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Summers and Company Records, 1852-1860 (K0362)
0.1 c.f.

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Journal ledger of the Summers and Company dry goods/grocery of Parkville and Kansas City. Also records of Summers service as justice of the peace in Kansas City.

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Joseph R. Summers Letter, 1850 (C2746)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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From Dry Town, CA, Oct. 30, 1850.

Letter describes trip to California from Indiana; Salt Lake City in 1850; and mining, prices, cholera, and prospects of a fortune in California.

Survey of Christian Glanz Estate by A. M. Allen, 1852 (K0351)
0.01 c.f.

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This collection contains a survey for a sub-division of six acres of land in Westport, Missouri, belonging to the estate of Christian Glanz. The Survey was hand-drawn by A. M. Allen.

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Sutherland Family Letters, 1858-1879 (C2685)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Letters to Samuel H. Sutherland, a Missouri University student, from his parents, reporting local news in St. Clair County. A letter from Samuel from Shreveport, LA, in 1865, tells his post-Civil War plans.

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Samuel H. Sutherland Papers, 1858-1861 (C0400)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Letters to Samuel H. Sutherland, a student at the University of Missouri, from his parents in St. Clair County.

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George Clinton Swallow Papers, 1839-1909 (C0408)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)

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Letters to Mr. And Mrs. Swallow on their 50th wedding anniversary. Clippings. Diary, 1839-1899, recording positions offered and held, move to Columbia, and association with University and Geological Survey of Missouri.

Lewis M. Switzler Papers, 1834-1936 (C3420)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder), 1 roll of microfilm

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The papers of Lewis M. Switzler contain news clippings, photographs, and correspondence on the Civil War, Boone County, Missouri, history, and national events; poetry; anecdotes; and family announcements.

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William Franklin Switzler Papers, 1836-1905 (C0461)
1 cubic foot

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Memoirs, a circular, and a typescript history of the University of Missouri. The history of the university is also available on microfilm.

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Symington Family Papers, 1775-2010 (S1211)
0.2 cubic foot

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The Symington Family Papers contain genealogical research on the Johnston, Boggs, and Symington families 1775 to 2010, as well as correspondence to members of the Johnston and Symington families between 1817 to 1883.

F.M. Symmes Sermons, 1857-1888 (C0407)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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Series of sermons begun in 1857, with revisions, dates, and occasions of use.

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T.S. Yates Account Books, 1831-1896 (C0342)
3 oversize volumes

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Record of a general merchandise firm in Fulton, Missouri.

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Tabernacle Separate Baptist Church (Carroll County, Mo.) Minutes, 1849-1861 (C1324)
0.04 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Minutes of meetings and list of original subscribers.

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Taggart Family Papers, 1825-1913 (C4201)
1 cubic foot (32 folders)

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The Taggart Family Papers consists of correspondence between various members of the Taggart family and friends between the years 1825-1913. Henry Taggart lived in Linn County, Missouri.

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Tate Family Papers, 1786-1871 (C0174)
0.15 cubic feet (7 folders)

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Accounts, family letters, and deeds to land of John, James, and Isaac Tate and their families, who lived in Callaway and Ralls Counties, Missouri, and Greensburgh, Kentucky. Diary of a trip to California in 1849. Papers of the Thespian Society of Greensburgh, Kentucky. See also C2720, James A. Tate Diary, 1849.

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James B. Tatum Papers, 1852-2016 (SP0122)
3 cubic feet (51 folders, 17 photographs, 6 volumes)

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The James B. Tatum Papers contain the personal papers of James Bernard Tatum, an Anderson, Missouri, native and founder of Crowder College. The collection also includes materials related to McDonald County history, Crowder College, and servant-leadership theory.

Taube Family Papers, 1838-1906 (C3022)
1 roll of microfilm (3 folders on microfilm)

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The collection contains the papers of a German American family in Westphalia, Missouri. Written mostly in German, this collection contains traditional New Year’s cards and letters from the 1870s, 1880s, and 1900s, from Mathias, Ferdinand, and Heinrich Eichholz and others. A notebook begun in 1838 by Anna Margaretha (Temmen) Eicholz includes school exercises, financial account entries for 1856-1861, and a list of family births from 1852-1897.

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Joseph Herbert Tedrow Transportation Collection, 1850-1987 (K0754)
9 c.f.

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Collected data on transportation, particularly railroads operating in the Mid-west. Includes photographs, time-tables, notes, and other items.

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The Friends of Arrow Rock, Inc. Collection, 1845-2006 (CA6821)
7.4 c.f., 11 oversize items, 1 oversize volume

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The collection of a non-profit organization founded in 1859 dedicated to the preservation of Arrow Rock's historic sites and buildings. The collection includes correspondence with members of F.O.A.R as well as with citizens and former people(s) residing in the town of Arrow Rock. Also included are Masonic Lodge records, ledgers of various businesses, doctors and dentists offices, diaries, news clippings of public events and activities, educational programing, and photographs. The collection contains Reverend U.S.G. Moore Baptist church records, sermon notes, Sunday school teachings and church bulletins, along with Zion Christian Church and Federated Church records, and Lyceum Theatre materials.

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Theater Programs, St. Louis, Missouri Collection, 1852-1953 (S0595)
0.25 cubic foot, 12 folders

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This collection contains play bills and programs of theater productions at St. Louis theaters from 1853-1917.

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Thomas-Browning Papers, 1850-1909 (C0975)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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Miscellaneous financial papers, 1874-1909, primarily pertaining to C.S. Browning's activities as a cattleman transferring livestock between Texas and Missouri. The account book, 1850-1908, was kept by C.M. Thomas, an auctioneer in Wellington and then Warrensburg, MO.

Elizabeth Remay Dabbs Thompson Papers, 1850-1932 (R0671)
0.25 cubic foot (5 folders)

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The Elizabeth Remay Dabbs Thompson Papers contain the personal and family papers collected by Elizabeth Remay Dabbs Thompson from 1850 to 1932. This collection includes photocopies of family correspondence, legal documents, and business papers for the Dabbs and Thompson families of Greene County, Missouri.

Henry C. Thompson Collection, 1820-1957 (P0354)
21 photographs

Facsimile of signatures of Missouri governors, 1820-1940, photos of Henry C. Thompson and some of his paintings, early notable Missourians, St. Francois County, mining, and images relating to Mormons.

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Mary and Eliza Thompson Quietus for Delinquent Taxes, 1852 (C0502)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Receipt for taxes paid from the Randolph County register of lands office for a 39-acre tract of land granted for $9.16 to Mary and Eliza Thompson.

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Meriwether Jeff Thompson Papers, 1854-1935 (C1030)
0.25 cubic feet; also available on 1 roll of microfilm

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Civil War memoir, correspondence, business and legal papers, family genealogies, and miscellaneous papers of M. Jeff Thompson. Thompson was a civil engineer, a railroad and real estate promoter, mayor of St. Joseph, MO, and a brigadier general in the Confederate Army.

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Meriwether Jeff Thompson Bulletin, 1857 (C3208)
1 oversize item

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Bulletin listing city and county property that M. Jeff Thompson, general land agent at St. Joseph, Missouri, will sell or trade, April 1, 1857.

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James T. Thorp Scrapbooks, 1840-1955 (C1429)
1.5 cubic feet

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Materials collected and organized by Thorp as histories of the Missouri River, steamboats, and Miami, MO. Includes photographs, newspaper clippings, bills, receipts, excerpts from the MIAMI WEEKLY NEWS, and miscellaneous items.

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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.

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Tibbe-Cuthbertson Family Papers, 1846-1986 (C3711)
1.2 cubic feet (59 folders), 2 oversize items

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The papers of a Washington, Missouri, family whose patriarch, Henry Tibbe, and his son, Anton, founded the Missouri Meerschaum Company, include family and business correspondence, genealogy, property deeds, an early history of the Missouri Meerschaum Company, material on a patent infringement dispute, pipe catalogs, clippings, and photographs.

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Toler Family Papers, 1856-1882 (C0949)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Contains four deeds conveying property in Arkansas and Missouri: 1856, Polk County, MO; 1861, Benton County, AR; 1876, Independence County, AR; and 1882, Izard County, AR.

Toll-German-Kemper Family Papers, c. 1850-1973 (C4244)
3 cubic feet (95 folders)

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The papers of the Toll, German, Kemper and related families, of the Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri, area contain correspondence, genealogical material, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and extensive photographs.

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William Long Tolman Papers, 1852-1919 (R0246)
0.1 cubic foot (5 folders)

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The William Long Tolman Papers contain photocopied personal papers of the Evans and Tolman families of Farmington, Missouri, mostly of Dr. William L. Tolman and his wife, Margaret Frances “Fanny” Evans. Included are letters from relatives in California and Colorado, a file of letters from Civil War veterans seeking invalid pensions, and a collection of stories concerning the early settlers of Saint Francois County. 

Tootle and Armstrong (St. Joseph, Mo.) Memorandum, 1855 (C0505)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Copy of legal instrument authorizing collection of notes for Tootle and Armstrong, a mercantile firm in St. Joseph, by Joseph Murphy.

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Benjamin F. Townsend Ledger, 1859-1882 (C4535)
0.2 cubic feet (1 oversize volume)

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Ledger of an Arrow Rock general store owner, Benjamin F. Townsend, which notes customer information and account balances from 1859-1882.

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Joanna Benecke Townsend Family Papers, 1846-2002 (K1222)
9 c.f.

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Includes correspondence and postcards, financial records, newspaper clippings, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) materials, home movies, and Townsend genealogical notes/individual profiles. Also Townsend's personal diaries kept in the later years of her life.

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E.B. Trail Collection, 1858-1965 (C2071)
4.2 cubic feet (279 folders, 62 volumes)

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Correspondence, bills of lading, notes, photographs, clippings, periodicals, scrapbooks, account books, freight books, cabin registers, and portage books of E.B. Trail, collector of the history and memorabilia of steamboating on the Missouri River and its tributaries.

E.B. Trail Photograph Collection, 1845-1963 (P0021)
1.1 cubic feet (513 photographs)

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Dr. E. B. Trail, St. Louis was a collector of steamboat images and articles, which he kept in scrapbooks. Includes images of steamboats, rivers, and other boating-related scenes.

Travel Account of Journey from Indiana to Washington, c. 1850 (C3415)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains a copy of an unidentified woman’s account of the journey from Indiana to Washington. The copy was made about 1925-1930 and includes a record of the weather, environment, illnesses, encounters with indigenous people, territory covered each day, lists of provisions, and charges and expenses kept by George Royse.

William H. Trigg Collection, 1776, 1835-1899 (C0281)
1.2 cubic feet (5 volumes)

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Books from the collection of William H. Trigg, Boonville, MO. Accounts of the Banking House of William H. Trigg and Co. and a scrapbook containing miscellaneous material, mostly news clippings from the 1860s and some paper money from the 1700s and 1800s.

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Belle Alexander Troxell Collection, 1857-1951 (C3460)
0.18 cubic feet (9 folders)

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Programs, clippings, photographs, postcards, and miscellaneous items, collected by a Columbia, Missouri, resident and member of several women's organizations.

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D.M. and J.H. Tucker Papers, 1833-1902 (C0178)
0.2 cubic feet

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Records of a mercantile firm in Fulton, MO. Business, the Civil War, state insane asylum, and politics are discussed. Records of the Tucker and Harris mercantile firm, later the D.M. and J.H. Tucker firm.

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Tuolumne County Water Company Share, 1855 (C2747)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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One share of stock in the Tuolumme County Water Company, Columbia, CA, April 6, 1855, bought by John O'Neill. Note by J. Christian Bay that O'Neill collected distribution dividend in 1906.

Turkey Creek Missionary Baptist Church (Polk County, Mo.) Records, 1841-1864, 1990 (C4529)
0.2 cubic feet (3 folders)

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One record book including meeting minutes of the church.

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Maude Turnbow Collection, 1852-1965 (C2924)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Letters, written in 1853, concerning the McHargue family in Missouri and Oregon. Newspaper clippings, genealogy, and random notes of Madam Dorian.

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U. S. States of the United States, Missouri Records, 1762-1870 (C4337)
10 rolls of microfilm

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Documents relating to the early history and development of Missouri which were located during the WPA Historical Records Survey. Only the rolls containing Missouri materials are in this series.

U.S. Army, Quartermaster's Department Papers, 1827-1856 (C2239)
0.1 cubic feet (5 folders)

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Papers of Quartermaster's Department, Philadelphia, PA.

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U.S. Census, Cooper County, Missouri, 1850, 1850 (C1281)
0.23 cubic feet (2 volumes)

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Vol. 1 (Schedule 1) enumeration of free inhabitants giving age, sex, and place of birth.
Vol. 2 (Schedule 2-6) slave inhabitants, including age and sex; deaths in previous year, including age, place of birth, cause of death; agricultural production; industries; and social statistics, including schools, churches, libraries, value of real and personal property.

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U.S. Commissioner of Patents Papers, 1849-1858 (C0588)
0.1 cubic feet (5 folders)

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The papers contain letters to the U.S. Commissioner of Patents about various agricultural subjects in Missouri. Most of the letters were written by Henry Ancrum in 1849. Also includes article on grape culture in Missouri by George C. Swallow, 1857.

United States. General Land Office. Missouri Deeds, 1796-1857 (C2499)
0.36 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Deeds to land in the state of Missouri sold by the federal government.

U.S. General Land Office Papers, 1859-1869 (C1282)
0.03 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Copies of land grants, certificates and assignments for services in the War of 1812.

U.S. General Land Office Papers, 1819-1859 (C1901)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains certificates of bounty land in Missouri granted for military service. Inventory with collection.

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