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Spring Valley Park Abstract, 1838-1893 (K0216)
0.01 c.f.
Abstract of land transactions for the tract located in the N1/2 SE1/4 NE1/4 sec. 16, T. 49N, R. 33W that became a park in Kansas City's park system. Does not deal with the condemnation actions undertaken by the city.
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Springfield Wagon Company Collection, 1878-1888 (R1188)
(1 folder)
This collection contains photocopies of papers dealing with the Springfield Wagon Company at Springfield in Greene County, Missouri. Included are letters to the company from wagon dealers and parts suppliers in Arkansas and Missouri.
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Springfield Wagon Company Records, 1873-1972 (R0059)
(9 rolls of microfilm)
The Springfield Wagon Company Records contain microfilm copies of twelve volumes and fifty folders of records for the Springfield Wagon company. These records include account books and ledgers, correspondence from travel agents, dealers, supplies and customers. Also included is the master's thesis documenting the history of the company written by Steven L. Stepp in 1972.
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Springfield-Branson, Missouri, Metropolitan Area, Photograph Collection, 1884-1965 (P1109)
An artificial collection of photographs of Christian, Dallas, Greene, Polk, Webster, Stone, and Taney Counties.
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St. Charles Borromeo Church Records, 1792-1934 (S0138)
3 rolls microfilm
St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church was dedicated November 7, 1791, by Manuel Perez, the Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana. Located off Main Street in the town of Les Petites Cotes, Perez officially changed the town's name to San Carlos (St. Charles) the same day he dedicated the church. Daniel Boone's oldest son, Daniel Morgan Boone, was married to Sarah Griffen Lewis at the church on March 2, 1800. The records include baptisms, marriages, and deaths, in Spanish, French, Latin, and English.
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St. Charles County, Missouri, Photograph Collection, 1887-1968 (P1149)
An artificial collection of photographs of St. Charles County, Missouri.
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St. Ferdinand's Chruch, Florissant, Missouri Records, 1792-1977 (S0432)
5 microfilm rolls
Established in 1789 as the first church in Florissant, Missouri, St. Ferdinand's was the focal point of the Catholic Indian Mission Movement of the 19th century with Father DeSmet and Mother Duchesne both active there. The records include registers for baptisms, first communions and confirmations, marriages, burials, and financial records of both Old St. ferdinand's (1789-1955) and New St. Ferdinand's Church (1955- ). In Latin, French, and English.
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St. Francois County, Missouri, School District No. 4, District Clerks Records, 1874-1888 (C2995)
1 roll of microfilm
Records of St. Francois County School District No. 4. Contains district maps, meeting minutes, teacher contracts and reports, lists of textbooks, and district rules.
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St. James, Missouri Collection, 1869-1980 (R1528)
3 cubic feet (31 folders, 6 oversize folders, 141 photographs, 2 glass plate negatives)
The James Memorial Library Collection contains photographs, genealogical records, maps, organizational records, publications, papers, and scrapbooks collected by James Memorial Public Library in St. James, Phelps County, Missouri.
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St. Joe Minerals Corporation Collection, 1864-1974 (R0048)
(12 rolls of microfilm)
hese are business records from mining concerns in Missouri's "Old Lead Belt." The collection
includes records from the St. Joseph Lead Company, the Doe Run Lead Company, the Bonne
Terre Farming and Cattle Company, and the Mine La Motte Corporation.
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St. John's United Church of Christ (Pinckney, Mo.) Records, 1870-1978 (C3615)
1 roll of microfilm (1 folder, 2 volumes)
Church records, including births, confirmations, marriages, deaths, communions, family register, collections, and love offerings. The church was established in 1870 with fourteen families included in its membership.
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St. John's United Church of Christ (Concordia, Mo.) Records, 1863-1933 (C3905)
4 folders, 1 roll of microfilm
The records of St. John's United Church of Christ include the constitution, minutes, and annual reports of the church. The records are in German. A translation of the records is included in the collection.
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St. Joseph, Missouri, Photograph Collection, 1865-1966 (P0954)
6 photographs
An artificial collection of photographs depicting the city of St. Joseph and its residents.
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St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Letter Book, 1879-1883 (C1229)
0.07 cubic feet (1 volume)
Letters concerning the Mississippi River and Bonne Terre Railroad. R.L. Van Sant, assistant engineer. Largely illegible.
St. Louis City Data Collection, 1885-1985 (S0075)
8 cubic feet
The St. Louis City Data Collection is an artificial collection comprised of various donations documenting the history of St. Louis City, city government, and historic sites. Included in this collection are reports, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets on neighborhood rehabilitation, street plans, population trends, and urban land policy.
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St. Louis Desegregation Case Records, 1849-1986 (S0684)
3 cubic feet, 35 folders
This collection contains legal materials, reports, and analyses pertaining to Craton Liddell vs. the Board of Education, City of St. Louis. Minnie Liddell, the mother of Craton Liddell, organized a boycott against the Board of Education of the City of St. Louis in 1971 after the school board announced that they would bus her son from the overcrowded Yeatman School to a substandard school outside Liddell's neighborhood. The Board of Education relented to the boycott, and transferred her son to another school. Liddell continued her fight, filing a lawsuit against the Board of Education in 1972. The lawsuit was finally settled in 1999 and resulted in a city-wide busing plan that encompassed sixteen school districts in the St. Louis area, known as the Voluntary Interdistrict Transfer Program.
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St. Louis History Slide Shows, 1984-1986 (S0519)
0.8 cubic foot, 6 folders, 561 slides, 5 reel-to-reel audio tapes, 7 audio cassette tapes, and 1 videotape
The St. Louis History Slide Shows contains three slide shows: a forty-minute presentation highlighting women who have made significant contributions to St. Louis, a slide show about the Western Historical Manuscript Collection (WHMC)-St. Louis Research Center’s labor history collections, and a slide show about the St. Louis Collection.
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St. Louis Iron and Machine Works Account Book, 1879-1881 (C1230)
0.23 cubic feet (1 volume)
Record of accounts of a St. Louis, MO, iron and machine works.
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St. Louis Media History Foundation Collection, 1853-2023 (S0580)
16 cubic feet
The St. Louis Media History Foundation Collection consists of local St. Louis publications and original artwork, chronicling the history of print, television, radio, advertising, and public relations in the St. Louis Region. Materials of interest include issues of the St. Louis Outlaw, a radical newspaper published in the 1970s.
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St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society Records, 1810-1993 (S0415)
15 cubic feet, 474 folders, 98 photographs
The St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society records contain abstracts of medical journals written by St. Louis doctors, newspaper clippings, reports, and photographs regarding medicine and medical practice in Missouri.
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St. Louis National Stockyards Company Records, 1877-1979 (S0139)
0.15 cubic feet, 5 folders
The records of the St. Louis National Stockyards Company contain Annual reports, stockholders meetings, histories, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a rates investigation cases of one of the major stockyards in the nation.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch Records, 1878-1902 (S0773)
1 cubic foot, 1 microfilm roll
The records of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch contain photocopies of correspondence, contracts, receipts, and balance statements relating to the newspaper's business operations.
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St. Louis Protestant Orphan's Asylum Records, 1834-1940 (S0058)
8 microfilm rolls
The St. Louis Protestant Orphans' Asylum Records contain bylaws, histories, annual reports, board minutes, matrons' daybooks, and admission and departure records documenting the organization's mission to care for orphaned children.
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St. Louis Publications Collection, 1887-2005 (S0764)
4 cubic feet, 56 folders
This collection contains various St. Louis publications, including but not limited to store advertisements, civic organization newsletters, religious publications, women's magazines, and African-American organizations. Topics of interest include trollies, St. Louis histories, and local businesses and government.
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St. Louis Strike of 1877 Manuscript, 1877-2000 (S0320)
0.01 cubic foot
An Unpublished manuscript on the response of the Working Men's Party, St. Louis chapter, to the 1877 national railroad strike. Also included in this collection is an article by David Roediger entitled, "Not Only the Ruling Class to Overcome, But Also the So-Called Mob: Class, Skill and Community in the St. Louis General Strike of 1877," published in the Journal of Social History, Vol. 19, No. 2. Winter 1985.
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St. Louis Typographical Union No. 8 Records, 1856-2008 (CA5275)
5.4 cubic feet, 5 card files
Addition of union publications, meeting minutes, and membership records.
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St. Louis Typographical Union No. 8 Records, 1856-1974 (C3661)
16.4 cubic feet (925 folders), 40 oversize volumes
The records consist of minutes, financial records, correspondence, and printed material of the union. The records also include The Typographical Journal and The Bulletin of the International Typographical Union and material from the St. Louis Allied Printing Trades Council.
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St. Louis, Missouri, Photograph Collection, 1817-1971 (P1151)
An artificial collection of photographs depicting the city of St. Louis.
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St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company Records, 1859-1980 (R0362)
(178 cubic feet)
These are corporate minutes and financial account books, and other records of the St. Louis-San Francisco ("Frisco") Railway Company (1916-1980) and predecessor, subsidiary, and constituent companies, most notably the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway (1876-1896) and the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad (1896-1916). The "Frisco" operated in Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. It became part of the Burlington Northern Railroad in 1980. Also of note are four architectural drawing boxes that include the blueprints for structures along the St. Louis-San Francisco Line. A detailed inventory of the drawings is included in each of the four boxes.
St. Paul United Church of Christ (Hermann, Mo.) Records, 1844-1998 (C3969)
1 roll of microfilm
Records of a protestant church in a German community in Gasconade County, MO. The collection also includes records of the neighboring St. James Evangelical and Bethel Evangelical churches.
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St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church Records, 1882-1939 (R0122)
(1 roll of microfilm)
The St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Cole Camp, Missouri Records contains a microfilm copy of minutes of congregational meetings, church registers, and records of the Ladies Aid Society of St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cole Camp, Benton County, Missouri. Nearly all of the texts are in German.
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Enos Stanley Notebook, 1867-1898 (C3546)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)
The collection contains copies of a notebook in which Enos Stanley of Taney County, Missouri, made entries of marriages he performed as justice of the peace, recorded family births and deaths, and noted some money transactions.
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Star Bible Class Papers, 1884-1920 (C0567)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)
Letters from church workers in Japan to the Parkville, Missouri, Presbyterian church class. Class record book containing minutes, roll, and accounts. Miscellaneous materials, financial statements for 1915 and 1917, tribute to a class member, and excerpts from ordinances of Parkville, 1884.
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Stark-Logan Family Papers, 1813-2012 (CA6607)
2.2 cubic feet
The papers of a family from Louisiana, Missouri, include clippings, photographs, correspondence, genealogical information, and miscellaneous material, including material on Gov. Lloyd Stark.
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State Historical Society of Missouri Art Collection Records, 1824-1988 (P1042)
Photographs of artwork held in the State Historical Society of Missouri's art collection.
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State Historical Society of Missouri Typescript Collection, 1814-1962 (C0995)
14 rolls of microfilm
The State Historical Society of Missouri Typescript Collection consists of typescripts of articles and manuscripts donated over the years to the Historical Society.
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- African Americans
- Agriculture
- Business and Industry
- Culture
- Education
- Engineering
- Environment, Conservation, and Wildlife
- Family and Personal Papers
- Folklore and Folklife
- Frontier and Pioneer Life
- Genealogy
- Geography and Maps
- Government and Politics
- Language
- Literature
- Media
- Military
- Railroads and Railways
- Religion
- Social and Fraternal Organizations
- Social Reform and Welfare
- Transportation
- Travel and Description
- University of Missouri
- Women
Ruby Rose Stauber Papers, 1777-2016 (SP0015)
13.5 linear feet, 2 oversized box
The papers of Rose Stauber contain the personal papers of Ruby Rose Stauber. They include correspondence, genealogical research, family photographs, and material related to Rose’s 31 years of service in the Women’s Army Corp.
Mark Stauter Collection, 1852-1980 (R1432)
2 cubic feet (120 folders)
The Mark Stauter Collection consist of materials donated by Dr. Mark Stauter, the former director of the State Historical Society of Missouri's Rolla Research Center. The papers cover a variety of topics related to Missouri history.
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Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Circuit Court Attorneys' Roll, 1844-1978 (C3674)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Copy of a roll of attorneys and their addresses, as written by each individual who practiced before the Ste. Genevieve County Court from 1844 to 1978.
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Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Photograph Collection, 1835-1994 (P1131)
An artificial collection of photographs of Ste. Genevieve County, primarily in the city of Ste. Genevieve.
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Ste. Genevieve, Missouri Archives, 1756-1930 (C3636)
78 rolls of microfilm (1474 folders)
The collection contains French colonial and territorial records of the District of Ste. Genevieve, along with Ste. Genevieve County records and court records. A third of the documents are dated 1756-1804; the remainder date from 1805 to 1930.
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Steamboat Cargo Record, 1859-1963 (C0644)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
A record of the boat, master, destination and cargo of vessels leaving the port of Cambridge on the Missouri River. Most of the cargo was tobacco, hemp, potatoes, hides, and wheat. The book was used as a scrapbook by John B. Land and was recovered by removing most of the clippings. See also the Land, John Braxton (1860-1949), Papers, 1918-1939, (C0359).
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Steamer Planter Freight Book, 1860-1893 (CA6554)
1 oversize volume
Ledger listing freight carried by the steamboat Planter, 1860-1861. Charles V. Wells was the steamboat's master. Also includes land lease agreements, 1880-1893.
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Steel Family Papers, 1840-1892 (C0205)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder), 1 roll of microfilm
Alexander Steel family genealogy. Naturalization papers, 1840. Letters from Portland, Oregon, 1880, discussing change in collectors of customs, general political affairs, Oregonian and editor H. Scott, and 1892, mentioning Metropolitan Railway Company (electric street railroad).
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Diana Steele Photograph Collection, 1880-1900 (R1391)
0.25 cubic foot (5 folders, 36 photographs)
The Diana Steele Photograph Collection contains thirty-six photographs, including family and fraternity brother portraits, from Indiana and Missouri collected by Diana Steele. Some images depict logging scenes in southeast Missouri, from the 1880s to the early twentieth century.
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George Stein Travel Report, 1881 (C3287)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains an account of the George Stein family migration to America in the fall of 1881 aboard the SS NECKER, and their settlement in Clark County, MO.
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Stephens College Photograph Collection, 1889-1903 (P0734)
An artificial collection of photographs of Stephens College in Columbia, MO.
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Stephens Sisters Portrait, 1884 (P1211)
1 photograph
Portrait of Stephens sisters, of Boone County, MO: Permeha, Sarah, and Chloe. Format described as "oilograph", image taken near Brown's Station ca. 1884.
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Frank Fletcher Stephens Papers, 1875-1966 (C3599)
14.7 cubic feet (568 folders), 8 audio tapes, 10 card files
Papers of a University of Missouri professor and dean of students in the College of Arts and Science, 1924-1948. Correspondence, office files, committee reports, lecture notes, speeches, articles, diaries, accounts, University history and photographs are included.
Margaret Nelson Stephens Papers, 1823-1927 (C0311)
1.05 cubic feet (22 folders)
The diaries of Margaret Nelson Stephens, the wife of Missouri Governor Lon V. Stephens, 1897-1901, document her daily life from 1875 to 1927. Genealogy notes describe Margaret's ancestry and other documents cover a wide range of topics pertaining to relatives through her sister Nadine's marriage to Charles E. Leonard. Most deal with Charles E. Leonard himself, and his brothers Leverett and Abiel. Two Missouri Militia muster rolls, 1862-1863, and a bill of sale for slaves, 1849, are most notable.