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Marjorie J. Brodkin Papers, 1941-1983 (K1333)
0.25c.f.
Jewish League of Kansas City Ad Books, Directories, Souvenir Programs-Jambolee Ball, Theater Party; Beth Horon Lodge #599 B'nai B'rith resolution and publications
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Bob Broeg Papers, 1946-1990 (S0493)
2.5 cubic feet
The Bob Broeg papers contain drafts, rewrites, and corrected copies of manuscripts written by St. Louis sportswriter Robert William Patrick "Bob" Broeg. The collection includes a book Broeg wrote about Stan Musial, "The Batting Order: Baseball From a Different Angle," "Ol' Mizzou, a Story of Missouri Football" (1974), and both the 1983 and 1986 editions of "My Baseball Scrapbook."
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Harry Broermann Photograph Collection, 1890-1970 (P1066)
Copy photos of Atchison County, especially relating to the Rankin Farm and Mule Barn.
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Dutton Brookfield Papers, 1844-1979 (C2732)
72.4 cubic feet (5702 folders, 5 audio cassettes, 2 volumes, 1 microfilm reel)
The papers of Dutton Brookfield contain the business, political and personal papers and photographs of a Kansas City, MO, community leader. Brookfield was President of Unitog Company (1953-1979), a mayoral candidate (1963, 1971), and on boards of numerous corporations and educational and civic organizations. Family papers include letters from the Civil War, World War I and II, and Vietnam.
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Brooks Family Papers, 1866-2011 (C4476)
9.4 cubic feet (196 folders), 2 audio cassettes, 1 audio tape, 12 oversize items
Diaries, travel journals, genealogical material, correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous material from the family of Iris J. Trump and Robert F. Brooks, including their four daughters and grandchildren as well as their extended family.
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Brooks Family Papers, 1940s-2020s (CA6704)
0.2 cubic feet
Family papers of Susan Joyce (Brooks) and Michael Warshauer. Items include birth, school, military, marriage, and death certificates. Also included are Michael's military papers, financial documents, and miscellaneous material.
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Brookside Business Association Records, 1938-2003 (K0902)
7 c.f.
Organizations records including minutes; financial records; correspondence; magazines, newspapers, and newspaper clippings; newsletters, flyers, and programs; event planning for the St. Patrick's Day parade, Halloween, and the Brookside Art Fair; photographs and audiovisuals.
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Theodore Bross Ledgers, 1899-1956 (C4215)
4 volumes
The business records of Theodore Bross, consisting of four volumes of a general blacksmith in Flint Hill, Missouri. The ledgers include name of customer, services rendered, such as horse shoes, wagon repairs, parts and various farm tools sold, and prices charged.
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Brown Family Papers, 1883-1941 (C2274)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Family papers of Brown family of Ashland, Centralia, and Hartsburg, MO, including birth, marriage, and death records. Records removed from mutilated Bible, New Liberty Baptist Church, Ashland, MO.
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Bergun H. Brown Papers, 1861-1972 (C3798)
0.2 cubic feet (1 volume)
A collection of letters, diary, service documents, short histories, anecdotes, maps, excerpts from books, and newspaper articles compiled by Guy M. Brown and entitled Bergun H. Brown’s Civil War Days. Material concerns Bergun Brown’s Civil War service as a private in the 29th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry; some family history material is also included. Includes photocopies of Brown's manuscript letters and diary, with typescript copies. The annotations, short histories, and anecdotes were written by Guy M. Brown, Bergun’s son.
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Dwight H. Brown Letters, 1937-1940 (C0080)
0.3 cubic feet
Correspondence, official and personal, of a Missouri secretary of state, regarding politics at all governmental levels, routine affairs of his office, events around his hometown of Poplar Bluff, MO, and religious activities. Collection is arranged alphabetically by correspondent. See also collection C2529.
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Dwight H. Brown Papers, 1938-1940 (C3117)
1.9 cubic feet
Miscellaneous campaign materials, newspaper clippings and county returns pertaining to the Missouri Democratic primary election in August 1940, and the state election of November 1940, in which Brown carried every county in the state and over 99 per cent of the voting precincts to be reelected secretary of state.
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Dwight H. Brown Papers, 1928-1944 (C2529)
9.8 cubic feet
The collection contains the papers of Dwight H. Brown, Missouri secretary of state, 1932-1944. The papers are arranged alphabetically by topics.
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Harry E. Brown Papers, 1932-1971 (C4475)
2.0 cubic feet (80 folders)
The papers of a University of Missouri-Columbia entomology professor, including his teaching materials, B.S. coursework, military information, and research project data.
Harry Gunnison Brown Papers, 1921-1986 (C3109)
1.0 cubic feet (27 folders)
Correspondence of economist and professor of economics at the University of Missouri in Columbia who supported the theories of Henry George and was an advocate of land value taxation. Also included are some of Brown’s papers from his time as chairman of the Department of Economics in the 1930s.
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Joy L. Brown Photograph Collection, 1897-1960 (P0728)
6 photographs
Copy photos of Pierce City and Lawrence County, MO, early 1900s.
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Lawrence Robert Brown Papers, 1949 (C3214)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Draft of master's thesis entitled "Frontier Dramatic Criticism, St. Louis, 1835-1838," submitted to the University of Wisconsin speech department. A history and analysis of the theater in St. Louis, 1835-1838. Letter from Brown to William G.B. Carson about his project.
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Marshall Dwight Brown Papers, 1917-1992 (K1066)
5 c.f.
Includes architectural drawings by Marshall and Brown Architects; Kansas City area related books; issues of "Kansas City Happenings", a newspaper published Marshall Brown, Jr. and Jerry Plantz.; small desk blotters 1930-1950s with KC company names; a photographs album; clippings; and certificates awarded to Brown.
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Robert C. Brown Photograph Collection, 1900-1971 (P0004)
51 photographs
Photographs of Missouri railroad depots, primarily for the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad. Photographs relating to A.F. Schliecker of Kansas City, Missouri.
Stiles Clifford ""Red"" Brown Papers, 1919-1952 (K1207)
2 c.f.
Scrapbooks, including correspondence, photographs, printed and published material, and ephemera, of Brown's Marine Corps service. Also a scrapbook compiled by his mother, Lessie Brown, containing postcards, correspondence, and ephemera; correspondence to his wife, Orvetta, and his school records.
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James Raymond Browne Papers, 1919-1966 (C3479)
0.7 cubic feet (21 folders)
Manuscript by an American lawyer who lived in Asia. Correspondence pertaining to Browne's estate. Articles written by Browne's brother-in-law, Henry Kinyon.
Warren Browne Papers, 1892-1957 (C3454)
0.4 cubic feet (12 folders, 1 oversize volume)
The papers of Warren Browne contain the original manuscript of “Titan vs. Taboo: The Life of William Benjamin Smith” and letters and materials used by Browne in writing his book about Smith, mathematician, philosopher, poet, and Biblical critic.
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Browning Society of Kansas City Records, 1927-1980 (K0003)
2 c.f.
Correspondence, bylaws, minutes, ledgers, yearbooks, programs and other materials relating to the Brownings and poetry.
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Thomas R. Bruce, Jr. Papers, 1940-1945 (C4466)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
World War II correspondence of a soldier serving in Missouri's 128th Armored Field Artillery Battalion.
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Bruhl Family Photographs, 1902-1984, 1994-1996 (CG0037)
0.2 c. f.
The Bruhl Family Photographs include individual and family portraits of this family and the related families of Ritzenthaler, Caldwell, and Anderson from 1902-1984.
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Bruner-Dixon Family Papers, c. 1860s-2004 (C4137)
0.6 cubic feet (30 folders)
The papers of the Bruner-Dixon family contain correspondence, clippings, diaries, notebooks, photographs and slides, ephemera, and genealogies relating to the Bruner and Dixon families of Missouri, particularly Elizabeth Dixon Hanks and her immediate relatives.
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Brunson-Wilson Family Collection, 1860s-2000s (CA6670)
0.5 cubic feet
Genealogy and family photographs collected by Peggy Wilson Gidding of the Brunson, Wilson, and related Anderson, Smith, and Hustain families of St. Clair and Henry Counties, Missouri.
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Brush Creek Presbyterian Church (Montgomery County, Mo.) Records, 1849-1944 (C1346)
0.02 cubic feet (1 volume)
Minutes of sessions; registers of baptisms; marriages and deaths; financial records; registers of elders and deacons; roll of communicants; and names from cemetery. The name of the church was changed from Bear Creek to Brush Creek in 1855.
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Bill Brush Lantern Slide Collection, ca. 1890-1970 (S1105)
12 cubic feet, 343 lantern slides
The Bill Brush Lantern Slide Collection consists mainly of glass lantern slides dating from approximately 1890 to 1970 which provide a visual record of St. Louis and the surrounding area. The slides came from St. Louis Public Schools, Schwarz Taxidermy Studio, and the St. Louis Naturalists Club. Highlights include images of steamships such as the Admiral and the Robert E. Lee, the 1904 World’s Fair, the St. Louis Zoo, and historic buildings in St. Louis. Both photographic images and drawings are used in the slides, and some slides are title cards. Contained with boxes located off-site are images pertaining to major events in United States and world history. Also included are 35mm film slides, and small number of nitrate film photographic negatives.
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Bryant Building Collection, 1917-1966 (K0903)
1 c.f.
Business records including leases, insurance policies, and various contracts related to the building in downtown Kansas City, MO. Also documents concerning the last will and testament of Harriet M. Bryant (1849-1920), owner of the Harriet M. Bryant Realty and Improvement Company.
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Eugene Buchanan Architectural Records, 1911-1998 (K1373)
14.17 c.f.
Drawings from Eugene Buchanan Architects.
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Buchholz Family Papers, 1912-2004 (S0490)
2 cubic feet
This collection contains correspondence, photographs, newsletters, and a funeral record book primarily pertaining to William Buchholz's interests in genealogy and the histories of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and the Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm. Materials of interest include a funeral record book of the Ellis Undertaking Company and issues of The Alhambran, a magazine published by the Alhambra Grotto in St. Louis.
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Besse Belle Buckeridge Papers, 1911-1960s (R1312)
(4 folders)
This collection consists of correspondence to Besse and her mother from friends, Besse's letters and postcards from travels in Europe in the 1920s, and miscellaneous papers and postcards. There is also a reminiscence of early days in the Lycoming Valley of Pennsylvania by her grandfather, J. W. Heylmun, circa 1911.
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Leslie Leroy Bucklew Papers, 1897-1997 (S0625)
0.4 cubic foot, 5 folders, 7 photographs, 2 audio tapes
The Leslie Leroy Buckley Papers consists of photocopied biographical material about the life of Leslie LeRoy Bucklew. The collection features correspondence between Bucklew and soldiers he served with during the Spanish-American War and World War I, and letters from President Harry S Truman and Bess Truman. Other materials of interest include 1917 photographs of World War I servicemen serving at Camp Doniphan and Fort Sill. The collection also contains two oral history interviews of Bucklew recounting his childhood in St. Louis, his mother's friendship with Mary Todd Lincoln's sister, and his experiences in the Spanish-American War.
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Buckner Hill Cemetery Association Records, 1910-1968 (K1357)
0.04 c.f.
The records contain a record of internments in the Buckner Hill Cemetery in Buckner, Missouri.
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John D. Buckner Papers, 1875-1981 (S0468)
2 cubic feet, 121 folders, 14 photographs
John D. Buckner was a St. Louis-area educator and civic leader. Throughout his career as an educator, Buckner served in various position in St. Louis City Public Schools: Sumner High School Faculty (1943-1960, 1964-1968); Sumner principal (1968-1971); Supervisor of secondary education, St. Louis Public Schools (1960-1964); and curriculum specialist for city schools (1971-1977). The papers contain minutes, reports, financial statements, high school yearbooks, and photographs documenting Buckner's activities in educational, civic, and fraternal organizations.
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John Buckner Papers, 1891-1995 (S1114)
6 cubic feet, 267 folders, 119 photographs
The John Buckner Papers contain correspondence, reports, photographs, yearbooks, and scrapbooks pertaining to John Buckner's career as an educator in the St. Louis Public Schools system. The collection also contains materials on Julia Davis and the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.
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Eugene Buder Papers, 1902-1992 (S0854)
0.8 cubic foot, 27 folders
The Eugene Buder Papers contain subject files, newspaper clippings, and publications documenting Buder's involvement in St. Louis-area civic affairs, including his interests in police reform, the unification of St. Louis City and County, and the development of the St. Louis County parks department. Buder's papers also chronicle his efforts as an attorney to defend individuals against charges of supporting communism.
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W. H. Buerky, Jeweler (Jamestown, Mo.) Records, 1900-1940 (C4523)
0.2 cubic feet (3 folders)
Sales and repair records of a Jamestown jeweler, including customer names, watch manufacturer and model details, service provided, and payment from 1900-1940.
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Christy C. Bulkeley Papers, 1884-2009 (C4082)
8.1 cubic feet (214 folders), 1 oversize volume, 4 video cassettes, 33.9 MB of digital files
The papers of Christy C. Bulkeley, one of the first women publishers for a Gannett newspaper, contain correspondence, news clippings, speeches, writings, subject files, photographs, and a variety of miscellaneous professional and personal material.
Peggy Bull Papers, 1922-1943 (S1110)
0.25 cubic foot
Post cards, a note from the Pevely deliveryman, a Post-Dispatch rotogravure section n from 1922, the 1943 menu from the USS Von Steuben, a photograph from the September 1927 tornado
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David T. Burbank Papers, 1912-1987 (S0469)
3 cubic feet, 64 folders, 1 volume
The David T. Burbank Papers contain correspondence and research materials for his book, "Reign of the Rabble," an account of the St. Louis general strike in 1877. The collection also includes Burbank's personal papers as well as newsletters and literature he collected from regional labor and socialist organizations.
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Bureau For Men Records, 1920-1981 (S0176)
12.5 cubic feet, 328 folders, 43 photographs, 3 volumes
This collection contains the records of the St. Louis Bureau for Men, the first agency in the United States to provide social services to transient and homeless men. The collection is a combination of the Bureau's administrative files and the professional files of two of its four directors, Isaac Gurman and Charles Mann. The records document the founding of the Bureau until its demise in 1982 and the change of its focus from beggars, transients, and homeless men in the 1930s to ex-convicts in the 1950s-1980s.
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Burford-White Photograph Collection, 1870-1948 (P0038)
64 photographs
Snapshot and studio photos, including tintypes related to the White-Burford-Taylor-Adkins-Harness-Marolf families plus scenes from Ladue, Vista and Independence, as well as vacation scenes outside of Missouri.
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Burgoyne Family Papers, 1940s-2000s (CA6186)
18 cubic feet, 1 CD, 3 video cassettes, 29 audio discs, 9 oversize items
Papers of Leon Burgoyne and his daughter, Suzanne. Leon was a Navy aviator during World War II and coached boys' basketball in Berrien, Michigan. Suzanne was a professor of Theatre Arts at Creighton University and the University of Missouri. The papers include correspondence from World War II and the Vietnam War, in which Suzanne's ex-husband served, and materials documenting Suzanne's teaching career.
Tennie S. Burk Papers, 1837-1972 (C4285)
0.75 cubic feet (26 folders)
The papers of Tennessee 'Tennie' Selby Burk contains her personal papers including genealogical information on her family and on various Missouri chapters of the Daughters of the American Colonists (DAC).
William Jeremiah Burke Papers, 1903-1985 (C3608)
5.0 cubic feet (261 folders)
Correspondence, diary, manuscripts of novels, poems, articles, photographs, books, memorabilia, and other personal and professional papers of an author and director of editorial research at LOOK magazine, 1943-1968.
Burnett and Denney Families Papers, 1864-circa 1985 (R0353)
0.06 cubic foot (6 folders)
This collection includes correspondence, business papers, genealogical material, and photographs of the families of Ensign Burnett (1833-1912) and Tyre Denney (1828-1873) of Dade, Linn, and Webster counties in Missouri. Included are photographs of Burnett School in Webster County, and miscellaneous items pertaining to the communities of Linneus, Lockwood, and Seymour in Missouri.
Louis Burnstein Family Papers, 1905-2013 (K1349)
0.75 c.f.
Framed items (4), 3 photo albums, loose photographs, printed material, and genealogy research materials re: David Burnstein, his father Louis Burnstein, and the Burnstein and Pitluck families of KC and St. Joseph, MO. Compiled by Louis Burnstein, father of David Burnstein.
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Burroughs Audubon Society of Greater Kansas City Records, 1905-1991 (K0665)
18 c.f.
Organizational records including by-laws, minutes, correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, programs, pamphlets, rosters, field notes and bird censuses, photographs, and glass lantern slides. Also research materials, slides, and papers belonging to A.E. Shirling (1875-1947), noted Kansas City naturalist and author.