Benton

Osage Valley Bank (Warsaw, Mo.) Minute Book, 1908-1917 (C2321)
0.11 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Minutes of board of directors meetings, including financial statements.

Ozark All-Stars Photograph Collection, 1960s (R1477)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder, 1 photograph)

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The Ozark All-Stars Photograph Collection contains the autographed photograph of the Ozark All-Stars, performers from the Country Music Hall at Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri.

Photos from the Road Collection, 2018-2019 (C4389)

Sean Rost serves as the Oral Historian for the State Historical Society of Missouri and the Missouri Humanities Council. He started this position in January 2018. The images in this collection were taken during Rost's travels throughout the state on oral history projects and on personal time.

Rainwater Family Papers, 1863-1939 (R0227)
0.02 cubic foot (2 folders)

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The Rainwater Family Papers contain photocopies of the Civil War letters of Major Charles C. Rainwater, a Confederate officer, to his wife, Sarah Fowler Rainwater, at Cole Camp, Benton County, Missouri. The letters mention fighting at Hartville and Cape Girardeau, and Rainwater’s disabilities from wounds. There are also genealogical data on Samuel Fowler and his family, and biographical sketches of Sarah Fowler Rainwater.

Ramsay Place Names File, 1928-1945 (C2366)
6 cubic feet (12 boxes), 4 rolls of microfilm

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Card file of origins of Missouri place names, compiled by students of Robert L. Ramsay, University of Missouri professor of English. Cards are in alphabetical order by place name.

Rocky Ridge School, Benton County, Missouri Records, 1940-1946 (R0261)
(1 roll of microfilm)

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The Rocky Ridge School, Benton County, Missouri Records contain a microfilm copy of the records for the Rocky Ridge School, School District No. 27.

Ross Creek School, Benton County, Missouri Records, 1952-1957 (R0265)
(1 roll of microfilm)

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The Ross Creek School, Benton County, Missouri Records contain a microfilm copy of the attendance records for Ross Creek School, School District No. 34.

Saint John's Lutheran Church, Benton County, Missouri Records, 1881-1945 (R0546)
4 volumes MICROFILM

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These are records of St. John's Lutheran Church at Boeschenville in Benton County, Missouri.
Included are the constitution, by-laws, registers of members, lists of births, baptisms, communicants,
and deaths, and minutes of meetings, 1912-1941. Most of the records are in German.

Saint John's Lutheran Church, Cole Camp, Missouri Collection, 1922-1971 (R0525)
0.02 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Saint John’s Lutheran Church, Cole Camp, Missouri Collection contains photocopies of programs for a new church building and two anniversary celebrations.

Saint Paul's Lutheran Church, Cole Camp, Missouri Collection, 1918-1972 (R0524)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church, Cole Camp, Missouri Collection consists of photocopied records and programs for St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Cole Camp, Benton County, Missouri.

Southern and Central Missouri Collection, 1856-2015 (R1442)
5 cubic feet (236 folders, 2 VHS, 7 CDs, 1 45 record, 1 cassette)

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The Southern and Central Missouri Collection is an artificial collection combining acquisitions related to individuals, places, organizations, and events. The collection mostly covers the Missouri counties of Crawford, Dent, Phelps, Pulaski, Shannon, Oregon, Barry, Miller, Taney, Jasper, and Laclede, among others.

St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church Records, 1882-1939 (R0122)
(1 roll of microfilm)

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The St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Cole Camp, Missouri Records contains a microfilm copy of minutes of congregational meetings, church registers, and records of the Ladies Aid Society of St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cole Camp, Benton County, Missouri. Nearly all of the texts are in German.

Smith A. Sterett Papers, 1861-1899 (C2074)
0.1 cubic feet (5 folders)

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The papers of Smith A. Sterett contain letters from business associates, friends, and family; business papers; Sterett's Confederate Army discharge; and an elementary spelling book. Sterett was a Montana Territory prospector, Helena, MT, merchant, and Nevada, MO, hardware merchant.

Thixton Family Papers, 1860s-2007 (C4726)
0.4 cubic foot (7 folders)

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Photographs and miscellaneous family papers pertaining to Burton Ellsworth Thixton, Deliah Comer Thixton and their descendants in Moniteau, Morgan, and Benton Counties, Missouri.

Trinity Lutheran Church, Cole Camp, Missouri Records, 1946-1972 (R0529)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Trinity Lutheran Church, Cole Camp, Missouri Records are the constitution and bylaws from 1946 and an illustrated roster of the members of Trinity Lutheran Church dated 1972 at Cole Camp in Benton County, Missouri. 

U.S. Work Projects Administration, Historical Records Survey of Missouri, 1935-1942 (C3551)
302 cubic feet (24,282 folders); also available on 817 rolls of microfilm

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Correspondence, records, and working files. Originally designed to survey and inventory all county government records, the survey finally included inventories of church records, manuscript collections, vital statistics, American imprints, and federal archives. Incorporates records of the Federal Writers Project for Missouri.

United Evangelical Lutheran Church, Cole Camp, Missouri Collection, 1934-1976 (R0526)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The United Evangelical Lutheran Church, Cole Camp, Missouri Collection contains photocopies of the Easter Cantata, church directory, and fiftieth anniversary pro­gram of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cole Camp, Benton County, Mis­souri.

Western Missouri Land-O-Lakes Association Collection, circa 1962-1965 (R0823)
(1 folder)

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These are two map brochures published by the Western Missouri Land-O-Lakes Association, to promote tourism in the area including the "Upper Arm" of the Lake of the Ozarks, Pomme de Terre Lake, and the planned Stockton Lake and Kaysinger Bluff (later Harry S. Truman) Reservoir.

Wherritt and Tunnel Scrapbooks, 1950-1970 (SP0023)
7 cubic feet (5 folders, 7 oversize, 6 photographs)

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The Wherritt and Tunnell Scrapbooks collection contains thirteen scrapbooks created by sisters Mary Wherritt and Mildred Tunnell. The scrapbooks documents trips they took around the United States and Europe from the 1950s to the 1970s.

W.W. Wisdom Photographs, 1961-1962 (P0094)
1 folder

Snapshots of historic buildings in Warsaw, Benton County, and Moniteau County, ca. 1961-1962.

Paul A. Wobus Papers, 1918-1989 (R0008)
2.5 cubic feet (58 folders, 89 notebooks, 79 photographs)

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The Paul A. Wobus Papers contain the personal and professional papers of Reverend Paul A. Wobus of Manchester, Missouri. The papers include Wobus’s uncompleted and unpublished memoirs, photographs, correspondence, materials concerning Mount Zion Community Church and the Ozark Community Council, historical notes concerning Wobus’s avocational interest in the mills and railroads in the regions, miscellaneous newspaper clippings and other printed materials, narrative accounts of many of his trips into the Ozarks. Also included are 89 small notebooks, dated from 1938-1972, in which he kept records of his mileage, routes, schedules, expenses, and places and person visited.

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.