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John Cummins Edwards Address, 1845 (C1596)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Gubernatorial message to the Missouri General Assembly, March 21, 1845, about Missouri-Iowa Territory boundary difficulties.

Raymond S. Elder Collection, 1846-2006 (K1141)
3 c.f.

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Elder is historian for the Kansas City Fire Museum. Includes reproductions of maps of the Kansas City area. Also books and articles written by Elder about the Kansas City, MO Fire Department and the history of the 8th Street Tunnel.

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Elmwood Cemetery Plot Maps, Kansas City, Missouri, no date (K1346)
0.25c.f.

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The Elmwood Cemetery Plot Maps consist of two (2) oversize maps,
Section H, and Single Grave Section, Block H, of the cemetery. Elmwood Cemetery opened in 1872. Section H, situated in the cemetery's southwest corner, was designated as the Jewish section after its purchase by the Reform Jewish Congregation B'nai Jehudah in November 1872. Elmwood Cemetery's grounds were designed by landscape architect George Kessler, and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Leland J. Farley Papers, 1859-1936 (R0014)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Leland J. Farley Collection contains a land grant deed for land in Texas County, Missouri, Texas County maps, and documents describing the Intercounty Electric Cooperative.

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Farnsworth, Bills and Company Map, circa 1905 (R0973)
(1 oversize map)

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This is a two-sided map showing land parcels in Reynolds County, Missouri, available through Farnsworth, Bills & Company of Chicago, Illinois. On one side is a map of Missouri and Reynolds County highlighted, and on the other is a plat of 30,000 acres north and west of Ellington indicating the available parcels.

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Gabriel Field Journal, 1819 (C1891)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Journal of a trip from Camp Missouri to Chariton kept by Gabriel Field from October 31 to November 27, 1819, for Colonel H. Atkinson. Journal includes detailed directions and observations of the area. Two maps of route.

Christopher James Fleming Collection, no date (K0812)
3 c.f

Two linen subdivision maps of Kansas City, Missouri and a plat book for Kansas City.

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Forest Land Use Conference Proceedings, 1961 (C2246)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Booklet of the proceedings of the Forest Land Use Conference, held in Washington, D.C.

Frisco Railroad Survey, no date (C0765)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Chronological survey of construction and acquisitions by the Frisco Lines, 1849-1940.

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German Settlement Society Notations, 1836-1839 (C0721)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains excerpts from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, settlement society record book relative to starting new settlements in the west, particularly at Hermann, Missouri.

George I. Gird Photographs, 1938-1952 (P0149)
208 photographs

B/w aerial views of Clayton, Hermann, Independence, Joplin, Kansas City, Nevada, St. Louis, Springfield, Webb City, and Weston from around 1955.

Gourgas Family Papers, 1815-1843 (C2699)
0.21 cubic feet (10 folders)

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The papers of the Gourgas family contain letters of Adele Gourgas, daughter of a Swiss immigrant, to her brother John Mark Gourgas relating her impressions of and experiences in the Millersburg-Lexington, KY, region and Cincinnati, OH, where she moved with her husband John Dubois in 1819. Also included are letters from Jacob Gourgas to his brother John Mark and other papers of family interest. The letters are in French.

Edmund Gray Papers, 1831-1955 (C3611)
1.8 cubic feet (97 folders)

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Mississippi River pilots’ charts, ships; logs, steamboat directions, and personal papers of Edmund Gray, a resident of Gray’s Point, Scott County, Missouri, and Cape Girardeau and steamboat pilot on the Mississippi for many years.

Grindstone Development Corporation (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1963-1975 (C2730)
0.2 cubic feet (13 folders)

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Organizational records of the Grindstone Valley Development Corporation include by-laws, meeting minutes, financial records, stockholders' agreements, research reports, and business correspondence. These records document the corporation's real estate investments, sale of stocks, sale of bonds, organization, potential development of the area now encompassed by Grindstone Valley Nature Area, and the sale of that area to the City of Columbia in 1975.

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Henry Emmett Gross Papers, 1921-1981 (R0837)
1 cubic foot (18 folders)

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These are the professional papers of Henry Emmett Gross, an engineer, inventor, and map-maker from Webster Groves, Missouri. Most of the collection concerns his patents for deep ocean oil drilling and marine salvage.

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Robert Hambright Letter, 1845 (C3238)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains a letter to John Hambright, Fort Osage, MO, from Fayetteville, AR, May 23, 1845, concerning the emigration of Choctaw Indians from Mississippi to Arkansas; and a newspaper clipping announcing the sale of slaves by Commissioner John Hambright, brother of Robert Hambright.

Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Land Promotion Circular, 1860 (C0904)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains one advertisement of New England Colony located in Daviess and Caldwell Counties, Missouri. Descriptions of crops, minerals, soils, climate, lumber, and price of land.

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Hare and Hare Company Records, 1904-1979 (K0206)
670 c.f.

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Records of Kansas City's premiere landscape architecture and city planning firm who did designs throughout the Midwest and southwest. Includes drawings, photographs, correspondence and reports, publications and books, and personal papers.

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Harry S Truman Reservoir Architectural Survey Records, 1975-1976 (C3758)
4.4 cubic feet (236 folders)

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Maps, site survey sheets, and photographs of vernacular architecture in Benton, Henry, Hickory, and St. Clair Counties. The images include barns, bridges, cabins, chicken coops, churches, corncribs, garages, granaries, houses, outhouses, post offices, root cellars, schools, sheds, silos, stores, wells, and windmills.

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Thomas Harvey Jr. Papers, 1852-1865 (C0336)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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Letter to Harvey from a friend, describing happenings and dangers of a trip from New York to California by way of Isthmus of Panama, conditions in California, and advantages of working there. Letters from relatives concerning family matters. Letter from brother Richard to brother Warren commenting upon attitude of Texans toward the Confederate Army.

William P. Hendrickson Journal, 1840 (C1643)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains field notes about the St. Louis and Bacon Ferry State Road and the St. Louis and Fenton State Road, surveyed and marked out by Commissioners Hugh Miller, Hartley Sappington, and William McCutchen, March-April 1840. William P. Hendrickson was a civil engineer and surveyor.

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Sam. Hoffman Letter, 1849 (C0539)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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To Edward Hoffman, St. Louis, Missouri, from Black Rock, New York, Feb. 26, 1849. Letter to his son discussing construction of the Erie Canal near Buffalo, New York, and topics of general interest.

R.F. Horton Sr. Papers, 1903-1910 (C0330)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The papers contain typed copies of two letters concerning the activities of the Mexican-Nevada Exploration Company and an account of the author’s travels and work in Arizona and Mexico.

Elijah Preston Howell Diary, 1849 (C1675)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder, 1 roll of microfilm)

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The collection contains a diary, May 6-September 24, 1849, of a journey across the plains from Athens, Gentry County, MO, to the Sacramento Valley during the California gold rush. Topics include members of company, description of wagon trains, countryside, wild game, vegetation, provisions, Native Americans, cholera, travel guides, landmarks, defense, wagon train problems and Mormons.

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"Implications of Land Use Adjustments in Connection with the Defense Program," Albert H. Mussman, 1941 (C1188)
0.05 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Report on activities of agencies concerned with the assisting in the relocation of families disturbed by the construction of Fort Leonard Wood, MO. Includes photographs and case studies.

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Lucy Wortham James Collection, 1801-1895 (C0001)
23 cubic feet (3,032 folders), 234 oversize volumes (volumes also available on 59 rolls of microfilm)

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The records of the Maramec Iron Works in St. James, Missouri, and the papers of the James family, who owned the iron works, includes financial records, correspondence, and account books. The correspondence discusses the hiring of enslaved people, prices, banking and financial conditions, transportation costs and railroads, political conditions, immigration, and the Civil War.

Jasper County Mining Collection, 1890-1916 (R1410)
0.02 cubic foot (2 folders)

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The Jasper County Mining Collection contains reports, land lease agreements, maps, and surveys of mining property in Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri.

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Kansas City, Missouri, Real Property Ownership Plat Book, 1929-1931 (K0191)
0.43 c.f. (25 folders)

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Plat maps and other information detailing ownership of real estate properties in Kansas City, MO.

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Harold F. Kaufman Papers, c. 1925-1983 (C3986)
175 cubic feet

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The Harold F. Kaufman Papers consist of correspondence, projects and studies, course materials, and manuscript of a professor of sociology at Mississippi State University.

Paul Delmar Kelleter Speeches, 1935-1940 (C2249)
0.13 cubic feet (6 folders)

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Speeches and miscellaneous reports by Kelleter, forest supervisor of Clark National Forest, MO, concerning the U.S. Forest Service in Missouri, with emphasis on the Clark National Forest and rehabilitation of the Ozark region.

Joseph C. and Charles A. Killian Papers, 1821-1935 (C0124)
0.4 cubic feet (28 folders)

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Legal papers and letters of J.C. Killian and his son, Perry County, MO, lawyers. Diary of J.C. Killian describes people of Perryville. Also material on early German immigration.

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Elijah King Papers, 1873-1888 (C0351)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Letters written to King in Iowa from Munn and Farwell, land agents in Grant City, MO, giving prices and description of land. Broadside advertising cheap western homes in the Grand and Platte River country of northeast Missouri, and a genealogy of the King, Munn, and Farwell families.

Leslie Konnyu Papers, 1945-1991 (CA5235)
16.7 cubic feet, 1 audio cassette, 3 video cassettes

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The papers of a Hungarian-American author, scholar, and leader from St. Louis include correspondence, manuscripts, collected materials, articles, publications, scrapbooks, photographs and miscellaneous material.

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Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1860s, 1956-1962 (C3877)
0.4 cubic feet

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Minutes, resolutions, maps, reports, and legal documents concerning the urban redevelopment project in Columbia, MO, for the area known as Flat Branch and/or the Douglass School Urban Renewal Area.

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"Land Values in the Eastern Ozarks," Carville V. Earle, 1967 (C2593)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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A paper written for a geography class and presented at a Missouri Academy of Science meeting.

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Josephine R. Lawrence Collection, 1844-1986 (C3792)
0.4 cubic feet (26 folders)

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The papers of the Jackson and Lawrence families of Pennytown and Marshall, Missouri, include newspaper clippings and unpublished manuscripts on the history of Pennytown, a Black community near Marshall. There are also funeral cards, copies of legal documents, church and school records, and photo­graphs of Pennytown and its residents.

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Ashley Lea Letters, 1839-1884 (C0354)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Letters of a pioneer Missouri family discussing conditions on the journey to the California gold fields, family news, and crop conditions in Mississippi in 1857.

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Walter Raleigh Lenoir Letter, 1834 (C0356)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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To Edmond Jones, Fort Defiance, NC, from Columbia, MO, Dec. 30, 1834.

Description of Columbia and the surrounding country.

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William C. Long Papers, 1859-1891 (C2624)
0.17 cubic feet (8 folders)

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Nineteen Civil War letters; letters to and from Irwin Walley, Long's son-in-law; miscellaneous family papers; and photographs of the opening of the Oklahoma Territory, 1891.

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Louisiana and Middletown Plank Road Company Records, 1851-1873 (C1152)
0.06 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Road company established to construct an improved road from Louisiana, Pike County, MO, to Middletown, Montgomery County, MO. Early efforts to build and maintain the road are described in detail. Most meetings were held in the road company's office in Louisiana. Also two photographs.

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R. J. Martin Papers, 1946-1955 (SP0095)
4 cubic feet (103 folders, 1 oversize folder, 60 photographs)

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The R. J. Martin Papers contain records, correspondence, contracts, and photographs from Ralph Joseph “Joe” Martin’s tenure as Missouri-Arkansas representative for the United States Department of the Interior Southwest Power Association office in Springfield, Missouri.

America Mathews Overland Diary, 1857 (C0413)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Personal diary kept by America Mathews as she and her family left Gallatin County, Kentucky, in October 1857 and traveled by covered wagon to a place near Brunswick, Missouri.

Mayes-McMahon Family Letters, 1815-1816 (C0940)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Two letters written by B.V. Mayes, St. Louis, to his cousin Nancy McMahon in Henderson, KY. Both letters concern family matters and Mayes's dislike of St. Louis. He remarks on the absence of any American women in the city and on the poor living and working conditions he faces as a clerk in a mercantile house.

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McCormack Family Papers, 1777-1873 (C2338)
0.21 cubic feet (10 folders)

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Letters from John Burgoyne to Horatio Gates about treatment of wounded and noncombatants during the Revolutionary War, 1777. Correspondence about immigration to Texas from Missouri, 1842-1844; economic conditions; politics; J. Cox estate in Jefferson County, MO; business accounts, 1841-1852; weather and farm labor journal; marriage and death records; and diary of James McCormack.

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Cyrus T. McCormick, "The Missouri Indian Trails" Collection, no date (R0031)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The collection contains a photocopy of Cyrus T. McCormick's paper, "The Missouri Indian Trails." The paper describes Indian trails and the earliest roads in Missouri, with an emphasis on the southeastern portion of the state.

Julius Caesar Merrill Diary, 1864 (C0371)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)

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Typed copy of diary which gives an account of trip from Milwaukee to Boise City, ID, in 1864. Describes the journey over the old Oregon Trail, storms, severity of weather, shortage of food and water for their livestock, scarcity of firewood and wild game food for themselves, difficulties in fording rivers, fear of Indian attack, encounters with Indians wanting to trade, and other problems of wagon train life.

Cydney Millstein Papers, 1990-2022 (K0543)
40 c.f.

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Research and business records related to Ms. Millstein's work as an architectural historian. Includes notes, clippings, surveys, maps, architectural drawings, and photographs.

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