Morgan

Photos from the Road Collection, 2018-2019 (C4389)

Sean Rost serves as the Oral Historian for the State Historical Society of Missouri and the Missouri Humanities Council. He started this position in January 2018. The images in this collection were taken during Rost's travels throughout the state on oral history projects and on personal time.

Leonard Pryor Photograph Collection, no date (P0576)
1 folder

Copy prints of photos of Lake Placid, Missouri, used in a 2000 Review article by Gary Kremer.

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.

Francis Asbury Sampson Photographs, no date (C4715)
6 oversize items

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Six nature photographs taken in Camden and Morgan Counties of Sampson and a Mr. McCullough of the U.S. Geological Survey.

William Sims Accounts, 1900-1901 (C1940)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Accounts of Sims with Versailles Milling Company and M. Moser of Versailles Roller Mills.

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

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Southern and Central Missouri Map Collection, 1874-2011, bulk 1930-2005 (R1466)
6 cubic feet (30 oversize folders, 145 maps)

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The Southern and Central Missouri Map Collection contains highway, railroad, geological, topographical, mining, tourist, city, county, and state maps. The maps focus on the southern and central counties in Missouri including Crawford, Dent, Franklin, Gasconade, Howell, Iron, Jefferson, Laclede, Madison, Maries, Miller, Morgan, Phelps, Pulaski, Reynolds, Saint Francois, Sainte Genevieve, Texas, Washington, and Wright counties.

St. Martins School, Morgan County, Missouri Records, 1897-1900 (R0414)
0.1 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The St. Martins School, Morgan County, Missouri Records contain a record book from the Saint Martin’s School District, which was located north of Versailles and east of Glensted in Morgan County, Missouri. Included in the record book are meeting minutes, district expenditures, and annual enumerations of both children and taxpayers.

Stover Fruit Growers Association (Morgan County, Mo.) Record Book, 1928-1931 (C2560)
0.10 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Minutes of annual meetings, lists of officers and members, and a brief history of the organization.

Talbott and Clark Records, 1889-1890 (R0881)
(1 folder)

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These are six letters from Talbott & Clark, a business partnership at Proctor in Morgan County, Missouri, to A. J. Stillwell & Company in Hannibal, Missouri. They concern the purchase and shipment of butchered meat.

Thixton Family Papers, 1860s-2007 (C4726)
0.4 cubic foot (7 folders)

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Photographs and miscellaneous family papers pertaining to Burton Ellsworth Thixton, Deliah Comer Thixton and their descendants in Moniteau, Morgan, and Benton Counties, Missouri.

John B. Thruston Records, 1859-1879 (R0430)
1 roll

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These are business records of Dr. John B. Thruston, a physician at Versailles in Morgan
County, Missouri. The records include account ledgers, 1859-1879, and a daybook, 1861-1863. The
entries note the names of the patients, the types of medical services rendered, Thruston's fees, and
settlements of accounts.

"A Tribute to Anna Lee Kidwell", 1963 (C3517)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Written by the Morgan County superintendent of schools upon the retirement of Anna Lee Kidwell, who taught school for 52 years in Morgan County, Missouri.

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.

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.

Irwin M. Wahlers Papers, 1918 (R0155)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Irwin Wahlers Papers contain photocopies of a letter written by Wahlers during his service in World War I while stationed in France.

Western Detective Association Collection, 1878 (R1165)
(1 folder)

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This is a flyer advertising the Western Detective Association at Versailles in Morgan County, Missouri. Officers of the firm, which was incorporated on March 11, 1878, were William A. Mills, J.F. Morris, R.F. Walker, Max Joachimi, and James M. Handlin.

Ilene Sims Yarnell Collection, 1906-1972 (P0601)
0.19 linear feet

Photographs and postcards of Morgan County, especially churches, houses, and schools in and near Versailles, MO. Postcards, primarily depicting the Lake of the Ozarks area and adjacent counties.

Ilene Sims Yarnell Scrapbook, 1954-1955 (C1441)
0.03 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Newspaper clippings of marriages, births, deaths, church records, and miscellaneous of Versailles, MO, and vicinity.