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Family Service of Columbia, Inc. Records, 1900-1978 (C0868)
3.25 cubic feet (147 folders)
The records of the earliest social service agency in Columbia, Missouri. Name changes include Charity Organization Society, 1901-1922; Public Welfare Society, 1922-1934; Social Service Society, 1937-1957; and Family Service of Columbia, 1957-1984. Contains financial records, administrative records, casework files, correspondence, proposals, and publicity materials.
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Hans Fantel Papers, c. 1925-2006 (C4003)
3.2 cubic feet (188 folders), 5 video cassettes, 1 DVD, 565 MB of digital files
The papers of Hans Fantel, a freelance writer, contain the articles he wrote for the New York Times and many other publications about high fidelity, home electronics, and music. Correspondence, photographs, and audiovisual materials make up the remainder of the collection.
Oscar Farmer Collection, 1940-2005 (S0585)
0.5 cubic feet, 1 tape, 37 photographs
The Oscar Farmer Collection documents Farmer’s career working for the Saint Louis Police Department. It also contains an oral history interview and photographs related to his work at Club Riviera, a supper club that hosted prominent entertainers and served as a base for local politician Jordan Chambers.
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FarmHouse Fraternity, International Records, 1905-2022 (CA5015)
1.6 cubic feet
Primarily the papers of Earl Wilson Rusk. Includes correspondence, radio program materials, agricultural publications, and clippings. Also included are chapter histories, mailing list materials, issues of Pearls and Rubies, and miscellaneous material.
Farrelly Family Papers, 1884-2003 (CA6412)
2 cubic feet
Papers of the Farrelly family of Allenton and St. Louis, Missouri, include correspondence, business papers, genealogy, photographs, poetry, religious material, and miscellaneous papers. The papers include material concerning Thomas Farrelly's life as a monk in Kentucky, Utah, and Israel. Also included is genealogical material concerning the related Linton and Gross families. The family farm in Allenton was called "Pinook."
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Father Dickson Cemetery Burial Books, 1904-1983 (S0337)
3 microfilm rolls
Founded in 1903 by the Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor, a black philanthropic organization. The 13-acre cemetery served African Americans from Webster Groves and Kirkwood. It fell into disrepair in the 1960s. The Friends of Father Dickson Cemetery organized in 1988 to restore the cemetery and promote its heritage.
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Don Faurot Papers, 1919-2004 (C2971)
1.6 cubic feet (28 folders), 1 audio tape, 11 video cassettes, 21 oversize items
The papers of Don Faurot, University of Missouri football coach and athletic director, consisting of correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and publications documenting his life and career.
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Martin L. Faust Papers, 1932-1953 (C2354)
0.08 cubic feet (4 folders)
The papers of Martin L. Faust, professor of political science at the University of Missouri, contain a book on personal materials compiled by Faust, and two student papers.
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FBI Bulletin Collection, 1942-1970 (S0808)
0.25 cubic foot
The first five folders of this collection consist of memoranda sent from FBI Headquarters in Washington and other FBI offices in 1942 and 1943. Topics range from personnel matters to national security matters, to protocols for enforcing laws and ways to file paperwork. Some memos cover several subjects. The sixth folder is a list of FBI files related to civil rights, peace, and leftist groups from the Vietnam War era in St. Louis.
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Federal Mining and Smelting Company Collection, 1944 (R1158)
(1 folder)
This booklet contains the annual report for the year ending December 31, 1944 for the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, which had mines in Idaho, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri. There are production statistics and profit-and-loss statements for each property.
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Federated Republican Women's Club (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1934-1969 (C3525)
0.7 cubic feet (14 folders, 3 oversize volumes)
Minutes, scrapbooks, and award of a Republican women's club organized in 1932.
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Feely Family Papers, 1934-1987 (S0557)
0.8 cubic foot
The Feely Family Papers primarily consist of correspondence, campaign materials, and bound St. Louis City Board of Alderman meeting minutes books documenting Edgar J. Feely's career as a St. Louis alderman who represented the 20th Ward from 1939 to 1959.
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Feingold Family Papers, 1928-1995 (K1268)
2.5 c.f.
Family papers and photographs from the families of Bertha and Morris Feingold, Elaine and Harry Feingold, and Philip Feingold. Includes yearbooks, event programs, plaques, video, and photographs.
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Leo Feingold and Ida Rose Luke Feingold Papers, 1927-2012 (K0638)
11 c.f.
Photographs, clippings, programs, scrapbooks, and books on childhood education and poetry relating to the lives, careers, and interests of the Feingolds.
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Fellowship House Association of Greater Kansas City Records, 1948-1979 (K0974)
0.12 c.f.
The purpose of the Association was to promote mutual understanding, fellowship and respect among the people of the community. Includes meeting minutes and agendas, constitution and by-laws, programs, correspondence and other materials.
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Fennell Family Papers, 1858-2014 (S0174)
0.6 cubic foot (11 folders, 2 volumes, 1 oversize folder)
This collection contains photographs, correspondence, a contract book, and a memoir pertaining to the Fennell, Carpenter, and Bland families of Maplewood, Missouri. Materials of interest include photographs of the Floyd Alonzo Fennel's landscaping business, as well as Nancy Fennell Hawkins’ memoir: I Remember When: Memories of Growing up in Maplewood, Missouri.
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Franklin Russell Fetté Papers, 1945-1950 (C0754)
0.1 cubic feet (5 folders)
Correspondence of managing director of the Fetté Rug Company. Information on Fetté, Communist takeover of China, and inflation in that country.
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Fred W. Fife Papers, circa 1940, 1999 (R0794)
(1 folder)
These are photographs and historical information regarding Fred "Spooky" Fife and Sarah Elizabeth "Liz" Fife, proprietors of the Spur Tavern on Route 66 near Leasburg in Crawford County, Missouri.
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Stanley R. Fike Papers, c. 1925, 1941-1985 (C3882)
6.8 cubic feet (384 folders), 2 audio cassettes
The papers contain correspondence, newspaper clippings, speeches, memoranda, and office notes of the administrative assistant to U.S. Senator Stuart Symington from 1952 until Symington's retirement in 1976. Includes material relating to various Symington campaigns, as well as Fike's personal life.
Elmer L. and Emma Mae Finke Farm Records, 1940s-1980s (CA4890)
12.7 cubic feet
Financial records and other records of the Finke farm in Montgomery County, Missouri.
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Gladys Finlayson Letters, 1926-1966 (K0486)
20 f
Letters written to Mariska Pugsley Marker from her childhood tutor, Finlayson, an Englishwoman residing in China.
Joseph Firestone Collection, 1935-2001 (K0796)
0.52 cubic foot (26 folders, 2 DVDs, 57 photographs, 2 oversize folders)
The Joseph Firestone Collection contains materials primarily focused on Firestone’s affiliation with the Y-Bac Chapter of Masada, the Youth Zionist Organization of America. Additional collection materials include photographs, items related to Congregation Ohev Sholom, and programs for musical and theatrical performances in Kansas City, Missouri.
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First Baptist Church (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1823-2019 (CA6553)
1.68 GB of digital files
Records of the First Baptist Church of Columbia, Missouri, include annual reports, brief sketches of members, scans of minute books and other church documents, transcriptions, and miscellaneous material.
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First Baptist Church of Edgar Springs, Phelps County, Missouri Collection, 1886-1954 (R1227)
(2 folders)
This is the record book and accompanying transcript of the First Baptist Church of Edgar Springs in Phelps County, Missouri, containing minutes of business meetings, and membership records, circa 1894-1954. Also in the volume are earlier records of the Corn Creek Baptist Church in Phelps County, 1886-1887.
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First Baptist Church (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1823-1972 (C3617)
3 rolls of microfilm
Minutes and chronological register.
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First Baptist Church, Dexter, Missouri Collection, 1941-1953 (R1051)
(1 folder)
This collection contains photocopies of programs for the 20th Anniversary of the dedication on May 25, 1941 and parsonage dedication on October 6, 1963 for the First Baptist Church at Dexter in Stoddard County, Missouri.
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First Baptist Church, Rolla, Missouri Collection, 1938-1974 (R0493)
2 folders
This collection includes minutes of the Business Women's Circle (1938-1944), a capital campaign
booklet (1954), a "Centennial Record" (1970), directories (1960, 1970), other printed material,
and items concerning member Sadie Goggin (1884-1965), including three Sunday School class
records (1952-1955), and an obituary.
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First Baptist Church (Walker, Mo.) Records, 1948-1993 (C3947)
1 roll of microfilm
Records of the First Baptist Church of Walker, Vernon County, MO.
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First Baptist Church, West Plains, Missouri Records, 1892-1956 (R0348)
(2 rolls of microfilm)
The First Baptist Church, West Plains, Missouri Records contain a microfilm copy of the First Baptist Church at West Plains in Howell County, Missouri records. The records include minutes of meetings, membership registers, and statistical data. Also included are minute books from the Sunday school program, 1899-1914, and the record book of the Baptist Young People’s Union, 1907-1914.
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First Christian Church Photographs, 1875-1960 (P0851)
Photos of and relating to First Christian Church
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First Christian Church (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1824-1997 (C3991)
16.75 cubic feet (1009 folders), 18 audio cassettes
The church records include minutes of administrative boards and committees, ministers' and administrators' papers, papers of the Christian Student Congregation, publications, the Bear Creek Church record book, the record book of the Construction Committee, and papers of several affiliated clubs and committees. Documents especially cover the period from the 1920s to 1964. In addition, this collection contains drafts and notes by Mary K. Dains for her history of the First Christian Church published in 1996. Her research includes interview recordings with church members.
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First Christian Church, West Plains, Missouri Records, 1893-1983 (R0349)
(2 rolls of microfilm)
The First Christian Church, West Plains, Missouri Records contain a microfilm copy, of the church’s records. Included are membership, marriage, and death records, lists of officers, and minutes of meetings of the church board, 1893-1954. There are also records of the women’s auxiliaries of the church, 1918-1983.
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First Evangelical Covenant Church Records, 1880-2001 (K0708)
26 cubic feet
The First Evangelical Covenant Church Records contains organizational records for a Swedish community church located in Kansas City, Missouri. The collection includes administrative and financial records, photographs, printed and published material, general historical material, and audiotapes.
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"The First Hundred Years at Freedom Church, Morgan County, Missouri," Mrs. Charley W. Draffen, 1944 (C1309)
0.02 cubic feet (1 volume)
Brief history of the church, including early members and pastors. Copy of an article appearing in the Versailles, MO, STATESMAN, August 1944.
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First National Bank of Kansas City Collection, 1906-1961 (K0975)
0.25 c.f.
clippings, articles related to the history of the bank
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First Presbyterian Church (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1947-1992 (CA6641)
1.6 cubic feet
Addition of session minutes and miscellaneous material of the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, Missouri.
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First Presbyterian Church (Columbia, Mo.), Presbyterian Women Records, 1905-1985 (C4386)
0.8 cubic feet (21 folders)
Presbyterian Church and Presbyterian Women's Auxiliary history; meeting minutes; reports; sponsored events; and information on kitchen appliances.
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First Presbyterian Church of Rolla Records, 1864-1997 (R0668)
(4 rolls of microfilm)
These are records of the First Presbyterian Church at Rolla, Missouri. Included are minutes of meetings of the church Session, membership and marriage records, minutes of meetings of Board of Deacons and the Board of Trustees, and church bulletins.
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First Presbyterian Church, Fredericktown, Missouri Records, 1880-1985 (R0322)
7 volumes microfilm
These are minutes of meetings of the Session and the congregation, church registers, and the
centennial history of the First Presbyterian Church of Fredericktown in Madison County, Missouri.
Since 1964 Fredericktown has shared pastors with churches at Cornwall and Ironton.
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First Presbyterian Church (Independence, Mo.) Records, 1936-1948 (C1874)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Brief history of Cumberland Presbyterian Church traces major events from founding in 1826 to 1865, when church records were lost. Alphabetical list of church members, both black and white, from 1865. List of pastors to 1897. The Cumberland Presbyterian Church merged with the First Presbyterian Church in 1913.
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First Presbyterian Church, Ironton, Missouri Records, 1856-1986 (R0295)
38 volumes microfilmed
These are records of the Presbyterian Church at Ironton in Iron County, Missouri, which was
organized as part of the Potosi Presbytery in 1855. The records include minutes of meetings of the
church Session, the Board of Trustees, and the congregation, registers of membership, and records of
the women's auxiliary societies.
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First United Methodist Church, Cole Camp, Missouri Records, 1896-1983 (R0157)
(2 rolls of microfilm)
The First United Methodist Church of Cole Camp, Missouri Records contain a microfilm copy of the church’s records. This collection includes meetings minutes, financial
records, membership rolls, and miscellaneous materials. Also included are rerords of the Ionia, Missouri United Methodist Church, whose pastor was supplied by the Cole Camp church after 1965.
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First United Methodist Church, Rolla, Missouri Records, 1899-1969 (R0570)
(3 rolls of microfilm)
The First United Methodist Church, Rolla, Missouri Records are historical records of the First United Methodist Church of Rolla, Missouri. Included in the records are a general history of the church, membership rolls and vital records, and records of the Official Board and Quarterly Conferences.
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First United Methodist Church, West Plains, Missouri Records, 1887-1988 (R0359)
11 volumes, 10 folders microfilmed
These are church registers, quarterly conference reports, and administrative records of the First
United Methodist Church in West Plains, Howell County, Missouri. There are records of predecessor
Methodist churches in West Plains, including the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
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Joel D. and Annette M. Fish Papers, 1949 (K0881)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)
The collection contains a program for the Kansas State Association B'nai B'rith Lodges Banquet in Topeka, Kansas on October 23, 1949.
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Pauline Stolov Fish and Sam Fish Papers, 1920-2007 (K1363)
4.5 c.f.
Materials related to the lives and family history of Pauline Stolov Fish and Sam Fish of Kansas City, Mo., consisting primarily of photo albums of their wedding, family and travels, in addition to local school annuals, and other printed materials
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Paul Fite Papers, 1937-1940 (R1325)
0.5 cubic foot (13 folders)
These are newspaper clippings and other printed materials pertaining to the Lebanon High School Band during Paul Fite's tenure as head of the music department.
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W. Lyle Fitzgerald Papers, 1918-2003 (C3538)
2.6 cubic feet (106 folders), 1 audio cassette
The papers contain the correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, books, pamphlets, awards, announcements, and miscellaneous material of a soldier who fought in the Pacific Theatre during World War II.
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Daniel R. Fitzpatrick and Bill Maudlin Papers, 1935-1962 (S0460)
0.8 cubic foot, 15 folders
Daniel R. Fitzpatrick and Bill Maudlin were St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial cartoonists. The collection is comprised of duplicate pertaining to local and national political, social, and economic issues. Included in the collection is Fitzpatrick's "rat Alley" series depicting vice and corruption in St. Louis from the 1930s-1950s and cartoons depicting local and national labor issues.
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Daniel R. Fitzpatrick Cartoons, 1934-1943 (C0820)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)
Newspaper cartoons concerned with Missouri politics during this period. Published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.