Daviess

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"Alexander of Gallatin," Julia Jane Jenner, no date (C0123)
0.2 cubic feet

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History of Gallatin and Daviess County, MO, and biography of Joshua 'w. Alexander, a lawyer, politician, member of Congress (1907-1919), and secretary of commerce in Wilson's cabinet. Sketches of Webster Davis, A.M. Dockery, and Jesse and Frank James.

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Community Presbyterian Church (Blake, Mo.) Records, 1924-1932 (C1344)
0.07 cubic feet (1 volume)

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History, by-laws, and minutes of session meetings of the church, which was formed when Bethel and Prairie Valley churches merged.

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D

Daviess County, Missouri, Circuit Court Records, 1839 (C1603)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Court records, April Term, 1839. Affidavits and indictments concerning Mormon difficulties. Joseph Smith, Jr., Lyman Wright, Moses Daily, Joseph Younger, Terry Durpee, Ephraim Oivens, John Lemon, James Whitaker, Alonson Brown, James Bingham, Amos Tubbs, Absolem Dutchfield, William Aldridge, George Smith, and Cabel Baldwin.

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Daviess County, Missouri, Tax Book and Assessment List, 1857 (C1095)
0.1 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Certified by Joseph N. McGee, clerk of the county court of Daviess County, 10 October 1857, and filed in his office by the assessor.

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G

Gallatin Bank (Gallatin, Mo.) Postcard, no date (C0801)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains a postcard picture of the bank building at Gallatin, Missouri, which was robbed by Jesse and Frank James on 7 December 1869. Picture includes a group of unidentified men.

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Lynn Gentzler Photographs, 1998 (P0603)
1 folder

Photos of Pattonsburg as movie set for Ride With the Devil (1998), and Maysville county courthouse postcard.

H

Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Land Promotion Circular, 1860 (C0904)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains one advertisement of New England Colony located in Daviess and Caldwell Counties, Missouri. Descriptions of crops, minerals, soils, climate, lumber, and price of land.

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J

Frank James Jury Photograph, 1883 (C2257)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Photograph of the jury that acquitted Frank James at Gallatin, MO.

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M

David and William M. Moore Papers, 1876-1930 (C0140)
0.12 cubic feet (6 folders)

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Letters to William M. and David Moore, farmers near Pattonsburg, Missouri, about family affairs; public road near Pattonsburg; Hope Drainage District bonds; diaries for 1907-1908; eight small books with accounts and diary entries for 1879-1884 and 1905; and leaves from general store account book, 1917-1920.

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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.

N

North Central Missouri Region Photograph Collection, 1897-1964 (P1111)

An artificial collection of photographs of the North Central Missouri region, including Harrison, Mercer, Putnam, Sullivan, Grundy, Daviess, Livingston, and Linn counties.

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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.

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Joseph R. Snyder Photograph Collection, 1888, 1950, no date (P0353)
8 photographs

Photos of Daviess County, particularly Gallatin, monuments and sites, ca. 1950s-1960s.

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