Callaway

New Providence Presbyterian Church (Guthrie, Mo.) Records, 1823-1964 (C4213)
0.4 cubic feet (10 folders)

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The records of the New Providence Presbyterian Church contain the church constitution, minutes, records of births, deaths, baptisms, and marriages, as well as Sunday School minutes and a few miscellaneous letters regarding church members.

Treva Faye Oden Collection, 1887-2010 (C4480)
0.2 cubic feet (4 folders)

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Copies of newspaper articles and photographs, biographical and historical records for Antioch Christian Church and Grand Prairie Baptist Church located in Callaway County Missouri.

Robert J. Offutt Diary, 1898 (C3755)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains an extract from the diary of a Callaway County, MO, man who went to Alaska with a large party to prospect for gold. Entries mention travel, but nothing about the gold fields themselves.

William E. Parrish Papers, 1972-1977 (C3642)
1.6 cubic feet (107 folders)

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Papers from the chairman of the Missouri American Revolution Bicentennial Commission. Included are correspondence, business papers, programs, and miscellaneous items.

Michael Gene Pfefferkorn Papers, 1976-2001 (S1219)
9.25 cubic feet

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The papers of Michael Gene Pfefferkorn contain correspondence, meeting minutes, newsletters, and speeches concerning the historic preservation of St. Louis landmarks and neighborhoods, including the Major John Stevens Bowen House; the integration of St. Louis City Schools during the 1970s; and the establishment of the American Tax Token Society in 1971. Other topics of interest include the publication of the Missouri Journal of Numismatics, which Pfefferkorn edited from 1976 to 2001. The papers date from 1964 to 1993.

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.

"The Rise of Higher Education in the Missouri Valley, 1818-1900," Earl Leon Heck, 1965 (C2914)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Histories of academics, colleges, and universities in the Missouri Valley.

"A Short Sketch of My Experiences During the First Stages of the Civil War," R.C. Carter, no date (C2911)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains a memoir describing experiences of a Confederate lieutenant. He includes the battles of the Hemp Bales, Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, and Boonville in his reminiscences.

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

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

Russell E. Smith Photographs, 1957 (P0465)
39 photographs

Photos of Missouri scenes, primarily small Missouri river towns and rural scenery, ca. 1957

Sons of Temperance Broadside, 1848 (C2830)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Description of 4th of July celebration of the Sons of Temperance in Fulton, MO.

Si Steinberg Photograph Collection, 1938, 1950 (P0005)
23 photographs

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Sixteen prints of a Fourth of July celebration and political rally sponsored by the Young Democratic Club at Reed's Lake, west of Fulton in Callaway County on July 4, 1938 and seven prints of the groundbreaking ceremony at Stephens College, Columbia, for the Firestone Baars Chapel designed by Eero Saarinen.

T.S. Yates Account Books, 1831-1896 (C0342)
3 oversize volumes

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Record of a general merchandise firm in Fulton, Missouri.

Tate Family Papers, 1786-1871 (C0174)
0.15 cubic feet (7 folders)

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Accounts, family letters, and deeds to land of John, James, and Isaac Tate and their families, who lived in Callaway and Ralls Counties, Missouri, and Greensburgh, Kentucky. Diary of a trip to California in 1849. Papers of the Thespian Society of Greensburgh, Kentucky. See also C2720, James A. Tate Diary, 1849.

George F. and Ursula Terry Letters, 1841-1843 (C1918)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Written to Reuben and Elizabeth Terry, Millersburgh, KY, from Callaway County, MO. Crops, hard times, and family news.

D.M. and J.H. Tucker Papers, 1833-1902 (C0178)
0.2 cubic feet

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Records of a mercantile firm in Fulton, MO. Business, the Civil War, state insane asylum, and politics are discussed. Records of the Tucker and Harris mercantile firm, later the D.M. and J.H. Tucker firm.

Turley Family Historical Research Association Records, 1740-2005 (R1068)
6 cubic feet (182 folders, 66 photographs)

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The Turley Family Historical Research Association Records contain historical and genealogical materials related to the Turley family collected by the Turley Family Historical Research Association. The records include copies of family papers, genealogical research, photographs, correspondence, and financial records of the Association.

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.

Union Hill Baptist Church (Holt's Summit, Mo.) History, 1971 (C3277)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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History of the church from its organization in 1843 to 1971, naming deacons and pastors, giving a history of the church buildings, and describing some of the special meetings of the church.

United States Bureau of Mines, Rolla Research Center Records, 1915-1996 (R1321)
17 cubic feet (372 folders, 4 maps, 3,238 photographs, 68 negatives, 936 slides, 3 volumes)

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The United States Bureau of Mines, Rolla Research Center Records contain the records of the Bureau of Mines office and research facility established in Rolla, Missouri in 1915. The records include correspondence, operational reports, project reports, photographs, newspaper articles, program materials, and maps.

Charles Van Ravenswaay Papers, 1841-1990 (C3873)
21.8 cubic feet (1,359 folders), 1 audio cassette

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Correspondence, research notes, photographs, and literary manuscripts of historian and author Charles van Ravenswaay, former director of the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis; Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts; and the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum and Gardens, Wilmington, Delaware.

W.E. Berghauser Hardware Company (Fulton, Mo.) Records, 1874-1929 (C2565)
29 rolls of microfilm

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Accounting records of the W.E. Berghauser Hardware Company of Fulton, MO.

“The Watch on the Rhine by Moonlight”, 1919 (C3310)
0.18 cubic feet (9 folders)

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William Brewer Whitlow Papers, 1894-1943 (C0035)
30.8 cubic feet (2,781 folders), 3 rolls of microfilm (13 volumes only on microfilm)

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The Papers of William Brewer Whitlow contain materials pertaining to the liquidation of seventy-seven insolvent banks in Missouri.  Whitlow, a lawyer from Fulton, was appointed to liquidate the banks. Also includes Whitlow's political papers as chairman, Callaway County Democratic Committee; member, State Democratic Committee, 1937-1939; and state senator from the 10th district, 1938-1942. These papers concern campaign programs, publicity and speakers; public opinion and reaction to proposed legislation; constituent requests and endorsements; and Senate bills, amendments and committee work.

William Woods University Records, 1880s-2000s (CA6180)
140.85 cubic feet, 26 oversize volumes, 9 oversize items, 1 audio tape

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Academic and administrative records of school established in 1870 in Camden Point, Missouri, and moved to Fulton, Missouri, in 1890. Includes yearbooks, newspapers, newsletters, catalogs, student scrapbooks and photograph albums, and materials of Olympian Helen Stephens.

Clarence Williams Photograph Collection, 1928-1946 (P0063)
6 photographs

3 original photos of log cabin that was the birthplace of Andrew Taylor Still, one of which shows a nearby amphitheater. 2 photos of American School of Osteopathy, established in 1892 by Andrew Taylor Still. One photo of the Churchill-Truman visit to Westminster College.

Hugh P. Williamson Photographs, 1884, 1958-1959 (P0468)
18 photographs

Photos of historic houses in Callaway County.

Winston Churchill Memorial and Library Photographs, no date (P0454)
5 photographs

Copy photos of Churchill related sites in Callaway County

Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Auxvasse, Mo.) Records, 1907-1920 (C0446)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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Minutes, letters, and handbook.

Gary Woolfolk Photograph Collection, 1896-1900, no date (P0880)
1 folder

Copy photos of the Fulton area.

Zumwalt Family Papers, 1862-1992 (C4048)
0.5 cubic feet (15 folders)

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The Zumwalt family papers consist of genealogical materials, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, local church histories, and miscellaneous articles relating to a family that settled in Boone and Callaway Counties around 1800.