Cass

Saunders Family Papers, 1877-1973 (C4248)
0.1 cubic feet (13 folders), 2 oversize items

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The Saunders family papers contains family photographs, correspondence to and from Eva Pearl and Ed Saunders and other documents related to the Saunders and Danner families of Cass County, Missouri.

Second Presbyterian Church Records, 1905-2017 (K1467)
7 cubic feet (14 folders, 1 oversize folder, 28 architectural drawings, 7 microfilm reels, 1 photograph)

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This collection consists of materials relating to the background and history of the Second Presbyterian Church in Kansas City, Missouri. This includes materials written by the Church’s first pastor Timothy Hill covering churches within the presbytery across Missouri. There are also materials from a scrapbook belonging to Margaret Young, a member of the church, many of which relate to World War I. Architectural drawings included in the collection range from 1914 to 2024 and represent the architectural history of the church’s building, including original drawings as well as additions. Finally, materials on microfilm include church records, registers, and minutes.

David W. Short Collection, 1902-1975 (K0690)
0.98 c.f.

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Short is a collector of materials relating to interurban railroad and streetcar systems. Includes mechanical drawings, magazines, posters, maps, and photographs.

Edgar Lee Sliffe Papers, 1879-2001 (SP0120)
5 cubic feet (16 folders, 58 photographs, 13 volumes)

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The Edgar Lee Sliffe Papers contains the personal papers of Edgar Lee Sliffe and related families, including correspondence, genealogical records, land documents, publications, and photographs. This collection also includes World War I panoramic photographs, as well as photo albums documenting World War II and families from Bates and Cass counties of Missouri.

"A Soil Improvement Program for Cass County, Missouri," O.E. Allen, 1928 (C2676)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains a paper submitted to the contest of the Soil Improvement Committee of the National Fertilizer Association.

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

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Southwest Missouri Library Service, Inc., Records, 1957-1982 (SP0084)
1.5 cubic feet (37 folders, 2 photographs)

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The Southwest Missouri Library Service, Inc., Records contain the by-laws, meeting minutes, correspondence, financial records, and membership papers of Southwest Missouri Library Service, Inc., headquartered in Bolivar, Missouri.

St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad Company Collection, 1852, 1916-1984 (R1506)
18 cubic feet (14 folders, 81 volumes, 33 oversize volumes)

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The St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad Company Collection contains records of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad Company “Frisco.” These records include AFE completion reports, ICC valuations, equipment registers and inventories, and materials on corporate history.

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.

Frank Chick Swinney Family Collection, 1898-2015 (K1461)
3 cubic feet (50 folders, 633 Photographs, 7 negatives)

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Personal papers and newspaper articles of Frank Chick Swinney and his family members, correspondence and collected items from Frank's military service in Europe, multiple photographs of Swinney family members from their younger years, genealogy research records of Swinney and other related families, and a few scrapbooks of Frank and Barbara Swinney.

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.

Lyle Welles Underhill Architectural Records, 1909-1939 (K0136)
3.12 c.f.

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Architectural drawings, specifications, contracts, photographs, correspondence, and related memorabilia of Underhill, a woman architect in Kansas City, MO who specialized in school buildings in Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri. However, other types of buildings are also included.

Veterans History Project (Cass County, Mo.) Collection, 2002-2005 (C4569)
0.6 cubic feet (38 folders, 42 audio cassettes)

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Oral history interviews and transcripts of Missouri veterans conducted as part of the Library of Congress, Veterans History Project in Cass County, Missouri. Collection also includes transcriptions, miscellaneous photocopied military papers, and some photographs.

Wight and Wight Architectural Records, 1904-1952 (K0825)
40.04 c.f.

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Architectural drawings, business papers, and photographs from the premier pre-World War II architects of Kansas City, MO. also of furnishings designed by W.D. Wight.

Williams-Shaw Family Papers, 1796-1904 (C0189)
0.12 cubic feet (6 folders)

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Papers of a Virginia family who moved to Rutherford County, Tennessee, in the 1830s and to Cass County, Missouri, in the 1860s. Includes tax receipts, legal documents regarding land purchases, accounts, and plans and lists of materials for building a barn, 1867.