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Irving Dilliard Papers, 1867-1992 (S0491)
45 cubic feet, 1413 folders, 1 audio tape, 11 photographs
The Irving Dilliard Papers contain correspondence, writings, subject files, and photographs documenting his career as a journalist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Subjects of interest include civil liberties and the United States Constitution.
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Samuel Rodgers Dillman Papers, 1890-1995 (C0046)
3 cubic feet (262 folders), 2 oversize volumes
Correspondence, bills, receipts, clippings, pamphlets, and church supply catalogues of a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Dillman held pastorates in St. Louis, where he was engaged in settlement house work; Berwyn, Nebraska; and several towns in southwest Missouri. Papers are from the St. Louis and southwest periods of his ministry.
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Otto F. Dingeldein Papers, 1944-1990 (C4291)
1.0 cubic foot (19 folders), 8 oversize items
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Dismas House Records, 1919-1978 (S0192)
5.2 c.f., 223 folders, 186 photographs, 1 microfilm roll, 10 audio tapes, 1 33RPM record, 2 oversize items
The Dismas House Records contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and annual reports documenting the Dismas House, the nation's first halfway house for ex-convicts.
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Dixie Greyhound Lines Collection, 1944 (R0986)
(1 folder)
This is a booklet of timetables for July 1944 for Dixie Greyhound Lines, Inc., which operated in southeastern Missouri between St. Louis and Arkansas through Flat River, Farmington, Fredericktown, Jackson, Cape Girardeau, Sikeston, New Madrid, Portageville, Hayti, Caruthersville, and Steele.
Ben F. Dixon Papers, 1941-1958 (C3749)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The papers of Ben F. Dixon contain press releases detailing the events which led to the Battle of Athens, Missouri, on 5 August 1861; the battle itself; and the aftermath. The papers also include biographical sketches of the leaders of the opposing forces. The articles were written in the 1940s on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the battle.
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D. Howard Doane Papers, 1906-1969 (C3121)
4.2 cubic feet (292 folders, 8 volumes)
D. Howard Doane Papers, 1918-1979 (CA4593)
16 cubic feet, 9 oversize volumes, 6 oversize items, 2 audio discs
Addition to papers of a pioneer in farm management includes correspondence, photographs, news clippings, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous material.
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Ella Victoria Dobbs Papers, 1882-1970 (C0095)
1.10 cubic feet (61 folders, 1 oversize item)
The papers of a University of Missouri Professor Emeritus of Applied Arts include correspondence, an unpublished manuscript, speeches and essays, and Pi Lambda Theta materials. Also contains teaching notebooks, scrapbooks, and a copy of her biography.
Doermann-Niebruegge Family Papers, 1865-2002 (C4368)
1.9 cubic feet (60 folders)
Papers of a German American family from Bay, Missouri, largely consist of material concerning the Henry and Elise Neibruegge Doermann and Fred Doermann families and include photographs, correspondence, financial papers, military papers, and miscellaneous material. Related and other families represented include Poetting and Mayhew.
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Dolniuk Family Papers, 1921-1984 (S1144)
0.25 cubic foot, 136 photographs
This collections contains correspondence, post cards, and photographs of the Dolniuk family of St. Louis.
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Domestic Science Club, Lebanon, Missouri Records, 1908-1943 (R0297)
1 folder
These are pamphlet yearbooks of a women's club in Lebanon, Laclede County, Missouri, organized
in 1898 as the Home Economics Club. The yearbooks include the constitution and by-laws,
rosters of officers and members, and committee assignments.
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Geoffrey Wade Donnan Papers, 1854-2015 (S1222)
16 Cubic Feet, 472.9 GB
The papers of Geoffrey Wade Donnan contain correspondence, family histories, photographs, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings relating to Geoffrey Wade Donnan’s research on the Donnan, Wessel, Schaefer, and Coe families. Throughout his research, Donnan collected and maintained his relative’s papers, including his parent’s, Dwight and Gloria Donnan, correspondence, which constitutes the bulk of the collection. Materials of interest include Dwight’s letters to Gloria during World War II, in which he served as a staff sergeant in the 255th Infantry Regiment, 63rd Infantry Division. Dwight recounts to Gloria crossing the Rhine River into Germany, as well as encountering German prisoners of war. The collection also contains a digital component, approximately 473 gigabytes of digitized family photographs, census records, and death certificates. Included in the digital materials are oral history interviews Geoffrey Donnan conducted with Dwight Donnan on the history of the Donnan family. The materials in this collection date from 1854 to 2015.
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Forrest C. Donnell Gubernatorial Papers, 1941-1945 (C0194)
90 cubic feet
Papers of a Republican governor of Missouri, collected during his term of office.
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Forrest C. Donnell Inaugural Ceremonies, 1941 (C2385)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains a program of inauguration of Governor Forrest C. Donnell, February 26, 1941.
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Forrest C. Donnell Senatorial Papers, 1945-1950 (C0796)
100 cubic feet
Papers of a Republican senator from Missouri, 79th through 81st Congresses. Contains correspondence and notes about such post-World War II subjects as economic adjustments, displaced persons, labor, civil rights, atomic energy, and the spread of communism.
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Forrest C. Donnell Collection, 1900-1951 (CA6597)
0.3 cubic feet, 9 oversize items
The collection contains personal material of a Missouri governor and U.S. senator, including family letters, certificates, diplomas, photographs, invitations, programs, a political cartoon, miscellaneous ephemera, and a photo album.
Paul and Nell Donnelly Papers, 1922-2006 (K1389)
0.06 cubic foot (4 folders, 5 photographs)
The Paul and Nell Donnelly Papers contain biographical information, newspaper clippings, and photographs related to the lives of Paul and Nell Donnelly, founders of the Donnelly Garment Company.
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Phil M. Donnelly Papers, 1935-1957 (C2151)
91.6 cubic feet (8235 folders, 24 oversize volumes)
Papers relating to Donnelly's two terms as Democratic governor of Missouri.
Robert T. Donnelly Papers, 1924-1999 (C4246)
2.0 cubic feet (41 folders), 2 oversize items
Thomas Anthony Dooley Papers, 1932-1988 (S0464)
11 cubic feet, 222 folders, 531 photographs, 13 microfilm rolls, 88 reel-to-reel tapes, 1 film strip, 10 video tapes
Thomas Anthony Dooley was a physician, naval officer, and humanitarian. He assisted with the evacuation of refugees from Vietnam in 1954-55, established hospitals in Laos and Vietnam in 1956, and was the co-founder of the Medical International Cooperation Organization (MEDICO), which helped build and train staff for hospitals in foreign countries, specifically Southeast Asia. The collection includes book manuscripts, correspondence, newspaper clippings, audio and videotapes, scrapbooks, and photographs.
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Doolittle, Misssouri Home Movie Collection, 1946 (R0799)
0.1 cubic foot (1 DVD)
This is a copy of a brief home moviefeaturing the dedication of the town of Doolittle in Phelps County, Missouri, on October 12, 1946. The highlight of the dedication was the visit by Lieutant General James H. 'Jimmy' Doolittle, the town's namesake.
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Dorothy Hart Riley Heinkel Papers, 1903-1990 (CA6807)
3 c.f., 3 audio tapes, Microfilm, 8mm film reels, 15 oversize items
The papers of Dorothy Hart Riley Heinkel contain materials documenting the life of a musician and businesswoman from her birth in 1903, through her marriage to MFA president Fred Heinkel, to her death in 1990. The papers include photographs and slides, scrapbooks, correspondence, Christian College ephemera, publications, memory books, certificates, and audio-visual materials.
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Douglass Family Collection, 1838-1990 (C3978)
1.4 cubic feet (39 folders), 13 audio cassettes
The Douglass Family Collection consists of land deeds, personal and business correspondence, oral history transcripts, photographs, volumes, and other miscellaneous items dealing with farm life and agriculture in McBaine, Missouri. There are also records dealing with a flourmill belonging to Northcutt & Brothers in Mexico, Missouri, and an account book for the Oakdale Graveyard in Shelby County, Missouri.
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Lillian Bradford Dowler Diaries, 1928-1995 (CA6371)
0.6 cubic feet
Diaries kept by Lillian Bradford Dowler, a farm wife who grew up and lived in the Birch Tree community area in Shannon County, Missouri, her whole life. The diaries date from 1928 to 1995 and document family life and daily activities on the farm. Collection also includes transcriptions.
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Lillian Bradford Dowler Diaries, 1928-1995 (C4531)
0.8 cubic feet (8 folders)
Diaries kept by Lillian Bradford Dowler, a farm wife who grew up and lived in the Birch Tree community area in Shannon County, Missouri, her whole life. The diaries date from 1928 to 1995 and document family life and daily activities on the farm. Collection also includes transcriptions.
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Maxine Rorabaugh Downey Photograph Collection, 1894-1967 (P0045)
3 photographs
Black and white snapshot of students outside of Prairie View School #27; all students and teacher from 1912-1913 school year listed. Snapshot of exterior front Prairie View School #27. Photograph of Friendship School near Memphis, MO, 1894.
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Downtown (Kansas City, Missouri) Kiwanis Club Records, 1918-2002 (K0364)
12 c.f.
Organizational records of the Club including minutes, correspondence, publications, financial records, programs, scrapbooks, and photographs. The mission of Kiwanis is to serve the children of the world. Our members help shelter the homeless, feed the hungry, mentor the disadvantaged and care for the sick.
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Downtown St. Louis Incorporated Records, 1927-2001 (S0342)
6.2 cubic feet, 1427 photographs
Downtown St. Louis, Inc. was founded in 1958 by a group of St. Louis businessmen who were interested in the revitalization of downtown St. Louis. In the late fifties and early sixties, many sizeable suburban shopping centers were constructed in all areas of St. Louis County, which took away much of the commercial shopping and entertainment business from downtown St. Louis. Many businesses left the area, and large blocs of office space were empty. The papers consist of newsletters (1958-1974); subject files of correspondence, reports, maps and news releases; and photographs of some of the promotions arranged by Downtown St. Louis, Inc.
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Arthur Clinton Draper Collection, 1899-1944 (R0112)
0.5 cubic foot (1 volume, 5 folders, 1 roll of microfilm)
The Arthur Clinton Draper Papers contain scrapbooks, correspondence, advertising material, scripts, and memorabilia of Arthur Clinton Draper of Lebanon, Missouri. Draper produced minstrel shows in the central and western states for over thirty years. He specialized in benefit performances at Elks lodges.
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Draper-McClurg Family Papers, 1838-2009 (C3069)
5.2 cubic feet (199 folders), 5 rolls of microfilm, 24.6 MB of digital files
The Draper-McClurg family papers are comprised of correspondence, photographs, Civil War diaries and records, and other personal papers of the families of Philander Draper and Joseph W. McClurg. The papers document the families' involvement in politics, farming and orchards, lead mining and smelting, the Civil War, and frontier life in Missouri, the Dakota Territory, and several western states.
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Herman Dreer Papers, 1925-1977 (S0167)
1 cubic foot, 35 folders, 1 roll microfilm
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Adrienne Drell Papers, c. 1930-2006 (C4084)
10.6 cubic feet (269 folders), 1 audio cassette, 1 video cassette
The papers of Adrienne Drell contain articles, drafts, subject files, correspondence, and miscellaneous professional and personal papers of a journalist who worked for the Waukegan News-Sun and the Chicago Sun-Times, largely covering court cases. Included in the papers is material relating to cases she covered, including the Rev. L.R. Davis, Operation Greylord, and Baby Richard.
Drescher-Weatherly Memoirs, 1933-1954 (C0151)
0.08 cubic feet (4 folders)
Memoirs of a mother, Bennie Howell Drescher, and a daughter, Rose Drescher Weatherly. The Drescher memoir briefly recounts Civil War events in Paris, MO. The Weatherly memoir is the longer and describes growing up in Hannibal, MO, around the turn of the twentieth century.
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Dressel Family Papers, 1937-2001 (S1233)
0.25 cubic foot
The Dressel Family Papers contains newspaper clippings, newsletters, photographs, and essays pertaining to John M. Dressel (1886-1988), who was one of the founders of the Lindbergh School District and served on the Board of Directors of the Gravois Bank of St. Louis County, Missouri. Items of interest include a history of Sappington School, written by the Junior High History Club in 1936. The materials in this collection date from 1937 to 2001.
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Waldemar M. Dressel Papers, 1946-1986 (R1490)
0.5 cubic foot (19 folders)
The Waldemar M. Dressel Papers contain publications, photographs, and maps from his years working for the U.S. Bureau of Mines based in Rolla, Missouri.
Drey Family Papers, 1933-1992 (S0872)
4 cubic feet
This collection consists of newspaper clippings about Kay Drey's Family, as well as nuclear power and the Meramec River.
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Kay Drey Papers, 1943-2012 (S0241)
98 cubic feet
The papers of Kay Drey contain correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings, and subject files documenting Drey's work to integrate University City Housing in the early 1960s and her anti-nuclear power activism from the 1970s to the 2010s.
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Kay Drey Hematite Addenda, 1945-2011 (S1045)
5 cubic feet, 232 folders
This collection contains legal materials, reports, and newspaper clippings documenting the hazards posed by dumping nuclear waste in the town of Hematite in Jefferson City, Missouri. Mallinckrodt Chemical Works built a commercial uranium-fuel processing plant in Hematite in 1956 that the company used to produce nuclear fuel rod assemblies for commercial power plants. The plant closed in 2001.
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Kay Drey Mallinckrodt Collection, 1943-2006 (S0826)
64.4 cubic feet
This collection consists of correspondence, reports, and subject files concerning nuclear technology and radioactive waste sites connected to Mallinckrodt Chemical Works. Mallinckrodt developed a chemical process that led to the first nuclear chain reaction in 1942 and until 1966 processed uranium for nuclear weapons at plants in downtown St. Louis and Weldon Springs. The company dumped radioactive wastes at sites in St. Louis County.
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Mary Lou Martin Drosten Papers, 1935-1941 (S0720)
0.25 cubic feet
The Mary Lou Martin Drosten Papers contain correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings documenting her work with the National Youth Administration in St. Louis, Missouri. The collection includes a scrapbook chronicling her work with African American children in the Webster Groves and Kinloch communities.
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Dry Fork Church of Primitive Baptists (Lake Spring, Mo.) Records, 1898-1966 (C3053)
1 roll of microfilm (1 volume on microfilm)
The records contain membership records and minutes of a Regular Primitive Baptist church founded in August 1898 and dissolved in February 1966. Included are the Articles of Faith and the Rules of Decorum. Membership information relates date and means of entry into the church and birth and death dates. The minutes record business matters, sermon topics, songs, attendance, and officers.
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Dry Hill School, Carter County, Missouri Records, 1923-1958 (R0607)
(1 roll of microfilm)
The Dry Hill School, Carter County, Missouri Records contain microfilm copies of the school records for Dry Hill School in Carter County, Missouri. Included are the record books of the district clerks and teachers' registers from 1923 to 1958.
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Duello Family Farm Ledger, 1909-1949 (S1204)
1 ledger
The Duello Family farm ledger was the property of Thedore William Duello, who owned farmland west of Duello Raod near the intersection of Duello and Orf Roads, in St. Charles County, Missouri. The ledger is a financial record of the various agricultural activities conducted on the farm from 1909 through 1949.
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George W. Dulany Jr. Papers, 1900-1949 (C0310)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Copies of family biographies and letters concerning history of the Dulany family and lumber industry in Hannibal, Missouri, and the Middle West.
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Duncan and Lambeth Families Genealogical Collection, 1880s, 1918-2019 (R1494)
4.5 cubic feet (72 folders, 330 photographs)
The Duncan and Lambeth Families Genealogical Collection contains the genealogical research for the Duncan and Lambeth families of central Missouri. Dr. Betty Jo White and Carolyn Lou Ranft compiled the collection with many contributions from Sharon Kay Beckham, Norma Jean Endersby, Carman Sue Grimes, Robert C. Haefner, Ellen Denise Karr Seevers, Cordell Henry Webb, Dorothy Ann Williams, and Shirley Ann Wyatt, descendants of the Lambeth and Duncan families. Included in the collection are vital records, photographs, correspondence, family lineages, contextual research, family stories, and articles on local history topics.
Harold Duncan Photograph Collection, 1890-1940 (P1074)
Photograph of the Joel Haden home near Columbia, Missouri, ca. 1890, with members of the Bright family posed outside. Photograph of the Boone County Trust Company, ca. 1927, with employees and customers in the interior.
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C. Herbert Duncan Papers, 1926-2005 (S0626)
4 cubic feet
The Clyde Herbert Duncan Jr. Papers contains photographs, program booklets, book drafts, and yearbooks, documenting Duncans career as a music educator in the St. Louis Metropolitan area, including his involvement in the creation of the Greater St. Louis Marching Band Festival.
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Herbert E. Duncan Architectural Records, 1929-1992 (K0722)
32.11 c.f.
Architectural drawings of buildings designed by Herbert Duncan Sr. (1905-1972) and Herbert Jr. (1931- ).
Duncan-Lowman Family Papers, 1847-1952 (C0487)
0.4 cubic feet (15 folders)
Papers of Levin O. Duncan, blacksmith and farmer, and William O. Lowman, tanner and farmer, of Shelby County, MO, and families; correspondence from family and friends in Maryland, Virginia, Missouri, Ohio, Nebraska, and Illinois; ledgers; miscellaneous business receipts; and scrapbook of Shelby County happenings, 1902-1952. Kept by Ida Lowman.