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Missouri National Guard Photographs, 1893-1932 (P0076)
0.2 linear feet

 Digitized Materials

Images of Charles Lindbergh, aerial photos of Columbia, MO, Fort Riley (KS), Lambert Airfield, 35th Division Aviation, Digital images of Fort Riley, national guard officers under Gov. Wm. J. Stone.

Missouri Nurses Association Records, 1902-1993 (CA4451)
95 cubic feet

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The records of a professional organization include correspondence, insurance records, convention materials, reports, committee material, legislative files, membership records, publications, and miscellaneous materials.

Missouri Pacific Railroad Records, 1905-1945 (CA6365)
4.7 cubic feet

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Records of the railroad largely consist of field books containing survey information. Also includes valuation notes.

Missouri Pacific Railway Company Records, circa 1911 (R0459)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Missouri Pacific Railway Company Collection contains illustrated promotional booklets advertising railroad lands for sale in northeastern and central Arkansas. The booklets include descriptions and photographs of twenty-one counties, with information on agricultural production, stock raising, and railroad connections in the region.

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Missouri Patriotic Associations Collection, 1893-2010 (C4704)
0.4 cubic foot (18 folders), 1 roll of microfilm

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Records of state and local chapters of various patriotic and heritage associations in Missouri.

Missouri Peace Society Papers, 1912-1919 (C1805)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The papers of the Missouri Peace Society contain a bank pass book and three vouchers for the Missouri Peace Society.

Missouri Photographs Collection, 1912-1954 (SP0031)
.1 cubic foot (1 folder, 6 photographs)

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The Missouri Photographs Collection consists of various photographs from the state of Missouri, as well as several postcards for attractions around the state, including Meramec Caverns. The collection also contains an address book dated 1954. 

Missouri Postcard Collection, 1870-1997 (P0032)
1 cubic foot

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An artificial collection of postcards depicting a broad selection of Missouri landscapes, towns, and cities.

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Missouri Postcard Collection, 1907-1971 (SP0016)
.5 cubic feet (9 folders)

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The Missouri Postcard Collection contains postcards featuring images from around the state of Missouri. Materials continue to be added to the collection.

Missouri Postmasters Association Papers, 1910-1928 (C3019)
0.1 cubic feet

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Programs, minutes, and proceedings of an organization of postmasters.

Missouri Press Association Papers, 1866-1915 (C1822)
0.31 cubic feet (15 folders)

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Papers about the annual meetings of the Press Association: agendas, lists of participants, and information discussed.

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Missouri Press Association Photograph Collection, 1867-1985 (P0475)

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Photos of the Missouri Press Association and newspaper journalists and editors.

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Missouri Press Association Records, 1882-1982 (C3714)
1.8 cubic (60 folders), 10 rolls of microfilm

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The records of an organization of editors, publishers, and employees of publishing establishments contain histories, correspondence, minutes, annual meeting programs, newsletters, clippings, and photographs. The records also include information on regional associations and the Missouri Press Association confidential bulletins from 1930 to 1982. The bulletins are on microfilm.

Missouri Press Association Records, 1880s-2015 (CA6189)
54.6 cubic feet, 1 oversize volume, 5 oversize items, 13 DVD, 1 video cassette

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Addition of bulletins, clippings, convention and board of directors meeting materials, directories, correspondence, photographs, subject files, and miscellaneous records of an organization founded in 1867. Includes files of executive directors Bill Bray and Doug Crews.

Missouri Press Portraits, 1872-1924 (P1196)

Portraits of journalists, including many newspaper editors, from Missouri, or who have written significantly on Missouri topics.

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Missouri Public Service Commission Photographs, 1915-1969 (P0337)
8 photographs

8 photographs of various Public Service Commissions: Boards of 1953, 1963, 1969; employees of commission, 1915.

Missouri Railroad Collection, 1874-1915 (R1457)
0.5 cubic foot (19 folders)

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The Missouri Railroad Collection is an ephemeral collection of records dealing with the railroad industry in Missouri. Included are records of railroad investments made by the J. & W. Seligman and Company and members of the Perkins, Livingston, Post Company of New York in railroad companies in Missouri and Kansas. These materials contain records for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company; Kansas City, Clinton and Springfield Railroad Company; the Memphis, Carthage and Northwestern Railroad Company; the Missouri and Western Railway Company; the Oswego and State Line Railroad Company; Pierce City and Kanas Railroad Company; the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company; and the St. Louis, Wichita and Western Railway Company.

Missouri Railroad Records, 1837-2006 (C2358)
39.3 cubic feet (441 folders)

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The Missouri Railroad Records consist of reports, bulletins, pamphlets, proceedings, and other materials of railroads and related organizations that were in Missouri or its contiguous states.

Missouri School of Religion Papers, 1896-1967 (C2791)
5.8 cubic feet

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Correspondence of Deans G.D. Edwards, 1907-1937; Carl Agee, 1930-1949; and Seth Slaughter, 1949-1967. Correspondence of George Wetherell, extension minister, and James Wyker, director of the Rural Church Extension Service. Minutes of board of trustees' and faculty meetings, treasurer's reports, annual reports, and audits.

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Missouri School of Religion Records, 1888-1980s (CA4347)
12.3 cubic feet

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Addition of enrollment cards, bulletins, financial statements, trustee meeting minutes, theses and dissertations, lecture notes, bibliographies, reports, publications, and photographs.

Missouri Sesquicentennial Celebration, Platte County Collection, c. 1890-1970 (C4218)
0.4 cubic feet (18 folders)

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Materials concerning Platte County, Missouri, history compiled for the Missouri Sesquicentennial Celebration Committee.

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Missouri Society of American Foresters Records, 1900-1991 (C4185)
4 cubic feet (172 folders)

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The records of the Missouri Chapter of the Ozark Section of the Society of American Foresters contain meeting material, minutes, newsletters, reports, correspondence, photographs and miscellaneous material. The objectives of the Society are to advance the science, technology, teaching and practice of professional forestry in America, and to use the knowledge and skills of the profession to benefit society.

Missouri Society of the Sons of the American Revolution Records, 1891-2024 (CA3056)
19.90 cubic feet, 1 oversize item, 1 computer disc, 3.56 GB of digital files

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Applications, correspondence, minutes, membership lists, publications, financial records, convention and program materials, chapter records, photographs, and other material of the organization.

Missouri State Capitol Photograph Collection, 1889-1920 (P1118)

An artificial collection of photographs of Missouri state capitol building.

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Missouri State Labor Council, AFL-CIO Records, 1891-1975 (C0216)
21.6 cubic feet (1734 folders)

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Correspondence, convention proceedings, financial and membership records, minutes, reports, and records of the Council and its Committee on Political Education, the Missouri State Federation of Labor, and Labor's League for Political Education. Subject file on topics of interest to labor including political, legislative, and civic activities of Council executive officers.

Missouri State Officials, Boards, and Committees, Portraits, 1891-1985 (P1205)

Portraits of Missouri's statewide officials, staff, board and committee members.

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Missouri State Old Time Fiddlers Association Collection, 1827-2002 (C3715)
0.4 cubic feet (80 folders), 39 audio cassettes, 10 video cassettes, 5 CDs, 1 audio disc

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The collection contains field, commercial, and private label recordings, interviews, newsletters, brochures, broadsides, sheet music, audio and video cassettes, and correspondence of the association.

Missouri State Teachers Association Records, 1837-1997 (CA6123)
10.5 cubic feet, 6 oversize volumes

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Records and official papers of the Missouri State Teachers Association. In May 1856, teachers met in St. Louis and established the first U.S. professional organization for state educators. The records include newsletters and other publications, historical materials, committee reports, and oversize scrapbooks.

Missouri State Treasurer Portraits, 1843-1957 (P0882)

large portraits of the State Treasurers of Missouri, including most treasurers from the time period from 1843 to 1960

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Missouri United Methodist Church (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1903-2021 (CA2573)
18.8 cubic feet, 1 audio cassette, 3 video cassettes, 1 oversize volume

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The records of the church include bulletins, church histories, membership directories, correspondence, minutes, reports, legal documents, photographs, church newsletters, financial records, yearbooks, records of women’s groups, and miscellaneous material.

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Missouri Valley Chapter-Society of Architectural Historians (MVC-SAH) Architectural Records, 1906-1981 (K0006)
1200 c.f.

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Architectural drawings, specifications, photographs and other documents related to buildings in Kansas City, Missouri constructed or modified between the years ca. 1906-1970.

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Missouri Writers Portraits, 1905-1997 (P1195)

Portraits of writers of poetry, prose, and non-fiction from Missouri, and writers who authored works about Missouri.

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Missouri Writers' Guild Records, 1915-2011 (C3657)
4.0 cubic feet (76 folders, 3 volumes, 4 video cassettes)

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Records of a professional writer’s organization that include administrative files, correspondence, event and membership information, and newsletters. The collection also contains information on select local affiliate chapters.

Missouri. Columbia. Police Records, 1882-1946 (C2380)
12 rolls of microfilm

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Police court dockets, 1882-1939; call books, 1931-1939; records of arrests, convictions, and fines, 1931-1946; and miscellaneous papers, 1929-1937.

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Missouri, Glasgow. Board of Education Records, 1875-1917 (C2327)
0.85 cubic feet (8 volumes)

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Record books for District 1, Range 17, Township 51, Howard County. Election of directors and minutes of board meetings; textbooks adopted; minutes of annual school meetings; registered voters; teachers' rolls and salaries; school expenses; district clerk's annual enumeration; rules and regulations for students and teachers.

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Huntsville, Missouri Brochure, c. 1910 (C0742)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Brochure describing the town of Huntsville, circa 1910.

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Missouri, Inland and Southern Railway Company Map Collection, 1910 (R0850)
0.25 cubic feet (2 maps)

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These are route and profile maps for the Missouri, Inland and Southern Railway Company in Dent County, Missouri. The company was a short-lived organization formed to build an electric railway southward from Rolla, Missouri.

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Missouri. Randolph County Warranty Deeds, 1879-1910 (C2594)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Miscellaneous warranty deeds and deeds of trust.

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Salisbury, Missouri Lantern Slides, 1910s (C3868)
1 roll of microfilm

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Lantern slides of Salisbury residents taken along Salisbury streets by an unknown photographer.

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Missouri. Springfield. Abstracts, 1871-1921 (C2340)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Abstracts covering the establishment of Springfield streets and avenues for the period 1871-1921.

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Missouri, Vernon County. World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919 (CA6357)
0.5 cubic feet

World War I service record cards for soldiers from Vernon County, Missouri.

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Confederate Home (Higginsville, Mo.) Records, 1897-1944 (C0066)
2.6 cubic feet, 12 oversize volumes; also available on 7 rolls of microfilm

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Financial material, correspondence, contracts, minutes and reports, blueprints, and photographs. Volumes include journals, ledgers, farm accounts, voucher register, cash book, and general records.

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Missouri. Council of Defense Papers, 1917-1919 (C0575)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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The papers of the Missouri State Council of Defense contain reports on the organization and activities of the Council on relief, home defense, aliens, industry, labor, engineering, publicity, and supply and conservation of food. There are copies of correspondence and bulletins published by the Council. Topics discussed are recruits, farm labor, food, Patriotic Day, crops, loans and war funds, collecting waste junk, insurance, and posters.

Missouri. Hospital No. 1, Fulton, History, 1914 (C2713)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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An informal history of the state mental hospital, 1847-1912.

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Missouri. Infantry, 21st Regiment, Volunteers Papers, 1861-1969 (C4255)
0.5 cubic feet (17 folders)

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The papers contain copies of pension records, military records, and memoirs of members of the Missouri Infantry, 21st Regiment, Volunteers, and other material pertaining to Civil War soldiers.

Missouri. State Flower Papers, c. 1917 (C1793)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Missouri State Horticultural Society flyer and telegram regarding selection of a state flower.

Mitchell Family Papers, circa 1917-1980 (R0151)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Mitchell Family Collection contains photocopies of reminiscences, newspaper clippings, and genealogical material concerning various members of the Mitchell family at Licking in Texas County, Missouri.

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Ansel Nichols Mitchell Family Papers, 1890-1975 (K0548)
14 c.f.

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Personal and financial papers, correspondence, news clippings, and photographs of Mitchell, nephew of real estate developer J.C. Nichols, and onetime vice-president of the J.C. Nichols Company, and his wife and daughters. Also information on their parents, William Ansel and Maude Nichols Mitchell and Robert P. and Bertha Dicken Woods; and documents and photographs relating to J. C. Nichols and his family.

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Ewing Young Mitchell Jr. Papers, 1840-1949 (C1041)
0.4 cubic feet, 101 rolls of microfilm

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Papers of a Springfield, MO, lawyer active in Democratic Party politics, who served as assistant secretary of commerce in Franklin Roosevelt's first administration. Material concerns family affairs, law practice with emphasis on county indebtedness, Ozark land speculation, and Democratic politics on the state and national levels.

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Frances Pearle Mitchell Papers, 1858-1919 (C1703)
0.3 cubic feet (10 folders)

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The papers of a resident of Rocheport, Missouri, consist of appointments, certificates, correspondence, invitations, programs, and dance cards.  Mitchell, a graduate of Stephens College, was involved in many civic and women’s organizations, including the Missouri Women Farmers’ Club.

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