Buchanan

St. Joseph, Missouri, Urban Renewal Project Records, 1952-1982 (C4170)
0.6 cubic feet (22 folders)

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Correspondence, maps, clippings, architectural drawings, and economic data concerning urban renewal in St. Joseph, Missouri, 1952-1982.

"Missouri--O Promised Land," Herbert S. Jones, 1960 (C2721)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Migration of Bays, McKee and Blue families to St. Joseph, MO, in the 1830s, and their descendants to 1960.

Orestes Mitchell Jr. and Sr. Papers, 1899-1980 (C3993)
0.8 cubic feet (18 folders)

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The papers contain correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, newspapers, yearbooks, and miscellaneous material of Orestes Mitchell Jr., an attorney and member of the University of Missouri Board of Curators; and his father, Orestes Mitchell Sr., also a lawyer. Both men were active in the St. Joseph, Missouri Rotary Club and Freemasons.

Lynn Morrow Papers, 1804-2015 (R1000)
24 cubic feet (1051 folders, 5 oversize folders, 11,170 photographs, 852 negatives)

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The Lynn Morrow papers contain correspondence and research papers, with an additional significant collection of late twentieth-century promotional and advertising items. The papers reflect major areas of Morrow’s research on the southwest Missouri region; Iron, Shannon, and Washington counties; Theodore Pease Russell and his writings; and the writings of Silas C. Turnbo. The collection also includes a large selection of promotional publications and ephemera associated with late 20th century tourism in Missouri and Arkansas.

National Park Service, Missouri Historic Sites Photographs, 1884, 1947-1956 (P0214)
0.16 linear feet

Photos of historic sites and properties in Missouri, especially St. Joseph.

Northwest Missouri State Park Committee Developmental Proposal, 1925 (C4321)
0.3 cubic feet (1 oversize volume)

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Promotional book of letters, descriptions, blueprint, and photographs presenting the merits of Lanowa Park in Buchanan and Andrew Counties in order to petition the Missouri State Park Commission to establish it as a Missouri State Park.

Bryan Obear Collection, 1911-1918 (C1387)
0.4 cubic feet

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Biographical sketches, reminiscences, and photographs of the Obear, Bryan and McIlvaine families compiled by Bryan Obear. Also includes brief biographies and photographs of Sloman Browne and Charles G. McHatton.

Herbert A. Owens Papers, 1880s-1940s (CA5977)
4 folders

Tax receipts, abstracts, financial records, insurance papers, and business correspondence of a resident of St. Joseph, Missouri.

John Patee Deed, 1860 (C1868)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Deed of John Patee to Bela M. Hughes of the Pony Express stable sites in St. Joseph, MO, May 5, 1860. From the Buchanan County, MO, recorder's office.

John Patee Directive, 1865 (C1982)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Instructs John Curd, as his trustee, to collect money from a lottery at Patee House and use it towards payment of debts.

John Patee Lease, 1864 (C1983)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Lease to Ed Russell for land in St. Joseph, MO.

Pony Express Commemorative Envelope, 1950 (C1883)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Envelope addressed to Floyd C. Shoemaker on the 90th anniversary of the Pony Express, St. Joseph to Sacramento.

H.V. Porter Postcard Collection, 1905-1908, no date (P0464)
1 folder

Postcards of St. Joseph and Glasgow, Missouri.

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.

Rebekah Assembly of Missouri Collection, 1932-1990 (R0616)
(8 rolls of microfilm)

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The Rebekah Assembly of Missouri Collection contains microfilm copies of printed minutes of the annual meetings of the Rebekah Assembly of Missouri. The minutes include lists of state officials, delegates and alternates, financial information and committee reports, matters concerning the Odd Fellows Home in Liberty, Missouri, and a listing of the names and local addresses of all Rebekah lodges in Missouri.

Harry and Opal Mae Rice Postcard Collection, 1909-1946 (P0497)
18 postcards

Postcards of Missouri scenes: St. Joseph, Gallatin, Lebanon, Slater, Maryville, Branson, Jefferson City, Sedalia, St. Louis, and Kansas City.

Annie Louise Roberts Papers, 1910s (CA5976)
3 folders

Court documents, insurance papers, abstracts, and financial papers of the St. Joseph, Missouri resident, dating to the 1910s.

Robidoux Family Papers, 1858-1873 (C2627)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The Robidoux family papers consist of a journal and notes of Julius C. Robidoux; biographical sketches of Joseph Robidoux, III, the founder of St. Joseph, MO; family letters, a translation of a French Creole song; and Buchanan County marriage records.

Joseph Robidoux Deed, 1851 (C1986)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Deed for land in St, Joseph, MO.

Saint Joseph Stockyards Company Records, 1896-1963 (K0192)
0.3 c.f.

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Minutes of the Stockyards Company including attachments and associated items such as the Articles of Incorporation of the organization, proxy statements, contracts, orders to pay dividends, reports to the Board and some correspondence.

Saint Mary's Jesuit Mission and College Records, 1832-1967 (K0330)
0.02 c.f.

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Records of the Jesuit mission to the Potawatomi Indians located in present Linn County, KS, which moved to present Pottawatomie County, KS and became St. Mary's College (Saint Marys, KS.). Mission and college records, reports sent to superiors, and priests' diaries. Includes early missionary records of births, deaths and marriages in Buchanan, Clay, and Jackson Counties, MO.

Sara Gibson Schwake Postcard Collection, 1904-1919 (P0040)
46 postcards

Missouri postcards, including views of Kansas City, St. Joseph, St. Louis, Independence, ice flows on the Mississippi River, and the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

Harriet Cockefair Skinner Postcard Collection, 1900-1916 (P0549)
38 postcards

Postcards, the bulk of which depict Higginsville and Odessa. Additional postcards of St. Louis, Butler, Central Methodist University, Schell City, Joplin, and St. Joseph.

Nancy K. Smith Postcard Collection, 1900-1970 (P0029)
268 postcards

Postcards, all views of hospitals and clinics and some sanitariums across Missouri.

Noelle Louis Soren Papers, 1904-2008 (K0525)
3.84 c.f.

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St. Joe Minerals Corporation Collection, 1864-1974 (R0048)
(12 rolls of microfilm)

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hese are business records from mining concerns in Missouri's "Old Lead Belt." The collection
includes records from the St. Joseph Lead Company, the Doe Run Lead Company, the Bonne
Terre Farming and Cattle Company, and the Mine La Motte Corporation.

St. Joseph (Mo.) Typographical Union No. 40 Records, 1905-1991 (C4272)
4.0 cubic feet (98 folders), 3 oversize items

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The records of the St. Joseph Typographical Union No. 40 consist of correspondence, meeting minutes, contracts and agreements, convention materials, financial records, and miscellaneous materials of a printers’ trade union.

St. Joseph Auditorium Company Share, 1904 (C1981)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Share issued to James Knotts.

St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce Photographs, 1930 (P0469)
4 photographs

Photos of St. Joseph by L.C. Shady, ca. 1930.

St. Joseph Lead Company Photographs, no date (P0893)
5 photographs

Photos of Aptus Furnace and reenactment of early lead mining methods.

St. Joseph Veterinary College Student Record Book, 1908-1947 (C0612)
1 volume

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Student record book listing courses taken, grades, and date of graduation. Transcripts from schools previously attended are also included.

St. Joseph, Missouri, Public Schools Certificate, 1869 (C1987)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Promotion to second grade of Willie Gillmore.

STARFLEET, the International Star Trek Fan Association, USS Discovery Chapter, St. Louis, Missouri, Records, 1985-2017 (S0310)
3.25 cubic feet

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The collection consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, newsletters, reports, and starship schematics documenting the USS Discovery's activities as a chapter of Starfleet: the International Star Trek Fan Association, devoted to the Star Trek Franchise and making creator Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future a reality.

James A. Tate Diary, 1849 (C2720)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Travel by wagon train to California gold mines. Diary records agricultural conditions, mileage, and travel conditions. Few place names or comments. Little mention of the gold rush itself. Biographical material in information folder.

Meriwether Jeff Thompson Bulletin, 1857 (C3208)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Bulletin listing city and county property that M. Jeff Thompson, general land agent at St. Joseph, MO, will sell or trade, 1 April 1857.

Meriwether Jeff Thompson Papers, 1854-1935 (C1030)
0.25 cubic feet; also available on 1 roll of microfilm

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Civil War memoir, correspondence, business and legal papers, family genealogies, and miscellaneous papers of M. Jeff Thompson. Thompson was a civil engineer, a railroad and real estate promoter, mayor of St. Joseph, MO, and a brigadier general in the Confederate Army.

Tootle and Armstrong (St. Joseph, Mo.) Memorandum, 1855 (C0505)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Copy of legal instrument authorizing collection of notes for Tootle and Armstrong, a mercantile firm in St. Joseph, by Joseph Murphy.

Torrey Family Papers, 1863-1913 (C4036)
0.3 cubic feet (12 folders)

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The papers of H.R. Torrey and his second wife, Martha Hard Torrey, include bills and receipts, correspondence, postcards, photographs, and cemetery records. The collection also contains material from other family members, including Martha Torrey's brother, William H. Hard.

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.

Frederick Marion Wanger Family Papers, 1890-1956 (K0588)
1 c.f.

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Personal papers of Wanger, a Police Judge in St. Joseph, MO including photographs, letters, and family other documents.

Frederick Marion Wanger World War One Collection, 1917-1970 (K0587)
1 c.f.

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Personal papers of Wanger of St. Joseph, MO who served as Company Clerk of Company "A", 356th Infantry Regiment, 89th Division in World War I. Includes letters, photographs, a manuscript and printed history of Company "A, artifacts and other documents relation to Company "A", its service in the War and after, its reunions, and the American Legion.

Brother Joe Welshmeyer Photograph Collection, 1921-1951 (P0471)
4 photographs

Photos of Ukrainian churches in St. Francois, St. Joseph, and Ilasco.

Ida Tinsley Whiteacre Diaries, 1935-1937 (C3030)
0.2 cubic feet

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Fifteen diaries, written from 1935-1937 by Ida Tinsley Whiteacre, detailing her thoughts about living in the home of her daughter and son-in-law in St. Joseph, Missouri, during the Great Depression. Family conflicts, Depression-era prices and chores, and discussions about "physical culture" exercises and procedures are some of the topics covered.

Walter E. Wilson Scrapbooks, 1942-1969 (CA6473)
0.9 cubic feet

Two scrapbooks compiled by a resident of St. Joseph, Missouri, documenting his career in the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Volume 2 includes a 1930 photograph of the crowd and burning school building at the lynching of Raymond Gunn in Maryville which Wilson witnessed. The event inspired him to go into law enforcement.

Zwick Family Papers, 1860-1965 (C4199)
0.25 cubic feet (6 folders)

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The Zwick family papers contain photographs, correspondence, financial documents, and genealogical information on the Zwick family.