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Margaret Ray Vickery Papers, 1887-1974 (R0366)
1 cubic foot (34 folders, 4 rolls of microfilm)
The Margaret Ray Vickery Papers consist of clippings, correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous historical research material, most of which pertain to her award-winning weekly column, “Sugar and Spice,” published by the Salem News, 1952-1971. The collection also includes papers of the Vickery and Ray families.
Jonas Viles Photograph Collection, 1853-1933 (P0080)
1 folder
BUST VIEWS of Missouri Governors (Bates, Boggs, Gamble, Lisa, and McNair). Photos of the Royal Gorge, Iron, and tombstone in Cape Girardeau. Bagnell Dam in Miller. Newsclippings from the James Harrison house; photos of Defiance area homes. Missouri State Capitol, 1911, and North Frieze, 1930. McKendree Chapel before 1930 (Cape Girardeau). Madison Mine La Motte. Textile industry, spinning wheel in operation. Photos and postcards of Ozark Scenes. Scenes from Parks, Levees, Riverfronts, Prairie, and other Rural Views from Andrew, Carter, Crawford, Jackson, Schuyler, Taney, and Wheat.
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Viles-Hosmer Family Papers, 1814-1948 (C3709)
6.1 cubic feet (464 folders)
This collection contains autograph albums, account books, diaries, and personal and business correspondence of the Viles and Hosmer families. Included are Jonas Viles' professional papers while professor of history at the University of Missouri from 1902 to 1942.
Samuel Spencer Vinton Collection, 1864-1939 (R0819)
(2 folders)
This is a freight receipt book of Samuel Spencer Vinton (1828-1890), and a reminiscence by his son, Samuel Spencer Vinton (1857-1951). The receipt book reflects a freighting business from Sedalia to southwestern Missouri, 1864-1865. The reminiscence, written in 1939, concerns life around Springfield, Missouri, circa 1875-1890.
Eugene Morrow Violette Collection, 1806-1921 (C1033)
0.4 cubic feet
The papers of Eugene Morrow Violette contain papers collected by a professor of history in Missouri and Louisiana concerning land claims in the Louisiana Territory, 1806-1808; transcript of the inquest of the 5th Circuit Court of Missouri into charges against Joseph Smith, Jr., and other Mormons in Missouri, 1838; papers concerning the Missouri and Mississippi Railroad; and miscellaneous note cards.
John Diedrich Voerster Collection, 1802-2002 (S1115)
0.5 cubic foot
The John Diedrich Voerster collection includes family tree data for the Voerster family. Also included in this collection is family tree data from the descendants of John Diedrich Voerster (1802-1878), Engelbert Voerster (1842-1908), and John Voerster (1870-1936). The collection also includes forty-six photographs of Voerster family members.
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Lester A. Vonderschmidt Photograph Collection, 1838-1933 (P0849)
9 photographs
Portraits of Missouri representatives to the General Assembly
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W.E. Berghauser Hardware Company (Fulton, Mo.) Records, 1874-1929 (C2565)
29 rolls of microfilm
Accounting records of the W.E. Berghauser Hardware Company of Fulton, MO.
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Charles A. Wade Papers, 1854-1920 (C3237)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The papers of Charles A. Wade contain letters, commissions, and miscellaneous material of a captain in Company C, 25th Regiment, Missouri Volunteer Infantry, who was killed at the Battle of Pittsburgh Landing, April 10, 1862. The letters urge his wife to sell out and join him.
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Charles George Wade Papers, 1888 (K0908)
3 c.f.
Wade was the assistant engineer on the construction of the Railway. Includes a booklet and drawings relating to the Kansas City Cable Railway.
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Herb Waeckerle Photograph Collection, 1875-1902 (P0110)
8 photographs
8 glossy prints of sites related to Jesse James and family, including the James Farm, graves, and historic markers.
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William Wagner Papers, 1883-1966 (K0016)
1 c.f.
Materials relating to William Wagner's personal life and to his career with the Postal Service in Kansas City, Missouri. Also in the papers are materials which belonged to Wagner's father, Joseph M. Wagner who was an architect/builder; and his mother, Minna (Schiller) Wagner.
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William Tyler Waite Collection, 1870-1934 (K1240)
0.01 c.f.
Biography and photographs of Waite, a piano tuner and violin maker in Kansas City, MO, written by grandson David Murrell Huckett.
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Walker Family Papers, 1782-1883 (C0423)
0.1 cubic feet (5 folders), 1 oversize item
Wills, tax receipts, letters of character, 1782 bond for service, letters and portraits of a family from North Carolina who moved to Tennessee, then to New Madrid County, MO, and later to the Boone's Lick Country. Also an address given by Nannie Jane Walker Lenoir at Christian College, 1883.
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C.T. Wallace Album, 1877-1912 (P0309)
64 photographs
64 black and white matte photographs, mostly 5x7, showing views of mainly Pettis, Lafayette and Saline counties. Includes images relating to the Methodist church, cats, farming, the Missouri Pacific Railroad, rivers and creeks.
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Frank C. Wallower Papers, 1877-1966 (R0057)
6 folders
The Wallower papers consist primarily of materials connected with his unfinished autobiography,
"A Review of Sixty Years," which he began writing after his retirement. There are three
separate versions of the autobiography in this collection, each containing both original pages and
carbons. Each version is incomplete and differs slightly from the others. Taken as a whole, they
provide a composite of the intended form of the autobiography
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E.P. Walsh Letter, 1885 (C2682)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
To [N.B.] Allen, Jefferson City, MO, from St. Louis, MO, Feb. 25, 1885.
Request for the support of Allen, a member of the Missouri legislature, for a bill providing for collection of historical documents. Walsh was secretary for the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis.
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Martin Luther Walz Family Papers, 1888 (K1232)
0.01 c.f.
Genealogical information about members of the Walz family. Includes photograph of Walz as a young man, and a letter written to Walz by Emil Medious, a minister in Baiersdorf, Germany, about Walz's parents and siblings.
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George Woodward Warder Papers, 1877-1900 (K0131)
0.08 c.f. (2 folders)
This collection contains a photocopied scrapbook of prose and poetry written by George Woodward Warder, a Kansas City, Missouri, attorney, real estate investor, and builder and owner of the Warder-Grand Opera House. The collection also contains items pasted into a personal copy of his book, Poetic Fragments, or, College Poems published in 1873.
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Alfred Perry Warfield Papers, 1853-1896 (K0538)
0.01 c.f.
Check payable from C.R. Taylor to Warfield, just prior to his coming to Westport, MO where he becomes a prominent merchant, land owner, and one-time mayor.
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Warrenton, Missouri, Old Settlers Reunion Papers, 1859-1894 (C2943)
0.08 cubic feet (4 folders)
The papers contain correspondence, checks, bills, receipts, and other material regarding plans for the Old Settlers Reunion.
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Washburne Family Papers, 1825-1900 (C4047)
0.6 cubic feet (17 folders)
The papers of the Washburne family consist of personal and business correspondence concerning their wool business in Lockhart, Texas, advertisements, receipts, and account information. The correspondence deals extensively with family affairs, slavery, the Civil War, and politics. The collection also includes several bills of sale for enslaved persons.
Washington County, Missouri Probate Records, 1813-1886 (R0632)
(1 roll of microfilm)
The Washington County, Missouri Probate Records contain a microfilm copy of probate records from Washington County, Missouri. The first two volumes contain the statements of administrators of estates and guardians of minor children beginning in 1813 and continuing into August 1843. The third volume includes wills from 1845-1886.
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Washington Savings and Loan Association (Washington, Mo.) Records, 1871-1925 (C3663)
0.45 cubic feet (1 folder, 3 oversize volumes)
Records of a German savings and loan association in Washington, Missouri, organized in 1871 and rechartered twice before it received a permanent charter and took its present name in 1908. Includes charter, bylaws, minutes of board meetings, and lists of stockholders. Minutes were kept in German until September 4, 1918.
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Wesley Bates Wasson Ledgers, 1888-1915 (SP0104)
2 cubic feet (4 volumes)
The Wesley Bates Wasson Ledgers consist of four volumes that belonged to Dr. Wesley “W. B.” Bates Wasson of southwest Missouri. The ledgers contain his patient’s accounts, including names, dates, locations, services provided, and corresponding fees. The counties represented are Barry, Christian, Greene, Lawrence, and Stone.
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Waters Family Papers, 1860s-2021 (CA6619)
0.1 cubic feet
Photographs, correspondence, and genealogical material concerning the Joseph C. Waters family of Boone County, Missouri.
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Marie Oliver Watkins Papers, 1822-1962 (C2689)
2.8 cubic feet
Genealogical research in preparation for the book TEARIN' THROUGH THE WILDERNESS, MISSOURI PIONEER EPISODES, 1822-1885 by Marie Oliver Watkins and Helen Hamacher Watkins, a genealogy of the descendants of Charles Allen Watkins and Henrietta Rives of Ray County, MO.
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Ralph K. Watkins Papers, 1866-1970 (C4551)
1.4 cubic feet (31 folders)
Papers of a University of Missouri education professor including teaching resources, educational publications, information on professional activities and presentations, and family genealogy research material.
Watson-Westlake Family Papers, 1813-1949 (C0186)
0.7 cubic feet
Correspondence, receipts, legal documents, and miscellaneous items of the Watson family of Boone County. Memoir by Thomas W. Westlake of his Civil War and post-Civil War experiences.
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Watts Family Papers, 1870s-1979 (CA6121)
2 cubic feet, 5 oversize items
The papers of a family from Putnam County, Missouri, include an autograph book; travel scrapbooks and family photograph albums compiled by Bertha and Christine Watts; diaries composed by the Rev. Samuel S. McWilliams; and poetry and writings.
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John J. Watts Papers, 1874-1912 (R0038)
2 cubic feet (38 volumes, 6 rolls of microfilm)
The John J. Watts Papers are notebooks of genealogical records kept by a circuit-riding Baptist minister in the northern Ozarks. The records cover Phelps, Pulaski, Texas, and parts of Maries, and Dent counties in south-central Missouri.
James H. Waugh Record Book, 1862-1898 (CA5866)
1 volume
General purpose record book kept by a Columbia, MO, resident and banker, recording trustee's sales and other transactions, and miscellaneous papers.
William Waye Papers, 1852-1894 (C0440)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Letters of a German family in both Germany and the U.S.
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Weather Journal, 1830-1890 (C2489)
1 oversize volume, 1 roll of microfilm
A journal giving a day by day account of the weather, the monthly changes of the moon, and any eclipses or extraordinary meteorological events. Dates covered are 1830-1866, January 1868-October 1869, 1875, 1876, 1879, May-July 1888, and May-November 1890.
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Weathers Family Papers, 1868-1991 (C4014)
3.0 cubic feet (71 folders), 1 audio cassette
The papers document the lives of Virginia “Kate” and Benton H. Weathers of Howard County, Missouri, and the lives of their children and grandchildren. In addition to genealogical materials on the Weathers, Duncan, and Grigsby families, the collection includes some materials on the Weathers Lumber and Hardware Store in Fayette, Missouri, and the Missouri Polled Hereford Association Records.
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Webber Family Papers, 1870-1976 (R1502)
0.25 cubic foot (6 folders, 22 photographs, 9 tintypes, 5 cabinet cards, 1 cartes-de-viste)
The Webber Family Papers contains a family genealogy documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings for the Webber family of Phelps County.
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Weeks' Photographic Studio (Linn, Mo.) Glass Plate Negatives, c. 1880 (C3889)
68 glass plate negatives
Negatives of portraits believed to be from a photographic studio in Osage County, MO. A photocopy of each image made from prints held by the Osage County Historical Society is included in the inventory.
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Raymond L. Weeks Papers, 1873-1954 (C1045)
5.4 cubic feet, 10 a.d.
Papers of Raymond L. Weeks containing primarily correspondence regarding his academic career in Romance languages, philology, and phonetics at the universities of Michigan, Missouri, and Illinois; and Columba University in New York City. Royalty statements, postcards, poetry, photographs, newspaper clippings, and articles and scholarly writings concerning languages make up the rest of the collection.
J.W. Wells Papers, 1867-1884 (C3561)
0.12 cubic feet (6 folders)
The papers of J.W. Wells contain a diary and miscellaneous items of a minister in St. Louis, Missouri, and Buffalo, New York, who helped alcoholics and the needy.
William Wengler Account Books, 1854-1880 (C1288)
0.19 cubic feet (3 volumes)
Account books of Forest City Furniture Company, Rockford, IL.
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Roy Wenzlick Papers, 1882-1981 (S0574)
23 cubic feet, 28 films, 13 audio tapes, 299 microfilm rolls, 66 books
Roy Wenzlick was a prominent real estate analyst, appraiser, author, and publisher. His 1936 book, "The Coming Boom in Real Estate," appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. The collection includes correspondence, research files, photographs, and a complete run Wenzlick's newsletter, "The Real Estate Analyst."
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West Kansas City Land Company Records, 1867-1894 (K0345)
0.01 c.f.
Minute books and documents relating to land development company for the West Bottoms area (now called the Central Industrial District) location below the west bluffs of Kansas City, MO.
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Emma West Collection, 1880-1950 (P0062)
0.16 linear feet
Copy photos and postcards of Missouri, the bulk of which focus on New Cambria, Macon County.
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Reubie Johnson West Papers, 1877-1904 (C0439)
0.05 cubic feet (1 folder)
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, calendar school examination certificate, and commencement announcement from the family of Reubie Johnson West.
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Ruth Rollins Westfall Photograph Collection, 1838-1937 (P0020)
0.5 cubic feet
Exhaustive photographic genealogy of the Rollins Family dating back to the 1860s; most photographs with accompanying names and dates.
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Westover-Whelen Family Papers, 1854-1914 (C3414)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)
The papers of the Westover-Whelen family contain photocopies of court records concerning the Westover and Whelen family estates in St. Francois County, Missouri.
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Barbary A. Wheeler Deed, 1888 (C3197)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Mortgage deed from Barbary A. Wheeler to J.M. McLemore, Greenfield, Missouri, December 12, 1888.
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James H. Wheeler Diaries, 1874-1886, 1916 (C3861)
0.3 cubic feet (1 folder, 14 volumes)
The diaries of James H. Wheeler contain his writings on social, business, and church events in Hannibal and Kansas City, Missouri. There is one folder containing miscellaneous letters, programs, receipts, and newspaper clippings.
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Edwin D. Wheelock Papers, 1862-1901 (R0654)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)
The Edwin D. Wheelock Papers contain photocopied Civil War correspondence written by Edwin D. Wheelock, a soldier in Company G of the 17th Illinois Cavalry. The letters were written from camps at Alton, Illinois; St. Louis, Rolla, and Pilot Knob, Missouri; and Fort Scott, Kansas. There is also a letter written by a friend, Emery F. Farnsworth, who was a soldier in the 37th Illinois Infantry, a photographic copy of Wheelock in uniform, postwar information on veterans of the unit printed by the Nunda Herald, and a brief family record.
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Whitacre Family Collection, 1890-1903 (CA6751)
0.8 cubic feet
Genealogical records, charts, publications, correspondence, booklets, legal documents, biographies, and Leviathan Exercise Books for the Whitacre family of Kirksville, Missouri.