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Adams Township Centennial Photograph Collection, 1889-1942 (P0607)
1 folder

Copy photos of Weatherby and Adams Township, DeKalb County. Images were featured in Adams Township Centennial book by the DeKalb County Historical Society

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Amos R. Brand Papers, 1917-1919, 2017 (C4677)
0.12 cubic foot (4 folders)

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Letters written by Amos R. Brand, a soldier serving in the 35th Infantry Division during World War I. Also includes transcriptions, a newspaper article on Brand's service and the letters, photographs, and miscellaneous research notes on Brand and his family.

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Mrs. J.L. Brown Chautauqua Photograph, no date (P0145)
1 photograph

Photographic postcard depicting William Jennings Bryan speaking at a Maysville Chautauqua.

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Collection of Clinton-DeKalb County and Travels to Southwest Missouri Photographs, no date (P0187)

photographs; landscapes and buildings in Noel, Elk Springs, Maysville, El Dorado Springs, and Vernon County, Missouri, Atchison, Kansas, and Sulphur Springs, Eureka Springs, Siloam Springs, Gravette, and Fayetteville, Arkansas. Portraits taken in Maysville, Osborn, and Cameron, Missouri.

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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.

German Stewartsville Branch, RLDS (Stewartsville, Mo.) Records, 1877-1908 (C3054)
1 roll of microfilm

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Record book of church in DeKalb County organized on April 25, 1877. Contains records of membership, ordinations, children blessed, and marriages. Protocols or minutes of business meetings are in German. Includes English transcripts of the protocols.

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Falkland H. Martin Letter, 1845 (C2423)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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To John F. Doherty, Esq., DeKalb County, MO, from Jefferson City, MO, June 13, 1845.

Request from secretary of state that Doherty, newly appointed clerk of the DeKalb County court, forward his required bond.

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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.

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Northwest Missouri, Photograph Collection, 1831-1997 (P1124)

An artificial collection of photographs from Missouri's northwestern counties: Atchison, Holt, Andrew, Nodaway, Worth, Gentry, and DeKalb.

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Mary H. O'Neill Diary, 1899 (C3945)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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A one volume diary of Mary H. O'Neill, a resident of DeKalb County, MO, kept during 1899.

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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.