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Brush Creek Presbyterian Church (Montgomery County, Mo.) Records, 1849-1944 (C1346)
0.02 cubic feet (1 volume)
Minutes of sessions; registers of baptisms; marriages and deaths; financial records; registers of elders and deacons; roll of communicants; and names from cemetery. The name of the church was changed from Bear Creek to Brush Creek in 1855.
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Bryan Family Papers, 1840-1911 (C4160)
0.1 cubic feet
The papers of the Bryan family contain numerous deeds and personal financial records particularly pertaining to land in Marion County, Missouri.
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William Cullen Bryant Autograph, 1875 (C3275)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Card with Bryant's signature and the date, November 11, 1875.
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John D. Buckner Papers, 1875-1981 (S0468)
2 cubic feet, 121 folders, 14 photographs
John D. Buckner was a St. Louis-area educator and civic leader. Throughout his career as an educator, Buckner served in various position in St. Louis City Public Schools: Sumner High School Faculty (1943-1960, 1964-1968); Sumner principal (1968-1971); Supervisor of secondary education, St. Louis Public Schools (1960-1964); and curriculum specialist for city schools (1971-1977). The papers contain minutes, reports, financial statements, high school yearbooks, and photographs documenting Buckner's activities in educational, civic, and fraternal organizations.
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James Bullard Diary, 1876-1878 (C0219)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)
Transcript of a diary kept by Bullard on a trip from the Dakotas to Mexico. Subjects include prospecting, weather, game, Native Americans, ranches, and Mexicans.
Thomas Brockway Bullene Papers, 1874-1894 (K0288)
0.3 c.f.
Diaries of a prominent business and civic leader and mayor of Kansas City, MO. Contain personal notes and writings, poetry, family history, some clippings, a few photographs, and financial records.
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Thomas P. Bundridge Papers, 1854-1909 (C4222)
0.2 cubic feet (4 folders)
Various deeds, receipts, correspondence, notes, and merchandise lists of Thomas P. Bundridge and Robert Long of Sullivan and Linn Counties.
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Burchard Family Commissions, 1825-1875 (C1488)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection consists of commissions to Samuel Burchard as sheriff of Gasconade County, MO; postmaster at Delphi, MO; and justice of the Gasconade County court; as well as a commission to P.W. Burchard as notary public for Gasconade County.
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Burford-White Photograph Collection, 1870-1948 (P0038)
64 photographs
Snapshot and studio photos, including tintypes related to the White-Burford-Taylor-Adkins-Harness-Marolf families plus scenes from Ladue, Vista and Independence, as well as vacation scenes outside of Missouri.
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Oscar F. Burge Papers, 1853-1900 (C0211)
0.15 cubic feet (7 folders)
Correspondence, cancelled checks, legal papers, tax receipts and miscellaneous papers belonging to O.F. Burge of Bates and Cooper Counties.
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Tennie S. Burk Papers, 1837-1972 (C4285)
0.75 cubic feet (26 folders)
The papers of Tennessee 'Tennie' Selby Burk contains her personal papers including genealogical information on her family and on various Missouri chapters of the Daughters of the American Colonists (DAC).
Christian Johann Burki Papers, 1861-1886 (R1416)
0.1 cubic foot (4 folders)
The Christian Johann Bürki Papers contain materials related to his service during the Civil War. Born in Bern, Switzerland, Bürki moved to the United States prior to the Civil War and enlisted at St. Louis in the Missouri Volunteer Infantry, 15th Regiment, known as the ‘Swiss Rifles,’ where he rose to the rank of captain.
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Burnett and Denney Families Papers, 1864-circa 1985 (R0353)
0.06 cubic foot (6 folders)
This collection includes correspondence, business papers, genealogical material, and photographs of the families of Ensign Burnett (1833-1912) and Tyre Denney (1828-1873) of Dade, Linn, and Webster counties in Missouri. Included are photographs of Burnett School in Webster County, and miscellaneous items pertaining to the communities of Linneus, Lockwood, and Seymour in Missouri.
Franklin Burt Papers, 1843-1905 (C0228)
0.1 cubic feet (5 folders, 3 volumes); also available on 1 roll of microfilm
Land records, miscellaneous papers, tax assessment book, and diary of Callaway County, MO, farmer. Diary (1859-1872) includes brief daily entries on weather, wind direction, farming and family activities, and visitors.
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Richard W. Burt Papers, 1817-1911 (C0226)
0.12 cubic feet (6 folders)
Description of everyday life in Ohio during the 1840s. Letters on army life during the Mexican War and the Civil War. Letters include descriptions of battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg. Scrapbook contains clippings from Burt's Progressive Age, Coshocton, Ohio, clippings of his letters regarding the Mexican and Civil Wars, and other miscellaneous clippings.
Burwell-Tate Family Papers, 1850-1930 (K0233)
1 c.f.
Moses T. Burwell was a prominent Kansas City banker and real estate broker. Primarily photographs of the Burwell and Tate families, including studio portraits and exterior and interior shots of the Burwell's late-1800s home. Also included are a scrapbook, newspaper clippings, and other family papers.
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John J. Buse Jr. Papers, 1860-1931 (S1083)
5 cubic feet, 2,005 photographs
The John J. Buse, Jr. collectin consists of photographs, scrapbooks, historical notes, correspondence, and personal reminiscences ofa St. Charles, Missouri , historian and collector. An extensive photograph collection by Rudolph Goebel, John Gossler, and A. Ruth are included.
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Bush Family Papers, 1819-1923 (C3887)
0.2 cubic feet, 1 roll of microfilm
Journals, farm records, and correspondence of a Boone County, KY, family who settled in southeastern Arkansas. Details 1819-1820 steamboat trips up the Missouri River from St. Louis to Council Bluffs, and farm operations in the 1850s and 1860s.
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C.C. Bell & Brothers Invoice Book, 1875-1877 (C1048)
0.08 cubic feet (1 volume)
The collection contains an invoice book of a general store in Austin, Texas, and one unidentified photograph of a farm scene.
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Caby and Hahn Families Papers, 1856-1960 (R1305)
(2 oversize folders)
This is the Robert W. Beiriger collection of family records of the Caby and Hahn families in Bollinger County, Missouri. The collection includes a land record, military pension papers, birth and marriage records, and five photographs of some of the individuals noted in the documents.
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Benjamin Benson Cahoon Papers, 1842-1889 (C0081)
0.8 cubic feet
Papers and correspondence of a Fredericktown, MO, lawyer dealing primarily with his business as a land agent. He paid taxes, made collections, sold land and furnished abstracts of title. Also a few cases involving collection of debts for merchants.
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Benjamin Benson Cahoon Papers, 1868-1923 (R0142)
0.02 cubic foot (2 folders, 1 photograph)
The Benjamin Benson Cahoon Papers contain photocopies of Benjamin B. Cahoon, an attorney and land agent in Fredericktown, Madison County, Missouri. The papers concern the land business, litigation in progress, and state politics. There are several letters from Missouri governors and officials, and Cahoon’s biographical sketch of Judge William Carter. There is also an original photograph of Cahoon from 1878.
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Caldwell Family Papers, 1834-1893 (C0261)
0.08 cubic feet (4 folders)
Papers of a Greene County, MO, family; tax and other receipts; estate inventory, 1860; farm book and patent medicine advertisement.
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Dorothy J. Caldwell Photograph Collection, 1830-1970 (P0151)
0.33 linear feet
Photographs, primarily of Rocheport, its buildings and residents. 35mm slides of historic sites across Missouri.
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Harold N. Calvert Photograph Collection, 1868-1972 (P0478)
57 photographs
Copy photos of Calvert family and Carrollton, MO, ca. 1870s-1940s. Originals in Harold Calvert Collection, Carrollton, Missouri.
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Campaign Posters, 1875-1920 (C3871)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder, 13 oversize items)
Posters, handbills, and newspaper advertisements for Democratic and Republican candidates running for various state offices.
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E. Taylor Campbell Papers, 1840-1970 (C3574)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The papers contain genealogical information, with photographs, compiled by a descendant of the Hawkins and Taylor families who settled in Knox County, Missouri, about 1840.
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Isaac R. Campbell Papers, 1821-1887 (C1001)
0.4 cubic feet (21 folders)
Business correspondence, miscellaneous accounts, receipts and legal papers of a businessman and merchant of St. Francisville, MO. Material concerning local elections and poll books. Names of electors and how they voted in the national election in 1864.
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Loman D. and Laura M. Cansler Collection, 1820-2005 (C4018)
10.5 cubic feet (223 folders), 203 audio tapes, 41 audio cassettes, 35 audio discs, 2 video cassettes
The Loman and Laura Cansler Collection represents a lifetime of collecting on Missouri’s folk song and folklore tradition. Cansler recorded and collected folk songs, proverbs, jokes, and home remedies, primarily in Missouri, but also in Kansas and Illinois. In addition to this large body of folk song and folklore material, the collection includes information on Cansler’s early life in Dallas County, Missouri, his WWII service, and his career as a school counselor at the Fayette and North Kansas City High Schools. The collection also includes slides and prints of Laura Cansler’s abstract expressionist artwork.
Cape Girardeau Business College Collection, 1920 (R1081)
(1 folder)
This is a booklet promoting the Cape Girardeau Business College, a commerical trade school located at Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.
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Ruth Capehart Collection, 1831-1904 (R0045)
0.02 cubic foot (2 volumes)
The Ruth Capehart Collection contains two journals collection by Ruth Capehart. The first journal was written by J.W. Henderson regarding his trips from New York to the pottery manufacturing district in England. The second journal was written by Louisa Raff, a young girl living in Orange Grove, Mississippi.
Alex Carey Collection, 1864-1933 (C0253)
0.15 cubic feet (7 folders)
Includes shares on Gold and Silver Tunnel Company; deed for land in Jackson County; accounts; 1864 constitution of Platte City, MO, I.O.O.F. lodge; notes; obituary of R.T. Carey; tintype; letters to Lucille Carey from friends; 1887 medical book; and letters from a book salesman, 1872.
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Carleton College Collection, 1859-1979 (R0133)
1 roll (6 folders)
These are business papers, correspondence, and printed material of Carleton College (1854-1916) and its alumni association, and newspaper clippings pertaining to the history of the school, located in Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri.
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Carpenter Family Papers, 1830-1962 (C3489)
0.4 cubic feet (29 folders)
The papers contain notes, correspondence and genealogical records compiled by Lucy Grant Carpenter Bly while tracing all branches of her family. Most of the early letters are to the Carpenter family of Boone County from relatives in Virginia.
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Carpenter's District Council of Greater St. Louis Records, 1834-2003 (S1091)
100 cubic feet
The records of the Carpenter's District Council of Greater St. Louis contains dues, membership, and meeting minute ledgers, documenting the union's efforts to unionize carpenters in the St. Louis area.
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John C. Carpenter Letters, 1868-1870 (C0236)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Written from Lone Side, VA, concerning conditions in the south.
Carpenters' Local 1596 Records, 1871-1975 (S0163)
8 micofilm rolls
Twenty-two carpenters met on December 8, 1871, to form the St. Louis Cabinet Makers' Protective Union. The following year they affiliated with the International Cabinet Makers' Union of America, becoming Local 12. In 1903 the local became part of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America as Local 1596. The collection includes records of other unions that joined Local 1596. Early volumes are in German.
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Carr School/Cook Station, Crawford County, Missouri Records, 1873-1927 (R1338)
0.5 cubic foot (4 oversize volumes)
The collection includes the records of School District No. 79. It consists of four volumes, including the Public School Register, District Clerk's Record and two volumes of attendance records.
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E.A. Carson Marriage Records, 1837-1882 (C3095)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Records of marriages solemnized by the Rev. Mr. Carson, copied from original record in Savannah, MO. Includes names of bride and groom, date and location of wedding, payment received, and personal remarks.
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Lewis Henry Carstarphen Papers, 1686-1971 (C3613)
2.6 cubic feet (228 folders)
Genealogical data on Glascock, Tutt, Watson, Woodson, Carstarphen and collateral families compiled by Carstarphen with his aunt, Emily Marion Watson, collaborating on the Watson, Woodson, and Tutt families.
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Don C. Carter Papers, 1862-1902 (C3284)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The papers of Don C. Carter contain a summary of the Sturgeon, MO, court of common pleas; a docket, Boone County circuit court, February term, 1893; an engineer's story of the Civil War; and a newspaper clipping concerning the Centralia Massacre.
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Carter Family Collection, 1870-1981 (SP0094)
1.5 cubic feet (19 folders, 483 photographs)
The Carter Family Collection contains compiled family histories and photographs of the Carter family of Newton County, Missouri. Related family histories include the Munsey and Weems families of Greene County, Tennessee.
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William R. Carter Papers, 1867-1917 (C2605)
0.3 cubic feet
Material compiled by W.R. Carter about the University of Missouri and the College of Normal Instruction, now the College of Education. Includes typescript excerpts from the Appendix to the House and Senate Journal of the 24th General Assembly of Missouri, 1868; Board of Curators annual report, 1867; William F. Switzler's HISTORY OF BOONE COUNTY, MO, 1882; and University catalogues, 1867-1917.
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Carter-McDade Family Papers, 1847-1993 (C4701)
1.0 cubic feet (31 folders), 6 oversize items
Family papers and genealogical materials created by Marguerite Carter McDade. The materials cover the Campbell, Carter, Fletcher, Hall, McDade, and Whittlesey families of Sedalia, Missouri, and various parts of Texas and Connecticut.
Cass County, Missouri, Bond, 1872 (C1723)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains a Photostat of funding bond no. 1 for $1000 issued by Cass County, MO, February 22, 1872, to Francis Marion Cummings, Harrisonville mayor.
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Cass County, Missouri, Documents, 1836-1884 (C0936)
0.1 cubic feet (5 folders)
Bills of sale for property, cattle and enslaved people, tax receipts, court proceedings, bonds, and court testimony.
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Cass County, Missouri, Photograph Collection, 1865-1976 (P1107)
An artificial collection of photographs of Cass County, Missouri.
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Terence W. Cassidy Collection, 1879-1991 (K0302)
95 c.f.
Collected materials of Cassidy, librarian and historian, concerning the history of street railway systems, interurbans, and buses in the Midwest, particularly the Kansas City area. Includes Cassidy's personal and research files: printed materials, publications, articles, and photographs. Also administrative records of the Kansas City Street Railway Company, the Kansas City Public Service Company, and the Kansas City Area Transit Authority.
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William L. Catherwood Papers, 1859-1873 (C3799)
0.2 cubic feet (14 folders)
Papers pertaining to the 8th Regiment, Enrolled Missouri Militia, which Catherwood commanded during the Civil War. Incorporation papers, deeds, and correspondence of the Lander Hill Tunnel and Silver Mining Company of New York and Nevada. Detailed report and drawing for a New York City rapid transit system, 1873.
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Catholic Churches (Ralls and Monroe Counties, Mo.) Records, 1833-1954 (C2973)
5 rolls of microfilm
Baptismal, confirmation, burial, and marriage records from St. Peter's, St. Joseph's, St. Paul's, and Immaculate Conception Catholic Churches in Ralls County and St. Stephen's Catholic Church in Monroe County. Records are incomplete.