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Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. Records, 1997 (R1406)
0.1 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. Records contain the book Win-Win: A Information History of Associated Electric Cooperative Inc., written by Russ Holt and published in 1997.

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Harry E. Brown Papers, 1932-1971 (C4475)
2.0 cubic feet (80 folders)

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The papers of a University of Missouri-Columbia entomology professor, including his teaching materials, B.S. coursework, military information, and research project data.

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Lloyd A. Dankers Collection, no date (P0637)
2 photographs

Images of Oregon, MO: photo of Banks house and postcard depicting Holt county courthouse.

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Glenn Family Papers, 1845-1930 (C0107)
3.8 cubic feet, 6 oversize volumes

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The personal and business papers of John H. Glenn and his sons Addison N. Glenn and Robert C. Glenn include account books of the Mound City, Missouri, general merchandise, furniture, and drug stores run by John and Robert Glenn and the farm implement store managed by Addison Glenn for the McKeeson & Rinker Company in Falls City, Nebraska. The collection also includes correspondence between family members, wedding invitations, the Glenns' lending library circulation records, and a minute book for the Mound City G.A.R. post.

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Hesterlynn Griffith Photograph Collection, 1915, no date (P0638)
5 photographs

Photos of Mound City, MO, including the Hiatt and Browning homes, Big Lake State Park ca. 1915, and soldiers returning from WWI ca. 1918.

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Holt County, Missouri, Papers, 1862-1893 (C2894)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The papers of Holt County Missouri contain four oaths of loyalty to the United States and the State of Missouri, by Daniel Ganghan, George P. Hedrick, and Phillip W. Shambaugh, in the presence of the Holt County clerk in 1862. Also included is a ferryman's bond giving Olney Graham authority to keep a ferry across the Missouri River at Boswell, NE, 1893.

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Al N. Holzhauser Photograph Collection, no date (P0639)
8 photographs

Copy photos of William Banks Trading Post in rural Holt County.

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Kearney Family Papers, 1890-1969, bulk 1918 (C4605)
0.4 cubic feet (9 folders)

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Material from a Holt County (Mo.) family, including letters from Harold Leslie Kearney who served in France during WWI.

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Warren Kimsey Papers, 1915-1934 (C3747)
0.1 cubic feet (5 folders)

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The papers of Warren Kimsey contain correspondence, stories, press releases, and histories of a Missouri-born short story writer.

G.S. Kunkel Autobiography, 1918 (C0463)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Memoirs of G.S. Kunkel of Oregon, Holt County, MO. Mentions milling, Brigham Young, a trip to Pike's Peak, the Black Hills, Indian and Mormon massacres, California, Chinese inhabitants, gold mining, Virginia City, Mark Twain, patents, and his family.

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Irene Milne Photograph Collection, no date (P0640)
3 photographs

Photos related to Jesse Carroll, Richville, Holt County.

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T. Clifford Morgan Collection, 1853-1983 (C4338)
0.25 cubic feet (6 folders)

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The collection contains documents, books, and ledgers collected by T. Clifford Morgan for research of his wife’s family.

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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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Oaths of Loyalty, 1861-1862 (C1958)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Loyalty oaths of James M. Collins, 1861, Robert Wilson, 1862, and James M. Parsons, 1861, Holt County, MO.

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John A. Sanborn Diaries, 1899-1908 (C1242)
0.15 cubic feet (10 volumes)

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The collection contains the diaries of a Mound City, Missouri, farmer who sold his farm and moved to Corning, Kansas, in 1902. He sold his Kansas farm and moved to Macon, Missouri, in 1903. Diaries include cash accounts and memoranda for the ten-year period 1899-1908.

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Thomas Earl Wilson Papers, 1928-1965 (C4164)
0.2 cubic feet

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Journal of a Holt County, Missouri, farmer spanning the years 1928-1965. Entries detail family life and farm operation. Includes two photographs and a preface written by his grandson, Thomas Soapes, in 2012.

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