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C3401 | University of Missouri, Laws Observatory Records | 1877-1954 | Correspondence, class materials, reports, publications, and observing records of the observatory. |
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C3402 | University of Missouri, Department of Zoology Records | 1897-1963 | The records contain departmental correspondence, 1958-1963, and the papers of W.C. Curtis, department member from 1901-1962. |
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C3403 | Bernard F. Dickmann Papers | 1895-1980 | Democratic mayor of St. Louis, 1933-1941, Dickman later served as St. Louis postmaster, 1943-1958, and city welfare director, 1959-1961. Papers include correspondence, diary, newspaper articles, books, reports, photographs, and miscellaneous items related to years as public servant. Scrapbooks containing newspaper coverage of mayoral terms are on microfilm. | Finding Aid |
C3404 | Harry L. Kempster Papers | 1916-1960 | Kempster established the poultry husbandry department at the University of Missouri in 1911 and served as its chairman from 1911 until his retirement in 1954. Papers contain correspondence related to poultry husbandry in Missouri and U.S. as well as to academic courses, jobs, and research in poultry-related areas. Some brochures on poultry incubators. | Finding Aid |
C3405 | Ernest Jesse Palmer Papers | 1891-1962 | The papers of Ernest Jesse Palmer contain correspondence between Palmer and his associates in fields of botany, geology, and archaeology. Most of collection deals with identification of plant species, especially the hawthorn (Crataegus). Also included is correspondence with his family in Webb City, Missouri, and W.D. Rush, a life-long friend. |
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C3406 | University of Missouri, College of Arts and Science Records | 1908-1965 | The records of the College of Arts and Science contain correspondence, reports and forms from the dean’s office discussing faculty, administration, policies, courses, committees, conferences and specific problems, in addition to correspondence and reports pertaining to Missouri Bible College, Missouri College Union, and junior college accreditation. |
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C3407 | William Weston Carpenter Scrapbooks | 1948-1963 | Professor of Education at the University of Missouri, Carpenter served as educational advisor to General MacArthur during post-World War II occupation of Japan. Scrapbooks of news clippings, photos of Japanese schools, miscellaneous photos, maps, and posters. |
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C3408 | Roy Emerson Curtis Papers | 1935-1940 | Curtis was professor of economics and finance at the University of Missouri, and served as dean of the school of Business and Public Administration from 1936 to 1942. Papers contain correspondence related to academic courses, faculty, students, and jobs. Also includes some business questionnaires and conference programs. |
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C3409 | Harry S. Truman Memorial Service Program | 1973 | The collection contains a program of service held at Westminster College Chapel, Fulton, Missouri, on occasion of Truman’s death. |
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C3410 | China Journey | 1973 | Report of 1972 tour by American newspaper editors of People’s Republic of China, written by Robert M. White II, the editor of Missouri’s Mexico Ledger. Topics covered include trips to the Great Wall, Peking and Shanghai; meetings with Chou En-lai; and social, economic, and political conditions of life in China. |
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C3411 | McKee Family Papers | 1860-1916 | The papers of the McKee family of Oxford, Mississippi, contain letters, deeds, contracts, and wills. The materials include frequent reference to William McKee, sheriff of Lafayette County, and Frank McKee, owner of local hardware store; as well as one miscellaneous newspaper page from Green Forest, Arkansas. |
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C3412 | Union Literary Society Programs | 1860 | The collection contains programs from the Society’s exhibition on April 6, 1860, and anniversary on July 3, 1860. |
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C3413 | John Jutton Scrapbook | 1959 | The collection contains a scrapbook compiled for a journalism class. Included are draft and final articles concerning Dean William Bradshaw of the University of Missouri School of Business and Public Administration, University of Missouri, and local and national news. Also includes miscellaneous quizzes. |
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C3414 | Westover-Whelen Family Papers | 1854-1914 | The papers of the Westover-Whelen family contain photocopies of court records concerning the Westover and Whelen family estates in St. Francois County, Missouri. |
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C3415 | Travel Account of Journey from Indiana to Washington | c. 1850 | The collection contains a copy of an unidentified woman’s account of the journey from Indiana to Washington. The copy was made about 1925-1930 and includes a record of the weather, environment, illnesses, encounters with indigenous people, territory covered each day, lists of provisions, and charges and expenses kept by George Royse. |
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C3416 | H.J. Whittier Record Book | 1921-1929 | The collection contains a cash book of a Kansas City doctor. | Finding Aid |
C3417 | University of Missouri Photographs | 1894-1895 | The collection contains undated photographs of Academic Hall and of the football team, 1894 and 1895. |
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C3418 | George W. Crum Memorial Service | 1971 | The collection contains a summary of the memorial service for a Kansas City businessman and brother-in-law of William Bradshaw of Columbia, Missouri. |
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C3419 | Ethlyn Cockrell Papers | 1907-1960 | The papers of Ethlyn Cockrell, a Missouri schoolteacher, World War I Army nurse, and Red Cross public health nurse, include material on the American Red Cross and photographs. |
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C3420 | Lewis M. Switzler Papers | 1834-1936 | The papers of Lewis M. Switzler contain news clippings, photographs, and correspondence on the Civil War, Boone County, Missouri, history, and national events; poetry; anecdotes; and family announcements. |
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C3421 | James Harvey Petty Day Book | 1863-1872 | Record of medical services rendered and fees charged by Dr. J.H. Petty. Alphabetical index of names listed in day book precedes the volume. | Finding Aid |
C3422 | Arnot M. Finley Photograph Albums | 1913-1919 | Photographs of the University of Missouri campus, sports events, student activities, and individual students. Includes scenes of Columbia, MO. |
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C3423 | Winterton Conway Curtis Papers | 1898-1958 | Lecture notes and related material for the protozoology course given by Curtis in the zoology department of the University of Missouri. Published articles by other authors from Curtis’ collection, a few personal letters, and photographs. Also, by-laws and business correspondence of the Westmount Civic Improvement Association, 1908-1917. |
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C3424 | Mary B. Aker Papers | 1872-1968 | The papers contain feature articles and news stories, many written by Mary B. Aker, which appeared in newspapers in the area near Parkville, Platte County, Missouri. Also includes deed of land to Female Orphan School in Camden Point and a history of the telephone company in Parkville. |
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C3425 | "The Battle of Pilot Knob by One Who Was There" | no date | Memoir of an unknown observer (actually Theodore Pease Russell) of the 1864 Battle of Pilot Knob. He describes weapons used, skirmishes, regiments, officers, and casualties. |
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C3426 | Henry Hatch Letters | 1902, 1937 | Transcriptions and photostatic negatives of autobiographical letters from [Henry] Hatch to his grandson, Henry Green. Letters contain information about William Henry Hatch, father of the writer, who lived in Maine in the early 1800s, and the business career of the writer in Missouri, Boston, California, Peru, and Australia. |
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C3427 | Burdett Leroy Daniel Diary | 1865 | Fragment of diary written while in the Missouri Volunteers, January 11-April 25, 1865. Describes searches for food, swampy marches, diseases, guard and picket duty, and scouting. Writes about the daily weather and names friends with whom he corresponded. |
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C3428 | Douglas P. Spalding Diary | 1864 | The diary gives day to day temperature reading, January 30-December 31, in Ralls County, Missouri, and one line telling how he spent each day, at school, home, or attending to farm chores. |
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C3429 | Sidney A. Breese Papers | 1863-1867 | The papers contain letters and official papers to and from the quartermaster's office and the chief of ordnance and ordnance stores. Breese was captain of the 6th Missouri Volunteer Cavalry in charge of ordnance and ordnance stores during the Civil War. |
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C3430 | Nathan Glasgow Papers | 1820-1871 | The papers contain correspondence, receipts, promissory notes, receipts for sale of slaves, land surveys, deeds, indentures, and a book of mathematic examples of John A. and Nathan Glasgow of Columbia and Millersburg, Missouri. |
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C3431 | Vinita, Oklahoma, Article | no date | Article titled, “Downingville, Vinita or The Junction.” Excerpt from the book, Vinita, I. T., The Story of a Frontier Town of the Cherokee Nation, 1871-1907. Contains references to Vinita Ream. |
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C3432 | Standley Family Papers | 1852, 1996 | The papers contain a letter from James Standley, Carrollton, Missouri, to his son, Milton in Sacramento, California, 1852. Also, a transcription of the letter, a genealogy of James Standley, and other miscellaneous records of James Standley transcribed by Anne Standley Brunt. |
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C3433 | Alexander W. Doniphan Letters | 1875-1878 | Nine letters written by Doniphan to his cousin, Miss H. Emma Doniphan of Washington, D.C. He writes about his family, his health, and his education, and makes observations on politics and politicians. |
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C3434 | Helm-Davidson Family Papers | 1824-1970 | Diaries, correspondence, account books, genealogical records, and personal and business papers of Mary Aileen Davidson and her ancestors. John B. Helm letters and diaries, Ben N. Crump letters, and J. Frank Davidson papers show social and economic life in Kentucky and Missouri. | Finding Aid |
C3435 | Roy Godsey Papers | 1921-1967 | The papers contain newspapers and other articles, mostly about agriculture and small towns in Missouri, by Roy Godsey, journalist and early air travel promoter; letters to Godsey from national and state officials; original manuscript of his novel, Aunt Betty; and miscellaneous items of interest to Godsey. |
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C3436 | Margaret Reedy Papers | 1917-1949 | An unpublished biography of William Marion Reedy written by his wife Margaret Reedy; autobiography of Margaret Reedy; and correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Margaret Reedy. Correspondence is in regards to a search of any works written by William Reedy and miscellaneous papers include an interview of Margaret Reedy published in a journal, information on The Mirror, and an obituary of Margaret Reedy. |
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C3437 | Solomon Harmon Milam Papers | 1876-1913 | The papers of Soloman Harmon Milam contain diaries, correspondence, sermons, religious books, receipts and account books kept by a Methodist minister in many Missouri towns, and by his wife, Ella Moreman Milam. | Finding Aid |
C3438 | John A. Hockaday Papers | 1864-1896 | The papers of John A. Hockaday contain newspaper clippings and personal items kept by a Fulton, Missouri, lawyer and his wife, Edith Langstaff Hockaday. Hockaday held the offices of city and county attorney, state senator, and attorney general of Missouri. |
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C3439 | Thomas B. Gentry Family Expense Books | 1870-1902 | The collection contains itemized amounts of purchases in the household of Thomas B. and Mary Todd Gentry of Columbia, Missouri, for thirty-two years. |
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C3440 | Putnam County, Missouri, Survey and Town Plats | 1844-1866 | The collection contains negative photostats of an official survey, by township, of Putnam County, Missouri, 1844-1854, and plats of thirteen towns in the county showing blocks and street names, 1857-1866. |
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C3441 | North Todd Gentry Appointments | 1900-1928 | The collection contains appointments as a notary public and deputy attorney general; and to the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, to the commission to revise Missouri statutes, and to the Board of Curators of the University of Missouri. |
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C3442 | William and Hannah Fitzhugh Wills | 1789-1798 | The collection contains copies of wills of a Virginia planter and his widow, who lived at Marmion, King George County, Virginia. |
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C3443 | Frank Ackerman Papers | 1942-1972 | The Frank Ackerman Papers contain extensive documentation of his work on behalf of people with intellectual disabilities in Missouri. This includes his research materials on services offered to people with intellectual disabilities nationwide and his work for various organizations in Missouri. A lesser amount of material covers his farming business in Pike County, Missouri, and the funeral of Viola Ackerman. Materials include correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, printed materials, organizational records, and handwritten notes.
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C3444 | William Fletcher Barnds Papers | 1900s-1920s | The Barnds papers consist of an undated memoir and a scrapbook of a farmer who lived in St. Charles and Saline Counties, Missouri. Barnds writes about early Methodism, his family before and after marriage, and the hardships of farm life. |
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C3445 | Jeremiah Massie Legal Papers | 1836-1838 | The papers include transcripts of a court case in which Massie, formerly of Sangamon County, Illinois, was convicted of larceny from a steamboat; letters of support for Massie; a clemency petition signed by the citizens of Sangamon County, including Abraham Lincoln; and the pardon, signed by Missouri Governor Lilburn W. Boggs. |
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C3446 | Missouri Governors' Proclamations | 1892-1898 | The collection contains proclamations of Columbus Day by Governor David R. Francis; Thanksgiving Day and LaFayette Day by Governor Lon Vest Stephens, and calls for relief of flood-damaged Steelville, Missouri. These proclamations bear the seal of the State of Missouri. |
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C3447 | Daniel Boone Tavern (Columbia, Mo.) Formal Opening Program | 1917 | The menu and formal opening program of the Daniel Boone Tavern on October 13, 1917. |
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C3448 | Chaffee, Missouri, Mail Carriers' Route Directory | 1929-1957 | The records contain a list of names and street addresses of residents of Chaffee, Missouri, served by the mail carriers of route no. 1 in the town between 1929 and 1957. |
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C3449 | Lesieur Family Papers | 1795-1866 | The papers of the Lesieur family contain promissory notes, receipts, accounts, letters, indentures, and miscellaneous papers concerned primarily with Godfrey Lesieur, but also with other members of the family. They migrated to the New Madrid District from Canada in 1785. | Finding Aid |
C3450 | Columbia League of Women Voters Records | 1923-1974 | Meeting minutes, scrapbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, publications, and miscellaneous material of the Columbia, Missouri, League of Women Voters. |
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C3451 | Grant School PTA (Columbia, Mo.) Papers | 1944-1973 | Scrapbooks; minutes of general and executive meetings; bylaws; and miscellaneous papers and correspondence kept by secretary. Includes state convention folders; national PTA manual; and miscellaneous informational brochures and flyers. | Finding Aid |
C3452 | Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, Centennial Office Records | 1911-1964 | Correspondence, reference materials, minutes of meetings, special events, and media material used in planning commemoration of Morrill Land-Grant Act. |
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C3453 | University of Missouri, Department of Botany Records | 1894-1956 | Materials related to departmental courses, university committees, job placement, and research, as well as to cooperative efforts among university state and federal agencies to control plant and crop diseases, establish conservation groups, and expand agricultural facilities and programs in Missouri. | Finding Aid |
C3454 | Warren Browne Papers | 1892-1957 | The papers of Warren Browne contain the original manuscript of “Titan vs. Taboo: The Life of William Benjamin Smith” and letters and materials used by Browne in writing his book about Smith, mathematician, philosopher, poet, and Biblical critic. |
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C3455 | Frederick Blackmar Mumford Papers | 1944 | The papers of Frederick Mumford contain reports, notes, documents, data and correspondence, most of which was used by Dean Mumford in preparation of his book, History of the Missouri College of Agriculture, published in 1944 as “Bulletin” 483 of the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station. |
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C3456 | Spanish-American War, Missouri Volunteer Infantry, Company I Papers | 1938-1954 | Photographs, biographies, newspaper clippings, and correspondence compiled by John H. Norton concerning surviving members of a Spanish-American War company comprising University of Missouri students. |
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C3457 | Overland Mail Centennial Scrapbook | 1958 | Clippings, photographs, brochures, and miscellaneous records which marked the hundredth anniversary of the first overland stage route in the U.S. | Finding Aid |
C3458 | Peter Mayo Papers | 1956-1964 | The Peter Mayo Papers consist of correspondence between Chicago architect Mayo and editorial cartoonists throughout the United States requesting original cartoons for his collection. There is also an audio tape of a Mayo interview. |
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C3459 | Missouri Place Names Study Papers | 1927-1928 | Correspondence, term papers, and information collected by graduate students at the University of Missouri during a study of the origin and history of place names in forty-two Missouri counties. | Finding Aid |
C3460 | Belle Alexander Troxell Collection | 1857-1951 | Programs, clippings, photographs, postcards, and miscellaneous items, collected by a Columbia, Missouri, resident and member of several women's organizations. |
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C3461 | Derby Bass Family Expense Books | 1877-1918 | Three ledgers containing listings of items such as livestock, feed, wages, and other expenses involved in maintaining the household and farm of Derby Bass in Boone County, Missouri. Records of the Deer Park Red Cross Society, 1917-1918, kept by Ella Bass. |
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C3462 | University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Short Course Club Records | 1924-1930 | The records of the Short Course Club contain the constitution, bylaws, financial records, and list of members of an organization of students who were enrolled in the two-year winter course and the creamery short course of the College of Agriculture. | Finding Aid |
C3463 | James F. Rupe Collection | 1885-1943 | Records of Dr. James F. Rupe of Clay County, Missouri, including ledgers; account books, Paradise, Missouri, Christian Church treasurer's books; two warranty deeds; and four diplomas, including his diploma from medical college in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1886, and photographs. |
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C3464 | Arnold J. Lien Papers | 1908-1963 | The papers of Arnold Lien contain correspondence, pamphlets, photographs, diplomas, a Master's thesis, published and unpublished writings, newspaper clippings, and original poetry of Dr. Arnold J. Lien, professor of political science, who bequeathed his papers to the State Historical Society of Missouri. | Finding Aid |
C3465 | Charles Trefts Papers | 1903-1963 | Business correspondence, financial papers, photographic salon stickers, prizes, and other items of St. Louis professional photographer Charles Trefts, organizer of the Advertising Slide Company. His photographic collection was presented to the State Historical Society in 1964. |
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C3466 | Albert J. Prokes World War II Letters | 1942-1946 | Letters received by Reverend Albert J. Prokes, administrator of St. John Nepomuk Catholic Church in St. Louis, Missouri, from parishioners serving in the armed forces during World War II. |
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C3467 | Agnes Hadley Haskell Daybooks | 1909-1946 | The daybooks of Agnes Lee Hadley Haskell, wife of Governor Herbert S. Hadley and later wife of Henry J. Haskell, editor of the Kansas City Star, contain records and diary entries noting her social and club engagements and the activities of her children; and various programs, newspaper clippings, receipts, and correspondence. |
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C3468 | Augustus and Samuel R. Filley Papers | 1817-1879 | Land sale indentures, correspondence, and unsigned Civil War forms. |
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C3469 | University of Missouri-Columbia, Women's Panhellenic Rush Week Papers | 1969 | Printouts showing pledging results under 1969 quota, with no quota and with a self- (by sororities) determining quota. |
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C3470 | Missouri Society for Sociology and Anthropology Papers | 1972-1973 | Correspondence, executive committee meeting notes, minutes of annual meeting, copies of constitution, proposed revision, and constitution adopted in 1973. |
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C3471 | University of Missouri, College of Agriculture Records | 1889-1941 | Office correspondence of Henry J. Waters, who from 1895 to 1909 was dean of the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, professor of agriculture, and director of the experiment station at the University of Missouri. |
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C3472 | C.E. Lemmon Papers | 1908-1974 | Clarence Eugene Lemmon was a Disciples of Christ minister in Columbia, Missouri. Church and limited family correspondence; sermon outlines and typescripts; notes and outlines for articles and books; First Christian Church materials; biographical and financial materials; and religious magazines and books. |
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C3473 | Richard Ritter Papers | 1856-1920 | Commission as clerk of circuit court; commission as captain of Company A, 28th Regiment, Illinois Infantry Volunteers; subsequent commissions as lieutenant-colonel and colonel; mustering out rolls, limited correspondence, tax receipts, and various land deeds. Two diaries, will, and correspondence. |
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C3474 | Constance Harlan Lemmon Papers | 1910-1974 | Papers of an active churchwoman and wife of C.E. Lemmon, Disciples of Christ, minister. Personal and church-related materials. |
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C3475 | Missouri Association for Social Welfare Records | 1908-1971 | Records of an association organized to improve and extend the health and welfare of the people of the State of Missouri, and to promote the improvement of public and private social services and the prevention of poverty, crime, and disease in the state. The records consist of correspondence, minutes, committee records, newsletters and conference materials. |
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C3476 | George Pohlman Collection | 1615-1953 | The papers of George Pohlman contain material on Macon County and other northern Missouri counties. Included are original survey maps of roads, records from county officials, school and church records, land entries, estate, business and legal papers, biographies and rare English documents. |
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C3477 | Olive Gilbreath McLorn Papers | 1915-1934 | Letters to Olive Gilbreath from William L. Cazalet, a British businessman living in Russia. Primarily love letters but also include impressions of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and British refugees from Russia. |
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C3478 | Alderman, Irving and Company Records | 1888-1892 | Papers of a Kansas City, Missouri, investment firm active in Arkansas, Kansas, Texas and Mexico. Business correspondence and papers pertaining to investments in mineral and mining lands, farm and ranch lands, and small manufacture. Examples of letterheads, business cards, and commercial advertising flyers. |
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C3479 | James Raymond Browne Papers | 1919-1966 | Manuscript by an American lawyer who lived in Asia. Correspondence pertaining to Browne's estate. Articles written by Browne's brother-in-law, Henry Kinyon. |
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C3480 | U.S. National Transportation Safety Board Report | 1976-1977 | Report of the board’s investigation into the airplane crash that killed Congressman Jerry L. Litton, his family, pilot Paul Rupp, Jr., and Rupp's son near Chillicothe, Missouri, on August 3, 1976. Includes reports of groups investigating various aspects of the aircraft, statements of witnesses, a wreckage distribution chart, flight tests, crashworthiness analyses, and test data. |
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C3481 | Albert Kerr Heckel Papers | 1903-1965 | Heckel was an educator and dean of men at the University of Missouri, 1924-1941; a national officer of Alpha Tau Omega; and dean of the Floating University in 1926-1927. Papers include personal and professional correspondence, writings, and poems by his wife, Pearl Bash Heckel. | Finding Aid |
C3482 | University of Missouri, School of Business and Public Administration Records | 1907-1952 | Papers of Isidor Loeb, 1907-1925; papers on committees, administration, professional organizations, scholarships, Commerce Day, Crippled Children's Service, Missouri League of Municipalities, and Missouri Bankers Conference; and placement materials, 1934-1952. | Finding Aid |
C3483 | O.R. Johnson Papers | 1910-1959 | Professional and administrative correspondence related to the departments of Farm Management and Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri, and civic and personal correspondence. |
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C3484 | Franz Schwarzer Papers | 1840-1951 | Correspondence of the Schwarzer family; factory records, catalogs, and photographs of zithers and other stringed instruments manufactured at the zither factory in Washington, Missouri, founded by Schwarzer in 1869. |
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C3485 | Frank M. Karsten Papers | 1943-1968 | Constituent correspondence and congressional committee material from Karsten's terms as Democratic congressman from Missouri's 1st District, 1947-1968. |
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C3486 | Vance Julian Scrapbooks | 1943-1950 | Newspaper clippings about the Missouri constitutional convention of 1943-1944 and about the first five years of transactions of the Missouri State Board of Mediation, a board which acted in public utility labor disputes. |
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C3487 | William Fletcher McMurry Papers | 1885-1934 | Correspondence, sermon notes, sermons, pastor's books, daybooks, and scrapbooks of a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, bishop, and president of Central College, Fayette, Missouri. |
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C3488 | Robert L. Snell Collection | 1870-1966 | Collection of American Legion records, World War II letters, and miscellaneous items concerning residents of the El Dorado Springs, Missouri, area. World War II veteran Snell, an officer of Koca-Reeder-Giddens Post No. 233, was in charge of securing financial aid for veterans and their families. |
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C3489 | Carpenter Family Papers | 1830-1962 | The papers contain notes, correspondence and genealogical records compiled by Lucy Grant Carpenter Bly while tracing all branches of her family. Most of the early letters are to the Carpenter family of Boone County from relatives in Virginia. |
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C3490 | Saline County, Missouri Records | 1858-1864 | The records contain an abstract of real estate, Blackwater assessment district, 1858; notice by county court to taxpayers; militia exemptions; and agriculture records. |
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C3491 | Charles Golterman and Sons Mill and Machinery Company Records | 1866-1928 | The records contain ledgers, daybooks, and papers pertaining to operation of a farm, grist and sawmill and steam threshing and agricultural implement business by Golterman and his nine sons in St. Charles County, Missouri. |
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C3492 | "History of Freemasonry" | no date | Traces the development of the Masonic fraternity from the Middle Ages through Europe, England, and South and Central America to the U.S. Includes history of Freemasonry in Missouri and has sections on symbols and ritual. | Finding Aid |
C3493 | Sherman Lee Pompey Papers | no date | The papers contain articles by Pompey on Ozark people, their religions and folk music, and the Civil War in Missouri. Lines and verses of songs are included. |
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C3494 | Hughes Monument Dedication Papers | 1963 | The papers contain an account by Ethel Milton Hughes of the ceremony dedicating a new monument at the grave of Brigadier General John Taylor Hughes, C.S.A. (1817-1862), in Independence, Missouri. Also address delivered on the occasion by Henry A. Bundschu. Hughes was killed in 1862 at the first battle of Independence. |
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C3495 | Missouri. Convention Resolution | 1865 | Printed copy of resolution sent to the U.S. Congress by the Missouri State Convention approving a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery in the states and territories. |
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C3496 | Lewis Memorial Chapel (Crescent, Mo.) History | [1963] | Two-page history of one of the first Methodist churches west of the Mississippi, written on occasion of its centennial. |
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C3497 | "The Hockaday House" | 1963 | History of a house built in Fulton, Missouri, in the 1860s, and occupied until 1963 by the Hockaday family. |
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C3498 | Confederate Home (Higginsville, Mo.) History and Cemetery Records | no date | Account of formation of the Confederate Home Association, building of the home, cost, dedication, and takeover by the state. List of inmates and list of men and women buried in the cemetery. |
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C3499 | Lovewell, Kansas, History | no date | History of the post office, the first store, Lake Lovewell, and some early Lovewell residences. |
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C3500 | Civil War Regimental Histories | no date | Organization, orders, campaigns, mustering out, and casualties of ten Missouri regiments in the Civil War. |
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