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Lone Star School District Records, 1884-1895 (K0161)
0.1 c.f.
One-volume transcription of records of the school district records which includes names of tax payers for the district, minutes of the school board's meetings, lists of teachers for the school, financial records, and enumeration lists.
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Long Brothers Account Books, 1856-1881 (C2495)
0.52 cubic feet (5 volumes)
Account books of the general stores of Alfred Long, Cadet, Missouri, and John and William Long, Bellfountain, MO.
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Fannie Blair Long Papers, 1834-1944 (C2222)
0.5 cubic feet (25 folders)
Miscellaneous correspondence, legal papers, photographs, genealogy, mementos, accounts, books, and diary of Fannie Blair Long and family. Includes settlement of Isaac Long estate, Keswick, VA.
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William C. Long Papers, 1859-1891 (C2624)
0.17 cubic feet (8 folders)
Nineteen Civil War letters; letters to and from Irwin Walley, Long's son-in-law; miscellaneous family papers; and photographs of the opening of the Oklahoma Territory, 1891.
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Rufus E. Longan Papers, 1879-1936 (C0358)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Miscellaneous papers of a brigadier general in the U.S. Army, who was a member of a pioneer family of Pettis County, MO. Papers include a school report; marriage license and certificate; will; several letters; messages of sympathy and news clipping of Longan's funeral; and "The Dirigible," an army newsletter edited by Longan.
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Meron G. Mayhew Lonsdale Papers, 1847-1927 (C0130)
0.2 cubic feet
Family letters; bills; Boone County tax receipts for the Civil War period; Missouri University commencement programs, 1880-1881; Christian College catalogue; and newspaper clippings pertaining to family.
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Looney's Creek Baptist Church Record Book, 1836-1894 (C3024)
1 roll of microfilm
Record book of Looney's Creek Baptist Church in Shelbyville, Shelby County. Contains meeting minutes and lists of members.
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Lorie Family Papers, 1889-1981 (K1414)
0.17 c.f.
This collection contains materials of the Lorie family, a Jewish family from Kansas City. Members of the family whose materials are in this collection lived in the area from the late 19th century through the 20th century. Materials include military records, Boy Scout records, family correspondence, personal documents of various kinds, a photograph, newspaper clippings, and documents pertaining to the wider Jewish community.
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Philipp Lotz Papers, 1872-1955 (C3741)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)
The papers contain pages from the family bible listing births and deaths of children of Philipp and Christina Lotz; obituary of Christian Lotz; miscellaneous receipts and clippings; and religious cards and literature. Most of the material is in German. The Lotz family lived in and near California and McGirk in Moniteau County, Missouri, and Kansas City.
James A. Love Papers, 1836-1913 (C0131)
0.4 cubic feet, 1 oversize volume
Personal papers and business records of an educator in Callaway County, MO. Includes a journal, clippings, and miscellaneous items. Volumes include personal and tuition accounts, student registers, and records of Tippecanoe Club and the lyceum.
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Blanche Beal Lowe Papers, 1858-1933 (C3083)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The papers of Blanche Beal Lowe contain personal letters between the Marr and Lowe families, originals and typed copies; genealogies of Absalom Smith family and of William Fletcher Lowe family; and a newspaper clipping with typed addenda about Mrs. Samuel Perry.
Larry Lowic St. Louis Architecture Collection, 1803-1995 (S0565)
14 cubic feet, 161 folders
This collection contains secondary source material and notes Lowic accumulated for his book "The Architectural Heritage of St. Louis, 1803-1891." Subjects of interest include St. Louis neighborhoods, buildings, churches, and the cultural influences of the French and Germans on the city's built environment.
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William O. Lowman Papers, 1841-1898 (C3136)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Correspondence regarding sale of Harris Mineral Springs and advertising the Erie Medical Company.
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Ralph F. Lozier Papers, 1855-1945 (C2655)
65.75 cubic feet, 5 volumes
Correspondence, pamphlets, speeches, and newsclippings related to Lozier's legal, agricultural, and political careers. Research notes for and copies of Lozier's two historical novels (check contract if publication request occurs). Campaign papers of Lue C. Lozier.
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Lucille Eslinger Collection, 1878-1963 (C4596)
0.1 cubic feet (4 folders)
The collection contains historical material collected by Lucille Eslinger largely concerning Albany, St. Joseph, and Columbia, Missouri, including material on the Women’s Missionary Society of the First Presbyterian Church in Albany; photographs of buildings in St. Joseph; and programs from schools and organizations in Columbia.
Luckett Family Scrapbook, 1854-1936 (C0872)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Items collected by Maria Rees Luckett of Pettis County, Missouri, and her daughter, Susan Magoffin Luckett Longan, including pictures, clippings, greeting cards, letters, and other miscellaneous material.
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Lumber Company Price Lists, 1869-1894 (C0590)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains price lists of G.C. Hixon & Company, of Hannibal, Missouri, 1869 and 1879; Judson Lyon, St. Joseph, Missouri, 1881; and I.M. Howell & Company, Atchison, Kansas, 1881. Also includes a statement of lumber shipments in 1894 and logging costs to various towns on the Mississippi River.
Lykins Family Papers, 1841-1950 (K0294)
0.16 c.f.
Scrapbooks and other items, chiefly clippings, documenting Mrs. Lykins' promotion of the establishment of the Home for Widows and Orphans of Confederate Soldiers: an account book kept for the Potawatomi Baptist School and Mission, which Lykins, missionary, businessman, mayor of Kansas City, MO, took over from his first father-in-law, Isaac McCoy; an account book by Lykins and Brent; and clippings of material written by Mrs. Lykins, Lykins, and others.
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Lynch Family Papers, 1765-1929 (C4117)
0.1 cubic feet
The papers of the Lynch Family of Howard County, Missouri, contain correspondence, photographs, land records and other legal papers, financial documents, genealogical data, and Civil War service papers. The correspondence within this collection is primarily between members of the Lynch family.
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James Lewis Lynch Memoirs, 1838-1923 (C0132)
0.7 cubic feet
Memoirs written by Lynch about his family in Howard and Saline Counties. Genealogy from Austria to Virginia to Missouri, farm life, education, Civil War experiences, and tobacco exporting, 1864. Essays for children on citizenship, study, and the Christian life.
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Ransom B. Lynch Journals, 1816-1957 (R1518)
1.5 cubic feet (29 folders)
The Ransom B. Lynch Journals consist of 42 journals written by Dr. Ransom B. Lynch of Texas County, Missouri, from 1875 to 1934. The journals describe Dr. Lynch’s daily activities, finances, medical practice, and weather conditions.
William Henry Lynch Papers, 1859-1905 (R0202)
(3 rolls of microfilm)
The William Henry Lynch Papers contain microfilm copies of the diaries and personal papers of an educator in southern Missouri. Lynch was a native of Houston, Texas County, Missouri. He served in the 32nd Missouri Infantry during the Civil War, and was principal of schools in Steelville, St. James, Salem, West Plains, and Mountain Grove, Missouri, following the war.
M. Fred Lyon Collection, 1870-1991 (C3853)
34.0 cubic feet (1173 folders), 16 rolls of microfilm (43 volumes)
A collection of Missouri-Kansas-Texas (M-K-T or KATY) Railroad operating papers, equipment records, promotional materials, photographs and slides, publications, and newspaper clippings concerning the company. The collection also contains similar but less extensive materials of other American and foreign railroads, American railroad industry publications, and railroad enthusiast periodicals.
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Mabrey Family Papers, 1854-1964 (SP0018)
.5 cubic feet 69 folders
The Mabrey family papers consist of the diaries and letters of Henry Yeakley Mabrey and his son, George Henry Mabrey.
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Machette-Scott Family Papers, 1791-1940 (C4486)
2.8 cubic feet (81 folders)
Correspondence, financial records, postcards, journals, scrapbooks, photographs, genealogical records, and chapters of an unpublished book regarding a middle-class Victorian family from Fulton, Missouri.
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John Machir Papers, 1791-1899 (C2893)
0.6 cubic feet (27 folders)
The papers of John Machir, a businessman and landowner who lived in St. Louis and Columbia, Missouri, consist of the legal papers of his father, Henry Machir, business correspondence, bills of sale for enslaved people, deeds, tax bills, surveys, personal correspondence, and account books.
Macke Store Records, 1835-1972 (C0043)
26 rolls of microfilm (2,192 folders, 24 volumes on microfilm)
The business records of a Gordonville, Missouri, dry goods store, which grew into a general merchandise and farm service operation, follow this family-owned business from Vicksburg, Mississippi, through its move to Cape Girardeau County in 1840 and trace its development there into the 1970s.
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Macon County, Missouri, Photograph Collection, 1871-1909 (P1143)
An artificial collection of photographs of Macon County, Missouri.
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Elliott W. Major Papers, 1860s-1950 (C4039)
0.3 cubic feet (9 folders)
The collection contains newspaper clippings, photographs, pamphlets, telegrams, and memos relating to Elliot Major's campaign for governor of Missouri in 1912, and major events that occurred during his administration.
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Samuel Collier Major Papers, 1861-1884 (C0368)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
A letter, 5 April 1861, listing law books and where they might be purchased; a handbill for an administrator's sale, 6 June 1876; and a handwritten legal bond, 6 October 1884. Major was a public administrator.
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Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Papers, 1798-1981 (S0452)
25 cubic fet, 1321 folders, 268 photographs, 39 glass slides, 17 volumes
Edward Mallinckrodt was an Industrialist, scientist, and philanthropist in St. Louis. He Served as Mallinckrodt Chemical Works director (1901-1965), vice-president (1918-1928), and board chairman (1928-1965). The collection Documents family and business history, Mallinckrodt’s contributions to medicine, conservation, and education. Included in the collection are correspondence, reports, biographies, speeches, notes, scrapbooks, publications, blueprints, patents, and photographs.
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Clair V. Mann Collection, 1821-1973 (C3556)
5.25 cubic feet (560 folders, 23 volumes)
Papers pertaining to the Meramec Iron Works, James family, Frisco Railroad, School of Mines and Metallurgy at Rolla, engineering education, testing of students, and other subjects of interest to Mann as an historian and engineer.
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Edgar P. Mann Papers, 1884-1945 (C2462)
0.08 cubic feet (4 folders)
Correspondence and memorandum concerning Democratic politics in Dade County, MO, and William Joel Stone's campaign to secure the Democratic nomination for U.S. congressman, 1884. Mann, a lawyer in Greenfield, was influential in gaining support for Stone in Dade County.
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Maschel Manring Papers, 1858-1880 (K0291)
0.3 c.f.
Manring was a businessman/farmer in Daviess and Gentry Counties, MO and also commissioned officer in the Union Army. Bound volumes used for multiple purposes including record book of Gentry County, MO School District #3; account book/ledger for livery business; Civil War diary; "A Trip to Kansas" describing nature of the land and soil, towns, and people; and general notes and personal financial records.
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Margaret Marston Mansfield Scrapbook, 1882-1951 (SP0037)
.25 cubic foot (2 folders, 6 photographs)
The Margaret Marston Mansfield Scrapbook collection consists of a scrapbook compiled by Margaret Marston Mansfield. It contains newspaper articles she found interesting or relevant to her life, including information about her brother, Charles E. Marston, one of the first deans of what is now Missouri State University.
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Marble Hill Bands Records, 1875-1902 (R0067)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)
The Marble Hill Bands Collection contains photocopies of two records books of the community bands of Marble Hill in Bollinger County, Missouri. The records include constitutions, membership lists, minutes of meetings, and financial accounts of the Quartette String Band, the Marble Hill Cornet Band, and the Marble Hill Silver Cornet Band.
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Curtis Fletcher Marbut Papers, 1852-1983 (C3720)
6.8 cubic feet (250 folders)
The personal and professional papers of C. F. Marbut, a geology professor at the University of Missouri, 1895-1910, and soil scientist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1910-1935, includes correspondence, estate and financial records, photographs, publications, manuscripts, and maps. The personal correspondence received by Louise Marbut Moomaw and a short series of Civil War letters are also included in the papers.
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Irene Whitley Marcus Collection, 1885-2019 (K0452)
40 c.f.
Personal papers, collected items, and photographs of an African American educator, whose collection documents the history of the Black community in Kansas City from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century.
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Maries County, Missouri Medical Register Records, 1871-1909 (R0319)
0.1 cubic foot (2 folders)
The Maries County Medical Register Records contain photocopies of registers, 1871-1900 and 1893-1909, of physicians, surgeons, pharmacists, and dentists in Maries County, Missouri. The registers list the dates and locations of medical training, or certificates granted by state boards in lieu of examinations.
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Maries County, Missouri Photograph Collection, circa 1880s-1930s (R0587)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder, 46 photographs)
These are photographs copied from Volumes 1-9 of the scrapbook collection at the Old Jail Museum at Vienna, Missouri. They feature significant locations, buildings, events, and individuals, mostly in Maries County, Missouri. Many of the views are of Vienna, but there are also photographs of Belle, Paydown, Safe, Summerfield, Vichy, the Gasconade River, St. James in Phelps County, Meta in Osage County, and Dixon in Pulaski County.
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Mariska Pugsley Marker Papers, 1813-2008 (K0500)
8 c.f.
Family papers of descendants of John Campbell of Kansas City, in particular the Frederic and Charlotte Pugsley family and their daughter Mariska.
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John Sappington Marmaduke Letter, 1885 (C1619)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
To Ben Eli Guthrie, Macon, MO, from City of Jefferson, MO, Dec. 5, 1885.
Powers and duties of the sheriff in the public disturbance in Macon, MO.
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Meredith Miles Marmaduke Papers, 1823-1886 (C1021)
0.6 cubic feet; also available on 1 roll of microfilm
Correspondence and miscellaneous personal and business papers of a Saline County, Missouri, farmer, businessman, lieutenant governor, and governor of Missouri.
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Marshall Family Papers, 1852-1909 (C0204)
0.1 cubic feet (5 folders), 1 roll of microfilm
Land deeds and family letters of the Joseph Marshall family and Lynch family, Saline County, MO, from Fayette, Fulton, Glasgow, Pettis County, Howard County, and Blue Lick, and from Lynch sisters at Oxford Female College, Cooper Female Seminary, and Minnesota with mention of family members, schools, slaves, California, and crops.
Marshall General Merchandise Store Cash Book, 1881-1885 (C2166)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains cash accounts of the Marshall General Merchandise Store. The location of store is unknown.
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Marshall Hayden Harris Store Photograph, 1880 (P0350)
1 photograph
Interior view of Marshall Hayden Harris Store, Sturgeon, Missouri, 1890s
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Martin Family Papers, 1857-1944 (R1472)
0.02 cubic foot (2 folders)
The Martin Family Papers contain an autobiographical account of Paris Clark Martin's life. The autobiographical stories include events leading up to and after the Civil War, information about southeastern Missouri, and Tom How's (Howe's) Mill. The collection also includes the memoirs of Paris Clark Martin's son, William Lawrence Martin, which discusses his father.
Martin Family Photographs, 1881-1960 (P1055)
Four photographs of Edward Allen Martin and one photograph of his father, Dr. J.F. Martin, both druggists in Greenfield, Missouri.
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Dwayne R. Martin Papers, 1870-1890 (K0517)
1 c.f.
Research notes, computer printouts, and drafts of Martin's UMKC MA Thesis, "the Hidden Community: The Black Community of Kansas City, Missouri, During the 1870s and 1880s."
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George H. Martin Photographs, 1884 (P0966)
7 photographs
Photos of civil war monuments at Vicksburg National Military Park