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Donald H. Chisholm Papers, 1972-1980 (C3708)
1.0 cubic foot (65 folders)

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Consisting primarily of correspondence relating to Donald Chisholm's chairmanship of the board of trustees of Park College, these papers contain information relating to the administration of a small liberal arts college in the Kansas City area during a period of financial crisis.

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Christian College (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1836-1986 (C0038)
30 cubic feet (1,392 folders), 5 rolls of microfilm, 1 card file, 51 lantern slides, 11 audio cassettes

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The records of the first women’s college chartered in Missouri, and one of the first chartered west of the Mississippi River, consists of correspondence, catalogs, yearbooks, photographs, and financial records.

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Christian College Photograph, 1921 (P0244)
1 photograph

One large sized photo of Christian College women,

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Christian College Photographs, 1898-1951 (P0509)
15 photographs

Photos of Christian College, now Columbia College.

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Citizenship Education Clearinghouse Records, 1956-1995 (S1033)
13 cubic feet

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The Citizenship Education Clearinghouse Records contain meeting minutes, correspondence, grant files, and newsletters pertaining to the organization's mission to integrate participatory citizenship into high school curricula.

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Champ Clark Papers, 1898 (C0600)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)

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The papers contain an address entitled "Hardin College and its Founders," delivered September 12, 1898; a letter to secretary of Pike County Historical Society regarding that society's work, and one photograph of Clark in later years.

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Charles Edward Clark Papers, 1930-2006 (K0673)
6 c.f.

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Research materials of a former Regional Director of U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Includes newspaper clippings, journals, magazines, brochures, flyers, newsletters, and audio cassettes.

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Verna Lee Clark Collection, 1904-1909 (P0373)
1 folder

Group portrait of Centralia High School students, ca. 1910. Postcards of Centralia, Columbia, and St. Charles.

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Clay County Rural School Records, 1915-1946 (K0479)
0.2 c.f.

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Class and pupil grade reports.

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Clay Seminary (Liberty, Mo.) Papers, 1855-1864 (C0599)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The papers contain materials of a young ladies' school, including, fifth annual catalogue, 1860; commencement exercises, 1861-1864; exhibitions of Eunomian Literary Society, 1860-1864; and advertising circulars.

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Coalition for Information on School Desegregation Records, 1954-1984 (S0448)
4 cubic feet, 325 folders

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The Coalition for Information on School Desegregation was founded in 1981 to provide information on school desegregation in the St. Louis metropolitan area through a speakers' bureau, resource center, and newsletter. This collection includes reports, meeting minutes, newsletters, newsclippings, and court documents on school desegregation cases.

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Coffey School, Texas County, Missouri Records, 1936-1950 (R0653)
(1 roll of microfilm)

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The Coffey School, Texas County, Missouri Records contain microfilm copies of annual meeting minutes, lists of board members, attendance data, term statistics, and other records from Coffee School in Texas County, Missouri from 1936 to 1950.

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Cole Camp High School Collection, 1955-1980 (R0528)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Cole Camp High School Collection contains photocopies of programs for commencements and homecoming reunions of the Cole Camp High School in Benton County, Missouri.

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Cole Camp High School, Benton County, Missouri Records, 1870-1910 (R0253)
(1 roll of microfilm)

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The Cole Camp High School, Benton County, Missouri Records contain the records of Cole Camp High School at Cole Camp in Benton County, Missouri. Included are records of the district clerk, 1870-1910, and daily and term attendance records kept by teachers, 1870-1884 and 1898-1901.

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Cole Camp Public School, Benton County, Missouri Records, 1880-1939 (R0255)
(1 roll of microfilm)

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The Cole Camp Public School, Benton County, Missouri Records contain a microfilm copy of the records of the Cole Camp Public School at Cole Camp, Missouri. Included are records of the district clerk and daily and term attendance records kept by teachers.

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College Club of Kansas City Records, 1950-1996 (K0323)
3 c.f.

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Minutes, dues records, yearbooks, calendars of events, scrapbooks, and publicity files of the Club formed by American Association of University Women (AAUW) members who wished to have more control at the local level: to be a "non-profit group whose purpose would be to foster good fellowship among college women and to support local projects of a non-controversial civic, educational, and social service nature."

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College Club of St. Louis Records, 1916-2008 (S0230)
1.25 cubic foot, 1 roll microfilm

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The collection consists of nine scrapbooks on one roll of microfilm containing press clippings and programs of activities and benefits, 1916-1943, of the College Club of St. Louis, whose membership consists of women graduates of accredited colleges. Additional materials of interest include correspondence regarding the College Club of St. Louis’s consolidation with the St. Louis branch of the Association of Collegiate Alumni in the early 1920s.

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College of Physicians and Surgeons of Kansas City Records, 1894-1905 (K0188)
0.25 c.f.

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The College of Physcians and Surgeons of Kansas City Records contain a bound volume of minutes from the Board of Trustees meetings, a diploma, and a photograph. There are some miscellaneous financial papers also included in the collection.

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A. Loyd Collins Scrapbook, 1938-1939 (C1391)
0.11 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Newspaper clippings on the history of Missouri, including activities of Spanish explorers, Civil War, temperance movement, George Caleb Bingham, growth of churches, Pony Express, Charles E. Kearney, James brothers, and educational institutions.

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Colon School, Phelps County, Missouri Collection, 1911 (R1103)
(1 folder)

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This collection contains a photocopy of a souvenir booklet for the school year 1910-1911 for Colon Public School in Liberty Township in Phelps County, Missouri. Charles E. Brown was the teacher and A. C. Gabel was president of the district school board.

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Columbia Female Academy (Columbia, Mo.) Papers, 1841-1853 (C0572)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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Includes an address delivered March 28, 1841, by the Rev. J.L. Yantis, at the examination of the pupils of Columbia Female Academy, and an 1853 catalogue.

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Columbia Free University (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1971 (CA6411)
1 card file

Records of the school include note cards with student and instructor information, as well as course titles and the students enrolled in the course. Course titles include "Peace Tactics," "Beginning Crochet," "Hitchhiking Discussion," "Mysticism," and "Community Radio," among a variety of other counterculture subjects.

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Columbia Industrial School (Columbia, Mo.) Minute Book, 1894-1910 (C0601)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Minutes of board meetings. Cover formation, operation, and finances of the school. Purpose of the school was to give young girls a means of gaining a livelihood by sewing or other appropriate work. School was organized and operated by church women.

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Columbia Kiwanis Club (Columbia, Mo.) Contest Winners, 1945 (C0608)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Contest for elementary school students sponsored by the War-Time Citizenship Committee of the Kiwanis Club.

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Columbia, Missouri, Social and Economic Census of the Colored Population, 1901 (C1082)
0.4 cubic feet; also available on 1 roll of microfilm

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Family reports listing name, age, occupation, weekly earnings and color of husband, wife, children, married children at home, and others living with the family. Reverse side lists date and/or age at marriage, deaths within the year, property owned, amount owed, housing and sanitary conditions, education, family expenditures, and previous residence. Most questions were answered in full. Arranged alphabetically by family name.

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Committee FOR Annexation Records, 1963-1964 (K0086)
0.3 c.f.

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Materials in support of the annexation of the Hickman Mills school district to the Kansas City, Missouri, School District. Also campaign information of an earlier school levy increase is included, as well as research materials related to the advantages of annexation, campaign literature distributed, and news clippings

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Common School District, Gideon, Missouri Collection, 1937 (R0706)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Common School District, Gideon, Missouri Collection contains a program for the “Dedication of the Junior-Senior High School Building, Gideon, Missouri,” dated September 17, 1937.

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Community School Historic Subject Files Collection, 1883-1996 (S1092)
3 cubic feet, 105 folders, 22 photographs

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The collection contains newspaper clippings, photographs, and art reproductions related to the history of Missouri, St. Louis, and the United States. Staff members of the Community School, an independent educational institution that encourages a non-rigid educational environment for children, collected the materials to educate their pupils. Topics of interest include the Veiled Prophet Ball, the Old Courthouse, Jefferson Barracks, and the Gemini and Apollo space programs.

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Concerned Parents of Greater St. Louis and St. Charles Collection, 1972-1973 (S0257)
0.01 cubic foot

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The Concerned Citizens for St. Charles Collection contains correspondence, interview transcripts, and a term paper, primarily documenting the group's efforts, led by Laura Rogers to ban controversial textbooks from schools and establish a private Christian school in St. Charles, Missouri.  

Deleta Condray Papers, 1933 (R1094)
(1 folder)

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This is a letter dated March 27, 1933, from Deleta Condray of Bangert in Dent County, Missouri, to the directors of the Adams School District in Phelps County, Missouri. In the letter Condray applies for a teaching job at the school.

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Congregation Beth Shalom Records, 1917-2002 (K0602)
37.12 c.f.

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Organizational records including minutes, financial records, correspondence, commemorative booklets, brochures, speeches, photographs, VHS cassettes of rabbinical lectures, religious activities, and various school programs.

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Congregation Beth Shalom Sisterhood Records, 1961-2006 (K0603)
12 c.f.

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Organizational records of the Sisterhood including by-laws, committee reports, financial documents, meeting minutes, photographs, and scrapbooks related to the year's activities including meetings, conferences, and social gatherings.

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Consolidated School District Number 2 (Greene County, Mo.) Records, 1907-1935 (C0056)
2.7 cubic feet (114 folders), 9 oversize volumes

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Records of rural schools in a 34 square-mile area around Strafford. Information pertains to Lamb, Potter, Flint Hill, Strafford, Danforth, and a black school (primary grades) and Strafford High School. Includes school board minutes, financial records, voter lists, election tallies, correspondence, teacher applications and contracts, and pupil records.

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Conway Public Schools Collection, 1912 (R0915)
(1 folder)

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This booklet provides information concerning the 1912-1913 school year for the Conway Public Schools at Conway in Laclede County, Missouri. The principal was Lonnie S. Haymes.

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David G. Cook Papers, 1874-1908 (C4197)
0.75 cubic feet (11 folders)

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The papers of David Gillaspy Cook consists of books pertaining to the Valley Spring School located in Boone County, Missouri, of which Mr. Cook was a director, as well as some personal papers.

John D. Cooper Photographs, 1900-1920 (P0165)
142 photographs

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Photographs by John D. Cooper of northeast Missouri and Cheyenne Wells, Colorado.

Arnold Lester Coppaken and Helen Glass Coppaken Papers, 1943-1975 (K0884)
0.04 c.f.

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The Arnold Lester and Helen Glass Coppaken collection contains graduation programs, a certificate of Mr. Coppaken's, newspaper clippings, and photographs of Mrs. Coppaken and friends.

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Cornett Family Papers, 1847-1981 (C3808)
5.1 cubic feet (210 folders), 3 oversize volumes

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The papers of the Cornett family of rural Linn County, Missouri, including William and Martha; their children, Bracy, Winifred, Jo Lee, and Carl; and Martha’s family, the Moores and Roots. Letters, household and farm records, photographs, and other family papers, along with the early records of the Moore School near Linneus, document the social, cultural, and agricultural life of a northern Missouri family and the teaching careers of two of their daughters.

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Cornett Family Papers, 1920s-1970s (CA5919)
6 cubic feet

Addition of correspondence; financial records; photographs; school records, Linn County, Missouri; and miscellaneous Cornett family papers. See also C3808.

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Counts Family Papers, 1797-1926, 1954 (CG0002)
0.2 cubic feet

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The Counts Family Papers contain Bible records, tintypes, correspondence, and a family history book of the family that lived in Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri.

Henley Lafayette Cox Papers, 1906-1925 (K0579)
0.06 c.f.

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Diplomas and transcripts relating to the educator of a Kansas City African-American educator.

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Ada E. Crain Papers, c. 1860-2003 (C3067)
1.3 cubic feet (33 folders)

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The papers of a schoolteacher consist of correspondence, genealogical materials, photographs, yearbooks, an 1878 diary, and a manuscript written by Crain. The material details the first half of Crain’s life while living and teaching in Oklahoma, Missouri, and Michigan.

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Cresswell Family Papers, 1823-1979 (R0007)
1.25 cubic foot (51 folders, 2 oversize volumes)

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The Cresswell Family Papers contain the personal, legal, and business papers of the Cresswell family of Washington County, Missouri. The papers include correspondence, land documents, legal papers, slave documents, tax receipts, account books from the furnace and store owned by the family, miscellaneous business papers, local school records, and personal papers.

John N. Cross Record Book, 1871-1872 (C1086)
0.03 cubic feet (1 volume)

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A schoolteacher's record of personal expense while attending college. Records he kept at the various schools where he taught and notes on the weather and subjects taught.

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John Franklin Crowell Letter, 1894 (C1710)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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To M.H. Lockwood, Columbia, MO, from Durham, N.C., Mar. 24, 1894.

Crowell, president of Trinity College, planned to nominate Lockwood for the chair of physics and biology. Crowell could not guarantee a position but Lockwood's selection was probable.

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Culpepper-Shannon College (Lebanon, Mo.) Catalogue, 1899-1900 (C0613)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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General information on locality and courses. Photographs and advertisements of local merchants.

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Conrad J. Curtis Architectural Records Collection, 1950-1992 (K0683)
34 c.f.

Architectural drawings, job files, and business records for an architect who specialized in schools and small business buildings.

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Winterton Conway Curtis Papers, 1892-1962 (C2528)
2.5 cubic feet

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The papers of Winterton Conway Curtis contain correspondence, reprints, autobiographical notes, photographs and miscellaneous material of a University of Missouri professor of zoology and dean of the College of Arts and Science. Also included is professional correspondence, 1904-1911, of George Lefevre, professor of zoology at the University of Missouri.

R.B. Cutlip Papers, 1960-1981 (CA4341)
14 cubic feet

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Papers of the president of William Woods College, Fulton, Missouri.

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Dallas, Missouri, School Board Record Book, 1913-1919 (K0487)
0.1 c.f.

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Dallas is a small community, now part of southern Kansas City, MO near 103rd Street and State Line Road.

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