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Arthur W. Proetz Photograph Collection, 1890-1963 (S0537)
3 cubic feet, 1720 photographs, 1728 negatives
Arthur W. Proetz was a lifelong resident of St. Louis, a Washington University graduate, and a surgeon. He authored the book "I Remember You St. Louis," which was illustrated with many of his photographs. The collection consists of a variety fo St. Louis scenes and family portraits, including the Worlds Fair and the Veiled Prophet.
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Arthur Proetz Papers, 1885-1917 (S0065)
0.01 cubic foot, 1 folder, 1 roll microfilm
The Arthur Proetz Papers consist of a family scrapbook containing theatre programs, flyers, and newspaper clippings from German and English newspapers, documenting the musical and cultural milieu of turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
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Provident Association Collection, 1880-1944 (K1284)
0.3 c.f.
The collection includes one copy of a document prepared by R.F. Townley in 1944, regarding the history of the Provident Association.
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Provident Behavioral Health Records, 1848-2002 (S0360)
26 cubic feet, 16 microfilm rolls
The Provident Behavioral Health Records contain annual reports, meeting minutes, press releases, scrapbooks, presentations, videotapes, relating to mental health and social services in the St. Louis Area. Found in 1860 by James Yeatman, Provident Behavioral Health's mission is mental health services to St. Louis area residents. The collection also contains the records of Provident's predecessor organizations: The Family and Children's Services of Greater St. Louis, the Family Service Society of St. Louis County, and the St. Louis Children's Aid Society.
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Barbara Smith Pugh Collection, 1871-1990 (R1531)
1.5 cubic feet (30 folders, 1 oversize item)
The Barbara Smith Pugh Collection contains photographs and papers created and collected by Barbara Smith Pugh during her life. Photos depict family members from both the Smith and Pugh families. Barbara was an avid genealogist and photographer from Rolla, Missouri.
Joseph Pulitzer Papers, 1897-1958 (S0060)
163 rolls of microfilm
Joseph Pulitzer was an editor and newspaper publisher, whose holdings included the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The papers primarily relate to his editorship of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and cover nearly every aspect of the operation and production of the newspaper, including its internal business management and its editorial policies. The collection contains extensive correspondence with family, journalists, and politicians.
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Purcell Family Photographs, 1903-1951 (SP0044)
0.25 cubic foot (6 folders, 33 photographs)
The Purcell Family Photographs collection contains photographs of the Purcell family and the Bois D'Arc, Missouri area. The photographs were taken between 1903 and 1951. It includes photographs of the Fairview school, which was a one-room schoolhouse in Pierce City, Missouri, which the Purcell children attended. The Purcell children are portrayed from childhood to adulthood.
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Puritan Mining Company Collection, 1911 (R1115)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)
This collection contains certificate number 542, dated April 19, 1911, for five shares of stock in the Puritan Mining Company at Joplin in Jasper County, Missouri. The company was organized in 1909 and failed in 1913. The shares were sold to Olivia Ramed.
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William R. Purnell Papers, 1908-1913 (C2258)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Mock initiation certificate of the Order of the Deep; U.S. Naval Academy graduation diploma; two U.S. Navy commission certificates; and photograph of U.S. ships WYOMING, UTAH, and DELAWARE.
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H.D. "Doc" Quigg Papers, 1883-1998 (CA6368)
25.6 cubic feet, 1 audio cassette, 6 oversize items
The papers of a journalist who spent most of his career at UPI include story files, clippings, article drafts, correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous personal and professional material. Quigg, a native of Boonville, Missouri, graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1934.
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R.E. Lee Mercantile Company Records, 1881-1941 (C0292)
0.5 cubic feet (2 folders, 14 volumes)
Receipts from a general store in Doniphan, MO; account books, cash books; day books; inventories; and minute books. This store succeeded Pearce and Lee Mercantile Company.
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Raff Family Papers, 1852-1923 (R0124)
0.02 cubic foot (1 folder)
The Raff Family Papers contain the correspondence and miscellaneous papers of the Raff family of Crawford County, Missouri. Included are letters from George Raff of Greenock Scotland and the letters of Archie Raff from Camp Funston, Kansas and Fort Sill, Oklahoma during his service in World War I.
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Lawrence M. Raftery Papers, 1900-1983 (S0462)
0.8 cubic feet, 32 folders, 53 photographs
The Lawrence M. Raftery Papers contain correspondence, photographs, memos, and artifacts documenting Lawerence M. Raftery, a sixty-nine-year member of the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Traders (IBPAT). Raftery later served as vice president, general secretary-treasurer, and president of the IBPAT.
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Stephen J. Raiche Photograph Collection, 1856-1972 (P0474)
0.21 linear feet
Photos of historic buildings in Missouri, primarily in the St. Louis area.
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Stephen R. Raiche Papers, 1864-1989 (S0623)
0.4 cubic foot, 10 folders
The Stephen R. Raiche Papers contain research notes and printed material about St. Louis neighborhoods including Lafayette Park/Square, Soulard Neighborhood and Soulard Market, and an Architectural Survey of LaSalle Park Area.
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Railroad Stock Certificate Collection, 1835-1915 (R1485)
0.03 cubic foot (1 folder)
The Railroad Stock and Bond Certificates Collection consists of 70 stock and bond certificates for railroad companies in the United States and Canada.
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Railroads Unimproved Land Association Collection, 1914 (R1202)
(1 folder)
This is paid in full certificate number 6763 AA in the Railroads Unimproved Land Association, which had a development office at Fruit City in Reynolds County, Missouri. The certificate was issued to Mrs. C. Border of Union, Ohio, on May 28, 1914.
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Homer Price Rainey Papers, 1919-1952 (C0032)
23.4 cubic feet (1,964 folders), 3 volumes, 77 audio cassettes, 1 audio disc
The personal papers and correspondence of Rainey cover his career as an educator; his directorship of the American Youth Commission; the struggle for academic freedom at the University of Texas; his campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Texas; and the administration of Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri. The scrapbooks contain news clippings, articles, and family genealogy.
Rainwater Family Papers, 1863-1939 (R0227)
0.02 cubic foot (2 folders)
The Rainwater Family Papers contain photocopies of the Civil War letters of Major Charles C. Rainwater, a Confederate officer, to his wife, Sarah Fowler Rainwater, at Cole Camp, Benton County, Missouri. The letters mention fighting at Hartville and Cape Girardeau, and Rainwater’s disabilities from wounds. There are also genealogical data on Samuel Fowler and his family, and biographical sketches of Sarah Fowler Rainwater.
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Harry T. Rall Photograph Collection, 1879-1976 (P0622)
18 photographs
Photos of Thomas Jefferson and Nathaniel Lyon monuments, and the Chicago & Alton Railroad bridge at Glasgow, MO.
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Jack Leonard Ralston Papers, 1874-1996 (K0424)
21 c.f.
Research materials, magazine articles that Ralston wrote, books, and sheet music for the Organ that he collected and some he wrote. Much of the material is religious in nature. Also correspondence, scrapbooks, and material that discusses Ralston's personal life and career as music librarian.
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Julian Sturtevant Rammelkamp Papers, 1800-1994 (S0568)
65 cubic feet, 202 folders, 39 photographs, 6 microfilm rolls
Julian Sturtevant Rammelkamp was a journalism historian, history teacher, and one-time chair of the history department at Albion College in Michigan. He authored "Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch," published in 1967. Included in the collection are note cards from his study of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Post, correspondence with major writers, and rare books.
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Robert L. Ramsay Papers, 1918-1953 (C3230)
2.5 cubic feet
Correspondence, notes, rough drafts, revisions, and proof sheets for place names series with emphasis upon Missouri place names. Newspaper clippings about Ramsay and the place name articles. Small volumes of notes and prints pertaining to his academic classes, and sample student themes and bibliographies.
Randolph County, Missouri, Photograph Collection, 1894-1951 (P1144)
An artificial collection of photographs of Randolph County, Missouri.
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Rannells Family Papers, 1836-1914 (S0786)
4.4 cubic feet, 211 folders, 10 oversized items, 1 CD
The Rannells Family Papers contain correspondence, legal materials, account books, and household receipts relating to the real-estate business of Charles Rannells (1814-1877), as well as his son, Edward's, legal career.
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Ranslow and Burger Families Papers, 1862-1939 (SP0089)
0.5 cubic foot (7 folders, 19 photographs)
The Ranslow and Burger Families Papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and personal papers of the Ranslow and Burger families of Christian and Taney counties in Missouri.
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Walther Rathenau Letter, 1919 (C3761)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Letter from Rathenau, head of Allgemeine Elektricitats-Gesellschaft (General Electric Company) of Berlin, to James Taft Hatfield setting up an appointment with him in Rathenau's office at AEG on June 27, 1919.
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Elizabeth Jones Ratliff Photograph Collection, 1880-1924 (P0251)
94 photographs
Various images related to Macon County, specifically the town of Ethel, photos of Kirksville State Normal School, 1919-1924, including the 1924 fire and its aftermath, and portraits of identified and unidentified families and individuals.
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Irwin Raut Papers, 1871-1927 (C2410)
0.19 cubic feet (9 folders)
The papers of Irwin Raut contain miscellaneous material, including price lists for trunks (1874-1879), railway schedules, information on Sedalia and St. Louis, and a scrapbook of poetry.
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Mazÿck Porcher Ravenel Papers, 1884-1958 (C0578)
1.7 cubic feet (108 folders), 1 card file
The papers of a bacteriologist and teacher, including correspondence, notes, and other material. Information on disease research, health organizations, other scientists, World War I army life, the University of Wisconsin in 1914, and the effects of World War II on Columbia, Missouri.
George Rawick Papers, 1841-1988 (S0630)
36 cubic feet, 51 audio tapes, 24 photographs
The papers of George Rawick contain correspondence, writings, and publications relating to Rawick's research on slavery in the United States and his research on the American labor movement. Materials of interest include transcripts of slave narratives Rawick collected from the Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration.
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Ray Family Collection, 1900-2002 (R1356)
5 cubic feet (91 folders, 2CDs, 10 oversize volumes)
The Ray Family Papers contains the personal papers of Wilda I. Housden Ray and genealogical information on the Ray and Housden families, photographs of the family and Licking, Missouri.
E. Lansing Ray Journal, 1918 (C2168)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)
The collection contains the journal of E. Lansing Ray, editor and publisher of the St. Louis GLOBE DEMOCRAT. Ray was a member of a delegation of American newspapermen invited to visit the Allied Western Front, September-November 1918. The journal includes a record of events and observations of conditions in England, Ireland, Scotland and France, and describes tours, social and political events, and attitudes of the people.
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Joseph L. Ray Pension Papers, 1911-1928 (R1339)
(1 folder)
This collection consists of pension claim papers for Joseph Lafayette Ray a veteran of the Civil War. In 1911, Joseph L. Ray began the process of applying for a pension for his service during the Civil War.
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Mildred Kittell Ray Collection, 1857-1973 (K0024)
0.19 c.f. (10 folders)
Letters written by John Taylor, Mrs. Ray's great grandfather, and his brother, James Taylor, to their parents in Oldham, England, about their experiences in Kansas City, 1857-1863, as well as letters from Mrs. Ray's mother and grandmother. It also includes research notes and writings by Mrs. Ray concerning the Taylor and Fisher families, including notes on diaries kept by Abel Fisher concerning his trip to California and his early days in Kansas City, 1855-1858
Allen Walker Read Papers, 1835-2002 (C4033)
82 cubic feet (2127 folders), 11 oversize items, 2 audio tapes, 6 audio cassettes
The papers of Allen Walker Read contain the personal and professional papers of a prominent etymologist, including correspondence, photographs, diaries, teaching and research materials, writings, and records pertaining to his involvement in linguistic organizations and conferences.
Reagan-Boegel Family Papers, 1855-2021 (S0505)
0.75 cubic foot
The Reagan-Boegel Family Papers contain family tree charts, photographs, and newspaper clippings chronicling the history of the Reagan and Boegel families of Montgomery and St. Charles counties dating back to the mid-1800s.
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Red Bridge Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Congregation Records, 1879-2016 (K1361)
2 c.f.
Member directories, financial summaries, photos, programs, newsletters, records of land purchases, sketches of bldg plans, records of dissolution of corp., anniversary booklets and other items from the life of the church. Previously known as Oak Park Christian Church.
Frederic D. Redeker Collection, 1900-1938 (P0410)
0.125 linear feet
Photos of Stark Brother's Nurseries and Delicious Apple Monument, photos and postcard of SGT Floyd Army Corps tow boat ca 1975, postcards of Missouri fishing and farming, University of Missouri Columbia, St. Louis, and Plano, MO
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Fredric D. Redeker Collection, 1894-1953 (C4203)
0.4 cubic feet (8 folders)
The Fredric D. Redeker Collection contains documents from German and English speaking communities in Missouri. It includes records of minutes, correspondence, genealogical information, and a religious manuscript. Much of the correspondence, as well as the manuscript, are written in German.
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Redmon and Hurst Farms Papers, 1898-1913 (C4243)
0.25 cubic feet (5 folders)
Three farm account ledgers from the Redmon and Hurst farm near Tipton, Missouri; Redmon and Hurst Farms, correspondence; official Postmaster's account and record book from Tea, Missouri.
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Reed Family Papers, 1894-1996 (C4065)
2.4 cubic feet (69 folders)
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Ellen ""Nell"" Quinlan Donnelly Reed Papers, 1919-1972 (K0444)
4 c.f.
The Ellen "Nell" Quinlan Donnelly Reed Papers contain correspondence, printed and published advertisements, and photographs related to the life of Nell Donnelly Reed, prominent Kansas City businesswoman and cofounder of the Donnelly Garment Company. The papers also cover topics including politics and travel.
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Hazel Reed Papers, 1913-1975 (SP0055)
1 cubic foot (39 folders, 19 photographs)
The Hazel Reed Papers contain correspondence, genealogical research, photographs, and newspaper clippings created by Hazel Irene Carmack Reed. The collection includes material concerning various families from Missouri including Allee, Bartlett, Birdsong, Bybee, Carmack, Decker, Hill, Howard, Reed, Smith, and Yarbrough. There is a significant focus on the Allee family history and Pulaski County, Missouri.
James Alexander Reed Papers, 1903-1950 (K0443)
60 c.f.
Personal and professional correspondence, speeches, case files, legal documents, scrapbooks, and subject files of Kansas City Mayor and United States Senator James A. Reed.
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Lyle Reed Collection, 1874-1998 (C4382)
1 cubic foot (52 folders)
Rare fiddle books, magazines, and other items related to the history of fiddle music collected by Lyle Reed and his wife, Marjorie Reed.
Reed-Harlin Company Records, 1904-1978 (R0489)
(1 roll of microfilm)
The Reed-Harlin Company Records are minutes of meetings of the stockholders and
board of directors of the Reed-Harlin Company, a wholesale grocery firm based in West Plains,
Howell County, Missouri.
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Margaret Reedy Papers, 1917-1949 (C3436)
0.25 cubic feet (6 folders)
An unpublished biography of William Marion Reedy written by his wife Margaret Reedy; autobiography of Margaret Reedy; and correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Margaret Reedy. Correspondence is in regards to a search of any works written by William Reedy and miscellaneous papers include an interview of Margaret Reedy published in a journal, information on The Mirror, and an obituary of Margaret Reedy.
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Madge J. Reese Papers, 1887-1962 (C2405)
1.3 cubic feet
The papers of Madge J. Reese contain publications, reports, and statements on Reese's career with the U.S. Agricultural Extension Service, 1914-1955. The collection emphasis is on home demonstration work.
Albert L. Reeves, Sr. Papers, 1900-1971 (K0640)
2 c.f.
Personal and professional papers depicting U.S. District Court Judge Reeves' judicial career and family material. Includes manuscripts and family materials; photographs; speeches/addresses; cases; correspondence, clippings, and an oversize scrapbook. Also drafts of unpublished book by Reeves, Shame of a Great City.