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Methodist Episcopal Church Southwest Missouri Conference, Lebanon District, Waynesville Charge Records, 1890-1894 (R0864)
(1 folder)

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This collection includes a Quarterly Conference record book (1890-1893) and a postal card (1894) concerning the Waynesville Charge of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Pulaski County, Missouri.

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Methodist Episcopal Church (Pendleton, Mo.) Records, 1893 (C2941)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Two classbooks for use in the Methodist Episcopal Church, including names of class members.

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Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Clarence, Mo.) Records, 1878-1891 (C4553)
0.1 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Record book of the Clarence, Missouri, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1878-1891.

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Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Southwest Missouri Conference Records, 1880-1925 (R0552)
0.25 cubic foot (3 folders, 20 booklets)

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These are published minutes of the annual sessions of the Southwest Missouri Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Included are membership rolls and assignments, minutes, reports, obituaries, and statistics.

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Methodist Episcopal Church, South, St. Louis Conference District Journals, 1845-1893 (C2994)
1 roll of microfilm

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Records of Ste. Genevieve, Perryville, and York Chapel circuits of the St. Louis Conference District of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Includes minutes detailing church business and statements of funds collected from the churches. The journals cover the Ste. Genevieve circuit from 1845 to 1860, the Perryville circuit from 1864 to 1871, and the York Chapel circuit from 1881 to 1893.

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Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Versailles Circuit Records, 1859-1901 (C1864)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Register includes names of members and probationers in the Versailles Circuit, Jefferson City District, Missouri, how and when received and disposed of--whether by death, certificate, withdrawal, or expulsion--and some baptism and marriage records.

Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Vienna Circuit Records, 1887-1908 (R0302)
(1 roll of microfilm)

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These are records of quarterly conferences of the Vienna Circuit, which included churches at Vienna, Bloom Garden, Bodendick, Branson Chapel, Enterprise, and Hughes Chapel in Maries County, and Lawson in Miller County, Missouri. The reports include minutes of meetings, financial records, and statements of spiritual conditions within the circuit.

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Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Vienna, Missouri Records, 1895-1898 (R0603)
(1 roll of microfilm)

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The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Vienna, Missouri Records include microfilm copies of the Methodist Sunday School that includes attendance records, statistical summaries, and meeting minutes from 1895 to 1898.

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Methodist Episcopal Church, Wet Glaize Class, Camden County, Missouri Records, 1889-1921 (R0757)
(1 folder)

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This is a record book of the Wet Glaize Class, presumably a Sunday School, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The class probably met in Camden County, Missouri.

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George E. Meyer Photograph Collection, 1878-1948 (P0689)
10 photographs

Photos of Judge Mathias McGirk home and burial site in the Rhineland area. Additional images of Millie Finley, Jesse James (in death) Captain Callaway grave, and early drawing of Hermann.

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Lynn Meyer Photograph Collection, 1890-1956 (P0225)
0.54 linear feet, 1 volume

Photographs relating to Southwestern Bell Telephone and of several Missouri locations, including the state capitol, St. Louis, Unity Farms, and Forsyth Dam.

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Walter E. Meyer Papers, 1889-1958 (C2638)
54.4 cubic feet

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The papers of Walter E. Meyer contain materials collected and used by Meyer in several suits on behalf of the minority stockholders of St. Louis Southwestern Railroad (Cotton Belt).

Dr. Roy E. Meyers Photograph Collection, 1881-1950 (P0709)
9 photographs

Photos of mining, carriages, and street scenes in Joplin, MO. Image of street scene in Carthage, MO, ca. 1900.

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Miami Savings Bank Record Book, 1874-1923 (C1164)
0.12 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Includes articles of association, bylaws, minutes of board meetings, transfers, and minutes of stockholders' meetings.

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Miami, Missouri, Records, 1867-1965 (C2490)
1.1 cubic feet

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The public records of a town in Saline County, Missouri, include city council minutes, school board records, and assessment and tax books.

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Middleton Family Papers, 1859-1938 (C3175)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Letters of the James H. Middleton family regarding the history and genealogy of the Middleton, Williams, and Evans families.

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Midland Ophthalmological Society Minute Book, 1896-1899 (C0272)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Constitution, bylaws regulating membership, officers, and funds of Society; meeting in Kansas City for Midwestern states and territories; minutes kept by secretaries H.D. Jeramitz, J.F. Wood, J.W. Sherer, and F.T. Reyling, giving actions of Society and accounts of medical problems discussed; paper on recurrent keratitis; letter from Dr. J.W. Banister, 1898.

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Solomon Harmon Milam Papers, 1876-1913 (C3437)
0.8 cubic feet (18 folders)

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The papers of Soloman Harmon Milam contain diaries, correspondence, sermons, religious books, receipts and account books kept by a Methodist minister in many Missouri towns, and by his wife, Ella Moreman Milam.

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Mill Creek School, Texas County, Missouri Records, 1886-1927 (R0651)
(1 roll of microfilm)

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The Mill Creek School, Texas County, Missouri Records are microfilmed records of the School District No. 2 near Plato in northwestern Texas County, Missouri. The records include seven volumes for the district clerk from 1886 to 1925 and teachers’ registers from 1893 to 1927.

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Millar Family Papers, 1840-1899 (R0162)
0.02 cubic foot (2 folders)

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The Millar Family Papers contain photocopies of miscellaneous papers of the Millar family of Mississippi County, Missouri. The collection includes a diary of a trip from Scioto
County, Ohio to Mississippi County in 1840, land and tax papers, slave records, and receipts issued by the Missouri State Guard at New Madrid during the Civil War.

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Miller County Institute (Spring Garden, Mo.) Papers, 1885-1892 (C2237)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Catalogues, graduation certificate, and papers concerning Butler, IL, public school system.

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Miller County Institute (Spring Garden, Mo.) Record Books, 1884-1894 (C0817)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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Account and record books of a preparatory school; students' accounts and records of tuition received.

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Eddie Miller Photograph Collection, 1852-1922 (P0608)
0.23 linear feet

Photographs of the Truman Presidential Library, ca. 1974. Copy photos, the bulk of which depict DeSoto, Jefferson County, MO. Also images of Washington County and Old Mines, MO.

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Edwin L. Miller Papers, 1852-1897 (C0367)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Price list of L. and I.J. White Company, a Buffalo, NY, firm making edge tools and planes; letter; and miscellaneous clippings, including article on reelection of Francis M. Cockrell for fifth term, inauguration of William McKinley, obituaries, poems and other items.

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Edwin L. Miller Scrapbook, 1888-1897 (C0873)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Newspaper clippings taken from a Holden, Johnson County, Missouri, newspaper, pertaining to deaths of literary, military, and political notables of the time; Holden M.E. Church convention program and membership certificate; Johnson County wolf hunt; and feature and human-interest stories.

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Henry C. Miller Papers, 1896-1898 (C2072)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The papers of Henry C. Miller contain fifteen letters to Miller, a Mercer County court clerk in Princeton, MO, about Republican Party affairs and appointments in Missouri's 3rd Congressional District. The Chauncey I. Filley faction, support in Missouri of William McKinley for president in 1896, state and local Republican conventions and meetings, and factional fights are discussed.

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James Miller Papers, 1842-1896 (C3152)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Legal documents, political correspondence, receipts for services, and real estate transactions of James Miller, the estate of William Miller, and J. Porter English.

Merritt F. Miller Collection, 1866-2003 (C3921)
0.8 cubic feet (40 folders)

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Photographs, negatives and caption notebook of a University of Missouri professor of soils, 1904-1938; and dean of the College of Agriculture, 1838-1945; depicting scenes of the Ozarks; European landmarks and agriculture; a North American tour of the International Society of Soil Science; and various Missouri, Columbia, and University of Missouri scenes. Also included are correspondence to and from Miller, postcards he collected while visiting Europe, and miscellaneous papers.

Wilber Miller Photograph Collection, 1850-1958 (P0494)
0.16 linear feet

Copy photographs of Stockton, MO

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Miller-Stephens Family Papers, 1811-1960 (C3229)
0.3 cubic feet

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Correspondence between members of the P.T. Miller family and the E.W. Stephens family, as well as Personal, business, and civic letters of Hugh Stephens. Several letters from 1811 to 1814, one 1839 letter, then resumes with a few Civil War letters. Traces the courtship of Nick E. Miller and Sallie "Birdie" Fisher until their marriage in 1874. Also includes the 1902 foreign travel letters of James H. Moss, a relative of the Stephens family.

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Kay Mills Papers, c. 1890-2011 (C4070)
16.25 cubic feet (513 folders), 170 audio cassettes, 3 video cassettes, 1 compact disc

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The papers of a journalist, author, and editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times include news articles, story files, books, manuscripts, research files, correspondence, personal papers, and interviews on audio cassette.

Mine La Motte Estate (Madison County, Mo.) Records, 1875-1897 (C1260)
0.07 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Miners' register including two sets of mining rules and regulations and the signatures of miners employed.

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Mine La Motte Records, 1840-1929 (R1347)
0.25 cubic foot (4 folders)

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The Mine La Motte records document mining history in Mine La Motte, a town in Missouri's Old Lead Belt. The papers include maps, letters, and stock certificates.

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Miners Bank (Joplin, Mo.) Records, 1877-1915 (C0280)
0.08 cubic feet (4 folders)

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Incorporation papers, notice of meetings, resolutions, 1915 report, and correspondence.

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Minnick Family Papers, 1872-1949 (C4559)
1.4 cubic feet (24 folders)

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The collection contains correspondence, account books and other financial records, ephemera, personal papers, photographs and tintypes of the Minnick family members, who lived in Chillicothe, Missouri.

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Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1781-1892 (C2293)
0.23 cubic feet (11 folders)

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The collection contains poems, receipts, documents, newspapers and correspondence concerning business, law, appointments, teaching, politics, insurance, pensions, land, health, cholera, medicine, weather, news of friends and relatives, degrees, autographs, letter of introduction, and the Civil War: secession, orders and battles.

Mississippi County (Mo.) School District #1 Records, (CG0063)
0.5 c.f.

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A collection of records and personal papers regarding the organization and procedures for a rural school that covered the Texas Bend and Thompson Bend, MO townships. The records include student attendance for multiple years at this school. There are also record books that include the meeting notes and district information from the school board of District No. 1, Township No. 27 & 18, Range No. 16 &17, Mississippi County, MO. Additional documents include correspondence and county clerk records.

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Missouri & Illinois Mineral & Land Company Records, 1834-1900 (R0058)
0.75 cubic foot (9 folders, 2 oversize folders

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These are records of the acquisition and disposition of lands in a speculative industrial development scheme in Jefferson, Ste. Genevieve, Perry, Cape Girardeau, and Madison Counties in Missouri.

Missouri Chautauqua Assembly Records, 1886-1896 (C1170)
0.07 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Chartered under the laws of Missouri in 1887 as the Missouri State Sunday School Assembly, the name was changed to Missouri Chautauqua Assembly in 1887.

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Missouri Church Records, 1811-2023 (C0558)
123.3 cubic feet (1424 folders), 3 computer discs

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The Missouri Church Records consist of newsletters, conference proceedings, reports, directories, journals, and other publications of various religious denominations in Missouri including the Methodist, Baptist, Disciples of Christ (Christian), Presbyterian, and Catholic churches.

Missouri College and University Print Materials, 1836-1986 (C4281)
12 cubic feet (322 folders), 13 oversize items

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The materials contain pamphlets, catalogs, guides, speeches, programs, yearbooks, periodicals and books produced by Missouri colleges, universities, academies, and other educational institutions.

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Missouri Collegiate Oratorical Association Records, 1895-1940 (CA5892)
0.5 cubic feet

Constitutions and by-laws, programs, copies of speeches and miscellaneous records of an organization of colleges in Missouri which held annual oratory competitions.

Missouri Congress of Parents and Teachers Records, 1899-2013 (CA6595)
14.5 cubic feet, 1 audio cassette, 2 video cassettes, 18 oversize items, 2 oversize volumes

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Addition of records includes executive committee meeting minutes, publications, reports, photographs, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous material.

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Missouri Council of Churches Records, 1866-1980s (CA4558)
29 cubic feet, 1 oversize volume

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The records of an organization concerned with legislation and social welfare programs in addition to religious concerns include convention materials, committee files, minutes, publications, correspondence, and miscellaneous material. Includes records of the Missouri Sunday School Association.

Missouri Democratic State Nominating Convention Papers, 1892 (C1762)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)

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Third and fourth ballots of vote by counties for presidential electors-at-large; printed list of delegates to convention; rules for nominating speeches, representation, voting, and admittance; minutes of proceedings; reports of committees on credentials, permanent organization, and platform and resolution.

Missouri Department of Natural Resources Photographs, 1890-1988 (P0136)
1.08 linear feet

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Photographs and postcards of historic sites and buildings in Missouri. Includes photographs of the dedication for the Harry S. Truman birthplace site in Lamar.

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Missouri Educational Exhibit Scrapbook, 1893 (C2664)
0.2 cubic feet (2 volumes)

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Student essays in German, French, and English from Central High School, Kansas City.

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Missouri Equine & Equestrian Collection of Photographs, 1856-1938 (P0993)

Photographs of mules, horses, and equestrians. Many of the photographs were taken in mid-Missouri, but images of notable race horses of the early to mid-20th century are also included. Broadacres Farm in Liberty, Missouri, is heavily featured. Shows included are the National Belgian Horse Show, the International Livestock Exposition,

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Missouri Federation of Women's Clubs Records, 1896-1933 (C1172)
5 volumes

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Membership lists, officers, constitution, and minutes of the directors' and annual meetings.