Lee Wilkinson's training during World War II, and genealogical research and family history.

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James L. Wilkinson Papers, 1877-1913 (C0187)
0.25 cubic feet (12 folders)

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Papers of a Franklin County, MO, area teacher. Includes personal account books, 1884-1911; Grange Mutual Aid Society account book, 1877-1885; Missouri teaching certificates, 1878-1905; a "Manual of Ironton Public Schools;" a pamphlet entitled "Silver Nuggets" by Lon V. Sephens; and miscellaneous pamphlets and essays.

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Will Mayfield College Yearbook Collection, 1927 (R0950)
(1 folder)

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This is "Ozark Glory," the 1927 yearbook for Will Mayfield College at Marble Hill in Bollinger County, Missouri. The book was dedicated to the college's prisendent, W. C. Ferguson, and contained information about the school's faculty, students, activites, and campus.

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William Chrisman High School (Independence, Mo.), Class of 1951 Collection, 1946-2018 (CA6155)
0.7 cubic feet

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Addition of brochures, newspaper clippings, reunion materials, newsletters, yearbooks, and miscellaneous material.

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William Chrisman High School (Independence, Mo.), Class of 1951 Collection, 1948-2001 (C3979)
0.6 cubic feet (26 folders)

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This collection contains material pertaining to the class of 1951 from William Chrisman High School in Independence, Missouri. The bulk of the records come from 1948 to1951 and include such items as yearbooks, photographs, playbills, graduation announcements, and commencement programs.

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William Cullen Bryant School Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) Records, 1913-1990 (K0273)
9 c.f.

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Scrapbooks, meeting minutes, photographs, and financial records related to the PTA and the Kansas City Mo. School District elementary school.

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William Jewell College Receipt, 1869 (C0638)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Receipt form of William Jewell College, Liberty, MO.

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William Woods University Records, 1880s-2000s (CA6180)
140.85 cubic feet, 26 oversize volumes, 9 oversize items, 1 audio tape

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Academic and administrative records of school established in 1870 in Camden Point, Missouri, and moved to Fulton, Missouri, in 1890. Includes yearbooks, newspapers, newsletters, catalogs, student scrapbooks and photograph albums, and materials of Olympian Helen Stephens.

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Clarence Williams Photograph Collection, 1928-1946 (P0063)
6 photographs

3 original photos of log cabin that was the birthplace of Andrew Taylor Still, one of which shows a nearby amphitheater. 2 photos of American School of Osteopathy, established in 1892 by Andrew Taylor Still. One photo of the Churchill-Truman visit to Westminster College.

Nellie J. Hall Williams Papers, 1920-1983 (K0141)
0.8 c.f.

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Personal notes and records documenting the Hall, Colton, and Williams families in the Maryville, Nodaway County, MO. Diaries of Nellie Hall and her mother, during their trip to California in 1923. Also a diary by Nellie during her final year in high school and her several reminiscences of her life and career as a teacher in rural Missouri.

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Paul N. Williams Papers, 1956-1977 (C4627)
1.2 cubic feet (77 folders)

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Papers of an Ohio State University professor of journalism. Includes materials about Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. and materials gathered for the writing of a book about investigative reporting.

R. T. Williamson Records, 1829 (R0860)
(1 folder)

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This is a receipt dated September 2, 1829 and signed by R. T. Williamson at New Madrid in New Madrid County, Missouri, for the tuition of Polly and Isabella Belson. The payment was made by Seavers & McFaddin for the account of Fanny Belson, guardian.

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Elizabeth Kreps Wilson Dissertation, 1944 (K0159)
0.1 c.f.

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Doctoral dissertation entitled "A Cooperative Study of Occupations in the Greater Kansas City Area." Wilson was Director of High School Counseling in the Kansas City, Missouri, School District, and directed an occupational study in the Greater Kansas City area.

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J.W. Wilson Papers, 1947 (C0778)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Sketch of incidents in Wilson's life, his achievements as superintendent of Atchison County, KS, high school, and as county highway engineer. Also incidents in the lives of his ancestors.

William Henry Wilson Papers, 1909-1963 (K0046)
2.5 c.f.

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Personal incoming and outgoing correspondence of a historian and educator, including that related to Wilson's work on the Kansas City History Project, proposals for a history of the J.C. Nichols Company, and progress on his dissertation on the City Beautiful Movement. Also included are research notecards and early printed material related to the Kansas City Terminal Railway Company.

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Yvonne Starks Wilson Papers, 1937-2019 (KA2506)
29 cubic feet

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Papers related to the life of Yvonne Wilson.

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Women's Physical Education Club of St. Louis and Vicinity Records, 1931-1994 (S0226)
0.25 cubic foot, 6 folders

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The Women’s Physical Education Club of St. Louis and Vicinity Records contain correspondence, meeting minutes, rosters, and treasurer’s reports documenting the club’s mission to provide a forum for women physical educators to discuss mutual problems and demonstrate physical skills and teaching techniques.

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Women's Program Council Records, 1973-1995 (S0558)
0.5 cubic foot

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Established by the Higher Education Center of St. Louis on June 4, 1974, the Women's Program Council promoted an improved environment for women in higher education, through networking services, two annual conferences, and provided speakers to area campuses. The collection contains rosters, meeting notices, minutes, literature, and a history of the organization.

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Gordon R. Wood Papers, 1930s-1990s (CA5416)
3 cubic feet, 7 audio discs, 6 audio cassettes, 136 audio tapes

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Papers and research materials of English language dialectologist and teacher. Also includes family history and World War II papers.

James Posey Woodside Papers, 1868 (R1512)
0.1 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The James Posey Woodside Papers contain the 1868 diary of James Woodside. The diary includes almost daily short entries.

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Jesse E. Wrench Papers, 1871-1976 (C2509)
2.0 cubic feet (124 folders)

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The papers of Jesse E. Wrench, a University of Missouri history professor, include teaching materials, correspondence, and records of organizations with which Wrench was involved in at the university and in Columbia, Missouri. The papers also include some family papers and photographs and two unpublished manuscripts from the Cornell Expedition to Asia Minor in 1907-1908.

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Dr. Katie H. Wright Papers, 1970-2000 (S0646)
4.5 cubic feet, 108 folders, 239 photographs, 1 scrapbook

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Dr. Katie H. Wright is a well-known historian, writer, educator, and community volunteer in St. Louis, Missouri and East St. Louis, Illinois. She was also a weekly columnist for the St. Louis Argus, a historic Black newspaper. The collection contains Dr. Wright’s correspondence, reports, awards, newspaper clippings, and photographs related to her educational career, accomplishments as historian and writer, and work with the East St. Louis Board of Education, Board of Elections, and Public Library, as well as the Illinois Department of Corrections.

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Verna Mary Wulfekammer Collection, 1893-1976 (C3864)
51.9 cubic feet and oversize

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The collection of Verna Mary Wulfekammer, University of Missouri professor of art from 1928 to 1968, contains teaching materials and artifacts, correspondence, clippings, publications and photographs related to the personal and professional life of Wulfekammer and her mentor and colleague, Ella Victoria Dobbs.

Roy A. Wykoff Jr. Papers, 1860-1955 (C0437)
0.17 cubic feet (8 folders)

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Miscellaneous material collected by Wykoff. Missouri University, Stephens College and Christian College programs; letters of Eugene Field, Daniel Read and Homer Croy; and Civil War articles.

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Yeager School, Benton County, Missouri Records, 1945-1957 (R0267)
(1 roll of microfilm)

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The Yeager School, Benton County, Missouri Records contain a microfilm copy of the district clerk records for Yeager School, School District No. 64.

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